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Contents of the Current Issue

Vol. 66, No. 2

Articles

The End of the “World”: Tsuruya Nanboku IV’s Female Ghosts and Late-Tokugawa Kabuki.
Satoko Shimazaki.

The Last Word? Akutagawa Ryûnosuke’s “The Man from the West.”
Kevin M. Doak.

“The Man from the West” and “The Man from the West: The Sequel.”
Kevin M. Doak and J. Scott Matthews.

Japan’s “Nationality Clause” and the Changing Dynamics of Center-Local Politics.
Kate Dunlop.

Review Article

Fascist Moments: New Research on Twentieth-Century Japanese Aesthetics and Ideology.
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit.

Book Reviews

Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture. By Jun’ichi Isomae. Translated by Mukund Subramanian.
Torquil Duthie

Legend and Legitimation: The Formation of Tendai Esoteric Buddhism in Japan. By Jinhua Chen.
James L. Ford

Kûkai on the Philosophy of Language. By Shingen Takagi and Thomas Eijô Dreitlein.
Eric H. Swanson

Christianity and Cultures: Japan & China in Comparison, 1543-1644. Edited by M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.J.
Haruko Nawata Ward

Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan. Edited by Bettina Gramlich-Oka and Gregory Smits.
Jeffrey Newmark

Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan: The Development of the Feminist Movement. By Mara Patessio.
Emily Anderson

Reforming Japan: The Women’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period. By Elizabeth Dorn Lublin.
Yosuke Nirei

The Kiso Road: The Life and Times of Shimazaki Tôson. By William E. Naff.
Marvin Marcus

Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature. By Karen Laura Thornber.
Christian Uhl

 This Perversion Called Love: Reading Tanizaki, Feminist Theory, and Freud. By Margherita Long.
Eve Zimmerman

The Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature. By Leith Morton.
Dennis Washburn

Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kôbô. By Christopher Bolton.
Joseph Murphy

The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan: The Career of Matsumoto Jiichirô. By Ian Neary.
Daniel Botsman

When Empire Comes Home: Repatriates and Reintegration in Postwar Japan. By Lori Watt.
Sally A. Hastings

The Quest for the Lost Nation: Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century. By Sebastian Conrad. Translated by Alan Nothnagle.
Franziska Seraphim

Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan. Edited by Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller.
Christine R. Yano

Lovesick Japan: Sex, Marriage, Romance, Law. By Mark D. West.
J. Mark Ramseyer

Reconstructing Kobe: The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity. By David W. Edgington.
Takehiro Watanabe

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Index to Volume 66

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