Table of Contents
Volume 35, Number 1
Winter 2009

ARTICLES

Down and Out in Negishi:
Reclusion and Struggle in an Edo Suburb
W. PUCK BRECHER {abstract}

Playbills, Ephemera, and the Historical Imagination in
Nineteenth-Century Japan
JONATHAN ZWICKER {abstract}

Ethnography as Consumption: Travel and National Identity in
Oda Makoto’s Nan de mo mite yarō
BRUCE SUTTMEIER {abstract}

Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of Calm:
Mood Regulation in Contemporary Japanese Fiction
PAUL ROQUET {abstract}

REVIEWS

Brandt, Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan
MORGAN PITELKA

Godzik, Avantgarde Männersache? Künstlerinnen im Japan der 50er and 60er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts
FRANZISKA SERAPHIM

Napier, From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West
D. P. MARTINEZ

Tatsumi, Full Metal Apache: Transactions between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America
THOMAS LAMARRE

Slaymaker, ed., Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere
IRMELA HIJIYA-KIRSCHNEREIT

Tsang, War and Faith: Ikkō Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan
NAM-LIN HUR

Adolphson, The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sōhei in Japanese History
MICHEL MOHR

Heine and Wright, eds., Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice
MORTEN SCHLÜTTER

Hur, Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System
JAMES L. MCCLAIN

Rodríguez del Alisal, Ackermann, and Martinez, eds., Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan BARDWELL SMITH

Bodart-Bailey, The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
DANIEL BOTSMAN

Jannetta, The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the “Opening” of Japan
ELLEN NAKAMURA

Smethurst, From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan’s Keynes
MARK METZLER

Wittner, Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan
CARL MOSK

Hotta, Pan-Asianism and Japan’s War, 1931–1945
THOMAS W. BURKMAN

Wakabayashi, ed., The Nanking Atrocity 1937–38: Complicating the Picture
R. KEITH SCHOPPA

MacKinnon, Lary, and Vogel, eds., China at War: Regions of China, 1937–45
YOSHIHISA T. MATSUSAKA

Seaton, Japan’s Contested War Memories: The “Memory Rifts” in Historical Consciousness of World War II
BOB TADASHI WAKABAYASHI

Saaler and Koschmann, eds., Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders
PRASENJIT DUARA

Caprio and Sugita, eds., Democracy in Occupied Japan: The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society
AARON P. FORSBERG

Tanji, Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa
ROBERT D. ELDRIDGE

Heazle and Knight, eds., China-Japan Relations in the Twenty-first Century: Creating a Future Past?
LAM PENG ER

Yuzawa, Japan’s Security Policy and the ASEAN Regional Forum: The Search for Multilateral Security in the Asia-Pacific
SAADIA M. PEKKANEN

Samuels, Securing Japan: Tokyo’s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
REINHARD DRIFTE

Pyle, Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose
THOMAS U. BERGER

Shinoda, Koizumi Diplomacy: Japan’s Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs
EIJI KAWABATA

McCormack, Client State: Japan in the American Embrace
CHRISTOPHER W. HUGHES

George Mulgan, Power and Pork: A Japanese Political Life
ROBIN M. LEBLANC

Haddad, Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective
PATRICIA L. MACLACHLAN

Sorensen and Funck, eds., Living Cities in Japan: Citizens’ Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments
TIMOTHY S. GEORGE

Faison, Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan
HELEN MACNAUGHTAN

Matanle and Lunsing, eds., Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan
MARCUS REBICK

Niehaus and Seinsch, eds., Olympic Japan: Ideals and Realities of (Inter)Nationalism
WILLIAM W. KELLY

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