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Book Announcement: Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory

Posted on October 11, 2015 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory Editor: Adolphson, Mikael S.; Commons, Anne; 344pp. October 2015 Cloth – Price: $55.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-4675-6 Lovable Losers is the first substantial piece of English-language scholarship to examine … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Fluid Pantheon: Gods of Medieval Japan, Volume 1

Posted on October 4, 2015 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. 496pp. December 2015 Cloth – Price: $55.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3933-8 Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, The Fluid Pantheon is the first installment of a multivolume project that promises to be a … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Protectors and Predators: Gods of Medieval Japan, Volume 2

Posted on October 4, 2015 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. Protectors and Predators: Gods of Medieval Japan, Volume 2 Author: Faure, Bernard; 584pp. December 2015 Cloth – Price: $55.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3931-4 Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, Protectors and Predators is … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Monster of the Twentieth Century, Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist Movement

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Paula

This extended monograph examines the work of the radical journalist Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s anti-imperialist movement of the early twentieth century. It includes the first English translation of Imperialism (Teikokushugi), Kotoku’s classic 1901 work. Kotoku Shusui was a Japanese socialist, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Paula

Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar Author: Takenaka, Akiko This is the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine’s role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

Posted on September 6, 2015 by LM

Via University of Washington Press YOSHIKO UCHIDA INTRODUCTION BY TRAISE YAMAMOTO $18.95 PAPERBACK (9780295994758) hardcover not available PUBLISHED: April 2015 SUBJECT LISTING: Asian American Studies; Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: 184 pp., 21 bandw photos, 5.5 x 8.5 in. SERIES: … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945

Posted on August 30, 2015 by LM

Via University of Washington Press. Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945 The Reception of Western Law TAY-SHENG WANG $40.00S PAPERBACK (9780295994475) ADD TO CART $75.00X HARDCOVER (9780295978277) ADD TO CART PUBLISHED: December 2014 SUBJECT LISTING: Asian Studies … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Paula

Kirsch, Griseldis (2015). Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen. A History, 1989-2005. SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan. London: Bloomsbury Academic. http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contemporary-sino-japanese-relations-on-screen-9781472572394/ About Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen Japan and China look back on a history of friendship as well as … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Paula

From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan. Brill’s Japanese Studies Library, vol. 50. Leiden: Brill, 2015. 340 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-29339-7 (hardback) http://www.brill.com/products/book/outcasts-emperors-shingon-ritsu-and-manjusri-cult-medieval-japan In From Outcasts to Emperors, David Quinter illuminates the Shingon Ritsu movement founded by the … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Sangaku Proofs: A Japanese Mathematician at Work

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Paula

James Unger Sangaku Proofs: A Japanese Mathematician at Work During many decades of national isolation, a mathematical tradition called wasan flourished in Japan independently of the advances of Enlightenment mathematics and virtually unknown to Europeans before the Meiji Restoration. Yet … Continue reading →

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