YANAIHARA TADAO AND JAPANESE COLONIAL POLICY, by Susan C. Townsend. Richmond, Surrey, U.K.: Curzon Press, 2000, 360 pp., 50 British pounds (cloth) Recent years have witnessed a new wave of scholarly works in English on Japan's colonial past. Monographs and edited volumes by Mark Peattie, Peter Duus, Louise Young and Tak Matsusaka, among others, have greatly enriched our understanding of the social economic, political and cultural aspects of Japan's formal and informal empires. While many of these works tend to focus on specific geographical areas, a number of essays, notably those by Peattie, have probed Japanese attitudes toward colonialism in general.