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Marty Friedman with Jon Wiederhorn, "Dreaming Japanese" (Permuted Press, 2024)
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson, "Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away" (U Hawaiʻi Press, 2026)
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Peter Mauch, "Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General" (Harvard UP, 2026)
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Gregory Smits, "The Ryukyu Islands: A New History from the Stone Age to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Robert Whiting, "Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies: The Outsiders who Shaped Modern Japan (Tuttle, 2024)
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, "The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Hiromi Ito, "The Thorn Puller" (Stone Bridge Press, 2022)
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe, "Supernatural Japan: Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Osamu Kitayama and Jhuma Basak, "Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India" (Routledge, 2025)
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Reginald Jackson, “Textures of Mourning: Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls” (U Michigan Press, 2018)
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Subodhana Wijeyeratne, "The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan's Space Programs" (Stanford UP, 2026)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Jie-Hyun Lim, "Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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David M. Henkin, "Out of the Ballpark: How to Think about Baseball" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Kristin Roebuck, "Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Rosina Buckland and Oleg Benesch, "Samurai" (British Museum, 2025)
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Alex Wellerstein, "The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age" (Harper, 2025)
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Anne Sokolsky ed., "Bold Breaks: Japanese Women and Literary Narratives of Divorce" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Ines Prodöhl, "Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Bo Tao, "Cooperative Evangelist: Kagawa Toyohiko and His World, 1888-1960" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Jolyon Baraka Thomas and Matthew D. McMullen, "The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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Andrew W. Bernstein, "Fuji: A Mountain in the Making" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Simon Avenell, "A History of Postwar Japan: Recovery, Prosperity, and Transformation" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Tourism and a Kyoto in Flux: A Conversation with Dr. Chiara Rita Napolitano
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Tourism and a Kyoto in Flux: A Conversation with Dr. Chiara Rita Napolitano
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Mayu Fujikawa, "Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Gian Piero Persiani, "Poets, Patrons, and the Public: Poetry as Cultural Phenomenon in Courtly Japan" (Brill, 2025)
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Machiya, Seikatsu Bunka, and Changing Domestic Culture in the Japanese Urban Environment
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Andrew Bernstein, "Fuji: A Mountain In The Making" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Shilla Lee , "Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization" (Routledge, 2024)
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Michal A. Piegzik, "Gamble in the Coral Sea: Japan's Offensive, the Carrier Battle, and the Road to Midway" (Naval Institute Press, 2025)
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, "Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, Japan and the Great Divergence in Business History" (JESB, 2025)
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024)
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Christopher Nelson, "When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Stephen C. Mercado, "Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito's Scientists and Technicians Served in the Second World War and the Cold War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2025)
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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M. G. Sheftall, "Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses" (Penguin Random House, 2025)
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Aaron L. Miller, "Basketball in Japan: Shooting for the Stars" (Routledge, 2024)
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Maren A. Ehlers, "Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Victoria Young, "Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference" (Routledge, 2024)
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2025)
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence" (Praeger, 2018)
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Alison J. Miller, "Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868-1952" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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James D.J. Brown, "Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge" (Hurst, 2025),
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Sonia C. Gomez, "Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Zev Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre: Migration Policies and Realities in Estonia and Japan
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Sven Saaler, Kudō Akira, and Tajima Nobuo eds., "Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860-2010" (Brill, 2017)
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Lieba Faier, "The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fight Against Human Trafficking" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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James D. Brown, "Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge" (Hurst, 2025)
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Jeremy A. Yellen, "Japan at War, 1914-1952" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Jon L. Pitt, "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Gennifer Weisenfeld, "The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan" (Duke UP, 2025)
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May 28, 2025 |
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Michelle H. S. Ho, "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies" (Duke UP, 2025)
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May 23, 2025 |
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Alison J. Miller and Eunyoung Park, "Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia" (Brill, 2024)
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May 09, 2025 |
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Zev J. Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
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May 03, 2025 |
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Judith Vitale, "The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, "The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Brian Masaru Hayashi, "Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Tadashi Ishikawa, "Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan" (Cambridge UP., 2024)
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Akiko Takenaka, "Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan" (Norton, 2025)
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Laura Miller, "Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Xiaolu Ma, "Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia Via Japan (1880-1930)" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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David Dean Barrett, "140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon" (Diversion Books, 2020)
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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Angus Lockyer, "Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Ian Rapley, "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Joseph A. Seeley, "Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Finlandization to ‘Finland Boom‘ in Japan: Finland’s Public Diplomacy in Japan
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Andrew Campana, "Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media" (U California Press, 2024)
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Book Chat: The Life Story of Father Nguyễn, a Vietnamese Refugee Who Migrated to Taiwan, with Lin Shu-fen
