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...B. Winston Kahn Tanaka Giichi and Japan's China Policy . By William F. Morton . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1980 . 329 pp. Maps, Introduction, Appendixes, Notes, Select Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $27.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 364 JOURNAL...

...Jerry K. Fisher Ox against the Storm: A Biography of Tanaka Shōzō, Japan's Conservationist Pioneer . By Kenneth Strong . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 1978 . 250 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Stefan Tanaka 932 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Conroy and Wray have made available to the field a stimulating and useful reader that is worthy of course adoption. THOMAS W. BURKMAN Old Dominion University The Japanese Achievement: A Short History ofJapan and its Culture. By SIR H U G H CORTAZZI...

...Kashihi Tanaka Engi-Shiki, Procedures of the Engi Era . (Books I-V). By Felicia Bock . (Trans.) Tokyo : Sophia University . 1970 . 185 pp. Table of Measurements, Appendices, Bibliography, Glossary, Key. $12.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK...

...Koji Tanaka From Upland to Irrigated Rice: The Development of Wet-Rice Agriculture in Rejang Musi, Southwest-Sumatra . By Jürg Schneider . Berlin : Dietrich Reimer Verlag , 1995 . xvi, 214 pp. DM42. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 270 THE JOURNAL...

...Stefan Tanaka Abstract A commission sponsored by the meiji government and headed by Okakura Tenshin (Kakuzō), Kanō Tessai, and Ernest F. Fenollosa traveled to Nara Prefecture in 1884 to catalog the important artifacts in temples and shrines. Fenollosa's later description of an event of this trip...

...Stefan Tanaka Cultural Nationalism in East Asia: Representation and Identity . Edited by Harumi Befu . Berkeley : Institute of East Asian Studies , viii, 197 pp. $17.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 Book Reviews ASIA GENERAL Cultural Nationalism...

...Richard J. Smethurst Abstract In 1910, a group or army officers led by Tanaka Giichi founded die Imperial Military Reserve Association in order to integrate Japanese society around military values. The founders, mostly proteges of Yamagata Aritomo, die chief Meiji period spokesman for unity...

..., there is a melancholy timeliness in collecting the last studies made by Japanese on their once priceless National Treasure. I continue, therefore, with a summary of several publications on the Hōryūji frescoes that have appeared in Japan since the beginning of the war: three articles by Tanaka, Kobayashi, and Sawa...

..., in consequence, in political circles in Japan, myth and conjecture have obscured the real significance of the episode. An examination of the record makes it possible to show that it was not another manifestation of the positive policy of the Tanaka cabinet but that it was the first successful test of strength...

... of the author's anxiety not to be labeled “anti- bundan “or otherwise standing against the proliferation of so called “pure“literature, or junbungaku. And yet, given the general trend of Japanese literature from 1980 onward, beginning perhaps with Tanaka Yasuo's plotless novel Nantonaku, Kurisutaru (Somehow...

... against the panoply of feudal obligations imposed by the Ming state (Fu Yiling 1957:109–21; Tanaka 1984:189–91; Yuan 1979:296, 310). Others have stressed the accelerating trend toward absolutism in the late Ming and the emergence of a cross-class alliance opposed to the arbitrary exercise of state power...

... nation could resist the ambitions of its imperialistic neighbor. Japan, under the “positive policy” of the Tanaka ministry, is pictured as attempting to keep the Three Eastern Provinces separate from the Nationalist South; to delay, if not halt, an eventual union. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... and critics such as Tanaka Masao and Watanabe Kosho insisted that photography—at least real photography—was a political practice. It was political not because its aesthetic accomplishments bolstered national prestige in the arts nor because it provided visual evidence for public policies by documenting social...

... Tanaka Odo (1867-1932), and liberal political economist Ishibashi Tanzan (1884-1969), and they all had strong personal and intellectual connections with one another. These writers, who debated the meaning and value of individualism, as well as their editors and a substantial portion of their readers were...

... for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 On july 1, 1945, Tanaka Masashi, a thirty-year-old lecturer on public health, began to keep a diary. In the first entry, he noted that exactly half of 1945 had passed, and in those six months, Japan's war effort had not gone well: “Leyte [in the Philippines] has been...

...Delmer M. Brown Nihon fuasshizumu no genryū . (Origins of Japanese Fascism). By Tanaka Sogoro . Tokyo : Hakuyō Sha , 1949 . viii + 418 p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 BOOK REVIEWS 499 Nihon fuasshizumu no genryu 0 & 7 T V zs X A (DW-fifc...

...James C. Dobbins The Dawn of Chinese Pure Land Buddhist Doctrine: Ching-ying Hui-yiian's Commentary on the Visualization Sutra . By Kenneth K. Tanaka . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1990 . xxiv, 304 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Daniel Botsman New Times in Modern Japan . By Stefan Tanaka . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2004 . x , 225 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S J A P A N 477 The latest example of U.S. war and state...

...Kyu Hyun Kim Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History . By Stefan Tanaka . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1993 . xi, 305 pp. $40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 233 There was a frenzy in Myoe. He cut off his...