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