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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

pp. i-vi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0000
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The War Is Not Over: Kishi Nobusuke and the National Defense Brotherhood, 1944–45

Andrew Levidis
pp. 1-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0001
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Battle in the Village: The Agrarian Ideology of Opposition in the Early Showa Period

Tyler Walker
pp. 31-56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0002
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Reframing Modern Japanese Literature: Translation and Science Fiction in Meiji-Era Japan

Kumiko Saito
pp. 57-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0003
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Homoerotic Solutions: Colonial Queer Desire and Postwar Sexual Politics in Ōta Ryōhaku's "Kurodaiya" (1949)

Yoshiaki Otta
pp. 85-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0004
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Meiji at 150: A Global Moment for Japan Studies, an Ambivalent Moment in Japan

Robert Hellyer, David Leheny
pp. 117-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0005
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The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan by Tobias S. Harris (review)

Hanno Jentzsch
pp. 141-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0006
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Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post–3.11 Japan by Mire Koikari (review)

Margherita Long
pp. 145-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0007
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Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan by John W. Traphagan (review)

Kimiko Tanaka
pp. 150-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0008
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Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture by Hanno Jentzsch (review)

Kae Sekine
pp. 154-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0009
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Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan by Christopher Craig (review)

Penelope Francks
pp. 158-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0010
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Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan's Rivers, 1600–1930 by Roderick I. Wilson (review)

Mark Metzler
pp. 162-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0011
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Faith in Mount Fuji: The Rise of Independent Religion in Early Modern Japan by Janine Anderson Sawada (review)

Caleb Carter
pp. 167-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0012
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Mountain Witches: Yamauba by Noriko Tsunoda Reider, and: Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch by Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich (review)

Toby Slade
pp. 171-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0013
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Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall, Miyazaki Fumiko et al. (review)

Garrett L. Washington
pp. 175-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0014
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Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940 by Alice Y. Tseng (review)

Andre Sorensen
pp. 181-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0015
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A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan by Timothy M. Yang (review)

Elisheva Perelman
pp. 184-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0016
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American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan by Elisheva A. Perelman (review)

Alexander Bay
pp. 187-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0017
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Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan ed. by Irena Hayter, George T. Sipos, and Mark Williams (review)

Adam Bronson
pp. 192-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0018
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Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train by Jessamyn R. Abel (review)

Yoshikuni Igarashi
pp. 197-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0019
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Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation by Christopher Gerteis (review)

Till Knaudt
pp. 200-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0020
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Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left by Chelsea Szendi Schieder (review)

Christopher Gerteis
pp. 205-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0021
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The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo by M. W. Shores (review)

Till Weingärtner
pp. 210-214
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0022
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Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan by Jan Bardsley (review)

Rebecca Corbett
pp. 214-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0023
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Oishii: The History of Sushi by Eric C. Rath (review)

James Farrer
pp. 217-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0024
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Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups by Robert Hellyer (review)

Catherine L. Phipps
pp. 221-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0025
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The Tale of Genji and Its Chinese Precursors: Beyond the Boundaries of Nation, Class, and Gender by Jindan Ni (review)

Nicholas Morrow Williams
pp. 225-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0026
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A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji by Reginald Jackson (review)

Jindan Ni
pp. 229-233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0027
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A Fictional Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Properties of Modern Literature by Michael K. Bourdaghs (review)

Edward Mack
pp. 234-237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0028
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Disruptions of Daily Life: Japanese Literary Modernism in the World by Arthur M. Mitchell (review)

Ken K. Ito
pp. 238-242
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0029
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Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions by David S. Roh (review)

Christina Yi
pp. 242-246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0030
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In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire: Imperial Violence, State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern East Asia ed. by Barak Kushner and Andrew Levidis (review)

Kelly Anne Hammond
pp. 247-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0031
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The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection by Mark W. Driscoll (review)

Paul D. Barclay
pp. 251-256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0032
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A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific by T. J. Pempel (review)

Pekka Korhonen
pp. 256-259
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0033
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Japan, the European Union and Global Governance by Eiji Ogawa et al. (review)

Marie Söderberg
pp. 259-263
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0034
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Japan at War and Peace: Shidehara Kijūrō and the Making of Modern Diplomacy by Ryuji Hattori (review)

Antony Best
pp. 263-266
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0035
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Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War with Japan by Peter Kornicki (review)

Roger H. Brown
pp. 267-271
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0036
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