...Hugh Borton The Japanese family system . By Setsuko Hani . Tokyo : The Japan Institute of Pacific Studies (JIPS) , 1948 . 41 p. The problems of the emperor system in postwar Japan . By Genji Okubo . Tokyo : JIPS , 1948 . 87 p. Financial and monetary situation...

...John Creighton Campbell Shrinking Population Economics: Lessons from Japan . By Akihito Matsutani . Tokyo : International House of Japan , 2006 . xiv , 200 pp. ¥1429 (paper). Tackling Japan's Fiscal Challenges: Strategies to Cope with High Public Debt and Population Ageing...

...Olga Kanzaki Sooudi Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan . By Joseph D. Hankins . Oakland : University of California Press , 2014 . xxii, 277 pp. ISBN: 9780520283299 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Embracing Differences...

...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 Like Hoffman in The Fascist Effect , the contributors to Reading Colonial Japan are thus largely Japan-centered in their approach while also eschewing a conventional comparative Japan/West frame in favor of a common methodology whose deployment assumes, and indeed effectively...

... who have calculated a sharp decline of total factor productivity during the 1990s, for which “the implication is that Japan did not fully take advantage [of] gains in IT to increase productivity in many sectors” (p. 16). They cite several factors. First, the Japanese economy reflects a two-tier...

...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...

... . ix, 237 pp. ISBN: 9781479884063 (cloth, also available in paper). Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603–1912 . By Atsuko Hirai . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2014 . xviii, 433 pp. ISBN: 9780674066823 (cloth...

...)] ( Tokyo : Shinchō sensho , 2015 ), 61 – 64 . 9 Thomas C. Smith , “ The Introduction of Western Industry to Japan During the Last Years of the Tokugawa Period ,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies...

...: 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...

... University Press , 2016 ) . Eckert provides a thick description of Japanese military academy culture in World War II-era Manchukuo and Japan. 6 Eiko Maruko Siniawer , Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960 ( Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University...

...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. The AAF against Japan . By Vern Haugland . New York : Harper & Brothers , 1948 . xvii, 515 p. $5.00. Prospects for democracy in Japan...

...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...

...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...

...Rufus Kay Wyllys The future of Japan . By William C. Johnstone . New York : Oxford University Press , 1945 . viii, 162 p. 52.00. Dilemma in Japan . By Andrew Roth . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1945 . 302 p. $2.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Hyman Kublin Kokutai no Hongi: cardinal principles of the national entity of Japan . Translated by John Owen Gauntlett and edited with an introduction by Robert King Hall . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1949 . viii , 200 pp. $4.00. Japan's economy in war...

...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...