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Catherine Butler, "British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Katharine E. McGregor, "Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Marc Gallicchio, "Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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Hannah Gould et al., "Death and Funeral Practices in Japan" (Routledge, 2024)
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Pascal Lottaz and Ingemar Ottosson, "Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War: 1931-1945" (Routledge, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Kerry Smith, "Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Russell Thomas, "Tofu: A Culinary History" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Ryan Moran, "Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Margaret Mehl, "Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert" (Open Book, 2024)
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Mimi Okabe, "Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Ronald Drabkin, "Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor" (William Morrow, 2024)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Satoru Hashimoto, "Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Helena F. S. Lopes, "Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Zach Fredman, "The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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James Villanueva, "Awaiting MacArthur's Return: World War II Guerrilla Resistance against the Japanese in the Philippines" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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The Relations of Estonia and Japan from the 19th Century to early-21st Century
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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James M. Scott, "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" (Norton, 2024)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Fabio Rambelli, "Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Christina Yi et al., "Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Steven K. Bailey, "Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War" (Osprey, 2024)
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko, "Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi" (Brill, 2024)
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Diana P. Parsell, "Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Viren Murthy, "Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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Anri Yasuda, "Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Wendy Matsumura, "Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Judith Vitale et al., "Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan" (Brill, 2023)
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Jorge Almazán et al., "Emergent Tokyo:: Designing the Spontaneous City" (Oro Editions, 2024)
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Sidney Xu Lu, "The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Aaron Fischman, "A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back" (Sports Publishing, 2024)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Thersa Matsuura, "The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth" (Adams Media, 2024)
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
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May 30, 2024 |
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Peter Wetzler, "Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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May 29, 2024 |
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Rebecca Copeland, "Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
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May 29, 2024 |
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Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024)
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May 23, 2024 |
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Robert Lyman, "A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma, and Britain: 1941–45" (Osprey, 2021)
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May 21, 2024 |
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Martin Dusinberre, "Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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May 19, 2024 |
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Wei Wu, "Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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May 17, 2024 |
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Rakugo: An Interview with and Performance by Kanariya Eiraku
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May 07, 2024 |
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Richard M. Jaffe, "Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Reiki and the Subtle Body, with Justin B. Stein
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May 04, 2024 |
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Hiromi Ito, "Tree Spirits Grass Spirits" (Nightboat Books, 2023)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Kyokutei Bakin, "Eight Dogs, Or Hakkenden: Part Two--His Master's Blade" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Paul Hansen, "Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan" (SUNY Press, 2024)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Thomas Lockley, "A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court" (Hanover Square Press, 2024)
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Thomas D. Conlan, "Kings in All But Name: The Lost History of Ouchi Rule in Japan, 1350-1569" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Ben Rothenberg, "Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice" (Dutton, 2024)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Jinying Li, "Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Fynn Holm, "The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024)
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Peter Harmsen, "Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze" (Casemate, 2015)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Simon Partner, "Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Max Ward, "Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Ricky W. Law, "Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German Japanese Relations, 1919-1936" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Gwyn McClelland, "Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives" (Routledge, 2019)
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Paul D. Barclay, "Kondo the Barbarian: A Japanese Adventurer and Indigenous Taiwan's Bloodiest Uprising" (Eastbridge Books, 2023)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Sujin Lee, "Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Scott D. Seligman, "Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Meredith Oda, "The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan: From Historical Background to Current Policies
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Sima Saigal, "The Second World War and North East India: Shadows of Yesteryears" (Routledge, 2022)
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Harry Harootunian, "Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Sauna Culture in Japan
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi, "The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan" (NIAS, 2022)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Akiko Takeyama, "Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Gabe Durham, "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" (Boss Fight Books, 2020)
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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David C. Atherton, "Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Shellen Xiao Wu, "Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Stephen Robert Miller, "Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature" (Island Press, 2023)
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Buddhist Healing in Contemporary Japan (with Rev. Nathan Jishin Michon)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Anne Allison, "Being Dead Otherwise" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Ben Whaley, "Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Aaron Skabelund, "Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force During the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Gennifer Weisenfeld, "Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Michael R. Jin, "Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Don J. Wyatt, "Slavery in East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Paratroopers in the Pacific: A Conversation with James Fenelon
