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...Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan . By Barbara Sato. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2003 . xiv, 241 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S J...

...Edward L. Dreyer Abstract In a 1926 article Wada Sei criticized the chronology of early Ming history given in the Ming T'ai-tsu shih-lu and other official sources. His conclusions have won general acceptance. Wada based his revisions on the Chi-shih-lu of Yu Pen, a lost work surviving only...

...Ray Christensen The Japanese Election System . By Junichiro Wada . London : Routledge , 1996 . x, 112 pp. £35.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 1178 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES as a highly encoded body of poetic topics (dai) and their poetic essences...

...Yuki Takanami Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s . By Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2008 . ix , 200 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In Nippon Modern...

... Election System. By J U N I C H I R O W A D A . London: Routledge, 1996.x, 112 pp. £35.00. Junichiro Wada takes on a timely topic in his examination of electoral politics in Japan. His work is part of a growing list of analyses of Japanese elections, and it shares with these recent works a predilection...

...Young Whan Kihl Kinnichisei to Manshu kōnichi sensō . [Kim Il Sung and the Manchurian Anti-Japanese War] . By Wada Haruki . Tokyo : Heibonsha , 1992 . 414 pp. ¥2,900. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 1038 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Equally important...

..., during, and just after the Meiji era. The remarkable Yūjo Monogatari , a book that is both memoir and exposé—first published in 1913, followed by a sequel the next year, then republished a decade later under a different title—is the nucleus of this wide-ranging book. Written by Wada Yoshiko, who had...

... opportunities more plausible for a faction of potential defectors from the LDP. Wada is correct in identifying this aspect of coalitional politics and its importance in LDP power struggles. I was not convinced, however, that the creation of larger coalitions in the latter period of LDP rule came about because...

..., and Motoe Terami-Wada on the Philippines. The consistency of the results reaped from and problems encountered in Japan's propaganda campaign in Southeast Asia is striking. Goodman sees several reasons for Japan's ill-prepared propaganda war: (1) Japanese military action to the South (as opposed...

... Akashi on Malaya and Singapore, and Motoe Terami-Wada on the Philippines. The consistency of the results reaped from and problems encountered in Japan's propaganda campaign in Southeast Asia is striking. Goodman sees several reasons for Japan's ill-prepared propaganda war: (1) Japanese military action...

..." buffer zone to protect Japan from Soviet Bolshevism but also to quash armed Korean-Russians who occasionally launched incursions into northern Korea, threatening the security of Japan's colony. Haruki Wada's chapter extends the coverage to 1937 when nearly 200,000 Koreans were forcibly removed to Central...

...Delwin Byron Schneider Conflict and Cooperation Between Contemporary Religious Groups . Tokyo : Chūō Academic Research Institute , 1988 . xxi, 289 pp. $12.00. (Distributed by Chūō Academic Research Institute, 1–17–4 Wada, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 166). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... launched incursions into northern Korea, threatening the security of Japan's colony. Haruki Wada's chapter extends the coverage to 1937 when nearly 200,000 Koreans were forcibly removed to Central Asia because of Stalin's fear of sabotage after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. Wada emphasizes...

... not published until 1873, l-yen not until 1880, and Sheng-shih wei-yen not until 1895. See his article, “Cheng Kuan-ying no l-yen ni tsuite” (“The l-yen written by Cheng Kuan-ying”) in Wada hakushi koki kinin tōyōshi ronsō (“Oriental studies presented to Sei [Kiyoshi] Wada”) (Tokyo: 1960), pp. 107–16...

... calls "the chattering classes" such as Shigeru Wada of the National Railroad Worker's Union, Professors Ed Seidensticker and Yoshikazu Sakamoto, and the beautiful social critic, Yoshiko Sakura, add intellectual authority to images of an oppressive and uncaring society where 42 percent of the workforce...

... in China, 1000–1700 . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . Sei Wada . 1960 . Minshi shokkashi yakuchū (An annotated translation of the “Economic Treatise” of the Ming dynastic history). 2 vols. Tokyo : Tōyō bunko . Wallerstein Immanuel . 1974 . The Modern...

... the territory, and postwar negotiations and claims made by South Korea and Japan. Wada's chapter, which considers this controversy alongside Japan's other territorial disputes such as that with Russia over the Northern Territories and with China over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, proposes that Japan's recognition...

...: The formation of an immense city and its people's occupations), edited by Kōsuke Takahashi and Tadao Furumaya . Tokyo : Tōhō shoten . Toshio Ueda . 1941 . Shina ni okeru sokai no kenkyū (A study of the concessions in China). Tokyo : Gannandō shoten . Hirofumi Wada 1999...

... become what Wada Haruki calls "Yugekitai kokka" (a guerrilla-band state). The origin and background of the anti- ...

... the parallel between them. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano's polemical piece also offers an excellent example of the downside effect of uncritical faith in globalization on the academic discourse on anime. She argues that both ahistorical, culturalist account of anime's Japaneseness and overemphasis on textual analysis...