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Book Announcement: The People’s Post Office

Posted on July 15, 2012 by LM

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674062450 The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871–2010 Patricia L. Maclachlan ISBN 9780674062450 Publication March 2012 In 2001, Prime Minister Koizumi Jun’ichirō launched a crusade to privatize Japan’s postal services. The plan was … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girl’s Culture in Japan

Posted on July 8, 2012 by LM

http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8616-9780824836382.aspx Deborah Shamoon University of Hawai’i Press March 2012 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3638-2; 978-0-8248-3542-2 Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: A Place in Public: Women’s Rights in Meiji Japan

Posted on August 21, 2011 by LM

A Place in Public: Women’s Rights in Meiji Japan Marnie S. Anderson This book addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. During the early decades of the Meiji period (1868–1912), the Japanese … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard:  A Novel in Three Parts

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Paula

A translation of Levy Hideo’s A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard (Seijoki no kikoenai heya, 1992) has recently been published by Columbia University Press.  As the first work of fiction written in Japanese by a white American … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Avant-gardes in Japan

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Paula

Avant-gardes in Japan. Anniversary of Futurism and Butoh: Performing Arts and Cultural Practices between Contemporariness and Tradition edited by Katja Centonze (Cafoscarina, Venezia, 2010) ISBN: 978-88-7543-293-5 Please visit the webpage: http://www.cafoscarina.it/default2.asp?id=417 This collection of essays examines Japanese avant-garde expressions, the … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Paula

We are pleased to announce the publication of A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture, a collection of 26 original essays from a group of scholars across disciplines and representing a wide range of emerging research in this field. The … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Paula

Philip C. Brown Cultivating Commons challenges the common understanding of Japanese economic and social history by uncovering diverse landholding practices in early modern Japan. In this first extended treatment of multiple systems of farm­land ownership, Philip Brown argues that it … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: On the Front Lines of Forging a Global Society: Japanese and American Coworkers in Japan

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Paula

by Adam Komisarof As globalization advances and national borders become increasingly porous, Japan is now facing the human reality of these rapid changes: greater cultural diversity in the work force,which brings the concomitant challenge of how to integrate multicultural workers … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: NAKAGAMI, JAPAN: Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Paula

Our book announcements tend to get buried in the files for some reason, so here’s another belated one: — How Japan’s most canonical postwar writer brought that country’s largest social minority into the mainstream NAKAGAMI, JAPAN: Buraku and the Writing … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Andreas Marks. Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Paula

This announcement is actually from some time back, but it got lost in my files! Still, this book looks to be a unique resource so it’s definitely worth posting up here. — http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=42855 Japanese woodblock prints exemplified by such iconographic … Continue reading →

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