...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...

...Ethan Mark While still retaining considerable influence among the general public, the ideological edifices of Orientalism and culturalism that once thus bracketed off Japan's modern experience from that of both “the West” and “the rest” have both come under heavy scholarly siege, and are by now...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Aaron Skabelund Samurai to Soldier: Remaking 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...

...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...

... bureaucrats and others about how to fight poverty, the admittedly limited institutional efforts to address it (via the establishment of the Tokyo Poor House and public leprosy sanitaria, for example), and the efforts of Japan's early socialists to organize and edify the poor, Huffman castigates Meiji society...

... the Restoration “Japan will be given to France. They say that the French flag is flying from Edo Castle” (Partner, p. 191). We can also see hints of an emerging identification with the larger national unit and a transformation of his worldview. However, Partner's conclusion that a Japanese identity emerged...

...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...

...Viren Murthy Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-Garde . By Samuel Perry . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2014 . xii, 228 pp. ISBN: 9780824875190 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Against Harmony...

...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 Women in Japanese Religions . By Barbara R. Ambros . New York : New York University Press , 2015 . ix, 237 pp. ISBN: 9781479884063 (cloth, also available in paper). Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603–1912...

...Mesrob Vartavarian The Evolution of the South Korea–United States Alliance . By Uk Heo and Terence Roehrig . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . ix, 282 pp. ISBN: 9781107104679 (cloth). Japan in the American Century . By Kenneth B. Pyle . Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap...

...Jeffrey W. Alexander Accelerating Japan's Economic Growth: Resolving Japan's Growth Controversy . By F. Gerard Adams , Lawrence R. Klein , Yuzo Kumasaka , and Akihito Shinozaki . New York : Routledge , 2008 . xviii , 182 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Reprogramming Japan: The High...

...Marie Söderberg The following chapter gets into the Japan-South Korean relationship. The reason for using public opinion data is that this is a way of getting into the heads and minds of the public on both sides and understanding identity-related issues more deeply. I am not convinced...

... in Japan . Edited by Alisa Freedman , Laura Miller , and Christine R. Yano . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2013 . xiv, 280 pp. ISBN: 9780804781138 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body . By Noriko J. Horiguchi...

..., 'the chapter on Mo Tzu is only a minor part (34 pp.) of the book. The major part on Chuang Tzu the mystic (101 pp.) is definitely a masterpiece of sympathetic interpretation. CHAN WING-TSIT Dartmouth College Kirishitan bunko. A manual of books and documents on the early Christian missions in Japan with special...