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Book Reviews If you are interested in becoming a reviewer for the Japan Society Book Review please email the Editor, Sean Curtin NEW Chronicles of My Life, An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene Columbia University Press, New York, 2008, 208 pages ISBN: 13: 978-0231144407 Price hardback: £16.50 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review NEW Jitsuroku Koizumi Gaiko (Records of Koizumi Diplomacy by Isao Iijima Nihon Keizai Shumbun, Shuppansha, 2007, 343 pages ISBN: 13: 978-4532352714 Price hardback: „1,890 Review by Fumiko Holloran Read Review NEW Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s: From Isolation to Integration edited by Iokibe Makoto, Caroline Rose, Tomaru Junko, and John Weste Routledge, 2007, 215 pages including index and notes. ISBN: 13: 978-0415372961 Price hardback: £75 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review NEW The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics - Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement by Sandra Collins Routledge, London and New York, 2007, 198 pages. ISBN:-13: 978-0415373173 Price hardback: £65 Review by Ben-Ami Shillony Read Review NEW Britain and the 'Re-opening' of Japan The Treaty of Yedo of 1858 and the Elgin Mission by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Japan Society, 2008, 93 pages ISBN: 978-0-9559977-0-9 Price hardback: £10 (free to Japan Society Members) Review by Sean Curtin Read Review NEW Outsourcing and Human Resource Management: an International Survey edited by Ruth Taplin Routledge, September 2007, 244 pages ISBN-13:978-0415428910 Price hardback: £75 Review by James Brewer Read Review NEW Myanmar-Ushinawareru Ajia No Furusato (Myanmar-Missing Homeland in Asia) by Asa Nonami Bungei Shunju, June 2008, 206 pages ISBN-13:978-4163701400 Price paperback: „1400 Review by Mikihiro Maeda Read Review NEW Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V.Dickins: The Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870-1918 edited by Ian Ruxton wih an introduction by Peter Kornicki Lulu Press inc, 2007, 321 pages including index ISBN-13:978-1435710009 Price: £25.00 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review NEW Kokubo(National Defense) by Shigeru Ishiba Shinchosha, January 2005, 254 pages ISBN-13: 978-410473701 Price: „1300 Review by Fumiko Halloran Read Review NEW Joshi No Konkai (A Woman's Great Satisfaction) by Yuriko Koike Bumshun Shinsho, 2007, 254 pages ISBN-13: 978-4569693064 Price: „750 Review by Fumiko Halloran Read Review NEW Seiji Bushido (Samurai Ways of Politics) by Takeo Hiranuma PHP, June 2007, 240 pages. ISBN-13: 978 4569693064 Price: „1400 Review by Fumiko Halloran Read Review   NEW Dodo Taru Seiji, (Politics with Dignity) by Kaoru Yosano Shincho Shinsho, April 2008,190 pages, ISBN-13: 978 4106102578 Price: „680 Review by Fumiko Halloran Read Review   NEW Totetsu Mo Nai Nippon (Extraordinary Japan) by Taro Aso Shincho Shinsho, June 2007, 190 pages ISBN-13: 978 4106102172 Price: „ 680 Review by Fumiko Halloran Read Review   NEW Kokuryoku Kaigi (Conference on National Power: Group Discussion with Kaoru Yosano, Takeo Hiranuma, Taro Aso & Shigeru Ishiba) by Kazuyuki Hamada Shodensha, May 2008240 pages. ISBN-13: 978-4396613075 Price: Hardback „1600 Review by Fumiko Halloran Read Review   NEW One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each by Peter McMillan Columbia University Press, 2008, 194 pages. ISBN 13: 978 - 02311143981 Price: Hardback £23.50 Review by Takahiro Miyao Read Review   NEW Designing and Creating Japanese Gardens by Penny Underwood The Crowood Press, 2005, 192 pages, including bibliography and index. ISBN 13: 978 - 186126 7832 Price: Hardback £25 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review   NEW Netto Senso (The Net War) by Izumi Harada and Yasuhide Yamanouchi NTT Publications,2007, 285 pages, including notes and