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...Janet Hunter Abstract Contemporary concerns about the difficulties faced by the Japanese economy following the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 soon appeared to be unfounded as the economy recovered relatively quickly. This paper suggests that despite its limited impact on Japan's longer-term...

...Ellen Schattschneider Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Study of the Southern Kanto Region, Using Late Edo and Early Meiji Gazetteers . By Helen Hardacre . Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan , 2002 . xxi , 246 pp. $60.00 (cloth...

...Mark Jones The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan . By J. Charles Schencking . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . xxii, 374 pp. ISBN: 9780231162180 (cloth; also available as e-book). Imaging Disaster: Tokyo...

... the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, despite the far greater loss of life in that event? We have a long process of analysis and contextualization ahead before the traumatic events of March 2011 have sedimented into history. Meanwhile, the nuclear disaster continues. When the Japanese government announced...

..., a contested space in which regional, even global, ambitions began to be played out (Inoue 1973 ; Tsurushima 2000 ). Japan's intervention in the northern Tumen River region (called “Kantō” by the Japanese) initially served its grand strategy of competing against Russia, which had invaded Manchuria...

.... 492. 20 Honganji's greatest rival was the Takada branch under the capable leadership of Shin'e, who moved the head temple Senjuji from the Kantō to the province of Isc. In Kyoto itself Bukkōji remained the strong competitor it had been since Kakunyo's time. Although ultimately far eclipsed...

... in that island and in Shikoku. In western Honshu figures varied about approximately 7%, in the central region about 6%, and the Tokaido and Kanto about 5% or a little under. North along the Japan Sea coast the average was something like 7% again, with a sharp rise in the extreme northeast to 15% or even more...

... Shinoda Jisaku manipulated international norms to legitimize the Japanese colonial enterprise in the Kantō 間島 region (the area north of the Tumen River, Chinese: Jiandao; Japanese: Kantō). For example, he sought to represent Kantō as a no-man's land or terra nullis (p. 159), relying on Qing Jesuit works...

... for Chihli (present day Hopei) province and then for the Kanto region, a descriptive survey of cities and towns in the context of the administrative system, concluding with 132 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES a brief comparative summary. Chapter 5 takes the reader on a much brisker urban tour of the other 17...

... attitudes manifested themselves are these: the problem of san\in kptai revision; the problem of the Kanto insurrection of 1864; the problem of the second Choshu expedition in 1865-66; the problem of the Keio reform, and the problem of the 1867 Restoration crisis. Sattain \6tai reform The first major issue...

... specialists and the regional impact of the pilgrims and their confraternities, respectively. In particular, Ambros presents the Ōyama pilgrimage as a major stimulus for improving and increasing the infrastructure of roads in the Kantō plain. Ōyamamichi , roads leading to Ōyama, acted as secondary...

... structure insofar as it evolved out of 2Sait6 Osamu's (1985) discussion of Japanese proto-industrialization, which is summarized below, is framed largely in terms of the different courses taken by silk-reeling areas of northern Kanto and Shinano and cotton-spinning regions in the Kinai after foreign trade...

... of contemporary Japan, which suggests historical continuity. In fact, however, many of Baigan's Shingaku centers closed down in late Tokugawa, especially in the Kanto, because his teachings were found to be useless (pp. 103; 173, n. 11). Already in the eighteenth century under Nakazawa Doni (1725 1803), who...

.... The role of architecture in cultivating modern discipline emerges in chapter 7, “Disaster-Resistant Schools and Centers of Community Resilience.” Borland argues that international trends, such as the Playground Movement, were already known in Japan, but it took the Great Kantō Earthquake (and a few others...

... and the prestige that would accrue for the profession at home and abroad. This faith was temporarily shaken by the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, which destroyed the national capital and caused an incredulous government to abolish the IEIC and restructure seismology root and branch, putting a naval architect from...

... is more often led into separate chambers Kanto plain during the period from 1818 to than into a common salon where commin- 1884. Part I begins by sketching the political gling of viewpoints could occur. Nor is there a relations between village and domain in order concluding reassessment which might have...

... the autonomy of the several ap- This is a good book. It is a study of Chiarai- proaches at the expense of integration, that the jima, a village in the northwestern part of the reader is more often led into separate chambers Kanto plain during the period from 1818 to than into a common salon where commin- 1884...

... , pp. 182 –83. 80 The rivalry between the Kansai and Kantō branches of the Yūaikai needs close study. The suggestion in this essay that Kantō revisionists consciously planned their moves specifically to outmaneuver their Kansai counterparts is tentative. 79 Matsuo , p. 226...

... A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S seismic phenomena. Focusing on engineers, scientists, and architects, he analyzes Meiji-period earthquakes as the crux for arguments concerning architecture, construction, science, and Japanese identity. Although overshadowed by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake...

... of Baigan's Shingaku centers closed down in late Tokugawa, especially in the Kanto, because his teachings were found to be useless (pp. 103; 173, n. 11). Already in the eighteenth century under Nakazawa Doni (1725 1803), who introduced Shingaku to Edo and Kanto, study and meditation were emphasized...