... (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 528 pp. Alan Macfarlane, Japan through the Looking Glass (London: Profile Books, 2007), 256 pp. Yuriko Saito, Everyday Aesthetics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 273 pp. Alan Tansman, ed., The Culture of Japanese Fascism (Durham, NC...

...Michiko Urita This autobiographical, sociological, and musicological essay, written for a symposium on xenophilia, concerns how the love of a foreign culture can lead to a better understanding and renewed love of one’s own. The author, a Japanese musicologist, studied Hindustani music with North...

..., and then goes on to show how differently Japanese culture regards and manages major change. The author of this introduction, who is also the journal’s editor, begins by evaluating a triptych of 1895 by Toshikata as a response to the seemingly revolutionary changes brought by the Meiji Restoration a generation...

... argues against or supplements Perl's contention that Japanese attitudes toward change differ radically from those that are standard in the West. Andersen expands on arguments made by Roland Barthes—an explicator and partisan of Japanese thought—to show that at least one Greek myth (that of the unchanging...

... the debates between these and more activist tendencies. Raz goes on to show how these became unified in a nondualist approach in the writings and teachings of prominent Chinese and Japanese teachers from the beginning of Zen (Chan) in China down to the twentieth century. Duke University Press 2010...

... of ethnographic work as response can have various and divergent consequences, some of which are explored here with reference to the author's own ethnographic research on indigenous Fijian gift-giving and Japanese financial trading. While his immediate interest here is to expose differences in the kinds...

... at the of Japan’s of pan-Asianism discourse Japanese the counterexample, meoffer,a Let as supranational. genuinely rhetoric as this totake, wants perhaps for fi intentionsactual of its member states and theexpectations of their citizens, has the whatever forms, successive its Unionin European...

... the villains. I have been amazed to observe how in some extraordinary way my own Japanese friends do not seem to feel that they had done anything themselves to provoke us into inflicting Hiroshima and Nagasaki on them and how strangely incurious...

... with dealing of ways and toward attitudes Japanese about something learned have I Japan, a studentAs of modernistwhich andare art, deeplydrama indebted to those of continuity. with impatient so culture a to suited better theory a imagine to its way of doing business, one science...

... the is is Kao Professor of Japanese Religion and director of Center the for and ofdirector is Japanese Religion Professor Kao Japanese...

...¯ Michiko Urita On September 2, 1945, Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri, Emperor Hirohito having already announced the acceptance of surrender terms in a radio address (known...

...Marjorie Perloff [email protected] John Solt , Poems for the Unborn , bilingual edition, trans. Aoki Eiko ( Tokyo : Shichosha , 2020 ), 699 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 The Japanese poet-scholar John Solt is perhaps best known...

... . - - - , that while, “individually, Europeans fall far short of the Japanese in craftsman in Japanese ofthe short far fall Europeans “individually, while, that government his account,” informs “true and his in wheel,” writes ing Kunitake turn a as rapidly as worldmoving is “The above. from...

... . - - - , that while, “individually, Europeans fall far short of the Japanese in craftsman in Japanese ofthe short far fall Europeans “individually, while, that government his account,” informs “true and his in wheel,” writes ing Kunitake turn a as rapidly as worldmoving is “The above. from...

... . - - - , that while, “individually, Europeans fall far short of the Japanese in craftsman in Japanese ofthe short far fall Europeans “individually, while, that government his account,” informs “true and his in wheel,” writes ing Kunitake turn a as rapidly as worldmoving is “The above. from...

... . - - - , that while, “individually, Europeans fall far short of the Japanese in craftsman in Japanese ofthe short far fall Europeans “individually, while, that government his account,” informs “true and his in wheel,” writes ing Kunitake turn a as rapidly as worldmoving is “The above. from...

... . - - - , that while, “individually, Europeans fall far short of the Japanese in craftsman in Japanese ofthe short far fall Europeans “individually, while, that government his account,” informs “true and his in wheel,” writes ing Kunitake turn a as rapidly as worldmoving is “The above. from...

... . - - - , that while, “individually, Europeans fall far short of the Japanese in craftsman in Japanese ofthe short far fall Europeans “individually, while, that government his account,” informs “true and his in wheel,” writes ing Kunitake turn a as rapidly as worldmoving is “The above. from...

... . - - - , that while, “individually, Europeans fall far short of the Japanese in craftsman in Japanese ofthe short far fall Europeans “individually, while, that government his account,” informs “true and his in wheel,” writes ing Kunitake turn a as rapidly as worldmoving is “The above. from...

... . - - - , that while, “individually, Europeans fall far short of the Japanese in craftsman in Japanese ofthe short far fall Europeans “individually, while, that government his account,” informs “true and his in wheel,” writes ing Kunitake turn a as rapidly as worldmoving is “The above. from...