Happy New Year all, and we hope 2024 has begun well for everyone!

To help you through the long winter nights (or tough beach sessions, in the southern hemisphere), we are delighted to announce that the latest issue of Japan Review is now available, and that its a big one!

Volume 38 features the journal's first Special Section on Auxiliaries of Empire, edited by Nobuko Toyosawa, along with an additional five research articles, a translation, our first ever review essay, and additional reviews of twenty-two books. As with all our content, it is available fully Open Access.

Take a look at the entire volume, including the stunning cover drawing on materials analyzed by Nadine Willems in her fascinating contribution, available through here: https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/publications/data/jare/

Or dip into whatever takes your fancy through the links below.

Special Section on "Auxiliaries of Empire: Children, Foot Soldiers, and Settlers in Japanese Imperial History"
Introduction - Imperial Residue: Ambiguous Imperialists and Their Cultural Production
KATŌ Kiyofumi and Nobuko TOYOSAWA
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000075

From the Ground Up: Japan's Siberian Intervention of 1918-1922 from the Perspective of Infantryman Takeuchi Tadao
Nadine WILLEMS
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000099

Culture under Imperialism: Geibun and the Production of Manchurian Literature
Nobuko TOYOSAWA
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000103

Not Only a Child: The Vulnerability and Complicity of Japanese Settler Girls in Colonial Korea
Kyrie VERMETTE
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000104
 

Articles
Let's Becquerel! The Political Function of Voice in Fukushima Musical Theater
Justine WIESINGER
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000033

Evolutions of Ethical Paradigms and Popular Fiction: The Case of Late Edo Tales of Vengeance
Mario TALAMO
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000030

Like Dust in the Wind: A Critical Introduction to Takagi Kyōzō's Manchurian Literature
Joshua Lee SOLOMON
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000034

The All-Encompassing Inclusivity of Exclusion: Kaneko Fumiko's Universalist Tendency
Sašo DOLINŠEK
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000031

Yanagita Kunio and Agricultural Policy: Finding the Man Behind the Mythology
Simon James BYTHEWAY and IWAMOTO Yoshiteru
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000102


Translation
"Dust in the Wind," by Takagi Kyōzō
Joshua Lee SOLOMON
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000032


Review Essay
Japan's Intelligence System: From Institutional Failure to Grand Strategy
Sebastian MASLOW
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000076


Book Reviews
Oleg BENESCH reviews Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age, edited by Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000077

Jonathan BULL reviews Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan, by Sherzod Muminov
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000078

Jennifer COATES reviews Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema, by William Carroll
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000079

Steven J. ERICSON reviews Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train, by Jessamyn R. Abel
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000080

Kevin DOAK reviews Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? by Ioannis Gaitanidis
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000081

Robert KRAMM reviews Ishikawa Sanshirō's Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan, by Nadine Willems
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000082

Sai Kiet Niki LAU reviews Dōwa Policy and Japanese Politics, by Ian Neary
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000083

Andrew LEVIDIS reviews The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy, by Yuichiro Shimizu; translated by Amin Ghadimi
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000084

Anthony MARCOFF reviews Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō, translated, annotated and with an introduction by Andrew Fitzsimons
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000085

Daniel MILNE reviews Kyoto Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Japan, by Jennifer S. Prough
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000086

Garren MULLOY reviews Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force during the Cold War, by Aaron Herald Skabelund
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000087

Sherzhod MUMINOV reviews Pearl Harbor: Japan's Attack and America's Entry into World War II, by Takuma Melber; translated by Nick Somers
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000088
 
Akihiro OGAWA reviews Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity, by Simon Avenell
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000089

Elke PAPELITZKY reviews The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination, by D. Max Moerman
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000090

Marco PELLITTERI reviews Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form beyond Japan, by Stevie Suan
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000091

Giulio PUGLIESE reviews Line of Advantage: Japan's Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō, by Michael J. Green
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000092

Deborah SHAMOON reviews Age of Shōjo : The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls' Magazine Fiction, by Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000093

Yukari TAKAI reviews In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire, by Eiichiro Azuma
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000094

Sarah THAL reviews A Path into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi, by Caleb Swift Carter
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000095
 
Andrew TODD reviews Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan, by Adam J. Lyons
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000096
 
Birgit TREMML-WERNER reviews The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy, by Michael Laver
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000097
 
Ran ZWIGENBERG reviews Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation, by Christopher Gerteis
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000098
 

The volume will also be available on JSTOR shortly.

Japan Review is an interdisciplinary Japanese Studies journal inviting submissions from across the humanities, social sciences, and further afield. The journal is indexed by SCOPUS and Web of Science.

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, see https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/publications/data/jare/

For submissions and informal inquiries, get in touch at jr-editors@nichibun.ac.jp


Thanks all, looking forward to hearing what you think of it!

Take care, best wishes,


Ted
 
 
--
Edward Boyle
国際日本文化研究センター准教授
Editor, Japan Review
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