| Volume 19 Number 3 December 1999 General Papers Shock and Modernity in Walter Benjamin and Kawabata Yasunari Carl Cassegard 237 Nationalizing Chō-Chō-San: The Signification of 'Butterfly Singers' in a Japanese-Brazilian Community Shuhei Hosokawa 253 Mustafa and the Mikado: A Francophile Egyptian's Turn to Meiji Japan Michael Laffan 269 Identity and Tea Ceremony in Brazil Cristina Moreira da Rocha 287 Joseph Dodge and the Geometry of Power in US-Japan Relations Marie Thorsten and Yoneyuki Sugita 297 Book Reviews Haruo Shirane, Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashō Makoto Ueda, The Path of Flowering Thorn: The Life and Poetry of Yosa Buson James McMullen 315 Mark Mullins, Christianity Made in Japan: A Study of Indigenous Movements Colin Noble 317 D. P. Martinez (Ed.), The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures Morris Low 320 J. A. A. Stockwin, Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Major Economy Purnendra Jain and Takashi Inoguchi (Eds), Japanese Politics Today: Beyond Karaoke Democracy? F. Ben Tipton 322 Gregory Smits, Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics J. Philip Gabriel, Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature Gavan McCormack 326 James E. Roberson, Japanese Working Class Lives: An Ethnographic Study of Factory Workers Louella Matsunaga 330 Notes on Contributors 333 Title-page and Contents, Volume 19 335 Volume 19 Number 2 September 1999 GENERAL PAPERS Japan's 1999 Unified Local Elections: Electing Tokyo's Governor Purnendra Jain 117 Naka Tarō, A Poet of Music: Hagiwara Sakutarō Yasuko Claremont 133 The Dancing Granny: Linking the Generations in a Japanese Age-integrated Welfare Centre Leng Leng Thang 151 On the Edge of the Orient: English Representations of Japan, circa 1895-1910 P. L. Pham 163 Takuboku's 'Poetic Diary' and Barthes's Anti-autobiography: (Postmodernist?) Fragmented Selves in Fragments of a Life H l ne Bowen Raddeker 183 BOOK REVIEWS William Wayne Farris, Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan Mark Hudson 201 Bernard Faure, The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality Paul Harrison 203 Katsuyuki Hasegawa, The Foreigner I Loved/Watashi ga koishita gaikokujin Vera Mackie 205 Matthew Kaplan et al. (Eds), Intergenerational Programs: Support for Children, Youth, and Elders in Japan Edwina Palmer 207 Sepp Linhart and Sabine Fr hst ck (Eds), The Culture of Japan as Seen through its Leisure David Leheny 210 Sharon Minichiello (Ed.), Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy Elise K. Tipton 212 H l ne Bowen Raddeker, Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies Linnell Secomb 214 Bob Reece, Masa Jepun: Sarawak under the Japanese 1941-1945 Steven Drakeley 217 Jeffrey Ruoff and Kenneth Ruoff, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On/Yukiyukite shingun Michael Baskett 219 Eugene Soviak (Ed.) and Kamiyama Tamie (Trans.), A Diary of Darkness: The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi Beatrice Trefalt 221 Stephen Vlastos (Ed.), Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan Sandra Wilson 224 Naoko Shimazu, Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919 Thomas W. Burkman 226 Notes on Contributors 229 Volume 19 Number 1 May 1999 GENERAL PAPERS Jammin' on the Jazz Frontier: The Japanese Jazz Community in Interwar Shanghai E. Taylor Atkins 5 From Ethnic Ghetto to 'Gourmet Republic': The Changing Image of Kobe's Chinatown in Modern Japan Timothy Y. Tsu 17 Commercialized Politics: Japan's New Mass-Mediated Reality Todd Joseph Miles Holden 33 Rocking the Bomb: A Case Study in the Politicization of Popular Culture Carolyn S. Stevens 49 Japanese Social Values in Representations of Australia Masayo Tada 69 BOOK REVIEWS Stephen Turnbull, The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day Colin Noble 81 Igarashi Akio (Ed.), Hen'yō suru Ajia to Nihon: Ajia shakai ni shintō suru Nihon no popyuraa karuchaa Tessa Morris-Suzuki 84 Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business and Brides Edwina Palmer 86 Jeffrey