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December 25, 2025
Japan Review 40 published!
Happy Holidays All!
To give you all some quality reading over the break, please allow me to share details of the impeccably-timed release of volume 40 of Japan Review.
It features a Special Section on "Women in Modern Nichiren Buddhism," consisting of an introduction and four articles, an additional three research articles, two research notes, two review essays, and reviews for 8 recently-published books.
Have a browse through the links below, and let us know what you think of this latest issue, which will also be available through JSTOR and the Nichibunken repository shortly.
May everyone be heading into a wonderful year-end, and here's to 2026!
Best wishes,
Ted
Japan Review 40
Special Section on "Women in Modern Nichiren Buddhism," edited by Clinton Godart
Clinton GODART, "Introduction: Women and the Study of Modern Buddhism in Japan"
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Jacqueline I. STONE, "In the Dragon Girl's Footsteps: Women in Nichiren Buddhism and Modern Nichirenist Gender Ideology"
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Eiichi ŌTANI, "Teachings and Guidance for Women in Modern Japan's Nichiren Buddhism: The Activities of the Murakumo Women's Association and Its Journal"
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Yulia BURENINA, "A Messenger from the Buddha to Modern Japan: Matsudaira Toshiko's Social Activism, Writings, and Faith in the 1920s and 1930s"
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Clinton GODART, "Without the Salvation of Women, No Living Faith in the Lotus Sutra: Koizumi Kikue's Feminist Nichirenism in Wartime Japan"
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Research Articles
Stephen DODD, "The Significance of Flying Saucers in Yukio Mishimaʼs Beautiful Star"
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Till KNAUDT, "Under a Black Sun: Christian Students and Kyoto Intellectuals Challenge the Industrial Modernity of Expo '70"
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Polina BARDUCCI, "Spirituality in Response to Crisis: Ashikaga Yoshimochi's Foreign Policy in East Asia"
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Research Notes
Jennifer COATES, "Care, Ethics, and Omoiyari: Doing Ethnography in Japan"
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Jaime GONZÁLEZ-BOLADO, "Found in Transliteration: Japanese Names in Missionary Sources on Hideyoshi's Invasions of Korea"
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Review Essays
Philip SEATON, "From War's End to Empire's End: Recent Trends in the Framing of Japan's History Issue"
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Matthew FRALEIGH, "Transnational Texts: Reading and Writing Across Borders in Early Modern and Modern East Asia"
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Book Reviews
Antonio FERNANDEZ CARO reviews Religion and Tourism in Japan: Intersections, Images, Policies and Problems, by Ian Reader
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Michaela KELLY reviews Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan, by Sujin Lee
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Rajyashree PANDEY reviews Datsueba the Clothes Snatcher: The Evolution of a Japanese Folk Deity from Hell Figure to Popular Savior, by Chihiro Saka
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Simon PARTNER reviews In Close Association: Local Activist Networks in the Making of Japanese Modernity, 1868-1920, by Marnie S. Anderson
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Hillary PEDERSEN reviews Mugai Nyodai: The Woman Who Opened Zen Gates
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Yunchen TIAN reviews Stateless, by Chen Tienshi Lara
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Hasan TOPAÇOĞLU reviews Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and Ritual, by Igor Prusa
https://doi.org/10.69307/
Victoria YOUNG reviews Literature in Heisei Japan, 1989-2019, edited by Angela Yiu
https://doi.org/10.69307/
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