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Killing Time: Memories and Massacres on Kumejima, Matthew Allen
Bones of Contention: Local and National Stakes in Okinawa’s "Sacred Ground", Gerald A. Figal
Narrating War, Dreaming of Peace: Music and Memory in Okinawa, James E. Roberson
Science of Society Found: Contestations in Japanese Sociology, Benjamin D. Middleton
The Sociology of Knowledge of Family Sociology in Japan: An Examination of the Concept of the "ie", Yuki Senda
Recognizing the Already Recognized: The Development of a Positivist Intellectual History and Philology in Japan, Tsutomu Tomotsune
Momoyama Western-Style Painting Destiny, Isabelle Charrier
Early Meiji Exhibitions of Old Works of Art, Hiroko T. McDermott
Past/Present Culture: Public Art in Japan, Elizabeth Norman
Porcelain and Power: Merchandising Policies in Tokugawa Japan, 1800–1870, Ariko Ota
Japanese Approaches to Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and East Asian Regionalism, Takashi Terada
China Watching: Japan’s Changed Strategy towards Southeast Asia, Julie Gilson
Shifting Objectives and Strategies Underlying Japanese Leadership in Asian Financial Cooperation: Managing the Rise of China, Jennifer Amyx
Domestic Political Economies of Monetary Cooperation in Asia, Natasha Hamilton-Hart
Reconceptualizing Sex Work in Early Postwar Japan, Sarah Kovner
"Well Sir . . . I’ve Started an Industry": Teahouse of the August Moon, Military Prostitution, and Postwar U.S.-Asia Relations, Seung Hye Suh
Gendered Nationalism and Sexuality: Japanese State-Sanctioned Prostitution for the U.S. Occupation Forces, Michiko Takeuchi
Film, State, and Resistance, Sharon Hayashi
Imamura Shohei: A Historian of the Present, Bill Mihalopoulos
Film and Politics: Reexamining the "Question Oshima", Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
"You’ve Got It Wrong, Mr. Oshima": Defining Political Cinema, Jonathan M. Hall
Contesting Modanizumu: Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke, Tantei Shôsetsu and Reader Contributions to Shinseinen, Kyoko Omori
Irrepressible Deviants and Island Dystopias: Social Criticism in Two Detective Novels of Edogawa Ranpo, Mark Silver
Matsumoto Seicho and the Facts behind His Detective Fiction, Michael S. Tangeman
Detecting Murder and Myths: Abe Kobo on Dam Construction, Margaret Key
Shifting Memories of the Imperial Sun: Japanese School History Textbooks, Tomoko Hamada
The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and South Korean Responses: A Focus on the Military Comfort Women Issue, Chunghee Sarah Soh
When the Two Colonizers Meet: The Controversy Surrounding Junior High School Textbooks in Taiwan, Anru Lee
Nara and Heian Reading/Writing Practices and the Foundations of Japanese Culture, David Lurie
Setting the Banal on a Pedestal: The Translation of Vernacular Chinese and the Status of Colloquial Japanese in Tokugawa Japan, Emanuel Pastreich
Tayama Katai and the Translation Aesthetic: The Hidden Meaning of "Transparent" Language, Indra Levy
Modern Japan and Myojo: Citizens of the Arts, Citizens of the World, Claire S. Cuccio
Developing the Female Self: Chijin no ai and the Discourse of Shûyô, Michiko Suzuki
Cultivating Women, Cultivating Workers in Interwar Japan, Elyssa M. Faison
Japanese Fashion Magazines and Shopping for Identity in Hong Kong, Lynne Nakano
Kikaida Is Our Hero! Local Nostalgia for a Japanese Live-Action TV Show in Hawai’i, Hirofumi Katsuno
Selling Japanese Monsters on the Global Marketplace, Anne Allison
The Prehistory of a Book: Seji kenmonroku and Its Readers in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Jason Creigh
Importing the Novel to Japan: The Jin Yun Qiao and the Viscidities of Cultural Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Jonathan Zwicker
Hand-Held Cameras and Pocket Knowledge: How-To Books and the Camera Enthusiast in Interwar Japan, Kerry L. Ross
The Discovery of Folklore Studies: Yanagida Kunio and the Book, Kenji Sato
Hate Speech on the Japanese Internet: The Burakumin Experience, Nanette Gottlieb
Identity, Individualization, and the Internet: Japanese University Students and E-Mail, Brian J. McVeigh
The Home Page and the World: National Leaders on the Internet, Vera Mackie
"Welcome to My Page . . .": Fan Sites as a Strategy for Defining Self, Todd Joseph Miles-Holden