Broadbent, Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest Rodger C. Field 88 Elise K. Tipton (Ed.), Society and the State in Interwar Japan Ann Waswo 91 John Clammer (Ed.), Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption Wesley Sasaki-Uemura 93 Carl Mosk, Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan Mark Hudson 96 David Myers and Kotaku Ishido (Eds), Japan at the Crossroads: Hot Issues for the 21st Century Colin Noble 98 Ruth L. Ozeki, My Year of Meat David Kelly 100 An Exchange on Okinawa 103 Notes on Contributors 105 Volume 18 Number 3 December 1998 GENERAL PAPERS Designing After Disaster: Barrack Decoration and the Great Kanto Earthquake Gennifer Weisenfeld 229 Theorizing Sex/Gender in Early Modern Japan: Kitamura Kigin's Maidenflowers and Wild Azaleas Paul G. Schalow 247 Studying Jazz in Postwar Japan: Where to Begin? Joe B. Moore 265 Educating for a New Japan: Shiga Shigetaka's Criticism of the Imperial Education System Masako Gavin 281 The Management of Politeness in Japanese Tour Guiding Discourse Sanae Enomoto 295 BOOK REVIEWS Jane Marie Law, Puppets of Nostalgia: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyo Tradition A. Kimi Coaldrake 311 Sally Ann Hastings, Neighborhood and Nation in Tokyo, 1905-1937 Elise K. Tipton 312 Joan R. Piggott, The Emergence of Japanese Kingship Gina L. Barnes 314 Louise Young, Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism Stephen S. Large 317 Jennifer Robertson, Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan Chris Berry 321 Roy Starrs, An Artless Art—The Zen Aesthetic of Shiga Naoya: A Critical Study with Selected Translations Leith Morton 323 Richard M. Siddle, Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan Mark Hudson 326 Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation Sandra Wilson 327 Erratum 331 Call for Papers 332 Title-page and Contents, Volume 18 333 Volume 18 Number 2 September 1998 GENERAL PAPERS Colonialism and Identity in Okinawa before 1945 Richard Siddle 117 Japan as a Reactive State? Analyzing Japan's Relations with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Keiko Hirata 135 Keeping up with the Tanakas:the Social Construction of Word Processing Technology in Japan, 1982-1995 Nanette Gottlieb 153 Marketing 'Japan': Japanese cultural presence under a global gaze Koichi Iwabuchi 165 Putting More than Words in their Mouths: Using Model Dialogues to Construct Social Reality in the Japanese Language Classroom William Armour 181 REVIEW ARTICLE Marginality and Social Isolation in Urban Japan. Carolyn S. Stevens, On the Margins of Japanese Society: volunteers and the welfare of the urban underclass George A. De Vos 199 BOOK REVIEWS Tony Barrell and Rick Tanaka, Okinawa Dreams OK Richard Siddle 205 Gary P. Leupp, Male Colors:The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan Chris Berry 206 Yōichi Nagashima, Objective Description of the Self: the Literary Theory of Iwano Hōmei Tomoko Aoyama 209 Komai Hiroshi, Migrant Workers in Japan Vera Mackie 210 Toru Mitsui and Shuhei Hosokawa, Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing Christine R. Yano 212 Dorinne Kondo, About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theatre Tseen Khoo 214 Volume 18 Number 1 May 1998 GENERAL PAPERS In Search of the Sound of Empire: Tanabe Hisao and the Foundation of Japanese Ethnomusicology Shuhei Hosokawa 5 Unquiet Graves: Katō Norihiro and the Politics of Mourning Tessa Morris-Suzuki 21 From Number One to Number Nothing: Japan's Fin de Si cle Blues Gavan McCormack 31 'Japayuki Cinderella Girl': Containing the Immigrant Other Vera Mackie 45 The Condition of Cultural Studies in Japan Shunya Yoshimi 65 Zadankai: On Cultural Studies, Japanese Studies, Area Studies Narita Ry ichi, Tessa Morris-Suzuki & Yao Souchou 73 Cultural Studies and its Discontents: Pacific Asia Cultural Studies Forum in Britain Yoshitaka Mori & Hiroki Ogasawara 89 BOOK REVIEWS Sonia Ryang, North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology and Identity Nanette Gottlieb 97 Vera Mackie, Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937 Tomoko Akami 101 |