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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