TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 45, Number 1
Winter 2019
ARTICLES
Nutrition as National Defense: Japan’s Imperial Government Institute for Nutrition, 1920–1940
NATHAN HOPSON {abstract}
Pacifist Identity, Civics Textbooks, and the Opposition to Japan’s Security Legislation
LINUS HAGSTRÖM AND ERIK ISAKSSON {abstract}
Approaches to Oneiric Texts and Imagery in Early Modern Japan
ROGER THOMAS {abstract}
Disability, Text, and Performance:
The Significance of One Blind Musician’s Career in Tokugawa Japan
WEI YU WAYNE TAN {abstract}
REVIEWS
Bullock, Kano, and Welker, eds., Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
MARNIE S. ANDERSON
Thornbury and Schulz, eds., Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City
MICHAEL P. CRONIN
McLelland, ed., The End of Cool Japan: Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture
BJÖRN-OLE KAMM
Kingston, ed., Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan
TRACY DAHLBY
Nosco, Ketelaar, and Kojima, eds., Values, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan
FEDERICO MARCON
Makimura, Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893
CATHERINE L. PHIPPS
Partner, The Merchant’s Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan
ANNE WALTHALL
Keene, The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku
SARAH FREDERICK
Orbach, Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan
ANTONY BEST
Lucken (Grimwade, trans.), The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory
BEATRICE TREFALT
Kramm, Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952
LEE K. PENNINGTON
Nishida, Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan
TAKEYUKI TSUDA
Lee, Japanese Society and the Politics of the North Korean Threat
CELESTE L. ARRINGTON
Calder, Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan
J. A. A. STOCKWIN
Ezawa, Single Mothers in Contemporary Japan: Motherhood, Class, and Reproductive Practice
YOKO YAMAMOTO
Takeyama, Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club
NANA OKURA GAGNÉ
Hidaka, Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Consuming the Past KEN COATES
Atkins, A History of Popular Culture in Japan: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
TOBY SLADE
Marran, Ecology without Culture: Aesthetics for a Toxic World
KAREN THORNBER
Kuitert, Japanese Gardens and Landscapes, 1650–1950
KENDALL H. BROWN
Pradel, Fabricating the Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandara and Prince Shōtoku’s Afterlives DOROTHY C. WONG
Winfield and Heine, eds., Zen and Material Culture
BRUCE COATS
Bowring, In Search of the Way: Thought and Religion in Early-Modern Japan, 1582–1860
MATTHIAS HAYEK
Shimazaki, Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost WILLIAM LEE
Gundry, Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku
LAWRENCE E. MARCEAU
Fraleigh, Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryūhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan
DAVID J. GUNDRY