Book reviews

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Hanns Maull, Gerald Segal and Jusuf Wanandi (eds), Europe and the Asia Pacific. Routledge, London and New York, 1998. xvi + 248pp. £16.99 (pb). Sepp Linhart and Sabine Frühstuck (eds), The Culture of Japan as Seen through its Leisure. SUNY, Albany, 1998. x + 397pp. Jennifer Robertson, Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modem Japan. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1998. xvi + 278pp. £30.00 (hbk), £12.50 (pbk). Laurence R. Kominz, The Stars Who Created Kabuki: Their Lives, Loves and Legacy. Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1997. 300pp. Sen Sōshitsu XV, The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyū, trans. V. Dixon Morris. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1998. £30.00. David Desser (ed.), Cambridge Film Handbooks: Ozu's Tokyo Story, xi + 173pp. £30.00 (hbk), £10.95 (pbk). Richard Sims, French Policy towards the Bakufu and Meiji Japan, 1854–95. Japan Library, Folkestone, 1998. v + 394pp. £45.00. Gordon Daniels, Sir Harry Parkes: British Representative in Japan, 1865–83. Japan Library, Folkestone, 1996. xi + 239pp. Pekka Korhonen, Japan and Asia Pacific Integration: Pacific Romances. Routledge, London, 1998. 246pp. £50.00. Susan Hanley, Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1997. xiv + 213pp. £24.95. Senda Akihiko, The Voyage of Contemporary Japanese Theatre, trans. J. Thomas Rimer. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1997. xix + 306pp. Ozu Usujirō, Early Summer, trans. D.A. Rajakaruma. Kandy Offset Printers, Kandy, 1977.136pp. Sukehiro Hirakawa (ed.), Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn. Global Oriental, Kent, 1997. ix + 284pp. Kazuo Nimura, The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan, trans. T. Boardman and A. Gordon. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 1997. xviii + 275pp. £16.95 (pbk), £52.00 (hbk). William de Lange, A History of Japanese Journalism: Japan's Press Club System as the Last Obstacle to a Mature Press. Japan Library, Folkestone, 1998. xvi + 224pp. £40.00. Tsuneo Akaha (ed.), Politics and Economics in the Russian Far East: Changing Ties with Asia‐Pacific. Routledge, London and New York, 1997. xxii + 233pp. £50.00 (hbk), £16.99 (pbk). Adriana Boscaro (ed.), Tanizaki jun'ichirō: An International Symposium (Venice, 5–8 April 1995). Chūō kōronsha, Tokyo, 1997. 169pp. ¥2400. Purnendra Jain and Takashi Inoguchi (eds), Japanese Politics Today: Beyond Karaoke Democracy? Macmillan, Melbourne, 1997. 248pp. Thompson, G. (ed.), Economic Dynamism in the Asia‐Pacific. Routledge, London, 1998. xii + 402pp. Yamamura, K. (ed.), The Economic Emergence of Modern Japan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997. xvi + 369pp. Gordon H. Chang (ed.), Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings 1942–1945. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1997. xiii + 552pp. £35.00. Karl Friday, Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima‐Shinryū and Samurai Martial Culture. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1997. xv + 227pp. $34.00 (hbk), $14.95 (pbk). Stephen Vlastos (ed.), Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1998. xvii + 328pp. £12.95 (pbk), £35.00 (hbk). Louise Young, Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. California University Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1998. [A study of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University], xiv + 490pp. £35.00. Kinya Tsuruta (ed.), Shiga Naoya's A Dark Night's Passing: Proceedings of a Workshop at the National University of Singapore. National University of Singapore, Singapore, 1996. 284pp. Johann Arnason, Social Theory and Japanese Experience: The Dual Civilization. KPI, London and New York, 1997. xix + 559pp. £55.00. Stephen Large, Emperors of the Rising Sun: Three Biographies. Kodansha International, Tokyo, New York and London, 1997. 231pp. £14.99. Myron Weiner and Tadashi Hanami (eds), Temporary Workers or Future Citizens? Japanese and US Migration Policies. Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, 1998. xv + 482pp. £60.00. Margaret Mehl, History and the State in Nineteenth‐Century Japan. Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, 1998. x + 210pp. £45.00. Elise Tipton (ed.), Society and the State in Interwar Japan. Routledge, London and New York, 1997. xvi + 242pp. £45.00. Muramatsu Michio, Local Power in the Japanese State, trans. Betsey Scheiner and James White. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1997. xxi + 182pp. £35.00 (hbk), £12.95 (pbk). Ronald Dore, Japan, Internationalism and the UN. Routledge, London and New York, 1997. xl + 192pp. £45.00 (hbk), £14.99 (pbk). Sonia Ryang, North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology and Identity. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1997. xix + 248pp. Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie, The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931–1945. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1996. xlvii + 375pp. Gunter Bischof and Robert L. Dupont (eds), The Pacific War Revisited. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London, 1997. xiii + 220pp. £23.95.