In this Issue

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

pp. i-vii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0001
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Noting Suicide with a Vague Sense of Anxiety

Kirsten Cather
pp. 1-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0002
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The "Ōnin War" as the Fulfillment of Prophecy

Thomas D. Conlan
pp. 31-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0003
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Performing Democracy: Audience Participation in Postwar Broadcasting

Seong Un Kim
pp. 61-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0004
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Ronald Dore's Japan

D. Hugh Whittaker
pp. 91-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0005
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The Making of Postwar Japan: A Speculative Essay

Kenneth B. Pyle
pp. 113-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0006
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Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess: The Legend of Giō and Hotoke in Japanese Literature, Theater, Visual Arts, and Cultural Heritage by Roberta Strippoli (review)

Janet R. Goodwin
pp. 145-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0000
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The Forty-Seven Rōnin: The Vendetta in History by John A. Tucker (review)

D. Colin Jaundrill
pp. 149-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0008
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Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic by Gergana Ivanova (review)

Peter Kornicki
pp. 153-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0009
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Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan: Poetics and Practice by Brian Steininger (review)

Joan R. Piggott
pp. 157-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0010
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Mediated by Gifts: Politics and Society in Japan, 1350–1850 ed. by Martha Chaiklin (review)

Jeroen Lamers
pp. 161-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0011
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The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560–1640 by Reinier H. Hesselink (review)

Stephen Turnbull
pp. 165-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0012
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Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan by Maren A. Ehlers (review)

Marcia Yonemoto
pp. 169-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0013
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Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan by Jakobina K. Arch (review)

Jonathan Stockdale
pp. 174-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0014
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Making History Matter: Kuroita Katsumi and the Construction of Imperial Japan by Lisa Yoshikawa (review)

Orion Klautau
pp. 178-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0015
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Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea by Christina Yi (review)

Travis Workman
pp. 183-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0016
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Rules of the House: Family Law and Domestic Disputes in Colonial Korea by Sungyun Lim (review)

Mark E. Caprio
pp. 187-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0017
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Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development and the Cold War Order ed. by Hiromi Mizuno, Aaron S. Moore, and John DiMoia (review)

Kate Mcdonald
pp. 192-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0018
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Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939–1945 by Aaron William Moore (review)

Simon Partner
pp. 195-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0019
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Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History by Ethan Mark (review)

Shigeru Sato
pp. 199-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0020
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Return from Siberia: A Japanese Life in War and Peace, 1925–2015 by Oguma Eiji (review)

Paul D. Barclay
pp. 204-209
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0021
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The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the Everyday by Woojeong Joo (review)

Erin Schoneveld
pp. 209-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0022
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Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art by Susan Napier (review)

Rayna Denison
pp. 213-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0023
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Double Visions, Double Fictions: The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature by Baryon Tensor Posadas (review)

Rio Otomo
pp. 217-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0024
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Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945 by Kerim Yasar (review)

Margaret Mehl
pp. 221-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0025
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Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents by Hiromu Nagahara (review)

Shawn Bender
pp. 226-230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0026
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Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan by Justin Jesty (review)

Nick Kapur
pp. 230-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0027
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Provoke: Between Protest and Performance—Photography in Japan 1960/ 1975 ed. by Diane Dufour and Matthew S. Witkovsky (review)

Miryam Sas
pp. 234-239
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0028
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A Sense of the City: Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) by Gala Maria Follaco (review)

Evelyn Schulz
pp. 239-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0029
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Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo by Nick Kapur (review)

Simon Avenell
pp. 244-248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0030
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Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan by Martyn David Smith (review)

Julia C. Bullock
pp. 249-252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0031
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Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan by Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci (review)

Marnie S. Anderson
pp. 252-257
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0032
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Japan in the American Century by Kenneth B. Pyle (review)

David Leheny
pp. 257-261
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0033
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Negotiating the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Japan Confidential by Yukinori Komine (review)

William L. Brooks
pp. 262-266
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0034
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Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan by Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed (review)

Aurelia George Mulgan
pp. 266-271
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0035
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Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity ed. by Nancy K. Stalker (review)

Samuel Hideo Yamashita
pp. 271-275
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0036
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Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan by Rebecca Corbett (review)

Christine M. E. Guth
pp. 276-279
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0037
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Long Strange Journey: On Modern Zen, Zen Art, and Other Predicaments by Gregory P. A. Levine (review)

Toshio Watanabe
pp. 279-282
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0038
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Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan: Making Sacred Forests by Aike P. Rots (review)

Trent E. Maxey
pp. 283-286
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0039
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Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict ed. by Allison Alexy and Emma E. Cook (review)

Mark Mclelland
pp. 286-291
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0040
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An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network by Michael Fisch (review)

Noriko Aso
pp. 291-294
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0041
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New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics ed. by A. Minh Nguyen (review)

Thomas P. Kasulis
pp. 294-299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0042
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