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The Journal of Japanese Studies is the most influential journal dealing with research on Japan available in the English language. Since 1974, it has published the results of scholarly research on Japan in a wide variety of social science and humanities disciplines, as well as translations of articles from Japanese and substantive book reviews.
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Volume 40, Number 1, Winter 2014Table of Contents
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View The “Matsukata Deflation” Reconsidered: Financial Stabilization and Japanese Exports in a Global Depression, 1881–85
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View Censorship, Academic Factionalism, and University Autonomy in Wartime Japan: The Yanaihara Incident Reconsidered
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View Child Welfare and Development: A Japanese Case Study by Sachiko Bamba and Wendy L. Haight (review)
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Child Welfare and Development: A Japanese Case Study by Sachiko Bamba and Wendy L. Haight (review)
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View Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transformation ed. by Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy (review)
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View Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan by Martin Dusinberre (review)
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Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan by Martin Dusinberre (review)
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View Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto: Claiming a Right to the Past by Christoph Brumann (review)
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Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto: Claiming a Right to the Past by Christoph Brumann (review)
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View A Discipline on Foot: Inventing Japanese Native Ethnography, 1910–1945 by Alan Christy (review)
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View Herding Monkeys to Paradise: How Macaque Troops Are Managed for Tourism in Japan by John Knight (review)
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Herding Monkeys to Paradise: How Macaque Troops Are Managed for Tourism in Japan by John Knight (review)
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View The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism by Haruko Wakabayashi (review)
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The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism by Haruko Wakabayashi (review)
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View Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan by Philip C. Brown (review)
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Tama in Japanese Myth: A Hermeneutical Study of Ancient Japanese Divinity by Tomoko Iwasawa (review)
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View The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-century Japan by Maki Fukuoka (review)
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The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-century Japan by Maki Fukuoka (review)
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View Maximum Embodiment: Yōga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955 by Bert Winther-Tamaki (review)
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Maximum Embodiment: Yōga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955 by Bert Winther-Tamaki (review)
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View Two-timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction by J. Keith Vincent (review)
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View Contact Moments: The Politics of Intercultural Desire in Japanese Male-Queer Cultures by Katsuhiko Suganuma (review)
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Contact Moments: The Politics of Intercultural Desire in Japanese Male-Queer Cultures by Katsuhiko Suganuma (review)
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View Celebrity Gods: New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan by Benjamin Dorman (review)
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View Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito by Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen (review)
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Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito by Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen (review)
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View Pop Culture and the Everyday in Japan: Sociological Perspectives ed. by Katsuya Minamida and Izumi Tsuji; translated by Leonie R. Stickland (review)
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Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen—Japan’s Favorite Noodle Soup by Barak Kushner (review)
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View The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story by Ian Condry (review)
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View The Evolution of Japan’s Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change ed. by Leonard J. Schoppa (review)
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View Policy Entrepreneurship and Elections in Japan: A Political Biography of Ozawa Ichiro by Takashi Oka (review)
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View The Evolution of the Japanese Developmental State: Institutions Locked in by Ideas by Hironori Sasada (review)
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View The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Forgotten Architect of Sino-U.S. Rapprochement by Mayumi Itoh (review)
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View The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937 by Michael Schiltz (review)
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View An Emerging Non-regular Labour Force in Japan: The Dignity of Dispatched Workers by Huiyan Fu (review)
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View Japan’s New Inequality: Intersection of Employment Reforms and Welfare Arrangements Edited by Yoshimichi Sato and Jun Imai (review)
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View Welfare through Work: Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics, and Social Protection in Japan by Mari Miura (review)
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View War and Health Insurance Policy in Japan and the United States: World War II to Postwar Reconstruction by Takakazu Yamagishi (review)
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| ISSN | 1549-4721 |
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| Print ISSN | 0095-6848 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2014-01-26 |
| Open Access | No |



