In this Issue

Table of Contents

Ume Kenjirō and the Making of Korean Civil Law, 1906-1910

Marie Seong-Hak Kim
pp. 1-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0017
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Minority Success, Assimilation, and Idenity in Prewar Japan: Pak Chungǔm and the Korean Middle Class

Jeffrey P. Bayliss
pp. 33-68
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0025
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The Female Danjūrō: Revisiting the Acting Career of Ichikawa Kumehachi

Loren Edelson
pp. 69-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0022
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Reviews

Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family (review)

Jordan Sand
pp. 99-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0026
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Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930 (review)

Gregory Smits
pp. 103-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0002
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Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War (review)

Simon Partner
pp. 106-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0041
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Manchuria under Japanese Dominion (review)

Suk-Jung Han
pp. 109-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0027
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The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy: Essays in Honour of J. A. A. Stockwin (review)

Patricia G. Steinhoff
pp. 114-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0009
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Japan's Dual Civil Society: Members without Advocates (review)

Miranda A. Schreurs
pp. 118-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0033
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Japanese Education and the Cram School Business: Functions, Challenges and Perspectives of the Juku (review)

Robert W. Aspinall
pp. 121-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0004
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The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West (review)

J. R. Clammer
pp. 125-128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0008
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The Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility (review)

Le Blanc, Robin M
pp. 129-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0031
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Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan (review)

John Creighton Campbell, Naoki Ikegami
pp. 133-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0001
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One World of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspective (review)

Patricia L. Maclachlan
pp. 137-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0007
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Japan's Underclass: Day Laborers and the Homeless (review)

Ian Neary
pp. 141-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0028
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Shifting Boundaries of the Firm: Japanese Company-Japanese Labour (review)

W. Mark Fruin
pp. 144-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0006
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The Political Economy of the Japanese Financial Big Bang: Institutional Change in Finance and Public Policymaking (review)

William W. Grimes
pp. 149-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0020
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Banking on Multinationals: Public Credit and the Export of Japanese Sunset Industries (review)

Thomas W. Roehl
pp. 153-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0019
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Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism: Towards a Proactive Leadership Role? (review)

Saori N. Katada
pp. 157-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0010
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Japan's Relations with China: Facing a Rising Power (review)

Ming Wan
pp. 161-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0023
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Origins of Japanese Wealth and Power: Reconciling Confucianism and Capitalism, 1830-1885 (review)

Thomas R. H. Havens
pp. 166-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0034
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A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan (review)

Stephen D. Miller
pp. 167-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0014
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Selling Songs and Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan (review)

Suzanne Gay
pp. 172-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0013
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Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku (review)

Thomas D. Looser
pp. 176-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0037
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Capitalscapes: Folding Screens and Political Imagination in Late Medieval Kyoto (review)

Timon Screech
pp. 180-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0039
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Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan (review)

Nam-lin Hur
pp. 184-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0003
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The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan (review)

Paul Brooks Watt
pp. 188-191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0030
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Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (review)

Mark Ravina
pp. 191-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0012
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Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan (review)

Peter F. Kornicki
pp. 196-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0024
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Turning Pages: Reading and Writing Women's Magazines in Interwar Japan (review)

Edward Thomas Mack
pp. 198-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0000
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Suicidal Honor: General Nogi and the Writings of Mori Ōgai and Natsume Sōseki (review)

Reiko Abe Auestad
pp. 203-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0018
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Japanese Prose Poetry (review)

Leith Morton
pp. 208-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0021
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Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts (review)

Thomas R. H. Havens
pp. 212-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0040
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Translating Mount Fuji: Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity (review)

Michael Bourdaghs
pp. 216-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0038
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Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture (review)

Matthew Strecher
pp. 221-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0016
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Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan (review)

Walter Drew Edwards
pp. 225-230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0029
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The Lost Wolves of Japan (review)

William Wayne Farris
pp. 230-233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0036
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Japan-ness in Architecture (review)

Ken Tadashi Ōshima
pp. 234-238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0035
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Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization (review)

E. Taylor Atkins
pp. 239-242
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0011
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Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (review)

Sabine Frühstück
pp. 243-247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0042
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The Japanese Self in Cultural Logic (review)

Augustin Berque
pp. 247-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0032
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Publications of Note

Publications of Note

pp. 253-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0005
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Notes on Contributors

pp. v-xi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2008.0015
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