Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 2
Summer 2021
EDITORS’ NOTE
ARTICLES
Sovereignty on Display: The Tokugawa Bakufu and the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867
MARK ERICSON {abstract}
Wintry Women: Skiing, Modern Girls, and the Body Politics of Sport as Represented in 1930s Nihonga
ALISON J. MILLER {abstract}
Information Society on Track: Communication, Crime, and the Bullet Train
JESSAMYN R. ABEL {abstract}
Heterosexualizing the Bishōnen: Ambivalence in Izumi Kyōka’s Yōken kibun
NINA CORNYETZ {abstract}
PERSPECTIVES
The Puzzle of Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan
ANDREW GORDON AND MICHAEL R. REICH {abstract}
REVIEWS
Galbraith, Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan
JONATHAN E. ABEL
Koch, Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy
BRIGITTE STEGER
Lukács, Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy
KAYE BROADBENT
Kavedžija, Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan
MITCHELL W. SEDGWICK
Klien, Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society
MICHAEL STRAUSZ
Aldrich, Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters
KYLE CLEVELAND
Wetzler, Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire
TATIANA LINKHOEVA
Chatani, Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies
PETER CAVE
Lu, The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961
MARTIN DUSINBERRE
Kim, Urban Modernities in Colonial Korea and Taiwan
EVAN N. DAWLEY
Fedman, Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
PHILIP C. BROWN
Miura, Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan
JESSICA STARLING
Kim, Shinra Myōjin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean”
NAM-LIN HUR
Dobbins, Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons
JANET R. GOODWIN
McMullen, The Worship of Confucius in Japan
BENJAMIN WAI-MIN NG
Watanabe, Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar
DAVID FEDMAN
Toyosawa, Imaginative Mapping: Landscapes and Japanese Identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras
MARK RAVINA
Berry and Yonemoto, eds., What Is a Family? Answers from Early Modern Japan
PETER KORNICKI
Watanabe, Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan
ERIN L. BRIGHTWELL
Sarra, Unreal Houses: Character, Gender, and Genealogy in the Tale of Genji
ELIZABETH OYLER
Eubanks, The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan
MAX WARD
Gardner, The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction
TOMOKO TAMARI
Lippit, Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan
CHELSEA FOXWELL
Slaymaker, ed., Tawada Yōko: On Writing and Rewriting
ANN SHERIF
Tanimoto and Wong, eds., Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe
MARGARET MCKEAN
Ericson, Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform
MASATO SHIZUME
Schaede, The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why It Matters
HARALD CONRAD
Samuels, Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
ANDREW L. OROS