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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David Humphrey, "The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Yiwen Li, "Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Satsuki Takahashi, "Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape" (U Washington Press, 2023)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Robert Hellyer and Harald Fuess, "The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi, "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan" (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023)
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Miya Qiong Xie, "Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Michael J. Seth, "Korea at War: Conflicts That Shaped the World" (Tuttle Publishing, 2023)
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Sheila Miyoshi Jager, "The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Victoria Lee, "The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Anne Giblin Gedacht, "Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan" (Brill, 2022)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Nile Green, "How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Rotem Kowner, "Tsushima" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada, "Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Yoshiko Okuyama, "Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Chris Suh, "The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Rin Ishigaki, "This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems" (Isobar Press, 2022)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Garrett L. Washington, "Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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May 16, 2023 |
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Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Aspired Communities, Contested Futures: Long-Term Recovery after the 3.11 Disaster in Japan
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Akiko Takeyama, "Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club" (Stanford UP, 2016)
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Matthew Mewhinney, "Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Steve Kemper, "Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Frenchy Lunning, "Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Ioannis Gaitanidis, "Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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David Weiss, "The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Kate Sylvester, "Women and Martial Art in Japan" (Routledge, 2022)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Aya Homei, "Science for Governing Japan's Population" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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H. Yumi Kim, "Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Timothy O. Benedict, "Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan" (U California Press, 2022)
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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The Iko-Project: A Japanese Project on Intercultural Understanding Education
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Steve Kemper, "Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Seiji Shirane, "Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Helena Hof, "The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities" (Policy Press, 2022)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Kevin Blackburn, "The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Ruth Rogaski, "Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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A New Hope? Japanese Retirement Migration to Malaysia
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Yu Tokunaga, "Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno, "Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan: In the (Inter)National Shadows" (Routledge, 2022)
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Daniel White, "Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Ronald H. Spector, "A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955" (Norton, 2023)
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Jonathan Dil, "Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy: Stories from the Second Basement" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Kathe Geist, "Ozu: A Closer Look" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Dan Slater and Joseph Wong, "From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Annika A. Culver, "Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Ayelet Zohar, "The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan: (De)Colonialism, Orientalism, and Imagining Asia" (Brill, 2022)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Adam Brookes, "Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City" (Atria Books, 2022)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Chris McMorran, "Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Karli Shimizu, "Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Viren Murthy, "The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future" (Routledge, 2022)
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Wei Yu Wayne Tan, "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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The Assassination and Legacy of Shinzo Abe
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Paul D. Barclay, "Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's 'Savage Border,' 1874-1945" (U California Press, 2018)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Steve Kemper, "Our Man In Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Morgan Pitelka, "Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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A. Carly Buxton, "Un-Thinking Collaboration: American Nisei in Transwar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Yoshiko Okuyama, "Reframing Disability in Manga" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Sabine Frühstück, "Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Jennifer S. Prough, "Kyoto Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Thomas Baudinette, "Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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On John Hersey's "Hiroshima"
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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On Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji"
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Johanna O. Zulueta, "Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei" (Routledge, 2022)
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Murasaki Yamada, "Talk to My Back" (Drawn & Quarterly, 2022)
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Lasse Lehtonen, "Yuming's The 14th Moon" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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David Max Moerman, "The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Hannah Kirshner, "Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town" (Penguin, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Caleb Swift Carter, "A Path Into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Morgan Pitelka and Reiko Tanimura, "Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" (IEAS, 2021)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Charo B. D'Etcheverry, "Celebrating Sorrow: Medieval Tributes to the Tale of Sagoromo" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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On Japanese Buddhist Art
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Thomas Donald Conlan, "Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A Sourcebook" (Hackett, 2022)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Michael Ackland, "The Existentialist Vision of Haruki Murakami" (Cambria Press, 2022)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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James Welker, "Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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On Inazō Nitobe's "Bushido: The Soul of Japan"
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Angela Ki Che Leung et al., "Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Michael J. Hathaway, "What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Christopher Craig, "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Meiji Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh, "Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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The Future of Korea: A Discussion with Eugene Y. Park
