9:30–11:30 a.m.

26. Violence in the Formation of the Nation-State in Nineteenth- Century Japan
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony C

Chair:	Anne Walthall, University of California at Irvine
Papers:	Defining Foreign Relations in the Nascent Japanese Nation-State: The Role of Regional Factional Violence Robert Hellyer, Allegheny College Popular Violence and the Modern Japanese Nation-State: Incidents in the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement Eiko Maruko, Williams College Samurai as Sub-Imperialist: Violence, Japan’s Civilizing Mission, and the Formation of the Meiji State Robert Eskildsen, Smith College
Comment:	Anne Walthall