Women AdriftWomens bodies contributed to the expansion of the Japanese empire. With this bold opening, Noriko J. Horiguchi sets out in Women Adrift to show how womens actions and representations of womens bodies redrew the border and expanded, rather than transcended, the empire of Japan. Discussions of empire building in Japan routinely employ the idea of kokutaithe national bodyas a way of conceptualizing Japan as a nation state. Women Adrift demonstrates how