TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 39, Number 1
Winter 2013
ARTICLES
Concrete Results? The TVA and the Appeal of Large Dams in Occupation-Era Japan
ERIC DINMORE {abstract}
Grand Demons and Little Devils:
Akutagawa’s Kirishitan mono as a Mirror of Modernity
REBECCA SUTER {abstract}
Reevaluating Rikyū:
Kaiseki and the Origins of Japanese Cuisine
ERIC C. RATH {abstract}
PERSPECTIVES
Japan’s Rhetoric of Crisis: Prospects for Change after 3.11
RICHARD J. SAMUELS {abstract}
REVIEWS
Stanley-Baker, Murakami, and Tambling, eds., Reading the Tale of Genji: Its Picture Scrolls, Texts and Romance
MARGARET H. CHILDS
Ferejohn and Rosenbluth, eds., War and State Building in Medieval Japan
SUZANNE GAY
Goble, Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War
W. WAYNE FARRIS
Eubanks, Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan
PAUL S. ATKINS
Rowe, Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
STEVEN HEINE
Heine and Wright, eds., Zen Masters
ROY STARRS
Yang, Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945
JEFFREY W. ALEXANDER
Saya (Noble, trans.), The Sino-Japanese War and the Birth of Japanese Nationalism
KŌICHIRŌ MATSUDA
Skabelund, Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
TOM HAVENS
Gordon, Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan
W. MILES FLETCHER III
Jones, Children as Treasures: Childhood and the Middle Class in Early Twentieth Century Japan
EARL H. KINMONTH
Fujitani, Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II
ERIN AERAN CHUNG
Moore, Soldier of God: MacArthur’s Attempt to Christianize Japan
JON DAVIDANN
Avenell, Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan
LORI WATT
Cybriwsky, Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City
YASUSHI MATSUMOTO
Goodman, Iwamoto, and Toivonen, eds., A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs
YŪJI GENDA
Hurley, Revolutionary Suicide and Other Desperate Measures: Narratives of Youth and Violence from Japan and the United States
EIKO MARUKO SINIAWER
Naff (Rimer, ed.), The Kiso Road: The Life and Times of Shimazaki Tōson
STEPHEN DODD
Angles, Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishōnen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature
STEVEN C. RIDGELY
Dorsey and Slaymaker, eds., Literary Mischief: Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War
MARK WILLIAMS
Stahl and Williams, eds., Imag(in)ing the War in Japan: Representing and Responding to Trauma in Postwar Literature and Film
DOUG SLAYMAKER
McKnight, Nakagami, Japan: Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity
Thelle, Negotiating Identity: Nakagami Kenji’s Kiseki and the Power of the Tale
IAN NEARY
Sas, Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return
ANN SHERIF
Ridgely, Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shūji
WILLIAM MAROTTI
Strong, Ainu Spirits Singing: The Living World of Chiri Yukie’s Ainu Shin’yōshū
KIRSTEN REFSING
Gottlieb, Language Policy in Japan: The Challenge of Change
J. MARSHALL UNGER
Vovin, Koreo-Japonica: A Re-evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin
GEORGE STAROSTIN
Riles, Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets
LUKE R. NOTTAGE
Umemura, The Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry: Its Evolution and Current Challenges
ROBERT KNELLER
Söderberg, ed., Changing Power Relations in Northeast Asia: Implications for Relations between Japan and South Korea
LAM PENG ER
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