...Yasumasa Kuroda Nihon no Shakai [Japanese Society] . Edited by Tadashi Fukutake . Tokyo : Yuhikaku , 1960 . 265 . Maps. Tables, Graphs. ¥450. Gendaiseiji to Shakaihendo [Contemporary Politics and Social Change] . Jyoji Watanuki . Tokyo : Tokyo National University Press , 1962...

...E. Dale Saunders Nihon Jōdo kyō seiritsu shi no kenkyū [A Study of the History and Formation of the Pure Land Doctrine in Japan] . By Inoue Mitsusada . Tokyo : Yamakawa , 1956 . 449 . 1400 yen. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 BOOK REVIEWS 639 affairs...

...George O. Totten Parties and Politics in Contemporary Japan . By Robert A. Scalapino and Junnosuke Masumi . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1962 . ix , 190 . Tables, App., Index. $3.75. Gendai Nihon no seitō to seiji . By Robert A. Scalapino...

...Earl Miner Nihon Shikashū . Compiled and edited by Yamamoto Kenkichi . Sekai Meisaku Zenshū, Bekkan. Heibonsha, 1959 and reprints. 812 . ¥260. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 234 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Nihon Shikashu. Compiled and edited by YAMAMOTO...

...Chong-Sik Lee Nihon no atsuryoku dantai [Pressure Groups in Japan.] . The Annals of the Japanese Political Science Association . Tokyo : Iwanami , 1960 . 266 . Yen 440. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK REVIEWS 379 and possibilities afforded...

...Herschel Webb Abstract It has often been claimed that the Dai Nihon shi is one of the towering monuments of traditional Japanese historiography, and it is indeed a work of rare scope: a general history of Japan in 397 kan , or chapters, dealing primarily with the affairs of the imperial dynasty...

...Ardath W. Burks Nihon keizai shisō-shi gaisetsu . (Outline of the history of Japanese economic thought). By Honjō Eijirō Tokyo : Yūhikaku , 1946 (Showa 21). 10, 280 p. 36.00 yen. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1950 1950 BOOK REVIEWS Nihon keizai shiso-shi...

...John Whitney Hall Nihon shakai no shiteki kyūmei . (An historical study of Japanese society). Edited by the Rekishigaku Kenkyūkai (The Historical Science Society). Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten , 1949 . v, 340 p. 300 yen. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951...

...George O. Totten Nihon shakaishugi undō shi [A history of the Japanese socialist movement] . Ed. Sakisaka Itsurō . Muromachi Shinsho 104. Tokyo : Muromachi Shobō , 1955 . 261 . 140 yen. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 BOOK REVIEWS 293 Nihon shakaishugi...

... a definitive edition of Kenko's masterpiece. Cambridge University D. L. KEENE Nihon kazoku seido to kosaku seido UW$ii h 'M1J!£ (The Japanese family system and the system of cultivation by tenants). By ARUGA KIZAEMON ^ r U S ^ i i P ^ Tokyo: Kawade shobo, 1943- 732 p. It is probably not an exaggeration...

...George B. Sansom A Note on John W. Hall's Review of Nihon Shakai No Shiteki Kyūmei . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 506 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY Press for the publication of this scholarly work. May their practice be a subject for emulation! University...

...Delmer M. Brown Nihon fuasshizumu no genryū . (Origins of Japanese Fascism). By Tanaka Sogoro . Tokyo : Hakuyō Sha , 1949 . viii + 418 p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 BOOK REVIEWS 499 Nihon fuasshizumu no genryu 0 & 7 T V zs X A (DW-fifc...

...John Whitney Hall Kinsei Nihon jinkō no kenkyū . (Studies in the demography of Tokugawa Japan). By Sekiyama Naotarō . Tokyo : Ryūginsha , 1948 . iv + iv + 282 p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 98 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY civilization. An English summary...

...Dan F. Henderson Nihon seiji shisō-shi kenkyū . (A study in the history of Japanese political thought.) By Maruyama Masao . Tokyo : Tokyo Daigaku Shuppan-kai , 1952 . 363 , 12, 5. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 1 These articles appeared...

...James William Morley Nihon gaikō hyakunen shōshi . (Short history of a century of Japan's foreign relations.) Compiled by the Foreign Ministry of Japan, edited by the Nichi-Bei Tsūshinsha . Tokyo : Yamada Shobō , 1954 . 288 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955...

...Hide Shohara Igirisu no shi. Nihon no shi . ( English poetry. Japanese poetry ). By Kanetune Kiyosuke and Miyauti Tamako . Tokyo : Hokuseidō , 1953 . ix, 377 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 590 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY While these and other stories...

... written and makes interesting reading. It is valuable for the summarizing of the life of an intriguing figure in Korean affairs and a man whom Americans should be proud to count as a fellow citizen. Colgate University SHANNON MCCUNE Nihon keizai gakusetsu-shi B ^Mffi^ffitfl (A History of Japanese economic...

...Karen Brazell Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition: The Nihon Ryōiki of the Monk Kyōkai . Translated and edited by Kyoko Motomochi Nakamura . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1973 . xii, 322 pages. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Ronald Suleski Nihon teigoku shugishi ron: Manshū jihen zengo . (On the history of Japanese imperialism: before and after the Manchurian Incident) . By Eguchi Keiichi . Tokyo : Aoki shoten , 1975 . x, 320 pp. n.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 540...

...Thomas Winant Biruma ni okeru Nihon Gunsei-shi no Kenkyu. (Research in the History of the Japanese Military Administration of Burma) . By Tsunezo Ota . Tokyo : Yoshikawa Kobunkan , 1967 . ii, 586 pp. Chronology, Documents, Index. ¥ 2,800. Copyright © The Association for Asian...