Volume 42, Number 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 42, Number 2
Summer 2016

Loosening the Ties that Bind:
Japan’s Agricultural Policy Triangle and Reform of Cooperatives (JA)
AURELIA GEORGE MULGAN {abstract}

History, “Subcultural Imagination,” and the Enduring Appeal of Murakami Haruki
NATHEN CLERICI {abstract}

Handed Down in the Family: The Past and Its Uses in the Kan’ei Genealogies
of 1643
DAVID SPAFFORD {abstract}

What High-Rise Living Means for Tokyo Civic Life:
Changing Residential Architecture and the Specter of Rising Privacy
ROBIN M. LE BLANC {abstract}

Steinhoff, ed., Going to Court to Change Japan: Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan
MARY ALICE HADDAD

Milly, New Policies for New Residents: Immigrants, Advocacy, and Governance in Japan and Beyond
MICHAEL STRAUSZ

Iwabuchi, Resilient Borders and Cultural Diversity: Internationalism, Brand Nationalism, and Multiculturalism in Japan
PETRICE R. FLOWERS

Gill, Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer
DAVID H. SLATER

Miyazaki, Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance
STEVEN BRYAN

Christensen, Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo
JAMES E. ROBERSON

Daliot-Bul, License to Play: The Ludic in Japanese Culture
Havens, Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture
WILLIAM W. KELLY

Bennett, Kendo: Culture of the Sword
MICHAEL WERT

Milhaupt, Kimono: A Modern History
MORGAN PITELKA

Bartal, Postmodern Advertising in Japan: Seduction, Visual Culture, and the Tokyo Art Directors Club
NOBUKO KAWASHIMA

Weisenfeld, Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923
MIRYAM SAS

Sango, The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan
THOMAS D. CONLAN

Blair, Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan
DAVID QUINTER

Stockdale, Imagining Exile in Heian Japan: Banishment in Law, Literature, and Cult
ROBERT BORGEN

Tokita, Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative
R. KELLER KIMBROUGH

Shapinsky, Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
KARL FRIDAY

Wachutka, Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of “National Learning” and the Formation of Scholarly Societies
SUSAN L. BURNS

Maxey, The “Greatest Problem”: Religion and State Formation in Meiji Japan
MARK TEEUWEN

Anderson, Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God
JON DAVIDANN

Matsumura, The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community
TAKU SUZUKI

Burton, Coal-Mining Women in Japan: Heavy Burdens
REGINE MATHIAS

Asahi Shimbun Company (Barak Kushner, trans.), Media, Propaganda and Politics in 20th-Century Japan
ANNIKA A. CULVER

Kim, Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan
JAMES R. BARTHOLOMEW

Xiong, Representing Empire: Japanese Colonial Literature in Taiwan and Manchuria
KAREN THORNBER

Henry, Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
MARIE SEONG-HAK KIM

Ortabasi, The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio
HOYT LONG

Dodd, The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojirō
JONATHAN E. ABEL

Germer, Mackie, and Wöhr, eds., Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan
BARBARA MOLONY

Woodall, Growing Democracy in Japan: The Parliamentary Cabinet System since 1868
MARIE SÖDERBERG

Hashimoto, The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan
SVEN SAALER

Hoppens, The China Problem in Postwar Japan: Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations
LAM PENG ER

Smith, Japan’s International Fisheries Policy: Law, Diplomacy and Policy Governing Resource Security
J. SAMUEL BARKIN