Established in 1974, the Journal of Japanese Studies features original, analytically rigorous articles from across the humanities and social sciences, including comparative and transnational scholarship in which Japan plays a major part

Volume 36, Number 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 36, Number 2
Summer 2010

ARTICLES

Between Pork and Productivity:
The Collapse of the Liberal Democratic Party
T. J. PEMPEL {abstract}

Knowledge Painfully Acquired:
The Gulag Memoirs of a Japanese Humanist, 1945–49
ANDREW E. BARSHAY {abstract}

Spaces of Occupation in the Postwar Fiction of Hotta Yoshie
SEIJI M. LIPPIT {abstract}

PERSPECTIVES

Rivers and Rice:
What Lawyers and Legal Historians Should Know about Medieval Japan
JOHN O. HALEY {abstract}

REVIEWS

Claremont, The Novels of Ōe Kenzaburō
JOHN WHITTIER TREAT

Ito, An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel
STEPHEN DODD

Morton, The Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature
PHILIP GABRIEL

Havens, Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-garde Rejection of Modernism
ALICIA VOLK

Gerow, A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan
DENNIS WASHBURN

Brandon, Kabuki’s Forgotten War, 1931–1945
JONATHAN ZWICKER

Silverberg, Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times
SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK

Watanabe and McConnell, eds., Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States
BRIAN J. MCVEIGH

Inouye, Evanescence and Form: An Introduction to Japanese Culture
LEITH MORTON

Farris, Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan
BRUCE L. BATTEN

Wong, ed., Hōryūji Reconsidered
SAMUEL C. MORSE

Goble, Robinson, and Wakabayashi, eds., Tools of Culture: Japan’s Cultural, Intellectual, Medical, and Technological Contacts in East Asia, 1000s–1500s
NAM-LIN HUR

Thomas, The Way of Shikishima: Waka Theory and Practice in Early Modern Japan
EDWARD KAMENS

Ward, Women Religious Leaders in Japan’s Christian Century, 1549–1650
ANN M. HARRINGTON

Vaporis, Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan
MARK RAVINA

Craig, Civilization and Enlightenment: The Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi
KENNETH B. PYLE

Wilkinson, Nishida and Western Philosophy
JOHN C. MARALDO

Partner, The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865–1925
BRIAN PLATT

Stalker, Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan
JAMES KODERA

Collins, The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics—Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement
WILLIAM W. KELLY

Hill, National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States
SHELDON GARON

Tamanoi, Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan
DAJING YANG

He, The Search for Reconciliation: Sino-Japanese and German-Polish Relations since World War II
CAROLINE ROSE

Zachmann, China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period: China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895–1904
DOUGLAS HOWLAND

Shimazu, Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War
SANDRA WILSON

Skya, Japan’s Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism
YOSHIHISA T. MATSUSAKA

Mizuno, Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
EIKO MARUKO SINIAWER

Duke, The History of Modern Japanese Education: Constructing the National School System, 1872–1890
MARK LINCICOME

Lincicome, Imperial Subjects as Global Citizens: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Education in Japan
ROBERT ASPINALL

Endoh, Exporting Japan: Politics of Emigration to Latin America
TAKEYUKI TSUDA

Martin and Steel, eds., Democratic Reform in Japan: Assessing the Impact
LONNY E. CARLILE

Farrell, Japanese Investment in the World Economy: A Study of Strategic Themes in the Internationalisation of Japanese Industry
WALTER HATCH

Nottage, Wolff, and Anderson, eds., Corporate Governance in the 21st Century: Japan’s Gradual Transformation
CHRISTINA L. AHMADJIAN

Ueta and Remacle, eds., Tokyo-Brussels Partnership: Security, Development and Knowledge-based Society
DIMITRI VANOVERBEKE

Oros, Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity and the Evolution of Security Practice
MICHAEL J. GREEN