index. ISBN -13:978-47571-0223-1 Price: Hardback „3,360 Review by Takahiro Miyao Read Review   NEW Japan's Imperial Forest, Goryōrin, 1889-1945: With a supporting study of the Kan/Min division of woodland in early Meiji Japan, 1871-76) by Conrad Totman Global Oriental, 2007, 184 pages, including index and bibliography. ISBN - 13: 978-1905246304 Price: Hardback £50.00 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review   NEW Death of a Salaryman by Fiona Campbell Chatto and Windus, 2007,320 pages. ISBN 13: 978-0099503699 Price Paperback: £7.99 Review by Anna Davis Read Review   NEW Minka, My Farmhouse in Japan) by John Roderick Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2008, 255 pages, many black and white illustrations. ISBN - 13: 978-4048839693 Price: Paperback £14.99 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review     NEW Waga Jinsei No Utagatari - Showa No Aikan (Song Story in My Life - The Joys and Sorrows of Showa Era) by Hiroyuki Itsuki Kadokawa Shoten, 2007, 250 pages. ISBN - 13: 978-4048839693 Price: Hardback „2,500 Review by Mikihiro Maeda Read Review   NEW Pal Hanji, Tokyo Saiban Hihan to Zettai Heiwashugi' (Judge Pal: His Critism of the Tokyo Trial and His Absolute Pacifism) by Takeshi Nakajima Hakusui-sha, 2007m 308 pages ISBN-13: 978-4560031667, Price: Hardback „1,890 Review by Fumiko Halloran Read Review   NEW Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade by Bill Emmott Allen Lane, London, 2008, 314 pages including notes and index. ISBN -13: 978-1-846-14009-9, price hardback £20.00 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review     NEW The Japanese Way - Garden Designs by Maureen Busby JGS Publishing, 2008, 127 pages, (188 colour photographs and 111 line drawings & water colours), ISBN 978-0-9558188-0-6, price £25.00 Review by Colin Ellis Read Review   NEW The Straw Sandal or The Scroll of the Hundred Crabs by Santo Kyoden translated by Carmen Blacker with an introduction by Peter Kornicki ISBN 978-1-905246-64-9, pages 166, Global Oriental, 2008, price £35 (but Japan Society members can order direct from the publishers at a discount) Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review   NEW Under The Sun by Justin Kerr-Smiley Reportage Press, 2007, 243 Pages, ISBN13: 9780955572937 (Hardback), £16.99p Review by Susan Meehan Read Review   NEW Kamome Diner (Kamome Shokudo) Director Naoko Ogigami Starring: Hairi Katagiri, Satomi Kobayashi, Genre: Drama, Run time: 101 mins approx., Released in 2006 Review by Fumiko Halloran Read Review   NEW Governing Japan, Divided Politics in a Resurgent Economy by J.A.A. Stockwin Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2008, 298 pages including index and tables, £19.99 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review   NEW The Last Concubine by Lesley Downer Bantam Press, 2008, 480 pages, ISBN 0593057538 Review by Anna Davis Read Review   NEW Myth, Struggle and Protest in Okinawa by Miyume Tanji Routledge, 2006, 234 pages including index, maps, glossary and abbreviations Review by William Farr Read Review   Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by MaxHastings Harper Press, 2007, 673 Pages including index, notes and bibliography £25.00 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Nichi-Bei Domei-toiu Riarizumu (Emerging Realism of Japan-US Alliance) by Tomohito Shinoda Chikaru Shobu, 2007, 274 pages including notes and index, ISBN: 978-4-8051-0884-0 C3031 Review by Takahiro Miyao Read Review "Koizumi Kantei Hiroku" (Confidential Records of the Office of Prime Minister Koizumu) by Isao Iijima Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha (Japan Economic Journal), December 2006, 334 pages, 1800 yen Review by Fumiko Halloran Read Review "Kozo Kaikaku No Shinjitsu: Takenaka Heizo Daijin Nisshi" (Truth of Structural Reforms: Diary of Minister Takenaka Heizo) by Heizo Takenaka Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, December 2006, 344 