...Roy Andrew Miller Abstract Katō Shūichi's new history of Japanese literature will be completed with the publication of its second volume, promised by the publisher for 1980, and advertised as “tak[ing] the story from the end of the Muromachi period … to the present day”). Whatever critical response...

...Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia 1941–1945 . By Nicholas Tarling . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2001 . 286 pp. $36.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA...

..., of the "missing link" between Chinese and Southeast Asian production; the discovery of the "Tak/Omkoi" burial finds in northwestern Thailand; new findings at Sawankhalok; and discoveries from underwater archaeology conducted on ships from the Gulf of Thailand. The book also includes more color plates and black...

... it.” Just as leading politicians of the British Empire had erroneously predicted the city's prospect over a century earlier, the returning British colonial regime likewise underestimated the potential of Kai Tak airport as a vital nexus of air travel in the 1940s. Despite the pessimistic assessments...

...E. Bruce Reynolds The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932 . By Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka . Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center , 2001 . xviii , 522 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 726 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... Asian stonewares and glazed ceramics. She specifies important recent findings: the identification, in Guangdong wares, of the "missing link" between Chinese and Southeast Asian production; the discovery of the "Tak/Omkoi" burial finds in northwestern Thailand; new findings at Sawankhalok...

...-Madison The Summary marches straight forward, tak- ing the eight original works in turn in the chro- nological order of the events they deal with: volume by volume, chapter after chapter, each paragraph of summary keyed to a page number of the original. The originals add up to some 1,600 pages; that means...