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...Sharon Hamilton Nolte Abstract The author identifies three meanings of individualism ( kojinshugi ) in Japanese journalism during the Taishō period. They were: first, individual character and talent should be cultivated for the purpose of strengthening the state and fostering the active commitment...

...F. G. Notehelfer Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 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...

...Peter Duus Japan in Crisis: Essays on Taisho Democracy . Edited by Bernard S. Silberman and H. D. Harootunian . Princton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1974 . viii, 469 pp. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 1048 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... as any recent monograph on modern Japan. Stanford University PETER DUUS Nihon to Chugoku: Taisho jidai. BY USUI KATSUMI. (Japan and China: The Taisho Period). Tokyo: Hara shobo, 1972. iii, 293 pp. Notes, Name Index. ¥2,900. . Nit-Chu gaikoshi: Hokubatsu no jidai (History of Sino-Japanese Foreign...

...Arthur E. Tiedemann Party Rivalry and Political Change in Taishō Japan . By Peter Duus . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1968 . Harvard East Asian Series 35. vii + 317. Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Tables, Chart. $6.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Edward G. Griffin Taishōki no Seiji to Shakai [Politics and Society in the Taishō Period] . Edited by Inoue Kiyoshi . Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten , 1969 . v, 406 pp. ¥ 1,200. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS 683 appear the names of two great...

... of California Press . Robertson Jennifer . 1998 . Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . Roden Donald . 1990 . Taishō Culture and the Problem of Gender Ambivalence. In Culture and Identity: Japanese...

... by male-centered epistemologies and practices, Aguni Kyoko (2016: 132) argues that Okinawa's ritual world in the Taisho period “was not a world in which [female ritual] practitioners talked about and recorded their practices” but rather was “a world of texts recorded and reconstructed by the gaze of Iha...

... treatment of contemporary domestic and international problems demonstrates, both socialist and nationalist movements of this era constituted impassioned responses to social, economic, and political crises that were already apparent in the Taishō years. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984...

..., the fifth lord of Nakatsu, produces an amusing although doubtless unintended effect, conjuring up, as it did for this reader, images of a DPRK-style personality cult. EARL KINMONTH Taisho University ...

... is not to venture a total picture of the right but to present a microcosmic analysis of doctrines attributed to it through focusing on the theory of revolution formulated early in the Taishō period by Kita Ikki (1883–1937). Japanese writers regularly identify Kita as a leading rightist. Maruyama Masao refers to him...

... painting, which likewise reached its first flowering with Wang Wei, had its roots in the same soil that produced the landscape poetry of Hsieh Ling-yün. 57 See Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa 6 (Taishō XIV, 527a). 58 Ibid. 10 ( Taishō XIV, 532ab). 59 SS 67.25a. 61 The inscription...

... understanding of the crucial intellectual background of the popular movements for "Taisho democracy." As studies of reformist figures in the Meiji and Taisho eras, these works provide detailed accounts of the views of those who sought to fashion a new polity from the legacy of the Meiji state, one in which...

...Marius B. Jansen Taishō seiji sbi . (A political history of the Taishō period). By Shinobu SeisaburŌ . Tokyo : Kawade Shobō . Vol. 1 , 1951 , 322 ; Vol. 2, 1951, 368; Vol. 3, 1952; 327; Vol. 4, 1952, 351, Appendix, 112. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954...

.... NOLTE. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. xii, 378 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $34.50. Sharon Nolte's monograph contributes to the continuing controversy over democratic trends in Taisho Japan (1912 26). Its subject is less "liberalism" than the thought and political...

... Minichiello further illuminates the surprising continuities between the "Taisho democracy" of the 1910s and 1920s and the authoritarianism of the 1930s. Drawing on categories developed by Ito Takashi, she charts the course of the "reformists" {kakushin-ha), a group of young publicists and politicians...

... of the short but important life of the Yuaikai, a good sketch of Suzuki Bunji, the founder of the Yuaikai, and useful descriptions of the rapidly changing social and economic conditions of Taisho Japan. Professor Large's contribution is a welcome one for many who wish to add variety and a bit of color...

.... A coherent legal framework was not established until 1919 with the passing of the Historic Sites, Scenic Beauty, and Natural Monuments Protection Law. Chapter 3 argues that the military functions of castles became especially important in the Taishō era (1912–26). Against this background, Benesch...

... , “The Development of Democracy in Japan,” p. 626 . 47 Matsuo presents an analysis of the rising popularity of democratic ideas in Japan during World War I in his Taishō demokurashi , pp. 177 –79 . Also, see his article, “The Development of Democracy in Japan,” The Developing Economies , IV, No. 4...