...Ramon H. Myers; Benjamin I. Schwartz Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 VOL. XXXIII, No. 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1974 Yuji Muramatsu 1911-1974 (0 On March 6, 1974 at 5:31 A.M. Professor Yuji Muramatsu died at Kitazato hospital in Tokyo. Perhaps Japan's...

...Yuji Muramatsu The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents (Volume I: History) . By Franz Michael , in Collaboration with Chungli Chang. Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press , 1966 . xii, 244 pp. Maps, Appendices, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Yuji Muramatsu Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents . By Franz Michael . In collaboration with Chung-li Chang. Volume II : Documents and Comments. Volume III: Documents and Comments. Seattle : University...

...Lonny E. Carlisle Local Power in the Japanese State . By Muramatsu Michio . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1997 . xxi, 182 pp. $16.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 560 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Local Power in the Japanese State...

...Ramon H. Myers Kindai Kōnan no sosan: Chūgoku jinushi seido no kenkyū . [ Landlord Bursaries of the Lower Yangtze Delta Region in Recent Times: Studies of the Chinese Landlord System ] By Muramatsu Yūji . Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai : Tokyo , 1970 . 747 pp. Index, plus English...

...”: The major figures who control LDP political power]. Tokyo : Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha , 1987 . Michio Muramatsu , Mitsutoshi Itō , and Yutaka Tsujinaka . Sengo Nihon no atsuryoku dantai [Postwar Japan's pressure groups]. Tokyo : Tōyō Keizai Shinpōsha , 1986 . Minoru Nakano , ed...

... to the Bund and through the concessions (Tokyo asahi shinbun , December 4, 1937, and December 5, 1937; cited in Muramatsu 1991, 308–9). Lest there be any doubt about it, this was clearly intended as a victory march, an effort to demonstrate the new reality of Japan's preeminence in Shanghai. However much...

... of the nineteenth century China. YUNG-DEH RICHARD CHU Eisenhower College Kindai Konan no sosan: Chugoku jinushi seido no kenkyu [Landlord Bursaries of the Lower Yangtze Delta Region in Recent Times: Studies of the Chinese Landlord System] BY MURAMATSU YUJI. Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai: Tokyo, 1970. 747 pp. Index, plus...

...Ulrike Schaede The Japanese Civil Service and Economic Development—Catalysts of Change . Edited by Hyung-Ki Kim , Michio Muramatsu , T. J. Pempel , and Kozo Yamamura . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1995 . vi, 552 pp. $65.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996...

... their goals without the cooperation of the others, and norms and practices attuned to this reality accordingly developed. The existence of such norms is mapped out using survey data of prefectural governors and municipality mayors. Particularly useful here is the care that Muramatsu takes in differentiating...

... contents can be grouped into three broad categories: context, cases, and comparative analysis. The first category includes an excellent introduction by Pempel and Muramatsu, a terrific 2 5-page summary of "Authority without Power" by John Haley, and Yamamura's superb analysis, based on "new institutional...

... in Southern Sung China [JAMES T. C. LIU] 927 MICHAEL, The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents [YUJI MURAMATSU] 929 MUGRUZIN, Agrarnye otnosheniia v Kitae v 20-40-\h godakh XXV [VIRGIL DEWAIN MEDLIN] 660 MURAMATSU, Kindai Konan no sosan: Chugoku jinushi seido no kenkyu [RAMAN H. MYERS] 397 PRUSEK, Chinese...

... and Gary Saxonhouse show that, contrary to popular belief, government subsidies for industrial research and development are far lower in Japan than in the United States and Europe. Murakami, Muramatsu Michio and Ellis Krauss, and Kosai Yutaka all suggest that the contribution of the elite bureaucracy...

... with the following chapter in which Michio Muramatsu updates his conception of patterned pluralism, together form an extremely succinct analysis of the changes in the Japanese polity in terms of increased citizen participation, diversity, and pluralism. Margaret McKean's chapter begins with a concise and balanced...

... was but a "project typical of the patriarchal system around the business of human reproduction" (p. 57) as women alone became the targets of the policy. Yasuko Muramatsu's research on the impact of technological changes on Japanese women led her to question the inadequacies of mainstream development economics toward...

... of the importance of the LDP in policymaking (by Muramatsu, Ohtake, Sato, Inoguchi, Sone, and others) without concluding that all Japanese bureaucrats are wimps. Park offers a good many interesting obervations about centralization and politicization within ministry organizations and about political-bureaucratic...

.... One can agree with the many recent assertions of the importance of the LDP in policymaking (by Muramatsu, Ohtake, Sato, Inoguchi, Sone, and others) without concluding that all Japanese bureaucrats are wimps. Park offers a good many interesting obervations about centralization and politicization within...

... Movement in Szechuan in 1911” and “The Gentry and the Ch'uan-sha Riot of 1911” 2800 yen. BOOK REVIEWS 931 of course, is the ultimate mark of an important work. Y u j I MuRAMATSU Hitotsubashi Daiga\u, Tokyo Kindai Chugoku no seiji to shakai (Government and Society in Modern China). BY ICHIKO CHUZO. Tokyo...

... important events. Y u j I MURAMATSU Hitotsubashi University The American People and China. BY A. T. STEELE. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1966. x, 325 pp. Appendix and Index. $2.45. Paper. In the evolution of American policy toward Communist China, 1966 was a notable year. It brought a full-dress national...

... Ideologies," by Yuji Muramatsu; "111 Wind in the Wellfield: The Erosion of the Confucian Ground of Controversy," by Joseph R. Levenson; and "The Anti-Confucian Movement in Early Republican China," by Tse-tsung Chow. The editor's Introduction brings the diversified discussions into rapport with the central...