Kabuki's forgotten war: 1931-1945

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.