... of the NGOs highlighted in Ogawa's discussion were at the fore of the response to the disaster in March 2011, such as Peace Winds Japan. These two books complement each other well and greatly deepen our understanding of civil society and democracy in Japan. It will be interesting to see how Japan's civil...

... and Society: Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society. By AKBAR S. AHMED. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. xvi, 406 pp.- Photographs, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $35 (cloth). In writing about the Mohmand Pukhtun of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, Political...

...Thomas R. Trautmann Studies in the Society and Administration of Ancient and Medieval India. Vol. I: Society . By D. C. Sircar . Calcutta : Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay , 1967 . ix, 321 pp. Index. Rs. 25.00. Studies in Indian Coins . By D. C. Sircar . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass...

...G. Cameron Hurst Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 Shōensei to buke shakai. [The Estate System and Warrior Society] . Compiled and edited by Takeuchi Rizō Hakushi Kanreki Kinenkai. Tokyo : Yoshikawa Kōbunkan , 1969 . 612 pp. ¥3,500. Ritsuryō kokka...

...Karen Kartomi 946 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Theater in Society, Society in Theater. By RESIL B. MOJARES. Manila: Ateneo De Manila University Press, 1985. 200 pp. Tables, Maps, Graphs, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $22.50 (cloth); $12.50 (paper). Theater in Society, Society in Theater...

...Alice W. Clark The State and Village Society: The Political Economy of Agricultural Development in Bangladesh . By Shakeeb Adnan Khan . Columbia, Mo. : South Asia Publications , 1989 . xi , 189 pp. $22.00. India in Transition: Issues of Political Economy in a Plural Society...

...." Ironically, the glorious red umbrella held over the priest was made and donated to the shrine by Kbhler himself. LAURA S. KAUFMAN Manhattanville College Religion and Society in Modern Japan: Selected Readings. Edited by M A R K R. MULLINS, SHIMAZONO SUSUMU, and PAUL L. SWANSON. Berkeley, Calif.: Asian...

... of Imperial Japan . By Danny Orbach . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2017 . x, 367 pp. ISBN: 9781501705281 (cloth, also available as e-book). Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society: Contesting a Better Life . By Tomoyuki Sasaki . London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2015 . xiv, 208...

.... What is not taken into consideration here are the two elephants in the room, China and North Korea, as well as the fact that countries need to coexist in a globalized world. Japan's relations with those two countries are the topics of the two other new books under review. In Japanese Society...

... on the Kim family's reign represents a breeze of freedom infiltrating the closed society. And the quest for knowledge and information seems to be an irreversible trend. According to Baek, about 70–80 percent of the North Korean population engages in distributing, sharing, and consuming smuggled audio-visual...

... in a systematic way could enrich our understanding of contemporary media, youth, and political activism in South Korea. Smartland Korea: Mobile Communication, Culture, and Society . By Dal Yong Jin . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2017 . ix, 227 pp. ISBN: 9780472053377...

...Wolfram Eberhard The Structure of Society . By Marion J. Levy Jr . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1952 . xvii , 583 p. Glossary and index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 318 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY The Structure of Society...

...F. Joüon Des Longrais Land and Society in Medieval Japan. Studies by Kan'ichi Asakawa . Compiled and edited by the Committee for the Publication of Dr. K. Asakawa's Works in Cooperation with the Council on East Asian Studies of Yale University. Published, with Introductory Essays by J. W...

...J. P. Sharma Light on Early Indian Society and Economy . By Ram Sharan Sharma . Bombay : Manaktalas , 1966 . ix, 168 pp. Bibliography, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 742 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of Soviet Russia, for example...

...Ping-chia Kuo Chinese Society Under Communism: A Reader . By William T. Liu . New York : John Wiley and Sons Inc. , 1967 . xi, 496 pp. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 135 in the interpretation. The book concludes with an Appendix...

... in Rural Thai Society,” ms. 14 Piker, Dissertation, op. cit. 13 Phillips , op. cit. 12 Hanks and Phillips , op. cit. 11 Hanks , op. cit. 10 Piker, Steven, “Banoi: the Social Organization of a Thai Rice Village,” ms...

... of Islam , we find merely fragmentary descriptions regarding the subject. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1948 1948 THE STRUCTURE OF MOSLEM SOCIETY IN INNER MONGOLIA* SHINOBU IWAMURA Yokosuka, Japan CHINA OCCUPIES an important place in the Islamic world, but Islam in China...

...Fujiya Kawashima Korean Adoption and Inheritance: Case Studies in the Creation of a Classic Confucian Society . By Mark A. Peterson . Cornell East Asia Series: 80. Ithaca: N.Y. : Cornell University East Asian Program , 1996 . xii, 267 pp. $23.80 (cloth); $14.45 (paper). Copyright ©...

... introduces the late Chosŏn society's competing worldviews, namely “contradictions between traditional and modern; acceptance and rejection,” (Park, p. 45) an approach similar to Kim's analysis of the persistent struggle between the move toward a consumer culture and “the Chosŏn Confucian conscience” (Kim, p...

... Reconstruction in a Post-Conflict Society . By JoakimÖjendal and Mona Lilja . Copenhagen : NIAS Press , 2009 . vii, 320 pp. $37.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Olle Törnquist's Assessing Dynamics of Democratisation and Joakim Öjendal and Mona Lilja's...