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Peter Kornicki, "Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Japanese Immigration and the Korean Minority
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Ethan Mark, "Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Jeannie N. Shinozuka, "Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Sheila A. Smith, "Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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W. Puck Brecher, "Animal Care in Japanese Tradition: A Short History" (Association for Asian Studies, 2022)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Victor Seow, "Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, "Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Japan’s Reaction to Russia’s War in Ukraine
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Tehmton S. Mistry, "The 24th Mile: An Indian Doctor's Heroism in War-torn Burma" (HarperCollins, 2021)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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On Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Elena Tajima Creef, "Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Michael Berry, "The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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The Forgotten Children of the Second Sino-Japanese War
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Jessamyn Abel, "Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Susan Westhafer Furukawa, "The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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May 25, 2022 |
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The “Post-Abe” era, Japan under Fumio Kishida with Paul Midford
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May 23, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li, "Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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May 20, 2022 |
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Glynne Walley, "Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One―An Ill-Considered Jest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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May 19, 2022 |
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Hyaeweol Choi, "Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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May 18, 2022 |
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On Rinzai Zen Life in Japan
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May 06, 2022 |
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William Wayne Farris, "A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
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May 04, 2022 |
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Markus Bell, "Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea" (Berghahn, 2021)
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May 02, 2022 |
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The Future of Japanese Studies
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Laura Hein, "Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Ayelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller, "The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity" (Routledge, 2021)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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On Shinto
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Gregg Huff, "World War II in Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Rossa Ó Muireartaigh, "The Zen Buddhist Philosophy of D. T. Suzuki: Strengths, Foibles, Intrigues, and Precision" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Takeshi Morisato, "Tanabe Hajime and the Kyoto School: Self, World, and Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Sherzod Muminov, "Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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On Japanese Buddhist Art
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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On the Zen Odyssey of Ruth and Sokei-an Sasaki
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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De-Min Tao and Gary P. Leupp, eds., "The Tokugawa World" (Routledge, 2021)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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On Bushi Sculpting, Filmmaking, and "Carving the Divine"
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Hiroko Matsuda, "Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Alexa Alice Joubin, "Shakespeare & East Asia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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David S. Roh, "Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Paul French, "Bloody Saturday: Shanghai's Darkest Day" (Penguin, 2018)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Susan Jolliffe Napier, "Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Midori Yamamura, "Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular" (MIT Press, 2015)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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James Heisig, "Of Gods and Minds: In Search of a Theological Commons" (Chisokudō Publications, 2019)
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Rebecca Corbett, "Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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COVID-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Viktoriya Kim et al. "The Politics of International Marriage in Japan" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Yuka Hiruma Kishida, "Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Takashi Saitō, "Ghastly Tales from the Yotsuya Kaidan" (Chisokudo, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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East Asian Cold War History with a Maritime Twist
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Ian Reader and John Shultz, "Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Michael K. Bourdaghs, "A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Timothy D. Amos and Akiko Ishii, "Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Timothy M. Yang, "A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Rayna Denison, "Anime: A Critical Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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James Kelly Morningstar, "War and Resistance in the Philippines 1942-1944" (US Naval Institute Press, 2021)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Megha Wadhwa, "Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds" (Routledge, 2020)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Alisa Freedman, "Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost" (Association for Asian Studies, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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John Maraldo, "Japanese Philosophy in the Making 2: Borderline Interrogations" (Chisokudo, 2019)
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Marc Gallicchio, "Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Gabriella Lukács, "Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Naoko Wake, "American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Jeffrey J. Hall, "Japan's Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Hiromu Nagahara, "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents" (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Hannah Kirshner, "Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town" (Viking, 2021)
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Machiko Ōgimachi, "In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Antony Best, "British Engagement with Japan, 1854-1922: The Origins and Course of an Unlikely Alliance" (Routledge, 2020)
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich, "Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch" (Stone Bridge, 2021)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Roger K. Thomas, "Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Robert Hellyer, "Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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J. W. Traphagan, "The Blood of Gutoku: A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan" (Balestier Press, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Timon Screech, "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Orion Klautau and Hans Martin Krämer, "Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Susanne Klien, "Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Gideon Fujiwara, "From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Joshua S. Mostow and Tokurō Yamamoto, "An Ise monogatari Reader: Contexts and Receptions" (Brill, 2021)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Erica Baffelli et al., "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Kimiko Tanaka and Nan E. Johnson, "Successful Aging in a Rural Community in Japan" (Carolina Academic Press, 2021)
