In this Issue

Table of Contents

Ikebana as Industry: Traditional Arts in the Era of High-Speed Growth

Nancy K. Stalker
pp. 1-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0002
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Clothing the Body, Dressing the Identity: The Case of the Japanese in Taiwan during the Colonial Period

Lee Ju-Ling
pp. 31-64
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0003
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Transnational History and Japan’s “Comparative Advantage”

Sheldon Garon
pp. 65-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0004
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Japan’s Strategic Trajectory and Collective Self-Defense: Essential Continuity or Radical Shift?

Christopher W. Hughes
pp. 93-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0005
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Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan’s Premodern Capital by Matthew Stavros (review)

Ethan Isaac Segal
pp. 127-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0006
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Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory ed. by Mikael S. Adolphson and Anne Commons (review)

Linda H. Chance
pp. 132-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0007
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Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan by Charlotte von Verschuer (review)

W. Wayne Farris
pp. 136-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0008
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Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability by Morgan Pitelka (review)

Peter Kornicki
pp. 141-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0009
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The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan by Federico Marcon (review)

Peter Flueckiger
pp. 145-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0010
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Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan ed. by Matthias Hayek and Annick Horiuchi (review)

Charlotte Eubanks
pp. 148-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0011
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A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan by Rebekah Clements (review)

Joshua S. Mostow
pp. 153-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0012
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Defensive Positions. The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan by Noell Wilson (review)

Constantine N. Vaporis
pp. 157-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0013
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The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko: One Woman’s Transit from Tokugawa to Meiji Japan by Laura Nenzi (review)

Federico Marcon
pp. 162-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0014
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Empires on the Waterfront: Japan’s Ports and Power, 1868–1899 by Catherine L. Phipps (review)

Eric C. Han
pp. 167-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0015
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Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894–1972 by Eric C. Han (review)

James Hoare
pp. 172-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0016
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Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan: Breakdown of a Hybrid Regime by Harukata Takenaka (review)

Lonny E. Carlile
pp. 175-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0017
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Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan by Nayoung Aimee Kwon (review)

Mark E. Caprio
pp. 179-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0018
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Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan’s Urban Empire in Manchuria by Emer O’Dwyer (review)

Miriam Kingsberg
pp. 183-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0019
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The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933–1964 by Jessamyn R. Abel (review)

Antony Best
pp. 187-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0020
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Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940–1945 by Samuel Hideo Yamashita (review)

Simon Partner
pp. 189-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0021
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Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (review)

Tom Havens
pp. 194-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0022
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Beyond Hiroshima: The Return of the Repressed; Wartime Memory, Performativity and the Documentary in Contemporary Japanese Photography and Video Art ed. by Ayelet Zohar (review)

Miriam Wattles
pp. 197-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0023
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Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows ed. by Amanda Maddox (review)

Lena Fritsch
pp. 202-205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0024
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Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime by Yoshiko Okuyama (review)

Mark MacWilliams
pp. 205-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0025
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Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan by Kerry Ross (review)

Andrew Gordon
pp. 210-214
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0026
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Nature in Translation: Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies by Shiho Satsuka (review)

Okpyo Moon
pp. 214-218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0000
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Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan by Miri Nakamura (review)

Nina Cornyetz
pp. 218-222
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0027
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Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan by Christopher Bondy (review)

Timothy David Amos
pp. 223-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0028
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High-Stakes Schooling: What We Can Learn from Japan’s Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform by Christopher Bjork (review)

William K. Cummings
pp. 227-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0029
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Juries in the Japanese Legal System: The Continuing Struggle for Citizen Participation and Democracy by Dimitri Vanoverbeke, and: Japan and Civil Jury Trials: The Convergence of Forces by Matthew J. Wilson, Hiroshi Fukurai, and Takashi Maruta (review)

Daniel H. Foote
pp. 230-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0030
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Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia: Globalization as Legislation by Megumi Naoi (review)

Walter F. Hatch
pp. 236-240
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0031
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Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China by Sheila A. Smith (review)

Caroline Rose
pp. 241-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0032
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Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present ed. by Bruce L. Batten and Philip C. Brown (review)

Kerry Smith
pp. 244-248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0033
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The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature ed. by Haruo Shirane, Tomi Suzuki, and David Lurie (review)

Richard Bowring
pp. 249-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0034
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Publications of Note

pp. 253-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0035
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Notes on Contributors

pp. v-x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2017.0001
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