In this Issue

Table of Contents

What’s Unique about the Japanese Constitution?: A Comparative and Historical Analysis

Kenneth Mori McElwain, Christian G. Winkler
pp. 249-280
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0056
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Fog and Steel: Mapping Communities of Literary Translation in an Information Age

Hoyt Long
pp. 281-316
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0062
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Japonica, Indica: Rice and Foreign Trade in Meiji Japan

Steven J. Ericson
pp. 317-345
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0033
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Separating the Word and the Way: Suyama Nantō’s Chūgi Suikodenkai and Edo-Period Vernacular Philology

William C. Hedberg
pp. 347-371
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0038
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Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan by Michael Wert (review)

Hiraku Shimoda
pp. 373-377
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0043
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Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History by Jason G. Karlin (review)

Mark A. Jones
pp. 377-380
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0048
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Opening a Window to the West: The Foreign Concession at Kōbe, Japan, 1868–1899 by Peter Ennals (review)

Eric C. Han
pp. 380-384
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0054
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Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan by Sho Konishi (review)

Joseph P. Ferguson
pp. 385-389
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0060
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Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan by Takashi Nishiyama (review)

Takashi Yoshida
pp. 389-392
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0065
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Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry by Jeffrey W. Alexander (review)

Simon Partner
pp. 392-397
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0036
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Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History by Miriam Kingsberg (review)

Richard Reitan
pp. 398-401
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0041
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Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910 by Yumi Moon (review)

Marie Seong-Hak Kim
pp. 401-406
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0046
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Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan by Louise Young (review)

Lori Watt
pp. 406-410
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0052
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In Search of Nature: The Japanese Writer Tayama Katai (1872-1930) by Kenneth G. Henshall (review)

Indra Levy
pp. 410-412
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0058
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Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-Garde by Samuel Perry (review)

Richard E. Torrance
pp. 412-417
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0063
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Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan: Three Forms of Political Engagement by Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins (review)

Walter Skya
pp. 417-422
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0034
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Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912 by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim (review)

Trent Maxey
pp. 422-426
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0039
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The Cultural Evolution of Postwar Japan: The Intellectual Contributions of Kaizō’s Yamamoto Sanehiko by Christopher T. Keaveney (review)

Edward Mack
pp. 427-431
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0044
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When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan by Gregory Smits (review)

Jeff Kingston
pp. 431-435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0049
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Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950 by Robert Stolz (review)

Timothy S. George
pp. 435-440
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0055
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Regulatory Reform of Public Utilities: The Japanese Experience by Fumitoshi Mizutani (review)

Ulrike Schaede
pp. 440-443
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0061
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Syncretism: The Politics of Economic Restructuring and System Reform in Japan ed. by Kenji E. Kushida, Kay Shimizu, and Jean C. Oi (review)

Mark Tilton
pp. 443-447
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0066
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Japan under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and Governance ed. by Kenji E. Kushida and Phillip Y. Lipscy (review)

Ray Christensen
pp. 448-452
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0037
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Japan’s “Lost Decade”: Causes, Legacies and Issues of Transformative Change ed. by W. Miles Fletcher III and Peter W. von Staden (review)

Takeo Hoshi
pp. 452-456
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0042
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Regionalizing Culture: The Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia by Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin (review)

Deborah Shamoon
pp. 456-461
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0047
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Composing Japanese Musical Modernity by Bonnie C. Wade (review)

E. Taylor Atkins
pp. 461-465
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0053
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Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction by Motoko Tanaka (review)

Michael McCaskey
pp. 465-468
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0059
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Internationalising Japan: Discourse and Practice ed. by Jeremy Breaden, Stacey Steele, and Carolyn S. Stevens (review)

Peter Cave
pp. 468-473
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0064
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Disability in Japan by Carolyn S. Stevens (review)

John Traphagan
pp. 473-476
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0035
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Another Stage: Kanze Nobumitsu and the Late Muromachi Noh Theater by Lim Beng Choo (review)

Elizabeth Oyler
pp. 476-480
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0040
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Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kūkai and Dōgen on the Art of Enlightenment by Pamela D. Winfield (review)

Fabio Rambelli
pp. 480-484
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0045
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Ancient Ryukyu: An Archaeological Study of Island Communities by Richard Pearson (review)

Peter Bleed
pp. 485-488
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0051
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A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan by David Spafford (review)

Lee Butler
pp. 489-493
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0057
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 1-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0050
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