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Kyokutei Bakin, "Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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M.W. Shores, "The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Outgoing Prime Minister Suga and Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Liang Luo, "The Global White Snake" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Hoyt Long, "The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Su Yun Kim, "Imperial Romance: Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905-1945" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Jan Bardsley, "Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan" (U California Press, 2021)
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Anthony S. Rausch, "Resolving the Contemporary Tensions of Regional Places: What Japan Can Teach Us" (2021)
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Tom Phuong Le, "Japan's Aging Peace: Pacifism and Militarism in the Twenty-First Century" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Hanno Jentzsch, "Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Hoyt Long, "The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Brian Masaru Hayashi, "Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, "Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Eric C. Rath, "Oishii: The History of Sushi" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Cees Heere, "Empire Ascendant: The British World, Race, and the Rise of Japan, 1894-1914" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Allison Alexy, "Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Susan Blakeley Klein, "Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Emery, "Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Matthew Carl Strecher, "The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami" (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Sven Saaler, "Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan" (Brill, 2020)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Women Singer-Songwriters of 1970s Japan: A Discussion with Satoko Naito
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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William P. Brecher, "Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930" (Brill, 2021)
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May 31, 2021 |
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John Person, "Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
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May 20, 2021 |
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Loren Stephens, "All Sorrows Can Be Borne" (Rare Bird Books, 2021)
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May 11, 2021 |
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B. Gramlich-Oka and A. Walthall, "Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
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May 07, 2021 |
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Jeanne Shea et al., "Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies" (Berghahn, 2020)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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A. Castiglioni and F. Rambelli, "Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Kenneth J. Ruoff, "Japan's Imperial House in the Postwar Era, 1945-2019" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Robert T. Tierney, "Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame" (U California Press, 2010)
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia, "Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Jürgen P. Melzer, "Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Takeshi Watanabe, "Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Yuichiro Onishi and Fumiko Sakashita, "Transpacific Correspondence: Dispatches from Japan's Black Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Timon Screech, "Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, "Voices of Early Modern Japan" (Routledge, 2020)
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Christopher Joby, "The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan" (Brill, 2020)
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Dennis J. Frost, "More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Laura Moretti, "Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Sarah Kovner, "Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Daniel Poch, "Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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James Hadley and Nell Regan, "A Gap in the Clouds: A New Translation of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu" (Dedalus Press, 2020)
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konishi, "Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm" (Cambria, 2021)
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Neriko Musha Doerr, "The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices" (Routledge, 2020)
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Hans Martin Krämer, "Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan" (U of Hawaii Press, 2016)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Erin L. Brightwell, "Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Johanna O. Zulueta, "Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Nadine Willems, "Ishikawa Sanshiro's Geographical Imagination" (Leiden UP, 2020)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Winifred Bird, "Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes" (Stone Bridge Press, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Fabio Rambelli, "The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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A Roundtable on the History of the Japanese Student Movement: A Discussion with Naoko Koda and Chelsea Szendi Schieder
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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G. Girard and T. Lockley, "African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan" (Hanover Square Press, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Rana Mitter, "Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945" (HMH, 2013)
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Eika Tai, "Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State" (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Torsten Weber, "Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933" (Springer, 2018)
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Michael R. Auslin, "Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific" (Hoover Institution Press, 2020)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Linda C. Ehrlich, "The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema" (Palgrave, 2019)
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Wesley C. Robertson, "Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Bill Sewell, "Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905-45" (UBC Press, 2019)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Matjaz Ursic and Heide Imai, "Creativity in Tokyo: Revitalizing a Mature City" (Palgrave, 2020)
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Woojeong Joo, "Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the Everyday" (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Michael Fisch, "An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network" (U of Chicago Press, 2018)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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William C. Hedberg, "The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Gracia Liu-Farrer, "Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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William W. Kelly, "The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan" (University of California Press, 2018)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Kelly A. Hammond, "China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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David Fedman, "Seeds of Control: Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Noel John Pinnington, "A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600" (Springer, 2019)
