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Book Announcement: Japan’s Great Stagnation: Forging Ahead, Falling Behind

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Paula

W.R.Garside Waseda University, Japan and University of Durham, UK Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012 ISBN-  978-0-85793-821-3 This timely book presents a critical examination of the developmental premises of Japan’s high-growth success and its subsequent drift into recession, stagnation and piecemeal reform. … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Paula

Maki Fukuoka Stanford University Press, August 2012. 304 pp. (39 illustrations) ISBN: 9780804777902 Cloth $45 ISBN: 9780804784627 E-book $45.00 The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Paula

Daniel P. Aldrich Abstract: Each year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren’t explained by the magnitude of the catastrophe or the amount … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Japan and Germany as Regional Actors: Evaluating Change and Continuity after the Cold War

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Paula

Japan and Germany as Regional Actors: Evaluating Change and Continuity after the Cold War Published 20th August 2012 by Routledge 210 pages   The end of the Cold War and the bipolar era constituted a significant change in Germany’s and Japan’s … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World

Posted on September 23, 2012 by LM

http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1815 Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World Author: Dower, John W. Pub Date: Spring 2012 336 pages ISBN: 978-1-59558-618-6 Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting—and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200)

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Paula

In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200), Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates how, on both the theoretical and the practical level, painted screens and other visual art objects helped define some of the essential characteristics of Japanese … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Public Opinion – Propaganda – Ideology

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Paula

Public Opinion – Propaganda – Ideology: Theories on the Press and its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918-1937 As early as prewar Japan, thinkers of various intellectual proveniences had begun discussing the most important topics of contemporary media and communication … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Posted on July 29, 2012 by LM

http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=20941 The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan Maki Fukuoka Stanford University Press Forthcoming July 2012 ISBN: 9780804777902 The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880–1930

Posted on July 22, 2012 by LM

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674065864 Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880–1930 Satoru Saito ISBN 9780674065864 Harvard University Press Publication April 2012 In Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, Satoru Saito sheds light on the deep structural and … Continue reading →

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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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