... was able so completely to control its subjects that the pull of a string in Tokyo produced a response from any one or all of the 73 million rippana nihonjin from Hokkaido to Kyushu. The degree to which the wartime controls of the Japanese Government were efficient and effective was due in part...

...Elizabeth Tripler Nock Abstract One of the most noteworthy incidents in the history of Japan's transition from a feudal regime to a modern state was the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877. The province of Satsuma is situated in the southernmost portion of the island of Kyushu, and Kagoshima is the capital...

...Nobutaka Ike Abstract A glance At the railway map of Japan will show that the country is criss-crossed by a network of railroads. Trunk lines run along almost the entire coast line of both Honshu and Kyushu. These and several other main lines running north and south are connected by numerous cross...

..., for almost forty years, as scholar, editor and dedicated sensei, one of the major figures in the fields of ancient and medieval Japanese history. Professor Takeuchi taught at both Kyushu and Tokyo universities, and for four years until his retirement from Todai in 1968, he was director...

... became established as a specific system. Yet in the upheavals in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods, the differences between the two systems tended to dissolve as both moved toward becoming private fiefs (pp. 588-89). Six of the seventeen articles in the second volume deal with Kyushu. While...

..., like previous fieldworkers, divides the islands into three subareas, the Satsunan islands, Amami and Okinawa and their dependent islets, and the southern Ryukyus (Sakishima). Two further areas, southern Kyushu and Taiwan are added. Following a geographical introduction (p. 12-23), t n e author turns...

.... In addition, Laver's main thesis—that the Tokugawa goal in foreign relations centered on counteracting the power of daimyo in the Kyushu region—deals with a fascinating aspect of foreign relations early in the Edo period that has not been comprehensively explored in English. Nonetheless Laver tells us little...

.... The author, like previous fieldworkers, divides the islands into three subareas, the Satsunan islands, Amami and Okinawa and their dependent islets, and the southern Ryukyus (Sakishima). Two further areas, southern Kyushu and Taiwan are added. Following a geographical introduction (p. 12-23), t n e author...

... on the reliability of the regional variations revealed by the figures used in this article, FEUDAL REVENUE IN JAPAN 257 In providing for geographical divisions, the following regions have been chosen: (i) Kyushu; (ii) Shikoku and Western Honshu, including most of the provinces bordering the Inland Sea; (iii) Central...

... and its Queen Himiko is found in the Wei chih. The Koji\i is silent on these subjects, as is the Nihonsho\i, except for a debated footnote (Empress Jingo, 39th year). Where was Yamatai located in Japan? Was Yamatai located in Kyushu or on the Yamato plain? If in Kyushu, was it the state from which...

... Period in Kyushu, Japan: A Reconsideration.” Dissertation, University of Wisconsin . Ann Arbor : University Microfilms. Hyŏng-gu Lee . 1980 . “Kija Chosŏn” [Kija's Korea]. Tonga llbo (Seoul) April 3. Meacham W. 1975 . “ New C-14 dates from China .” Asian Perspectives 18 : 204 – 213...

.... 2 Representative samples of this literature are used by Kraus Bertram in “ Current Problems in Japanese Prehistory ,” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology , 3 ( 1947 ), 58 ff. , and by Hiroshi Daifuku, “The Early Cultures of the Island of Kyushu, Japan,” ibid., 5 (1949), 253–271...

... to Hani, a transition that demonstrates the complex interrelationship and cross-fertilizations that occurred across postwar Japanese intellectual and cultural forces united in their optimistic support of individualism, creative freedom, and democracy. Part four, provocatively titled “Kyushu-ha Tartare...

... to good use in discussing such topics as the Japanese army's strategy during the Pacific War, its plans for the defense of Kyushu, and the role of the emperor in decision- making. These topics have been written about by other writers, but the author adds much new information to fill the gaps in our...

... apprenticeships first in Chinese poetry and literary experimentation at the hands of the salon of his father (Otomo Tabito) in Kyushu (chap. 2), and next, back at Nara, in the polite court tradition under the influence primarily of another accomplished poet and acting head of the Otomo family, his aunt, Lady...

... in light of the well-known hypothesis that Yayoi culture had emerged in the north Kyushu region of Japan under direct cultural impact from southern Korea. Igata (1961) even went on to say that the particular charred rice grains from Kimhae shell mound might have been brought into South Korea by Yayoi...

.... Theologically primitive tenets of faith were carefully encapsulated in culturally innocuous formats embedded deeply in agro-fishing family structures in rural communities far out of the mainstream of national life on the southwesternmost main island of Kyushu and its offshore islets. These communities of faith...

...), but "eight (Hachi) battleships" would have been correct since "Hachi" is Japanese for "eight." "Kwanto" (p. 369) refers to the same location as "Kanto (Tokyo) area" (p. 376), but this is not evident in the text. "Kita-Kyushu" is mentioned casually along with the names of several well-known Japanese cities (p...

...., charts. An apparent anomaly of Japanese archaeology may have crossed the attention of some students of early Japanese history. They would have been aware of the theoretically great importance of the Tsushima Straits area between Kyushu and Korea as a main gate for the passage of continental influences...

... Seikokai) from 1961 to 1965. After studying Japanese, he was posted to Okuchi in central Kyushu. At the time, he and his family were the only Americans in the city, and he was one of a very small number of American missionaries in Kyushu. During 1965 and 1966, he did graduate work at Princeton University...