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 49, Number 1

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