War and state building in medieval Japan / John A. Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth -- They were soldiers once : the early samurai and the imperial court / Karl Friday -- Competence over loyalty : lords and retainers in medieval Japan / Susumu Ike -- Community vitality in medieval Japan / Tsuguharu Inaba -- "Advance and be reborn in paradise--" : religious opposition to political consolidation in sixteenth-century Japan / Carol Richmond Tsang -- Autonomy and war in the sixteenth-century Iga Region and the birth of the ninja phenomenon / Pierre Souyri -- Instruments of change : organizational technology and the consolidation of regional power in Japan, 1333-1600 / Thomas Conlan
