...G. Ralph Falconeri Kōtoku Shūsui. Portrait of a Japanese Radical . By F. G. Notehelfer . Cambridge : University Press , 1971 x, 204 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $16.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 683 Hayashi Fusao appears...

...George E. Moore American Samurai: Captain L. L. Janes and Japan . By F. C. Notehelfer . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1985 . xiv, 386 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography of Works Cited, Index. $30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 410...

...F. G. Notehelfer The Origins of Socialist Thought in Japan . By John Crump . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1983 . 374 pp. Appendixes, Select Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 323 water. The collection...

...Fred G. Notehelfer Abstract Kōtoku Shūsui is generally known as a socialist and anarchist who participated in the plot against the life of the Meiji emperor in 1910 and was executed for the crime of “high treason” the following year. Such an individual hardly strikes one as a nationalist. Why deal...

...F. G. Notehelfer Ōsugi Sakae, Anarchist in Taishō Japan . By Thomas A. Stanley . Cambridge : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University , 1982 . xii, 232 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $20. (Distributed by Harvard University Press.) Copyright © Association for Asian...

...F. G. Notehelfer Japan und die Mittelmächte . [Japan and the Central Powers] . Edited by Josef Kreiner . Bonn : Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann , 1986 . xiii , 248 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 148 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E...

...F. G. Notehelfer Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan . By Frederik L. Schodt . Berkeley, Calif. : Stone Bridge Press , 2003 . xiv, 418 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K...

...F. G. Notehelfer China in the Tokugawa World . By Marius B. Jansen . Cambridge Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1992 . xi, 137 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 168 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES costs per unit would be higher than during...

... debate waged in these magazines within the political framework of the time adds significantly to Meiji studies. University of Alberta H. J. JONES Kotoku Shusui. Portrait of a Japanese Radical. By F. G. NOTEHELFER. Cambridge: University Press, 1971 x, 204 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $16.00. From...

... attempted to make: that the generation born at the outset of the Showa era, united across classes by dizzying national reversals of fortune, has more in common than any other generation of modern Japan. SHARON H. NOLTE DePauw University American Samurai: Captain L. L. Janes and Japan. By F. C. NOTEHELFER...

...Edward R. Beauchamp Japan through American Eyes: The Journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama, 1859–1866 . Edited and annotated by F. G. Notehelfer . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1992 . xiv, 652 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993...

... men whose extraordinary sacrifices must be directed first toward smashing the aura of the emperor from which the degenerate Meiji authorities derived their power. Notehelfer's monograph is more than a fascinating intellectual biography of a radical in the early social protest movement. It complements...

... toward conversion to Christianity. Notehelfer argues that Christianity as taught by Janes allowed his young samurai to find parallels in their own deeply held values, which made possible abandoning the old and embracing the new without the wrenching anguish such conversion might suggest. Indeed, many...

... and Yokohama, 1859-1866. Edited and annotated by F. G . N O T E H E L F E R . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xiv, 652 pp. $49-50. Fred Notehelfer writes that, until a few years ago, he had never heard of Francis Hall or the journal that he so assiduously kept for the more than six-and-one-half...

.... But Professor Najita's work is praiseworthy for having traced back to Yamagata Daini for the origin of modern Japanese thinking in this regard. In his "Kotoku Shusui and Nationalism," Professor Notehelfer treats Shusui as a nationalist, which I think is an interesting and significant departure from the dominant...

... is hinted by Notehelfer when he engages the seeming paradox of KStoku Shusui the anarchist writer-activist who gave forceful sentiment to nationalist views; it is made explicit by Duus when, in describing the thought of a politician, Nagai Ryutard, he confesses that nationalism, at best defined a mood...

.... Political Economism in the Thought of Dazai Shundai (1680-1747) NAJITA, TETSUO. Restoration in the Political Thought of Yamagata Daini NOTEHELFER, FRED G. Koto^u Shusui and Nationalism PYLE, KENNETH B. Some Recent Approaches to Japanese Nationalism STESLICKE, WILLIAM E. The Political Life of the Japan...

..., and highly readable, chapter is F. G. Notehelfer's "A Matter of Transcendence: War Experiences and the Transformation of Japanese and American Fighter Pilots." It discusses the careers of both American and Japanese fighter pilots and draws the conclusion that these men found no need to continue to fight...

..., 1938 1940," is a microscopic examination of the intellectual origins for the justification of Japan's leadership in East Asia. The last, and highly readable, chapter is F. G. Notehelfer's "A Matter of Transcendence: War Experiences and the Transformation of Japanese and American Fighter Pilots...

... relations during World War I and the interwar years will find a number of these studies useful in dealing with specific topics, but anyone who hopes to find a thematic or analytical approach to Japanese-Central Power relations in this volume will be sorely disappointed. F. G. NOTEHELFER University...