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Cover design: Richanna Patrick.

Cover photograph: Shimoi Harukichi posing with portrait of Benito Mussolini, early 1920s. Shimoi wears the uniform of the Italian shock troops (Arditi) who held the city of Fiume (Rijeka) in 1919–1920. From Shimoi Harukichi, Taishenchû no Itaria (Tokyo,1926).