Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004548442)

In early modern Japan, upper status groups coveted pills and powders made of exotic foreign ingredients such as mummy and rhinoceros horn. By the early twentieth century, over-the-counter-patent medicines, and, more alarmingly, morphine, had become mass commodities, fueling debates over opiates in Japan's expanding imperial territories.
The fall of the empire and the occupation of Japan by the United States created conditions favorable for heroin use, followed, in time, by glue sniffing and psychedelic mushroom ingestion.
By illuminating the neglected history of drugs, this volume highlights both the transnational embeddedness and national peculiarities of the "politics of consumption" in Japan.
Contributors are: Anna Andreeva, Oleg Benesch, William G. Clarence-Smith, Hung Bin Hsu, John Jennings, Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, William Marotti, Kōji Ozaki, Jonas R?gg, Jes俍 Sol﨎, Christopher W.A. Szpilman, Judith Vitale, and Timothy Yang.

Author: Judith Vitale
ISBN-10: 9004548440
ISBN-13: 9789004548442
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2023
Pages: 362
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d