Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1. Face Masks and Liberty -- 2. Theoretical Foundations: Max Weber, Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault -- 3. Conceptual Analysis: Coming to Terms in Modernizing Japan -- 4. Formal Perfection: The Tokugawa State -- 5. Becoming a Civilized Country: Modernization in Meiji Japan -- 6. Continuity and Change: Social Disciplining after World War II -- 7. Lessons Learned: Social Disciplining, Culture and Politics -- References -- Index