TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 44, Number 2
Summer 2018
ARTICLES
Japan’s Labor Regime in Transition: Rethinking Work for a Shrinking Nation
STEVEN K. VOGEL {abstract}
Yoshikawa Eiji’s Newspaper Novel Miyamoto Musashi, Gender, and Commercial Journalism
JAMES R. REICHERT {abstract}
Reinvigoration and Interrogation of the Political Myth of Kiyū’s Suicide in Ariyoshi Sawako’s Furu Amerika ni sode wa nurasaji
MASAKO IKENUSHI {abstract}
On Mediating Laughter: Japan, Television, and the Discourse of Cheer
DAVID HUMPHREY {abstract}
REVIEWS
Seaman, Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan
AYAKO KANO
Kimura, Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima
TSIPY IVRY
Andrews, Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima
CARL CASSEGÅRD
Shields, Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan
MELISSA ANNE-MARIE CURLEY
Auerback, A Storied Sage: Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha
MARGARET H. CHILDS
Fowler, Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan
SINÉAD VILBAR
Lowe, Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan
CHARLOTTE EUBANKS
Teeuwen and Breen, A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital
ANNA ANDREEVA
Akamine (Terrell, trans.; Huey, ed.), The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia
TZE M. LOO
Atkins, Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet
STEPHEN D. MILLER
Kawashima, Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan
JONATHAN STOCKDALE
Jackson, Network of Knowledge: Western Science and the Tokugawa Information Revolution
ELLEN NAKAMURA
Yonemoto, The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan
GARY P. LEUPP
Pitelka and Tseng, eds., Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The Arts of Reinvention
AKIKO WALLEY
Uhlenbeck, Newland, and de Vries, eds., Waves of Renewal: Modern Japanese Prints, 1900 to 1960: Selections from the Nihon no Hanga Collection, Amsterdam
FRANK L. CHANCE
Jones and Inouye, eds., A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920
MICHAEL EMMERICH
Exley, Satō Haruo and Modern Japanese Literature
TOMOKO AOYAMA
Prindle, Women in Japanese Cinema: Alternative Perspectives
ISOLDE STANDISH
Yamamoto (Chang, trans.), My Life as a Filmmaker
HIROSHI KITAMURA
Geilhorn and Iwata-Weickgenannt, eds., Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disaster
BARBARA HOLTHUS
Orikuchi (Angles, trans.), The Book of the Dead
CHIARA GHIDINI
lewallen, The Fabric of Indigeneity: Ainu Identity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Japan
KINKO ITO
Suzuki, Divided Fates: The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants’ Adaptation in Japan and the United States
DAVID CHAPMAN
Di Marco, Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan
CHRISTOPHER HARDING
Avenell, Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement
PETER WYNN KIRBY
Suzuki, Globalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan
EIJI KAWABATA
Oros, Japan’s Security Renaissance: New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century
CHRISTOPHER W. HUGHES
Bytheway and Metzler, Central Banks and Gold: How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World
MICHAEL SCHILTZ
Medzini, Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Japan and the Jews during the Holocaust Era
JOSHUA A. FOGEL
Porter and Porter, Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation
FRANZISKA SERAPHIM
Pennington, Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War
CHRISTOPHER ALDOUS
Igarashi, Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers
MICHAEL A. BARNHART
Bronson, One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan
RIKKI KERSTEN