Moral nation : modern Japan and narcotics in global history / Miriam Kingsberg.

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2014]

xvii, 304 pages : illustartions ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-289) and index.

Moral crusade in Meiji Japan -- Drug users in the epicenter of consumption -- Cultural producers and the Japanese empire -- Cultural producers and Manchukuo -- Merchants -- Law enforcement -- Laboratory scientists -- Medical doctors -- Moral panic in postwar Japan.