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Volume 68 - November 2009

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Book Reviews—Japan

When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism. By Gregory Golley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. ix, 394 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People. By Kevin M. Doak. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xii, 292 pp. $107.00 (cloth).

In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist. By Hiratsuka Raichō. Translated by Teruko Craig. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xiii, 335 pp. $38.50 (cloth).

The Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film: Personal, Cultural, National. By Timothy Iles. Leiden: Brill, 2008. iii, 223 pp. $158.00 (cloth).

From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes. By Richard J. Smethurst. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. xiv, 377 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture. By Sari Kawana. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. x, 271 pp. $67.50 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor. By Edward J. Miller. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2007. xvi, 323 pp. $32.00 (cloth).

Nagaoka: Japan's Forgotten Capital. By Ellen Van Goethem. Leiden: Brill, 2008. xx, 368 pp. $170.00 (cloth).

Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan. By Laura Nenzi. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. xi, 260 pp. $57.00 (cloth).

The Fable of the “Keiretsu”: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy. By Yoshio Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii, 181 pp.$32.50 (cloth).

Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan. By Elizabeth Oyler. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003. xi, 218 pp. $51.00 (cloth).

Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan. By David G. Wittner. New York: Routledge, 2008. xix, 199 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

Sacred Kōyasan: A Pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kōbō Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha. By Philip L. Nicoloff. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xvii, 392 pp. $89.50 (cloth); $31.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria. By Hyun Ok Park. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.2005. xix, 314 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300–1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English. Edited by Joan R. Piggott. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2006. 485 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945. By Theodore Jun Yoo. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. xi, 316 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature. By Atsuko Sakaki. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006. ix, 269 pp. $64.00 (cloth).

Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose. By Kenneth B. Pyle. New York: Public Affairs, 2007, x, 433 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. By Michael Bergunder. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2008. xii, 1 pp. $40.00 (paper).

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