TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 43, Number 1
Winter 2017
ARTICLES
Ikebana as Industry:
Traditional Arts in the Era of High-Speed Growth
NANCY K. STALKER {abstract}
Clothing the Body, Dressing the Identity:
The Case of the Japanese in Taiwan during the Colonial Period
LEE JU-LING {abstract}
PERSPECTIVES
Transnational History and Japan’s “Comparative Advantage”
SHELDON GARON {abstract}
Japan’s Strategic Trajectory and Collective Self-Defense:
Essential Continuity or Radical Shift?
CHRISTOPHER W. HUGHES {abstract}
REVIEWS
Stavros, Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan’s Premodern Capital
ETHAN ISAAC SEGAL
Adolphson and Commons, eds., Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory
LINDA H. CHANCE
Verschuer (Cobcroft, trans.), Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan
W. WAYNE FARRIS
Pitelka, Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability
PETER KORNICKI
Marcon, The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
PETER FLUECKIGER
Hayek and Horiuchi, eds., Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan
CHARLOTTE EUBANKS
Clements, A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan
JOSHUA S. MOSTOW
Wilson, Defensive Positions: The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan
CONSTANTINE N. VAPORIS
Nenzi, The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko: One Woman’s Transit from Tokugawa to Meiji Japan
FEDERICO MARCON
Phipps, Empires on the Waterfront: Japan’s Ports and Power, 1868–1899
ERIC C. HAN
Han, Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894–1972
JAMES HOARE
Takenaka, Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan: Breakdown of a Hybrid Regime
LONNY E. CARLILE
Kwon, Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan
MARK E. CAPRIO
O’Dwyer, Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan’s Urban Empire in Manchuria
MIRIAM KINGSBERG
Abel, The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933–1964
ANTONY BEST
Yamashita, Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940–1945
SIMON PARTNER
Ohnuki-Tierney, Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Science
TOM HAVENS
Zohar, ed., Beyond Hiroshima: The Return of the Repressed; Wartime Memory, Performativity and the Documentary in Contemporary Japanese Photography and Video Art
MIRIAM WATTLES
Maddox, ed., Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows
LENA FRITSCH
Okuyama, Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime
MARK MACWILLIAMS
Ross, Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
ANDREW GORDON
Satsuka, Nature in Translation: Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies
OKPYO MOON
Nakamura, Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan
NINA CORNYETZ
Bondy, Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan
TIMOTHY DAVID AMOS
Bjork, High-Stakes Schooling: What We Can Learn from Japan’s Experience with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform
WILLIAM K. CUMMINGS
Vanoverbeke, Juries in the Japanese Legal System: The Continuing Struggle for Citizen Participation and Democracy
Wilson, Fukurai, and Maruta, Japan and Civil Jury Trials: The Convergence of Forces
DANIEL H. FOOTE
Naoi, Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia: Globalization as Legislation
WALTER F. HATCH
Smith, Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China
CAROLINE ROSE
Batten and Brown, eds., Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the PresentKERRY SMITH
Shirane, Suzuki, and Lurie, eds., The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
RICHARD BOWRING
PUBLICATIONS OF NOTE