In this Issue

Table of Contents

Post Office Politics in Modern Japan: The Postmasters, Iron Triangles, and the Limits of Reform

Patricia L. Maclachlan
pp. 281-313
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0044
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Woman's Place in Japan's Great Depression: Reflections on the Moral Economy of Deflation

Mark Metzler
pp. 315-352
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0045
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Happiness Foreclosed: Sentimentalism, the Suffering Heroine, and Social Critique in Higuchi Ichiyo's "Jusan'ya"

Timothy J. van Compernolle
pp. 353-381
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0078
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Bukatsudo : The Educational Role of Japanese School Clubs

Peter Cave
pp. 383-415
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0041
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Rethinking Area Studies, Once More

Andrew Gordon
pp. 417-429
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0043
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Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature (review)

Douglas Howland
pp. 431-435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0064
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An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context (review)

Johann Pall Arnason
pp. 436-440
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0048
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A Genealogy of "Japanese" Self-images (review)

Walter Drew Edwards
pp. 440-444
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0055
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Modern Japanese Culture: The Insider View (review)

Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
pp. 444-449
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0063
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Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan (review)

James L. Ford
pp. 449-453
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0056
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Buddhas and Kami in Japan: Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm (review)

Robert Borgen
pp. 453-457
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0050
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Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain (review)

John K. Nelson
pp. 457-461
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0069
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The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry (review)

Millie R. Creighton
pp. 461-465
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0052
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Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan, and: Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective (review)

Roger Goodman
pp. 465-471
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0060
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Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism (review)

De Carvalho, Daniela, 1956-
pp. 472-476
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0053
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Aging and Social Policy: A German-Japanese Comparison (review)

Susan Orpett Long
pp. 476-481
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0071
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Urban Reconstruction in Britain and Japan, 1945-1955: Dreams, Plans and Realities, and: Housing in Postwar Japan: A Social History (review)

Carola Hein
pp. 481-486
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0062
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The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure (review)

Sabine Frühstück
pp. 486-490
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0057
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Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (review)

William Johnston
pp. 490-494
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0066
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Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs (review)

Jan Bardsley
pp. 494-498
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0049
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The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan (review)

Sally A. Hastings
pp. 499-502
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0061
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Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (review)

Kevin Michael Doak
pp. 502-507
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0054
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Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868) (review)

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
pp. 507-511
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0079
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The Prints of Isoda Koryusai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-Century Japan (review)

Timon Screech
pp. 511-515
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0076
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A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds (review)

Brett L. Walker
pp. 515-520
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0080
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Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyo (review)

Laurel Rasplica Rodd
pp. 520-525
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0074
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The Burdens of Survival: Ōoka Shōhei's Writings on the Pacific War (review)

Steve Rabson
pp. 525-528
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0073
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Acts of Reading: Exploring Connections in Pedagogy of Japanese (review)

Wesley M. Jacobsen
pp. 528-533
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0065
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Confluences: Postwar Japan and France (review)

Roy Starrs
pp. 533-538
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0077
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The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan (review)

Scott Nygren
pp. 538-542
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0070
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Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management (review)

Henry Laurence
pp. 543-546
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0068
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Civil Society in Japan: The Growing Role of NGOs in Tokyo's Aid Development Policy (review)

Peng Er Lam
pp. 547-550
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0072
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Limits to Power: Asymmetric Dependence and Japanese Foreign Aid Policy (review)

David Arase
pp. 550-554
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0047
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Alliance in Anxiety: Detente and the Sino-American-Japanese Triangle, and: Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989: From Balancing to Bandwagoning? (review)

Ellis S. Krauss
pp. 554-561
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0067
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Japan in Crisis (review)

Leonard J. Schoppa
pp. 561-564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0075
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Picking Winners? From Technology Catch-up to the Space Race in Japan (review)

Phyllis Genther Yoshida
pp. 564-569
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0058
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Japanese Electoral Politics: Creating a New Party System (review)

Ray Christensen
pp. 569-572
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0051
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The Japanese Adversary System in Context: Controversies and Comparisons (review)

Tom Ginsburg
pp. 572-577
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0059
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Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld (review)

Mark D. West
pp. 577-580
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0081
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Publications of Note

p. 581
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0046
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Notes on Contributors

pp. v-x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2004.0042
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