Table of Contents
Volume 25, Number 2
Summer 1999

ARTICLES

Magical Realism and the Search for Identity 
in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
MATTHEW C. STRECHER {abstract}

The Nature of Warfare in Fourteenth-Century Japan: 
The Record of Nomoto Tomoyuki
THOMAS CONLAN {abstract}

The Mouse that Roared: Saito Takao, 
Conservative Critic of Japan's "Holy War" in China
EARL H. KINMONTH {abstract}

REVIEWS

Katz, Japan, the System that Soured: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Miracle
EDWARD J. LINCOLN

Hall, Cartels of the Mind: Japan's Intellectual Closed Shop
J. MARK RAMSEYER

Fruin, Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba
MICHAEL J. SMITKA

Tsutsui, Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
D. ELEANOR WESTNEY

Whittaker, Small Firms in the Japanese Economy
ULRICH JÜRGENS

Ogasawara, Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies
ANNE E. IMAMURA

Hasegawa and Hook, eds., Japanese Business Management: Restructuring for Low Growth and Globalization
LEONARD LYNN

Dore, Japan, Internationalism and the UN
DAVID ARASE

Stevens, On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass
TAKEYUKI TSUDA

Weiner, ed., Japan’s Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity
GLENDA S. ROBERTS

Turnbull, The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day
NEIL FUJITA

Brownlee, Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu
Mehl, History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan
STEFAN TANAKA

Mass, ed., The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century
STEVEN D. CARTER

Najita, ed., Tokugawa Political Writings
JOHN A. TUCKER

Kang, Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
DONALD N. CLARK

Raddeker, Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies
SHARON SIEVERS

Tamanoi, Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women
ANN WASWO

Vlastos, ed., Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan
F. G. NOTEHELFER

Schalow and Walker, eds., The Woman’s Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women’s Writing
ALAN TANSMAN

Bargen, A Woman’s Weapon: Spirit Possession in The Tale of Genji
HARUO SHIRANE

Kominz, Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition
ROBERT BORGEN

Kamens, Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry
ROBERT N. HUEY

Pandey, Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan: The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei
WILLIAM R. LaFLEUR

Fessler, Wandering Heart: The Work and Method of Hayashi Fumiko
MARYELLEN TOMAN MORI

Cohn, Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction
ANGELA YIU

Linhart and Frühstuck, eds., The Culture of Japan as Seen Through Its Leisure
DAVID W. PLATH

Robertson, Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan
AYAKO KANO

Shwalb and Shwalb, Japanese Childrearing: Two Generations of Scholarship
JUDITH S. MODELL

Roesgaard, Moving Mountains: Japanese Education Reform
GERALD LeTENDRE

McVeigh, Life in a Japanese Women’s College: Learning to Be Ladylike
WILLIAM W. KELLY

OPINION AND COMMENT

PUBLICATIONS OF NOTE

INDEX TO VOLUMES 21-25