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 48, Number 1

Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 1
Winter 2022

ARTICLES

Shapes of Friendship: Commemorative Narratives of and around Horie Toshiyuki
ATSUKO SAKAKI {abstract}

The History of Aesthetic Surgery in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
EMILIE Y. TAKAYAMA {abstract}

The Imperial Peace of 1813: The Golovnin Incident and Tokugawa Authority in Ezo
VIKTOR SHMAGIN {abstract}

Yoshitsune and the Gendered Transformations of Japan’s Self-Image
SACHI SCHMIDT-HORI {abstract}

PERSPECTIVES

Japan Transformed? The Foreign Policy Legacy of the Abe Government
ADAM P. LIFF AND PHILLIP Y. LIPSCY {abstract}

REVIEWS

Kovner, Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps
SAMUEL H. YAMASHITA

Tai, Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State
KAN KIMURA

Victoria, Zen Terror in Prewar Japan: Portrait of an Assassin
MELISSA ANNE-MARIE CURLEY

Linkhoeva, Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism
SHERZOD MUMINOV

Thomas, Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan
HANS MARTIN KRÄMER

Melzer, Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation
CHRISTOPHER HOOD

Screech, Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo
MATTHEW FRALEIGH

La Rocca, ed., Il grande viaggio: La missione giapponese del 1613 in Europa
DAVID SPAFFORD

Laver, The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy
REINIER HESSELINK

Brightwell, Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan’s Medieval Mirror Genre
BRIAN STEININGER

Breen, Maruyama, and Takagi, eds., Kyoto’s Renaissance: Ancient Capital for Modern Japan
JENNIFER PROUGH

Borland, Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo
KAORI H. OKANO

Mihic, Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima
LINDA M. FLORES

Strausz, Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan
SUSANNE KLIEN

Gagné, Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism
D. HUGH WHITTAKER

Alexy, Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan
LINDA WHITE

Kariya and Rappleye, Education, Equality, and Meritocracy in a Global Age: The Japanese Approach
PETER CAVE

Morris-Suzuki, Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy
DAVID CHIAVACCI

Midford, Overcoming Isolationism: Japan’s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism
JULIE GILSON

Katada, Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific
HUGO DOBSON

Miyao, Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema
NAOKI YAMAMOTO

Poch, Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel
HOYT LONG

Schoneveld, Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early Avant-Garde
CHINGHSIN WU

Wu, Parallel Modernism: Koga Harue and Avant-Garde Art in Modern Japan
ALISON J. MILLER

Keaveney, Western Rock Artists, Madame Butterfly, and the Allure of Japan: Dancing in an Eastern Dream
REBECCA SUTER

Prichard, Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan
WILLIAM O. GARDNER

Hall, Japan Beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry
KAORI NAKANO

Goree, Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan
RADU LECA

Saaler, Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan
RAN ZWIGENBERG