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Table of Contents

Female Readers and Early Heian Romances: The Hakubyo Tales of Ise Illustrated Scroll Fragments

Joshua S. Mostow
pp. 135-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0041
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Peasants into Citizens?: The Meiji Village in the Russo-Japanese War

Simon Partner
pp. 179-209
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0042
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Perspectives on "Scenes of the Capital"

Satō Yasuhiro
pp. 211-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0043
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Friends, Acquaintances, Pupils, and Patrons--Japanese Intellectual Life in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Prosopographical Approach (review)

Gregory Smits
pp. 221-223
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0046
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Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan (review)

Susan L. Burns
pp. 223-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0031
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Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930 (review)

J. Charles Schencking
pp. 225-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0045
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Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan, and: The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals (review)

Anno Tadashi
pp. 228-232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0047
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War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005 (review)

Sebastian Conrad
pp. 232-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0032
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Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan (review)

Stephan Köhn
pp. 235-237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0040
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In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature (review)

Paul Gordon Schalow
pp. 237-240
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0044
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Abe Kōbō, Literary Strategist: The Evolution of His Agenda and Rhetoric in the Context of Postwar Japanese Avant-garde and Communist Artists' Movements (review)

James Dorsey
pp. 241-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0033
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The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore: Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities (review)

Janet Emily Goff
pp. 243-245
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0037
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Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan (review)

Caroline Hirasawa
pp. 246-248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0039
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Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan (review)

Richard L. Wilson
pp. 248-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0048
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Understanding Humor in Japan (review)

Richard Gardner
pp. 250-252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0036
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Millennial Monsters (review)

James Farrer
pp. 252-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0035
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Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan, and: A Cultural History of Women's Language (review)

Nanette Gottlieb
pp. 255-260
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0038
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Erratum

p. 262
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2007.0034
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