Table of Contents
Volume 50, Number 1
Winter 2024
ARTICLES
The Flowing Chō: Cart Transportation and the Redefinition of Japan’s Early Modern Urban Space
YOUJIA LI {abstract}
Who Let the Dogs Out? Race as Illness in Tezuka Osamu’s Ode to Kirihito
BEN WHALEY {abstract}
The Voice of a Stranger: Rumor, Radio, and the Aurality of Difference in Interwar Japan
ALEXANDER MURPHY {abstract}
The Novelty of Nature: Kojima Usui and Hierarchies of Genre in Modern Japanese Literature
AARON P. JASNY {abstract}
The Poet Who Challenged the Shogun: Asukai Masayo and Shinshoku Kokin Wakashū
MAŁGORZATA KAROLINA CITKO-DUPLANTIS {abstract}
Japan’s “Three National Security Documents” and Defense Capabilities: Reinforcing a Radical Military Trajectory
CHRISTOPHER W. HUGHES {abstract}
REVIEWS
Maclachlan and Shimizu, Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture
GABRIELE VOGT
McMorran, Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan
JENNIFER S. PROUGH
Grinshpun, Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan
MERRY WHITE
Shimizu, Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan: Regulating and Deregulating the Market in Edo, 1780–1870
TIMOTHY YUN HUI TSU
Anderson, In Close Association: Local Activist Networks in the Making of Japanese Modernity, 1868–1920
MICHAEL WERT
Shirane, Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945
PAUL D. BARCLAY
Homei, Science for Governing Japan’s Population
ALEXANDER BAY
Skabelund, Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force during the Cold War
MICHELE M. MASON
Ishii, Japanese Maritime Security and Law of the Sea
CHRISTIAN WIRTH
Repeta, Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War
DANIEL H. FOOTE
Carter, A Path into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi
JOLYON BARAKA THOMAS
Groner, Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai
AARON P. PROFFITT
Mullins, Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration
AKIKO TAKENAKA
Mross, Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen
PAULA ARAI
Hotta, Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
PETER CAVE
Hayashi, Teaching Expertise in Three Countries: Japan, China, and the United States
ROBERT ASPINALL
Hommerich, Sudo, and Kikkawa, eds., Social Change in Japan, 1989–2019: Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values
OFRA GOLDSTEIN-GIDONI
Steel, What Women Want: Gender and Voting in Britain, Japan, and the United States
PRISCILLA A. LAMBERT
Mack, Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism
REBECCA SUTER
Furuhata, Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control
FRANZ PRICHARD
Coates and Ben-Ari, eds., Japanese Visual Media: Politicizing the Screen
MARCO PELLITTERI
Sas, Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art
KERIM YASAR
Winther-Tamaki, Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art
NATSU OYOBE
Guth, Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery
ANDREW L. MASKE