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Vol. 66, No. 1

Articles

Zaô Gongen: From Mountain Icon to National Treasure.
Heather Blair.

Oguri: An Early Edo Tale of Suffering, Resurrection, Revenge, and Deification.
Susan Matisoff.

King Willem II's 1844 Letter to the Shogun: "Recommendation to Open the Country."
Matsukata Fuyuko.

Review Article

"State Shinto" in Recent Japanese Scholarship.
Okuyama Michiaki.

Book Reviews

With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikkyô Vision. By Cynthea J. Bogel.
Richard Bowring

Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan. By Lori Meeks.
Miriam Levering

War and State Building in Medieval Japan. Edited by John A Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth.
Bruce L. Batten

Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism. By Peter Flueckiger.
Peter Nosco

Japan's Frames of Meaning: A Hermeneutics Reader. By Michael F. Marra.
Joseph S. O'Leary

Visual Genesis of Japanese National Identity: Hokusai's Hyakunin Isshu. By Ewa Machotka.
John Carpenter

American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan 1859–73. By Hamish Ion.
M. William Steele

Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time. By Joshua A. Fogel.
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China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period: China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895–1904. By Urs Matthias Zachmann.
Robert Eskildsen

Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895–1945. By Mark Driscoll.
Alexis Dudden

Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2,600th Anniversary. By Kenneth J. Ruoff.
Roger H. Brown

Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War. By Naoko Shimazu.
Sven Saaler

Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895–1925. By Aaron Gerow.
Harald Salomon

Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan. By Hiroshi Kitamura.
Deborah Shamoon

The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan. By Lee Yeounsuk. Translated by Maki Hirano Hubbard.
Atsuko Ueda

Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty Lessons. By Julian Dierkes.
Philip Seaton

Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan. By Simon Andrew Avenell.
Gabriele Vogt

The Other Women's Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction. By Julia C. Bullock.
Joan E. Ericson

The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation. By Thomas Lamarre.
Shion Kono

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