In this Issue

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

pp. i-vi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0005
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Ekuni Kaori's Tears in the Night: The Brilliance of Queer Readings for Japanese Literary Studies

Grace En-Yi Ting
pp. 1-27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0006
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Who Cooked for Townsend Harris? Chinese and the Introduction of Western Foodways to Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan

Timothy Yun Hui Tsu
pp. 29-59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0007
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Imperial Loyalism and Political Fissures in Early Modern Japan

Ilsoo Cho
pp. 61-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0008
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Making Meaning: Lexical Glosses as Interpretive Interventions in the Kakaishō

Erin L. Brightwell
pp. 91-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0009
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Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art by Halle O'Neal (review)

Anna Andreeva
pp. 123-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0010
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Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen by Molly Vallor (review)

Yukio Lippit
pp. 127-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0011
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Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism by Richard M. Jaffe (review)

Judith Snodgrass
pp. 132-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0012
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Guardians of the Buddha's Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū by Jessica Starling (review)

Eisho Nasu
pp. 136-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0013
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Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan ed. by Gill Steel (review)

Anne Stefanie Aronsson
pp. 140-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0014
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Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan by Daniel M. Smith (review)

Arthur Stockwin
pp. 145-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0015
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Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan: Transformation and the Regulatory State by Masahiro Mogaki (review)

Steven K. Vogel
pp. 150-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0016
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Taming Japan's Deflation: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy by Gene Park et al. (review)

Jenny Corbett
pp. 153-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0017
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The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet by Marc Steinberg (review)

Takahiro Nishiyama
pp. 158-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0018
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Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan by Eiko Maruko Siniawer (review)

Peter Wynn Kirby
pp. 163-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0019
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Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace by Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg (review)

Alice Y. Tseng
pp. 167-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0020
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Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia by Leo T. S. Ching (review)

Takashi Yoshida
pp. 172-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0021
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That Distant Country Next Door: Popular Japanese Perceptions of Mao's China by Erik Esselstrom (review)

Shogo Suzuki
pp. 176-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0022
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The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon by William C. Hedberg (review)

Erik Esselstrom
pp. 180-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0023
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Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji: Philosophical Perspectives ed. by James McMullen (review)

Sonja Arntzen
pp. 184-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0024
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Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650 by Gregory Smits (review)

Peter D. Shapinsky
pp. 188-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0025
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The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves by Lúcio de Sousa (review)

Jan Leuchtenberger
pp. 193-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0026
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Engaging the Other: "Japan" and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850 by Ronald P. Toby (review)

Adam Clulow
pp. 197-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0027
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Kingdom of the Sick: A History of Leprosy and Japan by Susan L. Burns (review)

Alexander R. Bay
pp. 201-205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0028
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Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan by Miriam Kingsberg Kadia (review)

Yulia Frumer
pp. 205-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0029
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Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan by Harumi Osaki (review)

Michiko Yusa
pp. 210-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0030
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The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War by Jeremy A. Yellen (review)

Barak Kushner
pp. 215-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0031
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Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936 by Ricky W. Law (review)

Ken Ishida
pp. 220-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0032
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In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire by Eiichiro Azuma (review)

David R. Ambaras
pp. 224-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0033
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Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire by Yuka Hiruma Kishida (review)

Cemil Aydin
pp. 228-232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0034
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Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education by Raja Adal (review)

Eriko Tomizawa-Kay
pp. 232-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0035
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Japan's Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945 by Benjamin Uchiyama (review)

Ethan Mark
pp. 236-241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0036
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The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media by Nathan Shockey (review)

Peter Kornicki
pp. 241-246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0037
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Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan by Amy Bliss Marshall (review)

Kerim Yasar
pp. 246-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0038
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Age of Shōjo: The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls' Magazine Fiction by Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase (review)

Sarah Frederick
pp. 250-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0000
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Shōjo Across Media: Exploring "Girl" Practices in Contemporary Japan ed. by Jaqueline Berndt et al. (review)

Deborah Shamoon
pp. 255-259
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0001
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Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple Disaster by Rachel DiNitto, and: The Earth Writes: The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post–3/11 Japan by Koichi Haga (review)

Karen Thornber
pp. 259-266
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0002
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Sōseki: Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist by John Nathan (review)

Jonathan Zwicker
pp. 266-269
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0003
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Publications of Note

pp. 271-273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2021.0004
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