TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 40, Number 2
Summer 2014
ARTICLES
Foreign Encounters and Informal Diplomacy
in Early Modern Japan
DAVID L. HOWELL {abstract}
Practicing Kokugo:
Teachers in Hokkaido and Okinawa Classrooms, 1895-1904
ANNETTE SKOVSTED HANSEN {abstract}
Takahashi Tomio’s Phoenix:
Recuperating Hiraizumi, 1950-71
NATHAN HOPSON {abstract}
REVIEWS
Horton, Traversing the Frontier: The Man’yōshū Account of a
Japanese Mission to Silla in 736–737
BRUCE L. BATTEN
Drixler, Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660–1950
JAMES L. MCCLAIN
Stanley, Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan
BETTINA GRAMLICH-OKA
Beerens and Teeuwen, eds., Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the Edo Period:
Essays in Honour of W. J. Boot
KŌICHIRŌ MATSUDA
Gainty, Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan
WALTER SKYA
Harrell, Asia for the Asians: China in the Lives of Five Meiji Japanese
DOUGLAS HOWLAND
Moore, Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire
SANDRA WILSON
Moore, Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931–1945
MILES FLETCHER III
Culver, Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo
JOSHUA A. FOGEL
Bei, Shanghai Sanctuary: Chinese and Japanese Policy toward European Jewish Refugees during World War II
BEN-AMI SHILLONY
Cassel, Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-century China and Japan
SHOGO SUZUKI
Yang, Liu, Mitani, and Gordon, eds., Toward a History beyond Borders: Contentious Issues in Sino-Japanese Relations
BOB TADASHI WAKABAYASHI
Lai, Nationalism and Power Politics in Japan’s Relations with China: A Neoclassical Realist Interpretation
MING WAN
McCormack and Norimatsu, Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States
STEVE RABSON
Schäfer, Public Opinion, Propaganda, Ideology: Theories on the Press and Its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918–1937
BARAK KUSHNER
Cather, The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan
Abel, Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan
SHARALYN ORBAUGH
Aso, Public Properties: Museums in Imperial Japan
TOM HAVENS
Sorensen, Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800–1200)
SARAH STRONG
Rowley, An Imperial Concubine’s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-century Japan
CHRISTINA LAFFIN
Satō (Nara, trans.), Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State: The Politics of Beauty
CHRISTINE M. E. GUTH
Saito, Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880–1930
OSHINO TAKESHI
Marotti, Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan
SIMON AVENELL
Miyao, The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema
ISOLDE STANDISH
Ito, Okabe, and Tsuji, eds., Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
D. P. MARTINEZ
Gillan, Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa
HENRY JOHNSON
Josephson, The Invention of Religion in Japan
JAMES C. DOBBINS
Dessi, Japanese Religions and Globalization
YUKI MIYAMOTO
Ambros, Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan
MARK MACWILLIAMS
Surak, Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice
ERIC C. RATH
Watanabe (Noble, trans.), A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600–1901
JOHN A. TUCKER
Carter, The Kyoto School: An Introduction
RICHARD F. CALICHMAN
Schencking, The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
GREGORY SMITS
Samuels, 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan
J. A. A. STOCKWIN
Al-Badri and Berends, eds., After the Great East Japan Earthquake: Political and Policy Change in Post-Fukushima Japan
JEFF KINGSTON
Metzler, Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter’s Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle
STEVEN J. ERICSON
Maclachlan, The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871–2010
WILLIAM W. GRIMES
Vogel, The Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice
PATRICIA BOLING
Toivonen, Japan’s Emerging Youth Policy: Getting Young Adults Back to Work
MARY C. BRINTON
White, Coffee Life in Japan
OFRA GOLDSTEIN-GIDONI
Yano, Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek across the Pacific
BRIAN J. MCVEIGH
Aspinall, International Education Policy in Japan in an Age of Globalisation and Risk
PETER CAVE