...Jeffrey M. Perl Donald Keene, Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), 196 pp. Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and Europe, 1871–1873 , compiled (1876) by Kume Kunitake, ed. Chushichi Tsuzuki and R. Jules Young...

...Felix Girke Hirata Keiko and Warschauer Mark , Japan: The Paradox of Harmony . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2014 ), 304 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 LITTLE REVIEWS Keiko Hirata...

...Stanley N. Katz © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 C O L U M N S DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM AFTER MILITARY OCCUPATION Reflections on the United States’ Experience in Japan, Germany, Afghanistan, and Iraq...

... was briefly flourishing in Europe, and c) the use of the term in the European philosophical controversy over Spinozism. Faure argues that, in most cases, the European critique of Buddhism was aimed at European enemies. Chan Buddhism in China and Zen in Japan came to be associated with nihilism as well...

... of shikinen sengū , the Jingū paradigm itself never changes and never ages. The author confirms Perl's conclusion by examining the politicized scholarship, written since the 1970s, maintaining that Shinto is a faux religion, invented prior to World War II as a means of unifying Japan behind government...

... Japan behind government policies of ultranationalism and international expansion. This article shows, instead, how emperors—who are not political but religious figures in Japan—and the Jingū priesthood have acted together over the past thirteen hundred years to sustain the imperial shrine at Ise and its...

... and aristocratic cult of Myō’onten, a Japanese form of the Hindu goddess of music, Saraswati, who is presently an object of devotion for both Hindu and Muslim musicians in North India. This essay, based on nearly three decades of research in India and Japan, offers some answers to a question raised repeatedly...

... The . COMMON KNOWLEDGE 48 Union, and Japan...

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... had been a popular success in Japan. (I often wondered who the Japanese identified with, the Japanese commandant or Alec Guinness. Neither, said a Japanese friend: “We liked the American hero, William Holden Bataan, the sacking of Manila, the massacres...

.... University Press, 2004), and Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance (Berkeley: Univer- 2.  Bruno Latour, “Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?: sity of California Press, 2013). See also Miyazaki, “Sav...

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... class) upper the of much tralization, cen bourgeoisification,and Westernization industrialization, imposed onthe populace urbanization, (and modernization, of course a on Japan set and European- of MeijiRestoration the in indirectly, however resulted, force in self- Russia...

... class) upper the of much tralization, cen bourgeoisification,and Westernization industrialization, imposed onthe populace urbanization, (and modernization, of course a on Japan set and European- of MeijiRestoration the in indirectly, however resulted, force in self- Russia...

... class) upper the of much tralization, cen bourgeoisification,and Westernization industrialization, imposed onthe populace urbanization, (and modernization, of course a on Japan set and European- of MeijiRestoration the in indirectly, however resulted, force in self- Russia...

... class) upper the of much tralization, cen bourgeoisification,and Westernization industrialization, imposed onthe populace urbanization, (and modernization, of course a on Japan set and European- of MeijiRestoration the in indirectly, however resulted, force in self- Russia...

... class) upper the of much tralization, cen bourgeoisification,and Westernization industrialization, imposed onthe populace urbanization, (and modernization, of course a on Japan set and European- of MeijiRestoration the in indirectly, however resulted, force in self- Russia...

... class) upper the of much tralization, cen bourgeoisification,and Westernization industrialization, imposed onthe populace urbanization, (and modernization, of course a on Japan set and European- of MeijiRestoration the in indirectly, however resulted, force in self- Russia...

... class) upper the of much tralization, cen bourgeoisification,and Westernization industrialization, imposed onthe populace urbanization, (and modernization, of course a on Japan set and European- of MeijiRestoration the in indirectly, however resulted, force in self- Russia...

... class) upper the of much tralization, cen bourgeoisification,and Westernization industrialization, imposed onthe populace urbanization, (and modernization, of course a on Japan set and European- of MeijiRestoration the in indirectly, however resulted, force in self- Russia...