The Nature of the BeastsIt is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution at once museum, laboratory, and prison of the zoological garden. In this eye opening study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly