In this Issue

Table of Contents

The Political Economy of Postwar Family Policy in Japan: Economic Imperatives and Electoral Incentives

Priscilla A. Lambert
pp. 1-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0023
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Microfirms and Industrial Districts in Japan: The Dynamics of the Arita Ceramic-ware Industry in the Twentieth Century

Steven Tolliday, Yasushi Yonemitsu
pp. 29-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0036
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Darkness Transformed: Illness in the Work of Kajii Motojirō

Stephen Dodd
pp. 67-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0010
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"Self-responsibility" and the Nature of the Postwar Japanese State: Risk through the Looking Glass

Glenn D. Hook, Takeda Hiroko
pp. 93-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0016
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Perspectives

Securing Japan: The Current Discourse

Richard J. Samuels
pp. 125-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0034
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Reviews

Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture (review)

Morgan Pitelka
pp. 153-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0032
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Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912 (review)

John K. Nelson
pp. 157-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0030
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Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan (review)

David T. Bialock
pp. 161-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0003
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Tsumi \-\- Offence and Retribution in Early Japan (review)

Joan R. Piggott
pp. 166-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0031
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Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China-Japan Relations in the Han-Tang Period (review)

Robert Borgen
pp. 171-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0004
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Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan (review)

Philip C. Brown
pp. 175-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0005
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Proving the Way: Conflict and Practice in the History of Japanese Nativism (review)

Anne Walthall
pp. 180-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0039
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Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School and Co-Prosperity, and: Le néant évidé: Ontologie et politique chez Keiji Nishitani: Une tentative d'interprétation (review)

Richard Calichman
pp. 184-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0006
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Overcome by Modernity? Three Works by and about Takeuchi Yoshimi

Steven Heine
pp. 190-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0015
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The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda, and: Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese (review)

Thomas R. H. Havens
pp. 195-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0014
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Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922 (review)

Michael A. Barnhart
pp. 199-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0002
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Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power (review)

Hyung Gu Lynn
pp. 202-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0025
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Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China

Wen-Hsin Yeh
pp. 206-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0041
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Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (review)

Yukiko Koshiro
pp. 211-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0022
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Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire: Unknown Histories (review)

Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
pp. 216-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0026
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Politics, Memory and Public Opinion: The History Textbook Controversy and Japanese Society (review)

Takashi Yoshida
pp. 220-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0042
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Cooperation over Conflict: The Women's Movement and the State in Postwar Japan (review)

Anne E. Imamura
pp. 225-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0018
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Divisions of Labor: Globality, Ideology, and War in the Shaping of the Japanese Labor Movement (review)

Gregory James Kasza
pp. 227-231
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0019
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Japan and Germany under the U.S. Occupation: A Comparative Analysis of Post-War Education Reform (review)

Julian Beatus Dierkes
pp. 231-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0009
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Gendering Modern Japanese History (review)

Sabine Frühstück
pp. 235-239
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0011
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Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life (review)

Lynne Y. Nakano
pp. 239-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0029
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Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age (review)

Karen Kelsky
pp. 243-246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0021
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In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature (review)

Mark J. McLelland
pp. 247-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0027
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Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture: A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kōjin (review)

Atsuko Ueda
pp. 251-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0037
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Lamentation as History: Narratives by Koreans in Japan, 1965-2000 (review)

Michael S. Molasky
pp. 255-259
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0028
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Mizoguchi and Japan (review)

Darrell William Davis
pp. 259-263
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0008
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Japanese Horror Cinema (review)

Timothy Iles
pp. 264-268
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0017
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Objects of Discourse: Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan (review)

Aileen Patricia Gatten
pp. 268-273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0013
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Developing Zeami: The Noh Actor's Attunement in Practice (review)

Paul S. Atkins
pp. 273-276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0001
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Secrecy in Japanese Arts: "Secrecy Transmission" as a Mode of Knowledge (review)

Terry Kawashima
pp. 276-280
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0020
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Notes from Toyota-Land: An American Engineer in Japan (review)

W. Mark Fruin
pp. 280-281
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0012
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Reviving Japan's Economy: Problems and Prescriptions (review)

Arthur J. Alexander
pp. 282-286
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0000
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The New Community Firm: Employment, Governance and Management Reform in Japan (review)

Thomas W. Roehl
pp. 286-290
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0033
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Environmental Policy in Japan (review)

Peng Er Lam
pp. 290-294
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0024
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Ecological Modernization and Japan (review)

Brett L. Walker
pp. 294-298
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0038
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Japan's Foreign Aid: Old Continuities and New Directions (review)

Dennis T. Yasutomo
pp. 299-303
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0040
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Democracy without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party Dominant State (review)

J. A. A. Stockwin
pp. 303-307
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0035
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Contributors

Notes on Contributors

pp. iii-ix
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2007.0007
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