In this Issue

Table of Contents

Eightieth Anniversary Message

Bettina Gramlich-Oka
pp. 185-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0000
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Why Were There No Severe Famines in Fourteenth-Century Japan? Social Change, Resilience, and Climatic Cooling

Keisuke Itō, Paula R. Curtis
pp. 187-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0001
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Female Shrine Priests and Doctrinal Instructors in the Early Meiji Moral Edification Campaign

Odaira Mika, Michael Burtscher
pp. 213-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0002
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Book Reviews

Shinto: A History by Helen Hardacre, and: A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital by Mark Teeuwen and John Breen (review)

Yijiang Zhong
pp. 245-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0003
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Fabricating the “Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandara” and Prince Shōtoku’s Afterlives by Chari Pradel (review)

Hillary Pedersen
pp. 250-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0004
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Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan by Sherry D. Fowler (review)

Karen M. Gerhart
pp. 255-258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0005
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Recasting the Past: An Early Modern “Tales of Ise” for Children by Laura Moretti (review)

Peter MacMillan
pp. 258-260
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0006
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Daimyo Gardens by Shirahata Yōzaburō (review)

Christian Tagsold
pp. 260-264
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0007
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Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan by D. Colin Jaundrill (review)

Mark Ravina
pp. 265-267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0008
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Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan by Danny Orbach (review)

Richard J. Smethurst
pp. 267-269
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0009
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Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874–1945 by Paul D. Barclay (review)

Robert Eskildsen
pp. 270-274
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0010
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The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War by S. C. M. Paine (review)

Frederick R. Dickinson
pp. 274-280
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0011
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Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire ed. by David G. Wittner and Philip C. Brown (review)

Alexander Bay
pp. 280-283
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0012
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Honored and Dishonored Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan by W. Puck Brecher (review)

F. G. Notehelfer
pp. 283-292
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0013
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It’s Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea by Theodore Jun Yoo (review)

Hoi-Eun Kim
pp. 292-295
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0014
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Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan by Francesca Di Marco (review)

Amy Borovoy
pp. 296-301
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0015
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The Stories Clothes Tell: Voices of Working-Class Japan by Tatsuichi Horikiri (review)

Martha Chaiklin
pp. 302-304
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0016
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Picture Bride Stories by Barbara F. Kawakami (review)

Mariko Iijima
pp. 304-307
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0017
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Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor by Ayako Kano (review)

Ulrike Wöhr
pp. 307-314
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0018
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Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945–2011 by Nathan Hopson (review)

Anthony Rausch
pp. 314-319
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0019
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The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia by Hiro Saito (review)

Philip Seaton
pp. 320-324
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0020
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Index to Volume 73

Index to Volume 73

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2081.0021
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