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...Franziska Seraphim Abstract In the introduction to his 1999 masterpiece on Japan under U.S. occupation, John Dower wrote, “It would be difficult to find another cross-cultural moment more intense, unpredictable, ambiguous, confusing, and electric than this one.” Indeed, no other history of occupied...

...Ethan Mark The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan . By Akiko Hashimoto . New York : Oxford University Press , 2015 . ISBN: 9780190239152 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952...

...John Creighton Campbell This observation suggests that it might be a good idea to look at the past before speculating about the future. As noted, Japan has already gone through massive and rapid population aging in the past twenty-five years. Before asking how Japan will meet such challenges...

...Hugh Borton The problems of the emperor system in postwar Japan . By Genji Okubo . Tokyo : JIPS , 1948 . 87 p. Financial and monetary situation in postwar Japan . By Hyoye Ouchi . Tokyo : JIPS , 1948 . 51 p. General trend of Japanese opinion following the end of war...

... Satoshi , “ Japan's Internship Training Program for Foreign Workers: Education or Exploitation?” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 6 , no. 7 ( 2008 ): 1 – 7 . 15 Chikako...

...Martha Chaiklin Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry . By Jeffrey W. Alexander . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . xii, 303 pp. ISBN: 9780824839536 (paper). The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned...

... Japan ( Hakodate, Japan : Municipal Library of Hakodate , 1954 ), 152 –55 . 13 Stephen R. Platt , Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War ( New York : Vintage...

...: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950 . By Robert Stolz . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2014 . 288 pp. ISBN: 9780822356905 (cloth, also available in paper). A Concise History of Japan . By Brett L. Walker . Cambridge : Cambridge...

...Jeffrey W. Alexander In an exemplary example of comparative analysis, Sanford M. Jacoby's The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States (2005) takes the reader on a tour of the human resources (HR) departments at both Japanese and U.S...

...Mesrob Vartavarian According to Pyle, such an invasive seizure of Japan was unnecessary as US officials soon made numerous compromises with established elites and interests. This argument is problematic in certain respects. Pyle himself admits that it would have been much harder for the United...

...Susan L. Burns The Stories Clothes Tell: Voices of Working-Class Japan . By Tatsuichi Horikiri . Edited and translated by Rieko Wagoner . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2016 . xxii, 179 pp. ISBN: 9781442265097 (cloth). Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan . By James L...

...Eric C. Han Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893 . By Yasuhiro Makimura . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2017 . xx, 255 pp. The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan . By Simon Partner . New...

...Sonja Arntzen Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors . By Doris G. Bargen . Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press , 2015 . xix, 372 pp. ISBN: 9780824851545 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). The Tale of Genji...

... and the Lacuna in Marxism ,” in Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1996 ), 88 – 149 . 6 From this essay, readers will get a sense that I am generally sympathetic with Walker's project. However, I am not in total agreement with his position. I...

...Charles S. Blackton The allied occupation of Japan . By Edwin M. Martin . Stanford University Press , 1948 . xiv, 155 p. $3.00. Prospects for democracy in Japan . By T. A. Bisson . New York : Macmillan , 1949 . viii, 143 p. $2.75. Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Wilburn Hansen All six of these books have much to recommend them. What is most evident is how scholarship in English on Japan has been determined by changing Western expectations of Japan, as well as by hegemonic Western preconceptions and stereotypes. As a result, large parts of these studies...

... Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan . By D. Colin Jaundrill . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2016 . xii, 229 pp. ISBN: 9781501703096 (cloth, also available as e-book). Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan . By Danny Orbach . Ithaca, N.Y...

...Alex Bates When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan . By Gregory Smits . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2014 . xv, 209 pp. ISBN: 9781442220096 (cloth, also available as e-book). Megaquake: How Japan and the World Should...

...Bernard S. Silberman The Formation of Modern Japan as viewed from Legal History . By Nakamura Kichisaburo . Tokyo : Kasai , 1964 . Distributed by the East-West Center, Honolulu. 127 . $3.00. Industrialization of Japan . By Nakayama Ichiro . Tokyo : Kasai , 1964 . Distributed...

...T. C. Smith Jan Campagnie in Japan, 1600–1850: an essay on the cultural, artistic and scientific influence exercised by the Hollanders in Japan from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries . By C. R. Boxer . 2nd rev. ed. The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff , 1950 , xii, 196 p. Guilders...