| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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James L. Huffman. Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 1997. Pp. x, 573. $54.00.

This monograph seeks to explain the creation of a public in the Japanese polity between 1860 and 1920 through a careful study of the birth and development of Japanese newspapers and popular journalism. James L. Huffman shows how this public was created, what precisely the role of a Western-style free and commercial press was in it, and what the consequences have been. Focusing on the major newspapers in Tokyo and Osaka (several of which had important national distribution), Huffman draws on both an extensive body of primary sources and the considerable Japanese-language scholarship on the topic. The result is a model monograph: meticulous research, clear exposition, and a point that matters. . . .

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