Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 1
Winter 2023
ARTICLES
The War Is Not Over: Kishi Nobusuke and the National Defense Brotherhood, 1944–45
ANDREW LEVIDIS {abstract}
Battle in the Village: The Agrarian Ideology of Opposition in the Early Showa Period
TYLER WALKER {abstract}
Reframing Modern Japanese Literature: Translation and Science Fiction in Meiji-Era Japan
KUMIKO SAITO {abstract}
Homoerotic Solutions: Colonial Queer Desire and Postwar Sexual Politics in Ōta Ryōhaku’s “Kurodaiya” (1949)
YOSHIAKI OTTA {abstract}
PERSPECTIVES
Meiji at 150: A Global Moment for Japan Studies, an Ambivalent Moment in Japan
ROBERT HELLYER AND DAVID LEHENY {abstract}
REVIEWS
Harris, The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan
HANNO JENTZSCH
Koikari, Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post–3.11 Japan
MARGHERITA LONG
Traphagan, Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan
KIMIKO TANAKA
Jentzsch, Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture
KAE SEKINE
Craig, Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan
PENELOPE FRANCKS
Wilson, Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan’s Rivers, 1600–1930
MARK METZLER
Sawada, Faith in Mount Fuji: The Rise of Independent Religion in Early Modern Japan
CALEB CARTER
Reider, Mountain Witches: Yamauba
Copeland and Ehrlich, eds., Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch
TOBY SLADE
Gramlich-Oka, Walthall, Miyazaki and Sugano, eds., Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan
GARRETT L. WASHINGTON
Tseng, Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940
ANDRE SORENSEN
Yang, A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan
ELISHEVA PERELMAN
Perelman, American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan
ALEXANDER BAY
Hayter, Sipos, and Williams, eds., Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan
ADAM BRONSON
Abel, Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train
YOSHIKUNI IGARASHI
Gerteis, Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation
TILL KNAUDT
Schieder, Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
Shores, The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo
TILL WEINGÄRTNER
Bardsley, Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan
REBECCA CORBETT
Rath, Oishii: The History of Sushi
JAMES FARRER
Hellyer, Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Teacups
CATHERINE L. PHIPPS
Ni, The Tale of Genji and Its Chinese Precursors: Beyond the Boundaries of Nation, Class, and Gender
NICHOLAS MORROW WILLIAMS
Jackson, A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji
JINDAN NI
Bourdaghs, A Fictional Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Properties of Modern Literature
EDWARD MACK
Mitchell, Disruptions of Daily Life: Japanese Literary Modernism in the World
KEN K. ITO
Roh, Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions
CHRISTINA YI
Kushner and Levidis, eds., In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire: Imperial Violence, State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern East Asia
KELLY ANNE HAMMOND
Driscoll, The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection
PAUL D. BARCLAY
Pempel, A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific
PEKKA KORHONEN
Ogawa, Raube, Vanoverbeke, and Wouters, eds., Japan, the European Union and Global Governance
MARIE SÖDERBERG
Hattori, Japan at War and Peace: Shidehara Kojūrō and the Making of Modern Diplomacy
ANTONY BEST
Kornicki, Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain’s War with Japan
ROGER H. BROWN