...Carola Hein The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka . By Jeffrey E. Hanes . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2002 . xii , 348 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 614 THE JOURNAL...

...Seki Yoshihiko Asian Revolutionary; The Life of Sen Katayama . By Hyman Kublin . Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press , 1964 . xii, 370. Bibliography, Index. $9.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 157 things really did happen...

... to the fields ofJapan studies, colonial 614 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES studies, and Taiwanese history. It will certainly stimulate much enthusiastic debate and discussion. MING-CHENG MIRIAM LO University of California, Davis The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention ofModern Osaka. By JEFFREY E. H...

...Steven D. Carter BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 615 edge social urban policymaking (p. 203). Seki's central objectives were comprehensive and forward-looking master planning beyond the urbanized areas, residential reform, and the creation of working-class suburbs. Hanes's investigation of Seki's urban work...

...Ardath Burks Journal of Social and Political Ideas in Japan . Ed. by Yoshihiko Seki . Tokyo : Nihon Shakai Shisō Kenkyūsho (The Center for Japanese Social and Political Studies), Vol. I , No. 1 (April, 1963 ), “International Affairs’; U.S. $5.00 per annum. Copyright ©...

... Index of fapanese Fol\-literature by Hiroko Ikeda. It is an impressive looking work. As a Japanologist specializing in Japanese folk tales, I am interested in any study which throws light upon them. The major contribution of this work is that of fitting the compilation of Japanese folk tales, Seki Keigo...

... STUDIES Journal of Social and Political Ideas in Japan. Ed. by YOSHIHIKO SEKI. Tokyo: Nihon Shakai Shiso Kenkyusho (The Center for Japanese Social and Political Studies), Vol. I, No. i (April, 1963), "International Affairs"; U.S. $5.00 per annum. As Professor Seki, Editor of the Journal, points out, since...

... in 20th Century Japan. By JOSEPH A. MURPHY. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2004. 238 pp. $27.00 (paper). Joseph Murphy s Metaphorical Circuit explores the negotiation of . . . the boundary between literature and science (p. 1) in writings of novelists Natsume So seki and Edogawa...

... endeav­ors but also their own pers­ onal engage­ments with the yamamba as an unlimi­ted source of inspi­ra­tion for self-explo­ra­tion and disc­ ov­ery. catherine ryu Michigan State University doi: 10.1215/00219118-10290830 doi: 10.1215/00219118-10290840 A Fictional Commons: Natsume S seki And the Properties...

... light upon them. The major contribution of this work is that of fitting the compilation of Japanese folk tales, Seki Keigo, Nippon mu\ashibanashi shusei, Three Parts, 6 vols., Tokyo, 1950-1958, into the latest Aarne-Thompson, The Types of the Folktale, FFC 184, 1961. An Appendix furnishes an Index...

... Program, 2004. 238 pp. $27.00 (paper). Joseph Murphy s Metaphorical Circuit explores the negotiation of . . . the boundary between literature and science (p. 1) in writings of novelists Natsume So seki and Edogawa Ranpo, physicist Terada Torahiko, and contemporary literature critics Maeda Ai...

... for the legitimacy of Yasukuni patronage, including Kevin Doak, Seki Hei, and Nitta Hitoshi in the present volume, tend to characterize the shrine as meaningful in religious, spiritual, or traditional terms, but Breen's genealogy suggests that tradition at Yasukuni is something of a façade. Before 1868, Japan's...

... (6 volumes). By Seki Keigo. (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1950–1958.) 5 The Types of the Folktale, FFC 184. By Antti Aarna and Stith Thompson. (Helsinki: Suomalainen Teideakatemia Academia Sciemiarum Fcnnica, 1961.) 6 Mugasu, mugasu atto go nu. By Sasaki Norio, revised by Kanno...

... Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Oceana. Along with analogues to the north recognized by Yanagita and Seki, there are those in the south which they also include. Various systems of numbering in this study also complicate it. Seki numbered tales in his Shusei, but in the Kata-xndcx at the end of Part Three he...

..., and integration into the world economy. The government realized that it had to reduce the risk of regional tensions in order to pursue domestic reforms. The 6th Party Congress in December 1986 "marked one of the biggest turns in Vietnam's foreign policy," asserts Seki Tomoda (p. 140). The party began to withdraw...

... of modern times), compiled by Seki Giichiro and Seki Yoshinao. This last work is reported to be more comprehensive than the Kangaku-sha denki oyobi chojutsu shuran (Biographies and works written by Japanese scholars of Chinese classics) compiled by Ogawa Kando. The most important shortcoming of the present...

... by Japanese scholars of Chinese classics of modern times), compiled by Seki Giichiro and Seki Yoshinao. This last work is reported to be more comprehensive than the Kangaku-sha denki oyobi chojutsu shuran (Biographies and works written by Japanese scholars of Chinese classics) compiled by Ogawa Kando...

... to Karatani s more traditional critical essays that, beginning with his debut essay on So seki, are often masterpieces of insight and concision. Chapter 4 on Mishima hints at an additional midlevel structuring in terms of Karatani s Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (1993), moving from landscape...

... . Ryūkyū-koku yuraiki . 1962 . In Ryūkyū shiryŀ sŀsho, dai-1 (Collected Sources of Ryūkyuan History, vol. 1), edited by Iha Fuyū et al. Tokyo : Inoue shobŀ . Shūichi Seki . 1991 a. “15 seiki niokeru Chŀsenjin hyŀryūnin sŀkan taisei nokeisei” (The Formation of the Repatriation System for Korean...