Established in 1974, the Journal of Japanese Studies features original, analytically rigorous articles from across the humanities and social sciences, including comparative and transnational scholarship in which Japan plays a major part

Volume 42, Number 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 42, Number 1
Winter 2016

ARTICLES

The Politics of Migration in Tokugawa Japan:
The Eastward Expansion of Shin Buddhism
FABIAN DRIXLER {abstract}

“By Not Stopping”: The First Taiwan Expedition (1874) and the
Roots of Japanese Military Disobedience
DANNY ORBACH {abstract}

From Island Nation to Oceanic Empire:
A Vision of Japanese Expansion from the Periphery
JUN UCHIDA {abstract}

Why Saikaku Was Memorable but Bakin Was Unforgettable
BRIAN C. DOWDLE {abstract}

REVIEWS

Selinger, Authorizing the Shogunate: Ritual and Material Symbolism in the Literary Construction of Warrior Order
DAVID SPAFFORD

Duthie, Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan
BRUCE L. BATTEN

Cogan, The Princess Nun: Bunchi, Buddhist Reform, and Gender in Early Edo Japan
CECILIA SEGAWA SEIGLE

Seigle and Chance, Ōoku: The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women
MARCIA YONEMOTO

Chilson, Secrecy’s Power: Covert Shin Buddhists in Japan and Contradictions of Concealment
MARK MACWILLIAMS

Mohr, Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality
SUSANNA FESSLER

Wattles, The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, Artist-Rebel of Edo
JAMES T. ULAK

Szostak, Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early 20th-Century Japan
ALICE Y. TSENG

Suan, The Anime Paradox: Patterns and Practices through the Lens of Traditional Japanese Theater
ADAM L. KERN

Strecher, The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
SUSAN NAPIER

Kinsella, Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
JENNIFER PROUGH

Usui, Marketing and Consumption in Modern Japan
PENELOPE FRANCKS

Allison, Precarious Japan
LOUELLA MATSUNAGA

Hankins, Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
IAN NEARY

Vivoda, Energy Security in Japan: Challenges after Fukushima
ANDREW DEWIT

Black, Japan’s Maritime Security Strategy: The Japan Coast Guard and Maritime Outlaws
CHRISTOPHER W. HUGHES

Roberts, The British Courts and Extra-territoriality in Japan, 1859–1899
DARRYL FLAHERTY

Shimoda, Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan
BRIAN PLATT

Burns and Brooks, eds., Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium
HIROMI SASAMOTO-COLLINS

Loo, Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa’s Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000
GREGORY SMITS

Zwigenberg, Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture
YUKI MIYAMOTO

Kushner, Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice
BOB TADASHI WAKABAYASHI

OPINION AND COMMENT

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