Volume 38, Number 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 38, Number 2
Summer 2012

Doi Takeo and the Rehabilitation of Particularism in Postwar Japan
AMY BOROVOY {abstract}

Rethinking “Leprosy Prevention”:
Entrepreneurial Doctors, Popular Journalism, and the Civic Origins of Biopolitics
SUSAN L. BURNS {abstract}

Legitimating Empire, Legitimating Nation:
The Scientific Study of Opium Addiction in Japanese Manchuria
MIRIAM KINGSBERG {abstract}

The End of LDP Dominance and the Rise of Party-Oriented Politics in Japan
STEVEN R. REED, ETHAN SCHEINER, AND MICHAEL F. THIES {abstract}

Lee (Hubbard, trans.), The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan
INDRA LEVY

Conrad (Nothnagle, trans.), The Quest for the Lost Nation: Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century
CURTIS ANDERSON GAYLE

Auslin, Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations
JAMES E. AUER

Rosenbaum and Claremont, eds., Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The Yakeato Generation
DOUG SLAYMAKER

Uyehara, The Subversive Activities Prevention Law of Japan: Its Creation, 1951–52
WESLEY SASAKI-UEMURA

Mimura, Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State
FREDERICK DICKINSON

Mauch, Sailor Diplomat: Nomura Kichisaburō and the Japanese-American War
E. BRUCE REYNOLDS

Dunscomb, Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918–1922: “A Great Disobedience against the People”
ROBERT G. KANE

Hellyer, Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640–1868
MARK RAVINA

Rath, Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan
Rath and Assmann, eds., Japanese Foodways, Past and Present
TIMOTHY Y. TSU

Flueckiger, Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism
ROGER K. THOMAS

Bogel, With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikkyō Vision
PATRICIA J. GRAHAM

McCormick, Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan
DONALD F. MCCALLUM

Leiter, ed., Rising from the Flames: The Rebirth of Theater in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952
CODY POULTON

Volk, In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugorō and Japanese Modern Art
MIRIAM WATTLES

Fraleigh, Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy
HOLLY A. BLUMNER

Sterling, Babylon East: Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan
DAVID E. NOVAK

Hu, Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building
SUSAN J. NAPIER

Frost, Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan
SANDRA COLLINS

Suzuki, Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan
TAKEYUKI TSUDA

Bardsley and Miller, eds., Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan
NOBORU TOMONARI

Martin, Popular Democracy in Japan: How Gender and Community Are Changing Modern Electoral Politics
PATRICIA BOLING

Kabashima and Steel, Changing Politics in Japan
KOJI MURATA

Hook, ed., Decoding Boundaries in Contemporary Japan: The Koizumi Administration and Beyond
ALISA GAUNDER

Park, Spending without Taxation: FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan
PATRICIA L. MACLACHLAN

Nakano, Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France: When the Opposition Governs
MIKITAKA MASUYAMA

Midford, Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security: From Pacifism to Realism?
CHRISTOPHER W. HUGHES

Kage, Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated Society
SIMON AVENELL

Brinton, Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan
TUUKKA TOIVONEN

Kawano, Nature’s Embrace: Japan’s Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites
SAWA KUROTANI

Kondo, ed., Health Inequalities in Japan: An Empirical Study of Older People
AMY BOROVOY