Shotoku, the "Mappo Gap," and Apotheosis in Medieval Japan, Kevin Carr
Rise to Apotheosis: the Case of Kobo Daishi, William Londo
Minamoto Yoritomo, In and Out of Medieval Narrative, Elizabeth Oyler
Wolf Extinction Theories: The Birth of a Japanese Ecology, Brett L. Walker
Dogs of War: Chûken Hachikô (1925–1937) and the Breeding of Japanese Fascism, Aaron Skabelund
Animal Martyrs and Imperial Sacrifice at Ueno Zoo, 1937–1945, Ian Jared Miller
A World without Windows: Glass Production in the Modernization of Meiji Japan, Martha Chaiklin
All the Right Choices for All the Wrong Reasons: Forging a Modern Nation at Kamaishi Ironworks, David Wittner
Export Porcelain by Seto in the Meiji Era as an Example of Westernization, Yoshie Itani
Aesthetic Differences in the Practice of Journalism between the Westerners in Japan and the Japanese during the Nineteenth Century, Hiroko Johnson
Adventure and Empire: Meiji-Era Science Fiction, Xavier Benjamin Bensky
From Science to Utopia: Wartime Science Fiction in Japan, Hiromi Mizuno
Race and Space: Numa Shozo’s Pet Yapoo, Christine Marran
Are Otaku Naturally Selected? Some Feminist Implications, Margherita Long
Buying Influence: Private Money, Public Decisions, and International Standards, Verena Blechinger
International-Domestic Linkages in Environmental Politics in Japan, Miranda A. Schreurs
Rumble in the Boardroom: Changed Structures, Improved Efficiency? Andreas Moerke
Global Pressures on Japanese Corporate Strategies, Ulrike Schaede
The Transmarine Factor in Kyoto Culture circa 1000, Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
With the Sea as Their Domain: Pirates and Local Maritime Authority in the Seto Inland Sea in the Sixteenth Century, Peter D. Shapinsky
Merchants and Mercenaries: The Overseas Japanese Diaspora in East Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Thomas Nelson
"Sea, a body dost thou make. . .": Late Edo Castaway Narratives and Writing the National Subject, Michael Wood
Testing the Waters: Japan’s Use of Force and the North Korean "Threat", Sheila A. Smith
The Rise of China and Japan’s National Security, Shinju Fujihira
Japan’s Response to September 11 and the Continuing Politics of Domestic Antimilitarism in the Twenty-First Century, Andrew Oros
Scaring the Japanese for Their Own Good: Japan’s Public Awareness Programs on Terrorism, David Leheny
The Grotesque Connection: A Setsuwa Style of Representation in The Tale of Genji, Michelle Li....186
Setsuwa as Vocal Literature: The Hyakuza Hôdan Kikigakishô Charlotte Eubanks....187
Waka Performing as Setsuwa: The Case of the Hôbutsushû, Tom Howell....187
Shinseinen and Popular Fiction in Imperial Japan, Satomi Saito
The Colonial Narrative in Tanizaki Jun’ichirô’s Naomi, Kota Inoue
The Colored Imperial Body: National Identity in Interwar Cinema, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
The Uncanny Advent of the Film Japan in Time of Emergency (1933) during "The Interval of Peace", Naomi Ginoza
Sôseki’s "atarashii onna" (New Woman): Fujio and Mieko, Reiko Abe-Auestad
The Currency of Literature: Sôseki and Etô Jun, Ann Sherif
Lingering with the Dead, Daniel O’Neill
The Never-Ending Story: Kokoro and Contemporary Japanese Cultural Criticism, Michael Bourdaghs
Mothering the Empire: The Mobilization of Women in Late Colonial Korea, Taeyoon Ahn
Adrift in the Empire: The Body in Hayashi Fumiko’s Works, Noriko J. Horiguchi
Philosophizing the Empire: The Wartime "Philosophy of World History" of Miki Kiyoshi and Kôyama Iwao, Lewis Emery Harrington
"What’s Love Got to Do with It"? Shimizu Shikin and the Quest for Romance, Rebecca Copeland
"Land of Spring, Country of Love": The Imaginary Landscape of Yosano Akiko’s Midaregami, Janine Beichman
A Template of Endearment: Ekuni Kaori and Tsuji Hitonari’s Between Composure and Passion, Yasuko Sasaki
"Love Is in the Air"—Ren’ai shosetsu: Japan’s New Wave of Romantic Writing, Eileen Mikals-Adachi
Why the Relative Political Power of Domestic Industries Matters in the WTO: The Steel Industry and Japan’s Antidumping Agenda, Saadia Pekkanen
Why Rules Persuade More Than Threats: The Role of GATT/WTO in Japanese Agricultural Trade Liberalization, Christina Davis
Japan, Regionalism, and Transregionalism, John Ravenhill
The Politics of Free Trade Agreements: Japan’s Trade Strategy in the Twenty-First Century, Mireya Solis
