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Book Announcement: Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Paula

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415520782/ ed. Rachael Hutchinson, Routledge Contemporary Japan Series no. 45 Censorship in Japan has seen many changes over the last 150 years, with each successive system of rule possessing its own censorship laws, regulations, and methods of enforcement. Yet what … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Paula

Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2013) For more information: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22812 Table of contents: http://www.sup.org/pages.cgi?isbn=0804785392&item=Contents_pages&page=1 The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Paula

Title: Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950 (UC Press, May 2013) Author: Fabian Drixler Summary: This book tells the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionizing its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Japan Since 1945 From Postwar to Post-Bubble

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Paula

Does Japan really matter anymore? The challenges of recent Japanese history have led some pundits and scholars to publicly wonder whether Japan’s significance is starting to wane. The multidisciplinary essays that comprise Japan Since 1945 demonstrate its ongoing importance and relevance. Examining … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA

Posted on September 1, 2013 by LM

Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA Author: Robert Ji-Song KU 296pp. December 2013 Cloth – Price: $42.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3921-5 California roll, Chinese take-out, American-made kimchi, dogmeat, monosodium glutamate, SPAM—all are examples of what Robert Ji-Song … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan

Posted on August 25, 2013 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. Author: Brecher, W. Puck 272pp. July 2013 Cloth – Price: $42.00ISBN: 978-0-8248-3666-5 Eccentric artists are “the vagaries of humanity” that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre–World War II … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Hachi: The Truth of the Life and Legend of the Most Famous Dog in Japan

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Paula

Hachi: The Truth of the Life and Legend of the Most Famous Dog in Japan a Kindle e-book by Mayumi Itoh, 2013, ASIN: B00BNBWDQ4 at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BNBWDQ4 Table of Contents Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Birth and Adoption of Hachi Chapter Three: … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Paula

Leslie Helm Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan Publisher: Chin Music Press Inc. (March 12, 2013) Paperback: 384 pages ISBN-10: 0984457666 ISBN-13: 978-0984457663 Leslie Helm’s decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Paula

In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Paula

Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease University of Rochester Press In modern Japan, beriberi (or thiamin deficiency) became a public health problem that cut across all social boundaries, afflicting even the Meiji Emperor. During an age … Continue reading →

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