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Elizabeth Son, "Embodied Reckonings: 'Comfort Women,' Performance, and Transpacific Redress" (U Michigan Press, 2018)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Charlotte Eubanks, "The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Amy Stanley, "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World" (Scribner, 2020)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Tobias Harris, "The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan" (Hurst, 2020)
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Sujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian 'Mediterranean'" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Suma Ikeuchi, "Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migration and Global Pentecostalism in a Brazilian Diaspora" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence" (Praeger, 2018)
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Fabio Rambelli, “Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Ann-elise Lewallen, “The Fabric of Indigeneity: Ainu Identity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Japan” (U New Mexico Press, 2016)
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Adam Broinowski, “Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan: The Performing Body During and After the Cold War” (Bloomsbury 2016)
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Nozomi Naoi, “Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan” (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Daniel P. Aldrich, “Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters” (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Takashi Miura, “Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan” (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Elisheva A. Perelman, “American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan” (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, “Branding Japan’s Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku” (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
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May 29, 2020 |
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Tatiana Linkhoeva, “Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism” (Cornell UP, 2020)
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May 14, 2020 |
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David Ambaras, “Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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May 12, 2020 |
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G. Clinton Godart, “Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg, “Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Jolyon Baraka Thomas, “Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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Levi McLaughlin, “Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of A Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan” (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Max Ward, “Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan” (Duke UP, 2019)
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Sabine Frühstück, “Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan” (U California Press, 2017)
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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Danny Orbach, “Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan” (Cornell UP, 2017)
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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Jakobina Arch, “Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan” (U Washington Press, 2018)
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Jennifer Dixon, “Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan” (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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Kerim Yasar, “Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945” (Columbia UP, 2018)
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May 28, 2019 |
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Maren A. Ehlers, “Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan” (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)
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May 24, 2019 |
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Christina Yi, “Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea” (Columbia UP, 2018)
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May 02, 2019 |
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Levi S. Gibbs, “Song King: Connecting People, Places and Past in Contemporary China” (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Sayaka Chatani, “Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies” (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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Eiko Maruko Siniawer, “Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan” (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Yulia Frumer, “Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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Nick Kapur, “Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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Laura Neitzel, “The Life We Longed for: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan” (MerwinAsia, 2016)
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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Kate McDonald, “Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan” (U California Press, 2017)
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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Anna Andreeva, “Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan” (Harvard Asia Center, 2017)
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Feb 07, 2018 |
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Andrew McKevitt, “Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Jan 08, 2018 |
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Bryan D. Lowe, “Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan” (U of Hawaii Press, 2017)
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Dec 04, 2017 |
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Marcia Yonemoto, “The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan” (U of California Press, 2016)
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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Jessamyn R. Abel, “The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933-1964” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)
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Oct 24, 2016 |
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Akiko Takenaka, “Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)
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Aug 24, 2016 |
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Anthony Rausch, “Japan’s Local Newspapers: Chihoshi and Revitalization Journalism” (Routledge, 2012)
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May 13, 2016 |
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Seth Jacobowitz, “Writing Technology in Meiji Japan” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Apr 26, 2016 |
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Douglas Clark, “Gunboat Justice: British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (1842-1943)” (Earnshaw Books, 2016)
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Apr 11, 2016 |
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Christopher Bondy, “Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan” (Harvard Asia Center, 2015)
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Mar 01, 2016 |
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Heather Blair, “Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan” (Harvard U Asia Center, 2015)
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Jan 20, 2016 |
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Federico Marcon, “The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan” (U of Chicago, 2015)
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Sep 22, 2015 |
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Paul A. Christensen, “Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo” (Lexington Books, 2014)
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Aug 19, 2015 |
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Parks M. Coble, “China’s War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance against Japan” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Aug 10, 2015 |
