TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 41, Number 1
Winter 2015
ARTICLES
The Journal of Japanese Studies at Forty
KENNETH B. PYLE
The “Debate on the Literature of Action” and Its Legacy:
Ideological Struggles in 1930s Japan and the “Rebirth” of the Intellectual
SIMONE MÜLLER {abstract}
The Cult of Happiness: Maid, Housewife, and Affective Labor in Higuchi Ichiyō’s “Warekara”
MIRI NAKAMURA {abstract}
Crime on the Estates: Justice and Politics in the Kōyasan Domain
PHILIP GARRETT {abstract}
PERSPECTIVES
Lowering the Bar to Raise the Bar: Licensing Difficulty and Attorney Quality in Japan
J. MARK RAMSEYER AND ERIC B. RASMUSEN {abstract}
REVIEWS
Bayliss, On the Margins of Empire: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan
MARK E. CAPRIO
Palmer, Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan’s War, 1937–1945
MICHAEL E. ROBINSON
Barshay, The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945–1956
LAURA HEIN
Miyamoto, Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima
LEVI MCLAUGHLIN
Miller, The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo
JAMES R. BARTHOLOMEW
Sand, Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects
SALLY A. HASTINGS
Cassegärd, Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan
SIMON AVENELL
Freedman, Miller, and Yano, eds., Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan
ELYSSA FAISON
Dasgupta, Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities
TOM GILL
Nakamura, A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan
AMY BOROVOY
Shinoda, Contemporary Japanese Politics: Institutional Changes and Power Shifts
IAN NEARY
Aldrich, Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-disaster Recovery
ROBIN M. LEBLANC
Flaherty, Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan
DANIEL H. FOOTE
Shibuya and Chiba, eds., Living for Jesus and Japan: The Social and Theological Thought of Uchimura Kanzō
THOMAS W. BURKMAN
Patessio, Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan: The Development of the Feminist Movement
ELIZABETH DORN LUBLIN
Han, An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō and a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905–1937
DICK STEGEWERNS
McArthur, Henry Black: On Stage in Meiji Japan
DAVID JORTNER
Rimer, ed., Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868–2000
YUKIO LIPPIT
Fujiki, Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan
MICHAEL BASKETT
Laffin, Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu
ROSELEE BUNDY
Newhard, Knowing the Amorous Man: A History of Scholarship on Tales of Ise
MARGARET H. CHILDS
Frellesvig, A History of the Japanese Language
WESLEY M. JACOBSEN
Leuchtenberger, Conquering Demons: The “Kirishitan,” Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature
WILLIAM J. FARGE, S.J.
Hirano, The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
KIRI PARAMORE
Brecher, The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan
DAVID L. HOWELL
Clulow, The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
J. P. LAMERS