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Green Star Japan offers a concise, beautifully written history of the Esperanto movement in Japan. It is also the first treatment of the topic in English. Rapley addresses how groups across the political and cultural spectrum confronted this constructed international language, from socialists on the left to figures, such as Kita Ikki, on the far right. And, as he shows, Esperanto still has a relatively small, but ardent, following in Japan. As elsewhere in the world, Esperanto embodied (and continues to do so) for many Japanese something far greater than language itself.--Joshua A. Fogel, York University

""Green Star Japan offers a concise, beautifully written history of the Esperanto movement in Japan. It is also the first treatment of the topic in English. Rapley addresses how groups across the political and cultural spectrum confronted this constructed international language, from socialists on the left to figures, such as Kita Ikki, on the far right. And, as he shows, Esperanto still has a relatively small, but ardent, following in Japan. As elsewhere in the world, Esperanto embodied (and continues to do so) for many Japanese something far greater than language itself."" - Joshua A. Fogel, York University

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Ian Rapley is a senior lecturer of East Asian history in the history department of Cardiff University, UK.

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