Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 1
Winter 2021
ARTICLES
Ekuni Kaori’s Tears in the Night: The Brilliance of Queer Readings for Japanese Literary Studies
GRACE EN-YI TING {abstract}
Who Cooked for Townsend Harris? Chinese and the Introduction of Western Foodways to Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan
TIMOTHY YUN HUI TSU {abstract}
Imperial Loyalism and Political Fissures in Early Modern Japan
ILSOO CHO {abstract}
Making Meaning: Lexical Glosses as Interpretive Interventions in the Kakaishō
ERIN L. BRIGHTWELL {abstract}
REVIEWS
O’Neal, Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art
ANNA ANDREEVA
Vallor, Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen
YUKIO LIPPIT
Jaffe, Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism
JUDITH SNODGRASS
Starling, Guardians of the Buddha’s Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū
EISHO NASU
Steel, ed., Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan
ANNE STEFANIE ARONSSON
Smith, Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan
ARTHUR STOCKWIN
Mogaki, Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan: Transformation and the Regulatory State
STEVEN K. VOGEL
Park, Katada, Chiozza, and Kojo, Taming Japan’s Deflation: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy
JENNY CORBETT
Steinberg, The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet
TAKAHIRO NISHIYAMA
Siniawer, Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan
PETER WYNN KIRBY
Benesch and Zwigenberg, Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace
ALICE Y. TSENG
Ching, Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia
TAKASHI YOSHIDA
Esselstrom, That Distant Country Next Door: Popular Japanese Perceptions of Mao’s China
SHOGO SUZUKI
Hedberg, The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon
ERIK ESSELSTROM
McMullen, ed., Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji: Philosophical Perspectives
SONJA ARNTZEN
Smits, Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650
PETER D. SHAPINSKY
de Sousa, The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves
JAN LEUCHTENBERGER
Toby, Engaging the Other: “Japan” and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850
ADAM CLULOW
Burns, Kingdom of the Sick: A History of Leprosy and Japan
ALEXANDER R. BAY
Kadia, Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan
YULIA FRUMER
Osaki, Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan
MICHIKO YUSA
Yellen, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War
BARAK KUSHNER
Law, Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936
KEN ISHIDA
Azuma, In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire
DAVID R. AMBARAS
Kishida, Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire
CEMIL AYDIN
Adal, Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education
ERIKO TOMIZAWA-KAY
Uchiyama, Japan’s Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945
ETHAN MARK
Shockey, The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media
PETER KORNICKI
Marshall, Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan
KERIM YASAR
Dollase, Age of Shōjo: The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls’ Magazine Fiction
SARAH FREDERICK
Berndt, Nagaike, and Ogi, eds., Shōjo Across Media: Exploring “Girl” Practices in Contemporary Japan
DEBORAH SHAMOON
DiNitto, Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple Disaster
Haga, The Earth Writes: The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post–3/11 Japan
KAREN THORNBER
Nathan, Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist
JONATHAN ZWICKER
PUBLICATIONS OF NOTE