Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan. Edited by Karen M. Gerhart. Yui Suzuki | 85 |
Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku. By David J. Gundry. J. Scott Miller | 90 |
Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan. By Yulia Frumer. Stefan Tanaka | 93 |
Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan. By Jakobina K. Arch. William M. Tsutsui | 97 |
Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin's "Nansō Satomi hakkenden." By Glynne Walley. Yoshitaka Yamamoto | 101 |
Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893. By Yasuhiro Makimura. Harald Fuess | 106 |
The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo. By Yijiang Zhong. Bernhard Scheid | 109 |
To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History. By Mark Ravina. Alistair Swale | 115 |
The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan. By Simon Partner. M. William Steele | 119 |
Embracing "Asia" in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912–1933. By Torsten Weber. Christopher W. A. Szpilman | 122 |
Others in Japanese Agriculture: Koreans, Evacuees and Migrants 1920–1950. By Yasuoka Ken'ichi. Translated by Teresa Castelvetere. Tessa Morris-Suzuki | 127 |
Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964. By Jennifer Coates. Diane Wei Lewis | 131 |
Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia. By Miyagi Taizō. Translated by Hanabusa Midori. Anno Tadashi | 136 |
Japan in Asia: Post-Cold-War Diplomacy. By Tanaka Akihiko. Translated by Jean Connell Hoff. James D. J. Brown | 140 |
Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan. By Kent E. Calder. Frances McCall Rosenbluth | 146 |
Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth. Edited by Nishino Rumiko, Kim Puja, and Onozawa Akane. Jeff Kingston | 150 |
The Abe Administration and the Rise of the Prime Ministerial Executive. By Aurelia George Mulgan. Alisa Gaunder | 157 |
Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan. By Genaro Castro-Vázquez. Aya Homei | 161 |
Interpreting Anime. By Christopher Bolton. | |
The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media. By Thomas Lamarre. Deborah Shamoon | 165 |
Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to "Sacred Sites" of Popular Culture. By Philip Seaton, Takayoshi Yamamura, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, and Kyungjae Jang. Tom Havens | 170 |
Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645–770. By Dorothy C. Wong. Akiko Walley | 249 |
Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan. Edited by Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott. Pierre François Souyri | 253 |
Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan. By Caitilin J. Griffiths. Christina Laffin | 257 |
A Maritime History of East Asia. Edited by Masashi Haneda and Mihoko Oka. Adam Clulow | 261 |
The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves. By Lúcio de Sousa. Geoffrey C. Gunn | 264 |
Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850. By Ronald P. Toby. Kären Wigen | 272 |
Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early... |