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Unearthing Lost Memories: A Reexamination of the Role of Naniwa in Early Japan

Joshua Frydman
pp. 1-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0002
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War without Blood? The Literary Uses of a Taboo Fluid in Heike Monogatari

Vyjayanthi Selinger
pp. 33-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0001
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The Poetics of Nativism: Motoori Norinaga and the Sacralization of Japanese Literature

Emi Foulk Bushelle
pp. 59-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0000
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Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan ed. by Karen M. Gerhart (review)

Yui Suzuki
pp. 85-90
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0016
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Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku by David J. Gundry (review)

J. Scott Miller
pp. 90-93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0010
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Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan by Yulia Frumer (review)

Stefan Tanaka
pp. 93-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0020
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Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan by Jakobina K. Arch (review)

William M. Tsutsui
pp. 97-101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0021
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Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin's "Nansō Satomi hakkenden." by Glynne Walley (review)

Yoshitaka Yamamoto
pp. 101-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0022
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Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893 by Yasuhiro Makimura (review)

Harald Fuess
pp. 106-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0004
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The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo by Yijiang Zhong (review)

Bernhard Scheid
pp. 109-115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0013
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To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History by Mark Ravina (review)

Alistair Swale
pp. 115-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0017
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The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan by Simon Partner (review)

M. William Steele
pp. 119-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0015
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Embracing "Asia" in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912–1933 by Torsten Weber (review)

Christopher W. A. Szpilman
pp. 122-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0018
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Others in Japanese Agriculture: Koreans, Evacuees and Migrants 1920–1950 by Yasuoka Ken'ichi (review)

Tessa Morris-Suzuki
pp. 127-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0011
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Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964 by Jennifer Coates (review)

Diane Wei Lewis
pp. 131-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0009
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Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia by Miyagi Taizō (review)

Anno Tadashi
pp. 136-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0019
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Japan in Asia: Post-Cold-War Diplomacy by Tanaka Akihiko (review)

James D. J. Brown
pp. 140-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0003
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Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan by Kent E. Calder (review)

Frances McCall Rosenbluth
pp. 146-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0012
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Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth ed. by Nishino Rumiko, Kim Puja, and Onozawa Akane (review)

Jeff Kingston
pp. 150-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0008
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The Abe Administration and the Rise of the Prime Ministerial Executive by Aurelia George Mulgan (review)

Alisa Gaunder
pp. 157-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0005
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Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan by Genaro Castro-Vázquez (review)

Aya Homei
pp. 161-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0007
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Interpreting Anime by Christopher Bolton, and: The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media by Thomas Lamarre (review)

Deborah Shamoon
pp. 165-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0014
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Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to "Sacred Sites" of Popular Culture by Philip Seaton et al. (review)

Tom Havens
pp. 170-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2019.0006
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