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Book Announcement: Heritage Management in Korea and Japan

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Travis

Via H-Japan Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity Hyung Il-Pai December 2013 298 pp. ISBN: 9780295993058 Paperback $30.00 ISBN: 9780295993041 Hardcover $70.00 Publisher’s blurb, from University of Washington Press: Imperial tombs, Buddhist architecture, palaces, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kukai and Dogen on the Art of Enlightenment

Posted on November 17, 2013 by LM

Via Oxford University Press. Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kukai and Dogen on the Art of Enlightenment Author: Pamela D. Winfield Price(incl.tax): 3,224 yen ISBN: 9780199945559 224 Pages Paperback Feb 2013 Pamela D. Winfield offers a fascinating juxtaposition and … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Travis

Michael Emmerich The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature, Columbia University Press, October 2013 Cloth, 512 pages ISBN: 978-0-231-16272-2 $60.00 / £41.50 Publisher’s blurb: Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history … Continue reading →

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

Posted on October 27, 2013 by LM

Via Stanford University Press. Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 Aaron Stephen Moore 2013, Available Now 328 pp. ISBN: 9780804785396 Cloth $55.00 ISBN: 9780804786690 E-book $55.00 The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Three-Dimensional Reading: Stories of Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Fiction, 1911-1932

Posted on October 20, 2013 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. Three-Dimensional Reading: Stories of Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Fiction, 1911-1932 Editor: Yiu, Angela; 280pp. July 2013 Paper – Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3801-0 Cloth – Price: $55.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3662-7 A 29th-century dystopian society seen … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: ‘Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Paula

Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry Jeffrey W. Alexander www.brewedinjapan.com. Summary: Spanning the earliest attempts to brew beer in Japan to the recent popularity of local craft brews, ‘Brewed in Japan’ charts beer’s steady rise to become … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Shinto Studies in Prewar Japan and the West

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Paula

Bernhard Scheid, ed., with Kate Wildman Nakai Kami Ways in Nationalist Territory: Shinto Studies in Prewar Japan and the West. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2013. Publisher’s blurb: Shinto, literally the way of the kami (gods), is often regarded as Japan’s indigenous religion … Continue reading →

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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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