...Joyce Gelb A “New Woman” of Japan: A Political Biography of Kato Shidzue . By Helen M. Hopper . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1996 . 304 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 208 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES to keep Japan's military...

...George M. Wilson The Moral and Political Naturalism of Baron Katō Hiroyuki . By Winston Davis . Berkeley, Calif. : Institute of East Asian Studies , 1996 . x, 125 pp. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1097 punishment...

...Roy Andrew Miller Abstract Katō Shūichi's new history of Japanese literature will be completed with the publication of its second volume, promised by the publisher for 1980, and advertised as “tak[ing] the story from the end of the Muromachi period … to the present day”). Whatever critical response...

...Tsuyoshi Kato Abstract In the latter half of the nineteenth century, European colonial powers established economic and political control over most of Southeast Asia. The entrenchment of colonialism affected the lives of coastal merchants as well as those of peasants in interior villages. Yet how...

...Kato Hidetoshi Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 Japan's New Middle Class; The Salary Man and His Family in a Tokyo Suburb . By Ezra F. Vogel . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1963 . 299. $6.50. 162 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...J. Thomas Rimer A History of Japanese Literature. Volume 2: The Years of Isolation. Volume 3: The Modern Years . By Shuichi Kato . Translated by Don Sanderson . New York : Kodansha International , 1983 . Vol. 2 , 230 pp. Vol. 3, 307 pp. Glossary, Bibliographical Notes, Index in each...

...Guohe Zheng A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World . By Katō Shūichi Translated and annotated by Chia-ning Chang . Berkeley .: University of California Press , 1999 . xiv, 470 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Nancy M. Tanner Matriliny and Migration: Evolving Minangkabau Traditions in Indonesia . By Tsuyoshi Kato . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 1982 . 253 pp. Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Index. $22.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Charles D. Weber Form-Style-Tradition. Reflections on Japanese Art and Society . by Shuichi Kato . Translated by J. Bester . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1972 . 220 pp. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS...

...James Vestal The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality: Tax Politics in Japan . By Junko Kato . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1994 . xiii, 327 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 731 It was, therefore, a particular...

... indispensable Kat5 Komei is neatly and indelibly conveyed by characterizing Kato as a "crown of thorns on the head of his party." Rarely does one come across a book as pleasurable to read as this one. The main concern of this work is the study of the process by which, during the years from 1912 to 1927, a two...

... , see Itō S. , Katō Kōmei (Life of Katō Kōmei), Tōkyō , 1929 , I, 685–732; K. Hayashida, op. cit ., II, 161–2, 209–14; T. Tachibana, “Influence of Mitsui and Mitsubishi in Japanese Political and Economic Life,” China Weekly Review , April 14, 21, 1934; and issues of Japan Weekly...

... and Translations; Trans- Leo Pruden. In 1975 the Kato version, still fur- lations from the Oriental Classics; Records ther revised and now flanked by English trans- of Civilization: Sources and Studies, No. lations of the Wu-liang-i-ching and the P'u- XCIV), 1976. xxviii, 421 pp. Glossary, hsien-kuan-ching...

... of the volume should only be used with caution. PETER NOSCO St. John's University A History of Japanese Literature. Volume 2: The Years of Isolation. Volume 3: The Modern Years. By SHUICHI KATO. Translated by D O N SANDERSON. New York: Kodansha International, 1983. Vol. 2, 230 pp. Vol. 3, 307 pp. Glossary...

...John W. Masland Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 The lost war: a Japanese reporter's inside story . By Masuo Kato . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1946 . 264 p. $2.75. BOOK REVIEWS 309 The lost war: a Japanese reporter's inside story. BY MASUO KATO. New...

... discussions of the Shasekishu in English, Shuichi Kato's A History ofJapanese Literature: The First Thousand Years [Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1979], Kato praises Muju as psychologist and storyteller, but this, it should be noted, is in order to emphasize that Muju had not thrown away what Kato calls...

... conclusions in general, I would take issue with parts of Professor Kato's presentation. He clings to a traditional classification of early Buddhist sculpture which I feel is outdated and restrictive. For example, if the Chuguji Miroku and most of the "Forty-eight" Buddhist figures (including the example...

... to a comparative study of Hara and Katō. 2 According to one account, the Kenseikai leadership was able only with great effort to prevent universal suffrage from being adopted as party policy. Takayoshi Matsuo , “Daiichiji taisengo no fusen undō, 1918–1920” [The universal suffrage movement after...

..., and taxing too heavily. Inoue, in touch with Mitsui bankers, frequently approached the premier with words of warning. The resentment of the group flared most obviously during the premiership of Okuma Shigenobu, when Foreign Minister Kato" ignored Inoue's dreams of using French money and rejected proferred...