Arhats in Boston: The Case of the Daitokuji Five Hundred Rakan, Gregory P. Levine
Aesthetic Evaluations, Fragmentations, and the Art Market of Japanese Handscrolls: A Case Study, Melanie Trede
Tsujigahana: A Modern Label for Sixteenth-Century Japanese Textile Fragments, Terry Milhaupt
Statistical Knowledge and Consumption as Virtue in Post-World-War II Japan, Scott P. O’Bryan
From Peasant to Consumer: Hopes and Choices in a Postwar Village Family, Simon Partner
Ishibashi Tanzan and the "Positive Policy" in Economics, Mark Metzler
Linguistic Incompetence in Rakugo Stories, Noriko Watanabe
Authenticity, Authority, Adaptability, and the Rakugo World, Patricia Welch
Rakugo Rhetoric as Cultural Capital in Contemporary Japan, Lorie Brau
The Educating of Meiji Rakugo, Joshua Young
Public Welfare and the Abuse of Free Speech: Cultural Values in the Interpretation of Free Speech in Japan and the U.S., Yuri Obata
Japanese Adult Karaoke Learning, Hideo Watanabe
New Music for New Communities: Festival Creation and Musical Innovation in Contemporary Japan, Shawn Bender
The Invisible Code: Socio-economic Status, Parenting, and Schooling in Japan, Yoko Yamamoto
Japanese People Watching Subtitled Japanese TV Shows: Function or Aesthetic? Yuki Watanabe
Minamata Activists and the "System" from Meiji to Heisei, Timothy S. George
The Interrelated Nature of Three Perspectives and the Success of the Anti-fingerprinting Movement in Japan, 1980–1991, Akemi Nakamura
New Media and Civil Society in Japan, Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Reframing Japanese Citizens’ Movements: From Protest to Proposal, Simon Avenell
War and Visual Culture in Japan, 1860–1880, Naoyuki Kinoshita....204
Seeing and Knowing: Botanical Illustrations and Shifting Concepts of Accuracy, Maki Fukuoka....204
The Popularization of Portrait Photography in Meiji Japan, Andrea Lee....205
Medieval Todaiji and Jikyosha, Hiroki Kikuchi
Chogen and Shoshu: Shingon and Ise in "Kanjin Hijiri" Construction Efforts in Medieval Todaiji, Brian O. Ruppert
The Hokaso Jinen Koji and His Affiliations with Zen, Haruko Wakabayashi
Emulating Gyoki: Ninsho, Eison, and the Institutionalization of the "Hijiri", David Quinter
Romanticizing Sex: "Freedom of Expression" and Female Bodies in Japanese Cinema of the 70s, Hikari Hori
Women’s Pornography: "Lady’s Comics" in 1990s Japan, Naoko Mori
Homophobic Homos, Rapes of Love, and Queer Lesbians: Yaoi as a Conflicting Site of Homo/Hetero-Sexual Female Sexual Fantasy, Akiko Mizoguchi
Broad, Deep, and Strewn with Gems: Early Japanese Materials at the Library of Congress, Kenji Watanabe
The Asakawa Purchase of Japanese Books at the Library of Congress, Kazuaki Komine
A Text and Its Reincarnations: The Pictorial Biography of Umewaka in the Library of Congress, Kigoshi Osamu
Haunted by the Past: Kim Sok-pom’s Mandogi yurei kitan, Christopher D. Scott
Hiroshima and a Zainichi Korean in a Rhetorical World, Yoko Uchida
The Body Remembers: Yang Sogil and the Postwar, Melissa L. Wender
The Young Motoori Norinaga Hears the Story of the Akô Rônin from a Buddhist Preacher, Federico Marcon
Naniwabushi Narration and the Modernization of Chûshingura, Hyodo Hiromi
Maurice Béjart’s The Kabuki and the Western Re-gendering of Chûshingura, Junko Saeki
The Poetic and Historical Place of the Early Ritsuryô Court: The View of the Ômi Capital, Torquil Duthie
Izayoi nikki as Poetic Appeal, Christina Laffin
Narihira’s "Journey to the East" as Travel Paradigm in Japan, Joshua Mostow
Love and Marriage: Ellen Key and Hiratsuka Raicho Explore Alternatives, Dina Lowy
To Marry or Not to Marry? Nogami Yaeko’s Fictional Portrayal of Marriage, Eleanor Hogan
Women Beyond the Pale: Sex, Gender, and Marital-Norm Aberrance among Japanese Women Entrepreneurs, Christienne Leigh Hinz
Connecting Global and Local Societal Activism: International Politics, NGOs, and the Environmental Movement in Japan, Kim Reimann
Contradictions of Transnationality: Okinawan-Bolivians in Bolivia and Japan, Taku Suzuki
Japanese Hereditary Parliamentarians and Political Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: The Case of the Fourth Generation of the Hatoyama Dynasty, Mayumi Itoh
The Loci of Anti-American Sentiments and Discourse in Contemporary Japan, Yasushi Watanabe