Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 1
Winter 2020
ARTICLES
Noting Suicide with a Vague Sense of Anxiety
KIRSTEN CATHER {abstract}
The “Ōnin War” as the Fulfillment of Prophecy
THOMAS D. CONLAN {abstract}
Performing Democracy: Audience Participation in Postwar Broadcasting
SEONG UN KIM {abstract}
PERSPECTIVES
Ronald Dore’s Japan
D. HUGH WHITTAKER {abstract}
The Making of Postwar Japan: A Speculative Essay
KENNETH B. PYLE {abstract}
REVIEWS
Strippoli, Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess: The Legend of Giō and Hotoke in Japanese Literature, Theater, Visual Arts, and Cultural Heritage
JANET R. GOODWIN
Tucker, The Forty-Seven Rōnin: The Vendetta in History
D. COLIN JAUNDRILL
Ivanova, Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic
PETER KORNICKI
Steininger, Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan: Poetics and Practice
JOAN R. PIGGOTT
Chaiklin, ed., Mediated by Gifts: Politics and Society in Japan, 1350–1850
JEROEN LAMERS
Hesselink, The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560–1640
STEPHEN TURNBULL
Ehlers, Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan
MARCIA YONEMOTO
Arch, Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan
JONATHAN STOCKDALE
Yoshikawa, Making History Matter: Kuroita Katsumi and the Construction of Imperial Japan
ORION KLAUTAU
Yi, Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea
TRAVIS WORKMAN
Lim, Rules of the House: Family Law and Domestic Disputes in Colonial Korea
MARK E. CAPRIO
Mizuno, Moore, and DiMoia, eds., Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development and the Cold War Order
KATE MCDONALD
Moore, Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939–1945
SIMON PARTNER
Mark, Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History
SHIGERU SATO
Ogumi (Noble, trans.), Return from Siberia: A Japanese Life in War and Peace, 1925–2015
PAUL D. BARCLAY
Joo, The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the Everyday
ERIN SCHONEVELD
Napier, Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art
RAYNA DENISON
Posadas, Double Visions, Double Fictions: The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature
RIO OTOMO
Yasar, Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945
MARGARET MEHL
Nagahara, Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents
SHAWN BENDER
Jesty, Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan
NICK KAPUR
Dufour and Witkovsky, eds., Provoke: Between Protest and Performance—Photography in Japan 1960/1975
MIRYAM SAS
Follaco, A Sense of the City: Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879–1959)
EVELYN SCHULZ
Kapur, Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo
SIMON AVENELL
Smith, Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan
JULIA C. BULLOCK
Takeuchi-Demirci, Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan
MARNIE S. ANDERSON
Pyle, Japan in the American Century
DAVID LEHENY
Komine, Negotiating the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Japan Confidential
WILLIAM L. BROOKS
Carlson and Reed, Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan
AURELIA GEORGE MULGAN
Stalker, ed., Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity
SAMUEL HIDEO YAMASHITA
Corbett, Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan
CHRISTINE M. E. GUTH
Levine, Long Strange Journey: On Modern Zen, Zen Art, and Other Predicaments
TOSHIO WATANABE
Rots, Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan: Making Sacred Forests
TRENT E. MAXEY
Alexy and Cook, eds., Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict
MARK MCLELLAND
Fisch, An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo’s Commuter Train Network
NORIKO ASO
Nguyen, ed., New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics
THOMAS P. KASULIS
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