Table of Contents
Volume 30, Number 1
Winter 2004

ARTICLES

Explaining Party Adaptation to Electoral Reform:
The Discreet Charm of the LDP?
ELLIS S. KRAUSS AND ROBERT PEKKANEN {abstract}

Translating Prewar Culture into Film:
The Double Vision of Suzuki Seijun’s Zigeunerweisen
RACHEL DINITTO {abstract}

Seeking Sakyamuni:
Travel and the Reconstruction of Japanese Buddhism
RICHARD M. JAFFE {abstract}

Chinese Antiquity and Court Spectacle
 in Early Kanshi
WIEBKE DENECKE {abstract}

PERSPECTIVES

 Kidnapped Japanese in North Korea:
The New Left Connection {abstract}
PATRICIA G. STEINHOFF

REVIEWS

Fieve and Waley, eds., Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective: Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo
JAMES L. MCCLAIN

Butler, Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680: Resilience and Renewal
CARL STEENSTRUP

Gay, The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto
LEE BUTLER

Kouame, Pelerinage et societe dans le Japon des Tokugawa: Le pelerinage de Shikoku entre 1598 et 1868
CONSTANTINE N. VAPORIS

Hesselink, Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in 17th-Century Japanese Diplomacy
GREGORY SMITS

Screech, The Lens within the Heart: The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan
MORRIS LOW

Lu, Agony of Choice: Matsuoka Yosuke and the Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1880-1946
FREDERICK R. DICKINSON

Paine, The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy
LOUIS G. PEREZ

Hirobe, Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act
THOMAS W. BURKMAN

Wilson, The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931-33
Y. TAK MATSUSAKA

Yoshimi, Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military during World War II
Tanaka, Japan’s Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the US Occupation
GRANT K. GOODMAN

Nish and Kibata, eds., The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000, Volume II: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1931-2000
THOMAS W. BURKMAN

Beer and Maki, From Imperial Myth to Democracy: Japan’s Two Constitutions, 1889-2002
YASUO HASEBE

Haley, Antitrust in Germany and Japan: The First Fifty Years, 1947-1998
MARK TILTON

Allen, Identity and Resistance in Okinawa
GERALD FIGAL

Ohnuki-Tierney, Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
JACK GOODY

Thomas, Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology
JOHN A. TUCKER

Imanishi (Asquith, ed.), A Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things
DAVID S. SPRAGUE

Weisenfeld, Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde 1905-1931
ALEXANDRA MUNROE

Galliano, Yogaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century
BONNIE C. WADE

Klein, Allegories of Desire: Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan
EDWARD KAMENS

Narahara, The Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions
YOSHIKO MATSUMOTO

Gao, Japan’s Economic Dilemma: The Institutional Origins of Prosperity and Stagnation
MICHAEL J. SMITKA

Ramseyer and Rasmusen, Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan
JOHN O. HALEY

George Mulgan, Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform
T. J. PEMPEL

Samuels, Machiavelli’s Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan
R. J. B. BOSWORTH

DiFilippo, The Challenges of the U.S.-Japan Military Arrangement: Competing Security Transitions in a Changing International Environment
CHRISTOPHER W. HUGHES

Green, Japan’s Reluctant Realism: Foreign Policy Challenges in an Era of Uncertain Power
DAVID ARASE

Kelly, Japan and the Reconstruction of East Asia
WALTER HATCH

Traphagan and Knight, eds., Demographic Change and the Family in Japan’s Aging Society
Goodman, ed., Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches
HIKARU SUZUKI

Maclachlan, Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism
ROBIN M. LeBLANC

McVeigh, Japanese Higher Education as Myth
J. S. EADES

Waswo and Nishida, eds., Farmers and Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan
TOM HAVENS

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