Table of Contents
Volume 31, Number 2
Summer 2005

ARTICLES

Where Tradition Meets Change:

Japan’s Agricultural Politics in Transition

AURELIA GEORGE MULGAN {abstract}

Criminals or Victims?

The Politics of Illegal Foreigners in Japan

APICHAI W. SHIPPER {abstract}

The Bloodstained Doll:

Violence and the Gift in Wartime Japan

ELLEN SCHATTSCHNEIDER {abstract}

Progress and Love Marriage:

Rereading Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Chijin no ai

MICHIKO SUZUKI {abstract}
 

REVIEW ESSAY

Reassessing Amakudari:

What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?

WILLIAM W. GRIMES

REVIEWS

Krauss and Pempel, eds., Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations
   in the New Asia-Pacific
EDWARD J. LINCOLN

Schaede and Grimes, eds., Japan’s Managed Globalization:
   Adapting to the Twenty-First Century
MARK TILTON

Werner, Princes of the Yen: Japan’s Central Bankers and the
   Transformation of the Economy

Wright, Japan’s Fiscal Crisis: The Ministry of Finance and the
   Politics of Public Spending, 1975-2000
MICHAEL J. SMITKA

Hughes, Japan’s Security Agenda: Military, Economic, and Environmental Dimensions
REINHARD DRIFTE

Schwartz and Pharr, eds., The State of Civil Society in Japan
KEIKO HIRATA

Visser ‘T Hooft, Japanese Contract and Anti-Trust Law:
   A Sociological and Comparative Study
J. MARK RAMSEYER

Martinez, Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village:
The Making and Becoming of Person and Place 
JOHN W. TRAPHAGAN

Bestor, Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
ULF HANNERZ

Rupp, Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections, Cosmologies
HIKARU SUZUKI

Knight, Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study
   of People-Wildlife Relations
K. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN

Ruppert, Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan
RICHARD K. PAYNE

Watsky, Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan
MORGAN PITELKA

Takeuchi, ed., The Artist as Professional in Japan
SAMUEL C. MORSE

Mostow, Bryson, and Graybill, eds., Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field
ELIZABETH LILLEHOJ

Yoshida (Miyao and Hirano, trans.), Ozu’s Anti-Cinema
DENNIS WASHBURN

Wetzel, Keigo in Modern Japan: Polite Language from Meiji to the Present
TESSA CARROLL

Friday, Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan
J. P. LAMERS

Conlan, State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan
HAROLD BOLITHO

Totman, Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective
ALEXIS DUDDEN

Partner, Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth Century Japan
ANNE E. IMAMURA

Sand, House and Home: Architecture, Domestic Space, and
   Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930 JEFFREY E. HANES

Gayle, Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism
J. VICTOR KOSCHMANN

Fogel, ed., The Teleology of the Modern Nation-state: Japan and China
PRASENJIT DUARA

Hein, Diefendorf, and Ishida, eds., Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945
ANDRÉ SORENSEN

McVeigh, Nationalisms of Japan: Managing and Mystifying Identity
JAMES J. ORR

Mertz, Novel Japan: Spaces of Nationhood in Early Meiji Narrative, 1870-88
P. F. KORNICKI

Tomida, Hiratsuka Raichō and Early Japanese Feminism
SUMIKO OTSUBO

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