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John K. Nelson, “Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan” (U of Hawaii Press, 2013)
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May 07, 2015 |
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Emily Anderson, “Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God” (Bloomsbury, 2014)
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Mar 27, 2015 |
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Charlotte Eubanks, “Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan (U of California Press, 2011)
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Feb 06, 2015 |
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Joseph D. Hankins, “Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan” (U of California Press, 2014)
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Dec 31, 2014 |
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Clark Chilson, “Secrecy’s Power: Covert Shin Buddhists in Japan and Contradictions of Concealment” (University of Hawaii Press, 2014)
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Nov 11, 2014 |
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Robert Stolz, “Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950” (Duke UP, 2014)
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Oct 02, 2014 |
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Jolyon Thomas, “Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan” (University Of Hawai’i Press, 2012)
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Sep 06, 2014 |
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Hideaki Fujiki, “Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)
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Sep 04, 2014 |
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Gregory Smits, “Seismic Japan” (University of Hawaii Press, 2013)
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Aug 16, 2014 |
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Anne Allison, “Precarious Japan” (Duke University Press, 2013)
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May 23, 2014 |
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Michael Wert, “Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan” (Harvard Asia Center, 2013)
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Apr 18, 2014 |
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Miriam Kingsberg, “Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History” (University of California Press, 2013)
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Apr 08, 2014 |
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David Spafford, “A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)
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Jan 07, 2014 |
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Darryl E. Flaherty, “Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan” (Harvard Asia Center, 2013)
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Nov 17, 2013 |
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Aaron S. Moore, “Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945” (Stanford UP, 2013)
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Oct 26, 2013 |
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Louise Young, “Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan” (University of California Press, 2013)
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Sep 17, 2013 |
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Fabian Drixler, “Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950” (University of California Press, 2013)
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Sep 05, 2013 |
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Mark Byington, ed., “Early Korea: The Rediscovery of Kaya in History and Archaeology” (University of Hawaii Press, 2012)
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Jul 01, 2013 |
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Maki Fukuoka, “The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in 19th-Century Japan” (Stanford UP, 2012)
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Jun 22, 2013 |
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William Marotti, “Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan” (Duke UP, 2013)
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May 22, 2013 |
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Ian Condry, “The Soul of Anime” (Duke UP, 2013)
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Apr 30, 2013 |
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Jonathan E. Abel, “Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan” (University of California Press, 2012)
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Apr 01, 2013 |
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Gennifer Weisenfeld, “Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923” (University of California Press, 2012)
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Mar 01, 2013 |
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Barbara R. Ambros, “Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan” (University of Hawai’i Press, 2012)
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Jan 30, 2013 |
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Barak Kushner, “Slurp!: A Social and Culinary History of Ramen – Japan’s Favorite Noodle Soup” (Global Oriental, 2012)
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Dec 20, 2012 |
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Jason Josephson, “The Invention of Religion in Japan” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
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Oct 13, 2012 |
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Amy Stanley, “Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2012)
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Sep 19, 2012 |
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Par Cassel, “Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan” (Oxford UP, 2012)
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Sep 13, 2012 |
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Marnie Anderson, “A Place in Public: Women’s Rights in Meiji Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010)
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Aug 24, 2012 |
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Miryam Sas, “Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
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Aug 23, 2012 |
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Ethan Segal, “Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
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Jul 02, 2012 |
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Merry White, “Coffee Life in Japan” (University of California Press, 2012)
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Jun 15, 2012 |
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Luke S. Roberts, “Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan” (University of Hawai’i Press, 2012)
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Jun 01, 2012 |
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E. Taylor Atkins, "Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945" (U California Press, 2010)
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May 15, 2012 |
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Robert K. Fitts, “Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
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Apr 23, 2012 |
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Dennis Frost, “Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan” (Harvard UP, 2011)
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Jan 24, 2012 |
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Eric Rath, “Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2010)
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Aug 04, 2011 |
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Lori Meeks, “Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan” (University of Hawaii Press, 2010)
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Jun 20, 2011 |
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Michael Auslin, “Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations” (Harvard UP, 2011)
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May 05, 2011 |
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Michael Auslin, "Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations" (Harvard UP, 2011)
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May 05, 2011 |
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Yuma Totani, “The Tokyo War Crimes Trials: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II” (Harvard UP, 2008)
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Apr 04, 2009 |