This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the colonial writings of Yanaihara Tadao in either English or Japanese. His extensive commentary on Japanese as well as European colonial policy is remarkable not only for its scholarly integrity but also for its sheer breadth and represents the most comprehensive body of writing of its kind in Japanese before the Second World War. Covering Taiwan, Korea, Micronesia, Manchuria and China it provides an invaluable perspective on Japan's colonies during Japan's 'age of empire' and is essential reading not only for historians of Japan and Asia but for scholars of empire everywhere.