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 45, Number 1

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

OPINION AND COMMENT

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