Volume 41, Number 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 41, Number 2
Summer 2015

What’s Unique about the Japanese Constitution?
A Comparative and Historical Analysis
KENNETH MORI MCELWAIN AND CHRISTIAN G. WINKLER {abstract}

Fog and Steel: Mapping Communities of Literary Translation
in an Information Age
HOYT LONG {abstract}

Japonica, Indica: Rice and Foreign Trade in Meiji Japan
STEVEN J. ERICSON {abstract}

Separating the Word and the Way: Suyama Nantō’s Chūgi Suikodenkai and Edo-Period Vernacular Philology
WILLIAM C. HEDBERG {abstract}

Wert, Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan
HIRAKU SHIMODA

Karlin, Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History
MARK A. JONES

Ennals, Opening a Window to the West: The Foreign Concession at Kōbe, Japan, 1868–1899
ERIC C. HAN

Konishi, Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan
JOSEPH P. FERGUSON

Nishiyama, Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868–1964
TAKASHI YOSHIDA

Alexander, Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry
SIMON PARTNER

Kingsberg, Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History
RICHARD REITAN

Moon, Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910
MARIE SEONG-HAK KIM

Young, Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan
LORI WATT

Henshall, In Search of Nature: The Japanese Writer Tayama Katai (1872–1930)
INDRA LEVY

Perry, Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-Garde
RICHARD E. TORRANCE

Sasamoto-Collins, Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan: Three Forms of Political Engagement
WALTER SKYA

Kim, Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912
TRENT MAXEY

Keaveney, The Cultural Evolution of Postwar Japan: The Intellectual Contributions of Kaizō’s Yamamoto Sanehiko
EDWARD MACK

Smits, When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan
JEFF KINGSTON

Stolz, Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950
TIMOTHY S. GEORGE

Mizutani, Regulatory Reform of Public Utilities: The Japanese Experience
ULRIKE SCHAEDE

Kushida, Shimizu, and Oi, eds., Syncretism: The Politics of Economic Restructuring and System Reform in Japan
MARK TILTON

Kushida and Lipscy, eds., Japan under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and Governance
RAY CHRISTENSEN

Fletcher and von Staden, eds., Japan’s “Lost Decade”: Causes, Legacies and Issues of Transformative Change
TAKEO HOSHI

Otmazgin, Regionalizing Culture: The Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia
DEBORAH SHAMOON

Wade, Composing Japanese Musical Modernity
E. TAYLOR ATKINS

Tanaka, Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction
MICHAEL MCCASKEY

Breaden, Steele, and Stevens, eds., Internationalising Japan: Discourse and Practice
PETER CAVE

Stevens, Disability in Japan
JOHN TRAPHAGAN

Lim, Another Stage: Kanze Nobumitsu and the Late Muromachi Noh Theater
ELIZABETH OYLER

Winfield, Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kūkai and Dōgen on the Art of Enlightenment
FABIO RAMBELLI

Pearson, Ancient Ryukyu: An Archaeological Study of Island Communities
PETER BLEED

Spafford, A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan
LEE BUTLER