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January 4, 2023

Japan Review Volume 37 Published

From:  Edward Boyle <tedkboyle@gmail.com>
Date: 2022/12/28

Dear All,

We are delighted to announce that the latest issue of Japan Review is now available.

Volume 37 features six research articles, a translation and commentary, and reviews of twenty books, all available Open Access through Nichibunken's website. 

Take a peek through the links below!

Articles
Classical Chinese Aesthetic Ideals meet the West: Modern Japanese Art as a Contact Zone
INAGA Shigemi
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007907

Prosthetic Revelations: Sticking the Teachings to the Body in a Japanese New Religion
Philip SWIFT
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007908

Shaku Unshō in Korea: The Buddhist Precepts and Colonialism in Modern East Asia
KAMEYAMA Mitsuhiro
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007909

Dynamic Scribal Culture in Late Seventeenth-Century Japan: Ihara Saikaku's Engagement with Handscrolls
Radu LECA
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007910

Remembering and (Re)storing War Memories: The Postwar Fiction of Shimao Toshio
SAKURAI Ryōta
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007911

Tōkyō Shitaya Negishi Oyobi Kinbō-zu and the Symbolism of Community Mapping in the Late Meiji Period
Mengfei PAN
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007912

Translation
Narrating the Spread of Shinto and Shugendō in the Eighteenth Century: An Introduction to and Translation of the Shugen Ichijitsu Reisō Shintō mikki
Caleb CARTER
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007913

Book Reviews
The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan's Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire, by David Weiss
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007914

Patriotic Pedagogy: How Karuta Game Cards Taught a Japanese War Generation, by Michaela Kelly
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007915

Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo, by Janet Borland
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007916

In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan, by Ōgimachi Machiko; translated by G. G. Rowley
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007917

Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding, edited by Barak Kushner and Sherzod Muminov
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007918

Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan, edited by Erich Pauer and Ruselle Meade
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007919

Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde, by Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007920

Shintō in the History and Culture of Japan, by Ronald S. Green
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007921

Defamiliarizing Japan's Asia-Pacific War, edited by W. Puck Brecher and Michael W. Myers
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007922

Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan, by Iza Kavedžija
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007923

Dancing the Dharma : Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater, by Susan Blakeley Klein
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007924

Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State, edited by Sebastian Maslow and Christian Wirth
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007925

The Metabolist Imagination : Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction, by William O. Gardner
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007926

A Fictional Commons : Natsume Sōseki and the Properties of Modern Literature, by Michael K. Bourdaghs
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007927

Ezra Pound's Japan, by Andrew Houwen
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007928

Japan-China Relations through the Lens of Chinese Politics, by Kokubun Ryosei
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007929

Zen Terror in Prewar Japan: Portrait of an Assassin, by Brian Daizen Victoria
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007930

The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan, by Paul Roquet
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007931

Defenders of Japan: The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016, A History, by Garren Mulloy
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007932

The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon, by William C. Hedberg
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007933


Japan Review solicits manuscripts relating to all aspects of Japan, past and present, and is open to submissions from across the humanities and social sciences.
Subjects, methods and approaches of particular significance may be examined as Special Issues of the journal or as Special Sections within it.
For further details, please consult https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/publications/data/jare/.
For submissions and informal inquiries, get in touch at jr-editors@nichibun.ac.jp.

Best wishes to everyone for the holidays, and here's to a wonderful 2023!


Ted
 

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Edward Boyle
Editor, Japan Review
On twitter @border_thinking
http://borderthinking.com/

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