Constructing East AsiaThe conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut and dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy from 19311945. Challenging the status quo, Constructing East Asia examines how Japanese intellectuals, bureaucrats, and engineers used technology as a system of power and mobilizationwhat historian