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Volume 57 - Issue 4 - November 1998

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Book Reviews—Japan

Interpreting Amida: History and Orientalism in the Study of Pure Land Buddhism. By Galen Amstutz. Albany: State Univeristy of New York Press, 1997. $65.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
James C. Dobbins
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26 March 2010, pp. 1154-1156
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Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern. Edited By Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, Gavan McCormack Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. viii, 296 pp. $59.95.
Joshua Breslau
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26 March 2010, pp. 1156-1157
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Ozu's Tokyo Story. Edited by David Desser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 173 pp. $13.95.
Donald Kirihara
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26 March 2010, pp. 1157-1159
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Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy: Developmentalism from 1931 to 1965. By Bai Gao. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv, 364 pp. $59.95.
Andrew E. Barshay
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26 March 2010, pp. 1159-1160
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Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. By Sheldon Garon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. $27.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).
Kweku Ampiah
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26 March 2010, pp. 1160-1162
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New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan. Edited by Helen Hardacre with Adam L. Kern. Leiden: Brill, 1997. xlii, 782 pp. $236.50.
Marvin Marcus
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26 March 2010, pp. 1163-1164
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I Saw a Pale Horse and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond. By Hayashi Fumiko; translated by Janice Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asian Program, Cornell University, 1997. xi, 151 pp. $22.00 (cloth); $14.00 (paper).
Joan E. Ericson
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26 March 2010, pp. 1165-1166
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The Japanese City. Edited By P. P. Karan and Kristin Stapleton. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. viii, 250 pp. $31.95.
Ronald Suleski
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26 March 2010, pp. 1166-1167
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Lost Japan. By Alex Kerr. Oakland, Calif.: Lonely Planet Publications, 1996. 269 pp. $10.95 (paper).
David L. Major
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26 March 2010, pp. 1167-1169
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Anticompetitive Practices in Japan: Their Impact on the Performance of Foreign Firms. By Masaaki Kotabe and Kent W. Wheiler. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996. xv, 208 pp. $59.95.
Leonard J. Schoppa
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26 March 2010, pp. 1169-1170
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Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour, and Activism, 1900–1937. By Vera Mackie. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x, 252 pp. $54.95.
Sally A. Hastings
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26 March 2010, pp. 1170-1172
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The Films of Akira Kurosawa. Third Edition. By Donald Richie. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 271 pp. $24.95.
David Desser
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26 March 2010, pp. 1172-1173
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The Confusion Era: Art and Culture in Japan During the Allied Occupation, 1945–52. Edited by Mark Sandler. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. Published with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. 112 pp. $19.95.
Michael S. Molasky
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26 March 2010, pp. 1173-1175
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The Collected Works of Shinran. By Shinran. Translated, with introductions, glossaries, and reading aids, by Dennis Hirota (Head Translator), Hisao Inagaki, Michio Tokunaga, and Ryushin Uryuzu. Kyoto: Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha, 1997. Volume I: The Writings, 704 pp. Volume II: Introductions, Glossaries, and Reading Aids. $40.00.
Galen Amstutz
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26 March 2010, pp. 1175-1176
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Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashō. By Haruo Shirane. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xii, 381 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Steven D. Carter
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26 March 2010, pp. 1176-1178
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The Japanese Election System. By Junichiro Wada. London: Routledge, 1996. x, 112 pp. £35.00.
Ray Christensen
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26 March 2010, pp. 1178-1179
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Individualism and the Japanese: An Alternative Approach to Cultural Comparison. By Yamazaki Masakazu. Tokyo: The Japan Echo, Inc., 1994. x, 175 pp. $18.00.
David A. Titus
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26 March 2010, pp. 1179-1181
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Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. By Louise Young. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 487 pp. $45.00.
E. Bruce Reynolds
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26 March 2010, pp. 1181-1183
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Book Reviews—Korea

The Descendants of Cain. By Hwang Sun-won Translated by Suh Ji-moom and Julie Pickering. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe/UNESCO Publishing, 1997. 181 pp. $52.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
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26 March 2010, pp. 1183-1186
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The Trap of History: Understanding Korean Short Stories. By Jeong-Hyun Shin. Korea Research Monograph Series. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1998. xv, 115 pp. $15.00.
David R. McCann
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26 March 2010, pp. 1186-1188
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Book Reviews—Japan

Interpreting Amida: History and Orientalism in the Study of Pure Land Buddhism. By Galen Amstutz. Albany: State Univeristy of New York Press, 1997. $65.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern. Edited By Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, Gavan McCormack Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. viii, 296 pp. $59.95.

Ozu's Tokyo Story. Edited by David Desser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 173 pp. $13.95.

Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy: Developmentalism from 1931 to 1965. By Bai Gao. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv, 364 pp. $59.95.

Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. By Sheldon Garon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. $27.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan. Edited by Helen Hardacre with Adam L. Kern. Leiden: Brill, 1997. xlii, 782 pp. $236.50.

I Saw a Pale Horse and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond. By Hayashi Fumiko; translated by Janice Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asian Program, Cornell University, 1997. xi, 151 pp. $22.00 (cloth); $14.00 (paper).

The Japanese City. Edited By P. P. Karan and Kristin Stapleton. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. viii, 250 pp. $31.95.

Lost Japan. By Alex Kerr. Oakland, Calif.: Lonely Planet Publications, 1996. 269 pp. $10.95 (paper).

Anticompetitive Practices in Japan: Their Impact on the Performance of Foreign Firms. By Masaaki Kotabe and Kent W. Wheiler. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996. xv, 208 pp. $59.95.

Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour, and Activism, 1900–1937. By Vera Mackie. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x, 252 pp. $54.95.

The Films of Akira Kurosawa. Third Edition. By Donald Richie. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 271 pp. $24.95.

The Confusion Era: Art and Culture in Japan During the Allied Occupation, 1945–52. Edited by Mark Sandler. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. Published with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. 112 pp. $19.95.

Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashō. By Haruo Shirane. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xii, 381 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The Japanese Election System. By Junichiro Wada. London: Routledge, 1996. x, 112 pp. £35.00.

Individualism and the Japanese: An Alternative Approach to Cultural Comparison. By Yamazaki Masakazu. Tokyo: The Japan Echo, Inc., 1994. x, 175 pp. $18.00.

Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. By Louise Young. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 487 pp. $45.00.

Book Reviews—Korea

The Descendants of Cain. By Hwang Sun-won Translated by Suh Ji-moom and Julie Pickering. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe/UNESCO Publishing, 1997. 181 pp. $52.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The Trap of History: Understanding Korean Short Stories. By Jeong-Hyun Shin. Korea Research Monograph Series. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1998. xv, 115 pp. $15.00.

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