.... “Showa 3-nendo Shitsugyo Kyusai Jigyo Gaiyo” [Outline of Unemployment Relief in 1928]. Tokyo, October 1929. Shakai-kyoku. “Hisoka: shitsugy� ni kansuru ch�sa” [Classified: Surveys Regarding Un- employment]. Tokyo: Ky�ch�kai, 1929. Shih�sho. Shih� no kenky�. 58, 254. Shih�sho Ch�sa-ka. “Shih...

... mass reader- ships, and a culture of political dissent. The Taish emperor (r. 1912 26) gave his name to this milieu. Richard Sims, Japanese Political History since the Meiji Reno- vation 1868 2000 (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 123 28. 10 Tsutsui Kiyotada, ed., Fifteen Lectures on Showa Japan: Road...

... wilderness of ice and snow. Here too troops become landscape, and national goals merge with nature. Compared with the commercial energy radiating 7.2 Kuwabara Kineo, Manshu Showa Ju- Go Nen [Manchuria in Showa 15 (1940)] (Tokyo: Sh bunsha, 1974), 189. The caption reads 159 Koky ton tetsud - airo- mura ken...

... kansuru t�keiy�, Showa 8 nend rent, non-payment of security deposits, the use of Japanese proper names, the use of Japanese renters, and unauthorized subletting or occupancy. Several points can be gleaned from these fgures. In 1929, 917 cases (57.6 percent) were caused by delinquent rent, 302...

... (2006). He emphasizes that kawaii does 66 CHAPTER TWO not have antonyms. An unattractive person or a grotesque object can still be cute. tsuka Eiji observes that female high school students described even the dying Showa Emperor, Hirohito, as cute, essentially because he looked so vul- nerable (2003...