Kabuki's foreign adventure: 1931-1939 -- Prelude to war -- Kabuki and the Manchurian and Shanghai incidents: 1931-1934 -- Kabuki and the Marco Polo Bridge incident: 1937-1938 -- The darkening storm: 1939 -- Fruits of victory: 1940-1942 -- Kabuki and 2,600 years of imperial rule: 1940 -- Confrontation with America and Britain: 1941 -- Japan and kabuki at the zenith: 1942 -- Defeat and survival: 1943-1945 -- Kabuki and Japan's "decisive battle": 1943 -- Kabuki is a luxury: 1944 -- The agony ends: 1945 -- War plays in kabuki, a retrospection: August 1945 -- Kabuki outlasts the occupation: 1945-1947 -- Inventing classic kabuki: 1945-1947.
