"[The] book goes beyond the institutional history of Kenkoku University: the microhistory approach offers fresh insights into the historiography of the relationship and tensions between the universalism of Pan-Asianist idealism and the particularism and power hegemony created by notions of Japanese privilege and supremacy within the imperial context . Hiruma Kishida's book is an example of the sophistication and maturity in the historiography of Japanese imperialism and Pan-Asianism." -- The Journal of Japanese Studies "I expect Butler's work will inspire many important conversations . This work should be read widely. In addition to all practitioners and scholars of transhumanism, Black theology, and philosophy of religion, it will be of interest to many, including those in the fields of cognitive science of religion, critical theory and critical race theory, posthumanism, contemplative studies, new materialisms, and spirituality studies." -- Reading Religion "Kishida's study offers fascinating insight into the disillusionments, agonized choices, and occasional satisfactions, that resulted when youths resolved to devote themselves to genuine ethnic equality and pan-Asianist coprosperity within a hierarchical system dominated by Japan. This thoroughly documented inquiry lays bare the ideological contradictions that inhered throughout Manchukuo and the entire wartime Japanese empire." -- J.

Victor Koschmann, Professor of History, Cornell University, USA "This impressive study presents intriguing conclusions regarding the dissemination and reception of pan-Asian thought at grass-roots level. It is a valuable addition to the growing literature on the history of regionalism in East Asia." -- Sven Saaler, Professor of Modern Japanese History, Sophia University, Japan.