...Douglas R. Reynolds Tōa kenkyūjo to Watakushi: Senchū chishikijin no shōgen [Tōa kenkyūjo and me: Testimonial of a wartime intellectual] . By Tsuge Hideomi . Tokyo : Keisō shobō , 1979 . 7, 271 pp. Appendixes, Photographs, Organization Charts, Publication Lists. Y2,700. Copyright ©...

...Douglas R. Reynolds Abstract The history of “area studies” as an academic discipline remains to be written. When it is, it will have to begin with a little known, historically important Japanese institution in China. That institution, Tōa Dōbun Shoin (East Asia Common Culture Academy or, after 1939...

...Ramon H. Myers Gendai Ajia kenkyū seiritsu shiron, Mantetsu Chōsabu, Tōa Kenkyūjo, IPR no kenkyū [Essays on the history of modern Asian research: the South Manchurian Railway Company's Research Department, the East Asian Research Institute, and research of the IPR] . By Hara Kakuten . Tokyo...

...Kenneth Colegrove Abstract The foreign policy of Japan known as the Tōa shin chitsujo or New Order in East Asia was officially announced by Prince Konoye on November 3, 1938, the birthday of Emperor Meiji. Further statements were issued by Foreign Minister Hachirō Arita to correspondents of foreign...

... circumstantial evidence as to how Russian advisors manipulate and how Mongolian leaders arrive at decisions. PAUL HYER Brigham Young University JAPAN Toa kenkyujo to Watakushi: Senchu chishikijin no shogen [Toa kenkyujo and me: Testimonial of a wartime intellectual}. By TSUGE HIDEOMI. Tokyo: Keiso shobo, 1979- 7...

... for field research by such agencies as the wartime Toa Kenkyujo or the South Manchurian Railway Company P.esearch Department. Many of these newcomers to the field did not read Chinese; on the other hand the sinologists who had a good command of the language had scant interest in 1 Others: Shiratori...

..., and the eventual election to the presidency of Corazon Aquino in February, 1986. Chinese Area Studies in Prewar China: Japan's Toa Dobun Shoin in Shanghai, 1900-1945 DOUGLAS R. REYNOLDS Pages 945-970 The history of "area studies" as an academic discipline remains to be written. When it is, it will have to begin...

... , seitetsusho Yawata , ed., Yawata seitetsusho gojūnenshi [Fifty years of the Yawata steelworks] ( Yawata : Yawata seitetsusho , 1950 ), pp. 222 –23. Yawata got much of its iron ore supplies from Daye in Hubei, this being the main aim of the Japanese loans to Hanyeping. See kenkyūjo Tōa , ed...

... about the racial struggle between the white and yellow peoples and “attempted to configure various Asian nationalist aspirations to the international order” (p. 44). Sinic Pan-Asianists' emphasis on a Japan–China alliance can be seen in their cultural organizations, such as Tōa Dōbunkai and Tōa Dōbun...

... and fall of the feudal dynasties" (p. 179). But it does again raise the question of what criteria the editors of this volume used in selecting the articles they included. JOHN B. HENDERSON Louisiana State University Gendai Ajia kenkyu seiritsu shiron, Mantetsu Chosabu, Toa Kenkyujo, IPR no kenkyu [Essays...

...-hsia Hsu . 1974 . Government Control of the Press in Modern China, 1900–1949 . Cambridge : Harvard University, East Asian Monograph Series . kenkyujo Toa . 1940 . Shina kindai hyakunen hyo [A chart of China in the last one hundred years]. Tokyo : Toa kenkyujo . Tien-wei Wu...

...” Society) history, Tōa senkaku sbishi kiden (Stories and biographies of pioneer East Asian adventurers), ( Tokyo : 1936 ) , however, stresses Tsuda's role and portrays him as Ōi's patron for these years. Biography of Ōi in Vol. 3, 137. 12 Etō left the government in 1873, and led the first...

..., and biochemistry. Yet fermentation science also developed in ways that reinforced Japan's status as an Asian power, spotlighted in case studies of alcohol production in Japanese-occupied Taiwan and Korea. Lee offers a close reading of agricultural chemist Yamazaki Momoji's influential Tōa hakkō kagaku ronkō...

... (1938), 172–173; and “Sō-Kin bōeki ni okeru cha, zeni, oyobi kinu ni tsuite” (Concerning tea, coins and silk in Sung-Chin trade), Tōa keizai ronsō , 1 no. 1 (1941). 2 “Sung-Chin chien tsou-ssu mao-i” (The smuggling trade between Sung and Chin), Chung-yang yen-chiu yüan, Li-shih yü-yen yen...

... Japan's modern history. In particular, Making Audiences traces the rise, overlap, and transformation of five discursive terms: “ minshū (the people), kokumin (the national populace), tōa minzoku (the East Asian race), taishū (the masses), and shimin (citizens)” (1). Its chapters span the social...

.... This limitation is largely why Tsuge disregards central TK affairs from late 1942 to early 1945, when he was out of the country or inactive. Gaps thus appear in the narrative. For these and earlier reasons, this work is not the final definitive account of Toa kenkyujo or of intellectuals in the wartime government...

..., and the research arm of the South Manchuria Railway Company had monitored the anti-Japanese content of Chinese textbooks (Kantō Butoku 1914 ; Makino 1936 ; Tōa Keizai Chōsa Kyoku 1929 ). Japan's Home, Foreign, and Education Ministries also cracked down on textbooks containing similar sentiments at Yokohama's...

... . Kenkyū-Jo Tōa Jikyoku . 1933 a, b. Dai manshūkoku . Vols. 1 and 2. Tokyo : Tōa Jikyoku Kenkyū-jo . Kyōsuke. Ueda 1928 . Shinchō jidai no manshū yori genjō made . Tokyo : Tōa Kenkyū-kai . Haruko. Ushijima 1964 . “Shuku to iu otoko.” In Shōwa sensō bungaku zenshū . Vol. 1...

... suggests that Prince Konoe Fumimaro announced the “New Order for East Asia” ( tōa shinchitsujo ) in 1940 but it was actually in 1938 (p. 3). Konoe did lead a “New Order Movement” ( shintaisei undō ) in 1940, but this had quite a different vision altogether. I do not fully agree with Moore's depiction...

... that a fundamental shift occurred in Hirota's policy as he increasingly became committed to pan-Asianism and fervently nationalist, embracing the ideals of such groups as the Kokuikai and Dai Tôa Kyoˇkai. Hirota's main goal as foreign minister was to link Japan and China ever closer to each other while maintaining...