In this Issue

Table of Contents

Articles

Loosening the Ties that Bind: Japan’s Agricultural Policy Triangle and Reform of Cooperatives (JA)

Aurelia George Mulgan
pp. 221-246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0039
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History, “Subcultural Imagination,” and the Enduring Appeal of Murakami Haruki

Nathen Clerici
pp. 247-278
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0045
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Handed Down in the Family: The Past and Its Uses in the Kan’ei Genealogies of 1643

David Spafford
pp. 279-314
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0051
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Perspectives

What High-Rise Living Means for Tokyo Civic Life: Changing Residential Architecture and the Specter of Rising Privacy

Robin M. Le Blanc
pp. 315-341
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0057
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Reviews

Going to Court to Change Japan: Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan ed. by Patricia G. Steinhoff (review)

Mary Alice Haddad
pp. 343-346
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0063
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New Policies for New Residents: Immigrants, Advocacy, and Governance in Japan and Beyond by Deborah Milly (review)

Michael Strausz
pp. 347-350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0032
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Resilient Borders and Cultural Diversity: Internationalism, Brand Nationalism, and Multiculturalism in Japan by Koichi Iwabuchi (review)

Petrice R. Flowers
pp. 350-354
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0037
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Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer by Tom Gill (review)

David H. Slater
pp. 354-358
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0043
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Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance by Hirokazu Miyazaki (review)

Steven Bryan
pp. 358-362
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0049
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Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo by Paul A. Christensen (review)

James E. Roberson
pp. 362-367
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0055
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License to Play: The Ludic in Japanese Culture by Michal Daliot-Bul, and: Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture by Thomas R. H. Havens (review)

William W. Kelly
pp. 367-371
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0061
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Kendo: Culture of the Sword by Alexander C. Bennett (review)

Michael Wert
pp. 371-375
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0030
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Kimono: A Modern History by Terry Satsuki Milhaupt (review)

Morgan Pitelka
pp. 375-379
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0035
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Postmodern Advertising in Japan: Seduction, Visual Culture, and the Tokyo Art Directors Club by Ory Bartal (review)

Nobuko Kawashima
pp. 379-383
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0041
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Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923 by Gennifer Weisenfeld (review)

Miryam Sas
pp. 383-388
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0047
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The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan by Asuka Sango (review)

Thomas D. Conlan
pp. 388-393
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0053
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Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan by Heather Blair (review)

David Quinter
pp. 393-398
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0059
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Imagining Exile in Heian Japan: Banishment in Law, Literature, and Cult by Jonathan Stockdale (review)

Robert Borgen
pp. 398-402
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0065
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Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative by Alison McQueen Tokita (review)

R. Keller Kimbrough
pp. 402-406
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0033
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Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan by Peter D. Shapinsky (review)

Karl Friday
pp. 406-410
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0038
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Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of “National Learning” and the Formation of Scholarly Societies by Michael Wachutka (review)

Susan L. Burns
pp. 410-412
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0044
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The “Greatest Problem”: Religion and State Formation in Meiji Japan by Trent E. Maxey (review)

Mark Teeuwen
pp. 412-417
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0050
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Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God by Emily Anderson (review)

Jon Davidann
pp. 417-422
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0056
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The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community by Wendy Matsumura (review)

Taku Suzuki
pp. 422-426
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0062
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Coal-Mining Women in Japan: Heavy Burdens by W. Donald Burton (review)

Regine Mathias
pp. 426-430
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0031
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Media, Propaganda and Politics in 20th-Century Japan by Asahi Shimbun Company (review)

Annika A. Culver
pp. 430-435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0036
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Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan by Hoi-Eun Kim (review)

James R. Bartholomew
pp. 435-439
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0042
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Representing Empire: Japanese Colonial Literature in Taiwan and Manchuria by Ying Xiong (review)

Karen Thornber
pp. 439-444
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0048
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Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 by Todd A. Henry (review)

Marie Seong-Hak Kim
pp. 444-449
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0054
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The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio by Melek Ortabasi (review)

Hoyt Long
pp. 449-453
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0060
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The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojirō by Stephen Dodd (review)

Jonathan E. Abel
pp. 453-458
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0029
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Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan ed. by Andrea Germer, Vera Mackie, and Ulrike Wöhr (review)

Barbara Molony
pp. 458-462
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0034
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Growing Democracy in Japan: The Parliamentary Cabinet System since 1868 by Brian Woodall (review)

Marie Söderberg
pp. 462-466
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0040
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The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan by Akiko Hashimoto (review)

Sven Saaler
pp. 466-470
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0046
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The China Problem in Postwar Japan: Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations by Robert Hoppens (review)

Lam Peng Er
pp. 470-473
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0052
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Japan’s International Fisheries Policy: Law, Diplomacy and Policy Governing Resource Security by Roger D. Smith (review)

J. Samuel Barkin
pp. 473-477
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0058
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 478-483
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2016.0064
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