... of the general decline suffered by that art of the possible, diplomacy. FRANK W. IKL£ Miami University, Ohio Showa no seishinshi [A History of the Spirit of Showa]. By TAKEYAMA MICHIHIO. Tokyo, 1956. 159. This book, written by a philosopher trying to understand his own times, is important not only for what...

... , Konoe Fumimaro , 2 vols., ( Tokyo : Kobundō , 1952 ). 5 See Gordon M. Berger , “The Search for a New Political Order: Konoe Fumimaro, the Political Parties, and Japanese Politics During the Early Shōwa Era,” Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1972 , passim . 6...

...-restraint ( jishuku ) during the final months of the Shōwa period (1926–89), fettered reflections of Shōwa Japan inundated the media. Despite a few outspoken critics at the margins, retrospectives appearing on Japanese television and in mainstream print media after Hirohito's death have largely glossed over...

...Takashi Fujitani Emperor Hirohito and Shōwa Japan: A Political Biography . By Stephen S. Large . London and New York : Routledge , 1992 . 249 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 218 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES concludes that as long...

...Sharon H. Nolte Shōwa: An Inside History of Hirohito's Japan . By Tessa Morris-Suzuki . New York : Schocken Books , 1985 . xiv, 330 pp. Notes, Glossary of Japanese Terms, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 408 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES form. Moeran...

...Osamu Shimizu Shōwa jūgo-roku-nendo Tōyō-shi kenkyū bunken ruimoku . (Classified catalog of studies in Oriental history during 1940-41). Compiled By Tōhō Bunka Kenkyū-Jo . Kyoto : Kyoto insho-kan , 1945 (Shōwa 20). iii, 279 p. 11 . 10.00 yen. Copyright © Association for Asian...

.... LEONARD H. LYNN Carnegie-Mellon University The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories. Vol. 1: 1929-1961. Vol. 2: 1961-1984. Edited by VAN C. GESSEL and TOMONE MATSUMOTO. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1985. Vol. 1: viii, 226 pp. Notes on the Translators, Selected Bibliography of English...

...Richard N. McKinnon Japanese Literature of the Showa Period. A Guide to Japanese Reference and Research Materials . By Joseph K. Yamagiwa . The University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, Bibliographical Series No. 8. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1959 . xii , 212...

...Miles Fletcher Abstract Using the concept of fascism for analyzing political developments in early Shōwa Japan has become a controversial topic, and a lively debate about a general definition of fascism has raged among scholars of modern European history. This article presents a new interpretation...

...Seiji M. Lippit Abstract Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's suicide in July 1927, coming little more than half a year after the beginning of the Shōwa period, seemed to many at the time to signify the end of an era. A number of writers and critics, for example, interpreted his death as marking the defeat...

... as “the ideological father of Japanese fascism,” and his 1919 book on the “reorganization” of Japan (later published as Nihon kaizō hōan taikō) has been called by Kuno Osamu “the Mein Kampf of the Shõwa ultranationalist movement.” 54 This line of analysis forms the basis for an assessment of Taishō social...

...Takashi Fujitani Abstract Early on the morning of February 24, 1989, my companion and I set out from our lodgings in central Tokyo for the Imperial Plaza. Though we knew that Emperor Shōwa's funeral procession would not be leaving the Palace until 9:35, we planned our arrival for 6:30 because...

... by narrow concern for national self-interest. The men of Shōwa, unlike those of Meiji, lacked a conception of Japan's role in the world which admitted the claims of higher goal or value than the nation itself. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 20 Yoshimi...

... and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan. By PETER W E T Z L E R . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. xi, 294 pp. $38.00. In September 1945 the Showa emperor and his palace advisors launched a campaign to distance him from responsibility for the decision to attack...

..., Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography (JAS 53-1 [February 1994}:218-19) is very misleading, to say the least. To begin with, the fact that postwar elites were motivated by political expediency to sell Hirohito as "a man of peace" does not in itself necessarily mean that he was really...

... Foreign Policy (Berkeley, 1957); and Robert Butow, Tojo and the Coming of the War (Princeton, 1961); and, in Japanese, ltd Masanori, Gunbatsu \obo-shi [Rise and Fall of Military Cliques] 3 vols. (Tokyo, 1957 58); Nakamura Kikuo, Showa seijishi [Political Histoy of the Showa Period] (Tokyo, 1958); Kurihara...

...: Western Books on Korea, 1655–1949 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 222 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES that the Showa emperor had been educated by teachers such as Sugiura Shigetake and advisors such as Makino Nobuaki to see himself less as a "constitutional monarch...

... made them so very good at overcoming problems. LEONARD H. LYNN Carnegie-Mellon University The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories. Vol. 1: 1929-1961. Vol. 2: 1961-1984. Edited by VAN C. GESSEL and TOMONE MATSUMOTO. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1985. Vol. 1: viii, 226 pp. Notes...

.... With this fine study by Mr. Presseisen, little new material or new interpretation will be forthcoming on the sorry tale of totalitarian power politics and diplomatic failure, so horribly indicative of the general decline suffered by that art of the possible, diplomacy. FRANK W. IKL£ Miami University, Ohio Showa...

... collection written as it is in an amusing fashion will stimulate further re- search and translation in kyogen literature. University of Minnesota E. M. COPELAND Japanese Literature of the Showa Period. A Guide to Japanese Reference and Research Materials. By JOSEPH K. YAMAGIWA. The University of Michigan...