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Volume 59 - November 2000

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Book Reviews—Japan

The Only Woman in the Room. By Beate Sirota Gordon. Tokyo, New York, London: Kodansha International, 1997. vi, 171 pp. $22.00.
Linda Isako Angst
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26 March 2010, pp. 429-431
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Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction. By Joel R. Cohn. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 41. Cambridge.: Harvard University Asia Center, 1998. xvii, 253 pp. $40.00.
Adam L. Kern
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26 March 2010, pp. 171-172
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NIMBY Politics in Japan. By S. Hayden Lesbirel. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xvi, 187 pp. $39.95.
Yasuko Kawashima
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26 March 2010, pp. 1022-1024
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A Tanizaki Feast: The International Symposium in Venice. Edited by Adriana Boscaro and Anthony Hood Chambers. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1998. xi, 191 pp. $42.95 (cloth).
Dennis Washburn
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26 March 2010, pp. 736-737
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Cooperation, Technology, and Japanese Development: Indigenous Knowledge, the Power of Networks, and the State. By Donna L. Doane. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. xxviii, 226 pp. $55.00.
Carl Mosk
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26 March 2010, pp. 172-174
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Japan Today. Third edition. By Roger Buckley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv, 218 pp. $49.95.
Louis G. Perez
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26 March 2010, pp. 737-738
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Osaka: The Merchants' Capital of Early Modern Japan. Edited by James L. McClain and Wakita Osamu. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xxviii, 295 pp. $49.95.
Paul Waley
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26 March 2010, pp. 1024-1025
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Das Bild der Familie in den japanischen Medien. Edited by Hilaria Gössmann. München: Iudicium Verlag, 1998. Monographien aus dem Deutschen Institut fur Japanstudien der Philipp Franz von Siebold Stiftung, Vol. 20. 338 pp. DM 98.00.
Ulrike Wöhr
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26 March 2010, pp. 431-432
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Japan and Russia in Northeast Asia: Partners in the 21st Century. Edited by Vladimir I. Ivanov and Karla S. Smith Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. xxviii, 343 pp. $69.50.
David Arase
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26 March 2010, pp. 174-175
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Of brigands and bravery—Kuniyoshi's heroes of the Suikoden. By Inge Klompmakers. Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 1998. 199 pp. $75.00.
Allen Hockley
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26 March 2010, pp. 432-433
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Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia. By Peter Dauvergne. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1997. x, 308 pp. $22.00 (paper).
Conrad Totman
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26 March 2010, pp. 738-740
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The Mountain is Moving: Japanese Women's Lives. By Patricia Morley. New York: New York University Press, 1999. 226 pp. $28.50.
Jean R. Renshaw
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26 March 2010, pp. 1025-1026
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Re-inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. 236 pp. $30.50.
Noriko Aso
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26 March 2010, pp. 1026-1028
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The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame. By Honda Katsuichi. Edited by Frank Gibney, translated by Karen Sandness. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xxvii, 367 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Daqing Yang
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26 March 2010, pp. 740-741
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A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World. By Katō Shūichi Translated and annotated by Chia-ning Chang. Berkeley.: University of California Press, 1999. xiv, 470 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Guohe Zheng
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26 March 2010, pp. 175-177
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Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife. By Robin Leblanc. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. $40.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).
Kathleen Uno
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26 March 2010, pp. 433-435
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Pachinko Monogatari: Soziokulturelle Exploration der japanischen Glücksspielindustrie. By Wolfram Manzenreiter. Munich: Iudicium, 1998. 157 pp.
Allen Guttmann
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26 March 2010, pp. 435-437
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Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. By Mark J. Hudson. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. ix, 323 pp. $31.95 (paper).
William Wayne Farris
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26 March 2010, pp. 742-743
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Objective Description of the Self. By Yōichi Nagashima. Aarhus: Aarhaus University Press, 1997. 240 pp. $29.95.
Takao Hagiwara
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26 March 2010, pp. 1028-1030
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The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e. By Sandy Kita. Honolulu.: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. xii, 412 pp. $42.00.
Karen M. Gerhart
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26 March 2010, pp. 177-179
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Book Reviews—Japan

The Only Woman in the Room. By Beate Sirota Gordon. Tokyo, New York, London: Kodansha International, 1997. vi, 171 pp. $22.00.

Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction. By Joel R. Cohn. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 41. Cambridge.: Harvard University Asia Center, 1998. xvii, 253 pp. $40.00.

NIMBY Politics in Japan. By S. Hayden Lesbirel. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xvi, 187 pp. $39.95.

A Tanizaki Feast: The International Symposium in Venice. Edited by Adriana Boscaro and Anthony Hood Chambers. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1998. xi, 191 pp. $42.95 (cloth).

Cooperation, Technology, and Japanese Development: Indigenous Knowledge, the Power of Networks, and the State. By Donna L. Doane. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. xxviii, 226 pp. $55.00.

Japan Today. Third edition. By Roger Buckley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv, 218 pp. $49.95.

Osaka: The Merchants' Capital of Early Modern Japan. Edited by James L. McClain and Wakita Osamu. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xxviii, 295 pp. $49.95.

Das Bild der Familie in den japanischen Medien. Edited by Hilaria Gössmann. München: Iudicium Verlag, 1998. Monographien aus dem Deutschen Institut fur Japanstudien der Philipp Franz von Siebold Stiftung, Vol. 20. 338 pp. DM 98.00.

Japan and Russia in Northeast Asia: Partners in the 21st Century. Edited by Vladimir I. Ivanov and Karla S. Smith Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. xxviii, 343 pp. $69.50.

Of brigands and bravery—Kuniyoshi's heroes of the Suikoden. By Inge Klompmakers. Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 1998. 199 pp. $75.00.

Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia. By Peter Dauvergne. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1997. x, 308 pp. $22.00 (paper).

The Mountain is Moving: Japanese Women's Lives. By Patricia Morley. New York: New York University Press, 1999. 226 pp. $28.50.

Re-inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. 236 pp. $30.50.

The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame. By Honda Katsuichi. Edited by Frank Gibney, translated by Karen Sandness. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xxvii, 367 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World. By Katō Shūichi Translated and annotated by Chia-ning Chang. Berkeley.: University of California Press, 1999. xiv, 470 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife. By Robin Leblanc. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. $40.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Pachinko Monogatari: Soziokulturelle Exploration der japanischen Glücksspielindustrie. By Wolfram Manzenreiter. Munich: Iudicium, 1998. 157 pp.

Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. By Mark J. Hudson. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. ix, 323 pp. $31.95 (paper).

Objective Description of the Self. By Yōichi Nagashima. Aarhus: Aarhaus University Press, 1997. 240 pp. $29.95.

The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e. By Sandy Kita. Honolulu.: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. xii, 412 pp. $42.00.

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