TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 45, Number 2
Summer 2019
ARTICLES
The Scribal Imaginary in Medieval Japanese Paratexts
BRIAN STEININGER {abstract}
Kōda Rohan’s Fūryūbutsu: Semiotic Polyvalence and “Salvific” Prose
EZRA TOBACK {abstract}
An Outbreak of Emotion: Romantic Love and Middle-Class Identity in 1921 Japan
MARK JONES {abstract}
Who Gets to Represent Korean Buddhism? The Contest to Control Buddhism in Colonial Korea, 1920–1945
HWANSOO ILMEE KIM {abstract}
REVIEWS
Bullock, Kano, and Welker, eds., Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
MARNIE S. ANDERSON
Catalinac, Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy
HUGO DOBSON
Okano and Sugimoto, eds., Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region
AMY BOROVOY
Hein, Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War
IAN NEARY
Hopson, Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945–2011
ADAM BRONSON
Iacobelli and Matsuda, eds., Rethinking Postwar Okinawa: Beyond American Occupation
STEVE RABSON
Iacobelli, Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands
MICHAEL O. SHARPE
Kushner and Muminov, eds., The Dismantling of Japan’s Empire in East Asia: Deimperialization, Postwar Legitimation and Imperial Afterlife
YUMA TOTANI
Diehl, Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives
ALEXIS DUDDEN
Weber, Embracing “Asia” in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912–1933
FREDERICK R. DICKINSON
Tierney, Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kōtoku Shūsui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist Movement
MAX WARD
McDonald, Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan
JESSAMYN R. ABEL
Hori, Promiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926–1945
JENNIFER COATES
Esenbel, ed., Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia
TAMARA CHIN
Ravina, To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan’s Meiji Restoration in World History
STEVEN J. ERICSON
Tuck, Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan
SATOKO SHIMAZAKI
Huffman, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan
MAREN EHLERS
Frumer, Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan
KÄREN WIGEN
Oxenboell, Akutō and Rural Conflict in Medieval Japan
MICHAEL WERT
Saeki (Fogel, trans.), Treatise on the People of Wa in the Chronicle of the Kingdom of Wei: The World’s Earliest Written Text on Japan
JOHN R. BENTLEY
Kage, Who Judges? Designing Jury Systems in Japan, East Asia, and Europe
HIROSHI FUKURAI
Zacharias-Walsh, Our Unions, Our Selves: The Rise of Feminist Labor Unions in Japan
KUMIKO NEMOTO
Cook, Reconstructing Adult Masculinities: Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan
FUTOSHI TAGA
Vogel, Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work
LEONARD J. SCHOPPA
Daliot-Bul and Otmazgin, The Anime Boom in the United States: Lessons for Global Creative Industries
SUSAN J. NAPIER
Lamarre, The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media
REBECCA SUTER
Bolton, Interpreting Anime
JAQUELINE BERNDT
Foxwell, Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hōgai and the Search for Images
JOHN SZOSTAK
Moore, The Joy of Noh: Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan
CHRISTOPHER T. NELSON
Vick, Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki
KATE E. TAYLOR-JONES
Zahlten, The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies
CHARLES EXLEY
Steinberg and Zahlten, eds., Media Theory in Japan
HOYT LONG
Wake, Suga, and Masami, eds., Ecocriticism in Japan
GREGORY GOLLEY
Kawana, The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan: Histories and Cultures of the Book
ALEX BATES
Cronin, Osaka Modern: The City in the Japanese Imaginary
SCOTT O’BRYAN
Treat, The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature
MARK WILLIAMS