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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 354–378.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Matthew C. Strecher Abstract With the publication of Kaze no Uta o Kike (Hear the Wind Sing; 1979), Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) found himself more or less at odds with well-known members of the Japanese literary establishment. If one takes Murakami at his word, this was not the result of conscious...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 961–963.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Patricia Welch Dances With Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki . By Matthew Carl Strecher . Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no. 37. Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan , 2002 . xiii, 234 pp. $60.00 (cloth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 715–747.
Published: 01 August 2009
... away from the dominant notion of “culture as industry,” and explores animated personal responses to the fiction of Japanese writer Murakami Haruki in Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan through art house cinema, popular fiction, and online creative communities. The vogue for Murakami has swept across...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 620–638.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Kodai Abe Abstract This article shows how Murakami Haruki's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95) constructs a historical narrative to overcome the victim/perpetrator dichotomy and demands ethical response from readers. Drawing on Marianne Hirsch's term postmemory , the author analyzes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 183–185.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Terutomo Ozawa A Vision of a New Liberalism? Critical Essays on Murakami's Anticlassical Analysis . Edited by Kozo Yamamura . Standford .: Stanford University Press , 1997 . 312 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 183...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 960–961.
Published: 01 August 2003
... welcome study that will have us all rethinking our assumptions about the dynamics of postwar Japanese history. MICHAEL GIBBS University of Denver Dances With Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki. By M A T T H E W CARL STRECHER. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 518–529.
Published: 01 May 2017
... the centuries of his study. Focusing on the Noshima Murakami, a seafaring family, Shapinsky argues that they were non-state actors who exercised great autonomy through their control of crucial chokepoints (pp. 18, 22) in the Inland Sea, which presumably included Shimonoseki. The Murakami and their cohorts were...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1146–1147.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Koichi Hamada An Anti-Classical Political Economic Analysis: A Vision for the Next Century . By Yasusuke Murakami . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1996 . $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 1146 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 681–688.
Published: 01 August 2009
... trades on both domestic and global cool. However, is any cool as good as the next? Not everyone would agree with Murakami's pronouncements, especially coming from an artist known for a certain amount of Andy Warhol–style self-promotion. Nevertheless, they do point up some of the potential...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1163–1167.
Published: 01 November 2007
... literature at the University of Arizona and translator of contemporary Japanese literature, Ōe Kensaburō and Murakami Haruki among others, provides us with a book that goes against the grain of contemporary literary criticism. It deals, as the play on words in the title signals, with the way in which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1147–1149.
Published: 01 November 1999
... In many ways, this voluminous work is tremendously impressive and promises to be influential. The central theme of this book is developmentalism and the economics of increasing returns. According to Murakami: Developmentalism is an economic system that takes a system of private property rights...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 331–332.
Published: 01 May 1998
... confront or perpetuate stereotypes of women, she is able to discern shifts in the current discourse about gender relations. M A T T H E W C. STRECHER identifies Murakami Haruki with a new generation of Japanese writers whose work stands in opposition to "pure" literature. He characterizes the essentially...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 472–473.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., such as Higuchi Ichiyō and Nagai Kafū. Cynthia Gralla's book The Demimonde in Japanese Literature explores artistic engagements with the Japanese demimonde in modern Japanese literature, film, photography, and dance. The book offers close readings of artists and thinkers as diverse as Kuki Shūzō and Murakami...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (3): 670–672.
Published: 01 May 1983
...David G. Egler Japan: The Years of Trial, 1919–52 . By Murakami Hyoe . Tokyo : Japan Cultural Institute , 1982 . 246 pp. Chronology, Bibliography, Index. $16.50. Eagles of Mitsubishi: The Story of the Zero Fighter . By Jiro Horikoshi . Translated by Shojiro Shindo and Harold N...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1145–1146.
Published: 01 November 1999
.... $60.00 (cloth). The Anti-Classical Political Economic Analysis is the magnum opus of Yasusuke Murakami. It contains many insights for a deeper understanding of the economy, politics, and society in general, as well as of the development process in Japan. Sadly, it is Yasusuke's final contribution. When...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 147–148.
Published: 01 February 1999
... their homophobia works to construct homosexuality as a "Western problem" and casts a new kind of Orientalism along an axis of sexual difference. Contemporary Japan, specifically its televisual culture and famed pop writers Murakami Haruki and Murakami Ryu, provide the subject of essays by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 330–331.
Published: 01 May 1988
... presuppositions regarding Mahayana history and philosophy). Yoshimi Murakami writes on the concept of equality and human nature in Taoism, contrasting it to different schools of Western philosophy. The chapters written from the viewpoint of the two Semitic religions, Nathan Katz's "Jewish Perspectives on Equality...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 185–186.
Published: 01 February 2000
... regard to the evolutionary stages of economic development. The vision of metamorphic liberalism would call for mutual tolerance for developmentalism, especially in the financial sector. Murakami's analysis also helps us understand the problems currently confronting Japan, which is in the institutional...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 331–332.
Published: 01 May 1988
... presuppositions regarding Mahayana history and philosophy). Yoshimi Murakami writes on the concept of equality and human nature in Taoism, contrasting it to different schools of Western philosophy. The chapters written from the viewpoint of the two Semitic religions, Nathan Katz's "Jewish Perspectives on Equality...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 545–547.
Published: 01 November 2023
... imperialism through a literary analysis of postmemory in the work of the novelist Murakami Haruki. Through a deep reading of Murakami's novel Abe focuses on the problem of how narratives of victims and perpetrators located in the past of distant events produce histories that do not adequately reflect...