pages, 1800 yen Review by Fumiko Halloran Read Review Getting Wet - Adventures in the Japanese Bath by Eric Talmadge Kondansha Europe Ltd (Japan), 2006, 272 pages (Hardback), ISBN:9784770030207 Review by William Farr Read Review Divorce in Japan: Family Gender, and the State, 1600-2000 by Harald Fuess Stanford University Press, 2004, 226 pages, ISBN 0-804-4357-6 Review by Sean Curtin Read Review Preview: Under The Sun by Justin Kerr-Smiley Reportage Press, 2007, 243 Pages, ISBN13: 9780955572937 (Hardback), £16.99p Preview by J. Sean Curtin (review next month) Read Review Hirohito: The Showa Emperor in War and Peace, Ikuhiko Hata, edited by Marius B.Jansen, ISBN 978-1-905246-35-9, pages 272 including notes and index, Global Oriental, 2007. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review "Koizumi no Shori, Media no Haiboku" (Victory for Koizumi, Defeat for the Media), by Takashi Uesugi, Soshisha, November 2006, 286 pages, 1500 yen Review by Fumiko Halloran Read Review Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume VI, Edited by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Japan Society and Global Oriental (Folkestone, Kent), 2007), xxiv + 424 pages, ISBN 978-1-905246-33-5 Review by Janet Hunter Read Review The Japanese Housewife Overseas: Adapting to Change of Culture and Status, by Ruth Martin, Global Oriental, 2007, 162 pages including index bibliography and endnotes, ISBN 978-1-905246-43-4, ??45. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Long Nights Alone, by Miki Fujita, BookSurge Publishing, 2006, 268 pages, ISBN: 1419614274 Review by J. Sean Curtin Read Review Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami, translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin, Vintage, 2007, 436 pages, ISBN: 978-0-099-51282-0 Review by William Farr Read Review Warriors of Art: A Guide to Contemporary Japanese Artists, by Yumi Yamaguchi and Arthur Tanaka, Kodansha International, 2007, 176 pages, over 200 colour plates from 40 artists, ISBN 10: 4770030312, ISBN 13: 9784770030313, price £20. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Japanese Envoys in Britain, 1862-1964: A Century of Diplomatic Exchange, Compiled and edited by Ian Nish, Global Oriental/Japan Society, 2007, 255 pages, ISBN 978-1-905246-32-8, £55.00 Review by Sir Graham Fry Read Review Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume VI, Edited by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Global Oriental in association with the Japan Society, 2007, 368 pages, ISBN 978-1-905246-33-5 Review by Adrian Pinnington Read Review Create Your Own Japanese Garden: A Practical Guide, Motomi Oguchi and Joseph Cali, Kodansha International, 2007, 114 pages, 500 colour photos and 100 other illustrations, ISBN 10:4770028040 and ISBN 13:9784770028044, price £16.99. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review The Contemporary Tea House: Japan's Top Architects Redefine a Tradition, Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando & Terunobu Fujimori, Kodansha International, 2007, 136 pages, 200+ full colour photographs and sketches, ISBN 13: 9784770030467, £22. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War Edited by Rotem Kowner Routledge, 2007, 348 pages including bibliography and index ISBN 987-0-415-36842-7. Review by Ian Nish Read Review From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States By Sadao Asasa Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD, 2006, 388 pages including bibliography and index, ISBN 1-55750-042-8. Review by Ian Nish Read Review Atomic Sushi: Notes from the Heart of Japan, By Simon May, Alma Books, 2006 (hardback) 2007 (paperback), 256 pages, ISBN: 1-84688-002-5 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Atomic Sushi: Reader's Comments By Simon May, Alma Books, 2006 (hardback) 2007 (paperback), 256 pages, ISBN: 1-84688-002-5 By Ann Dent Read Review China and the Global Energy Crisis - Development and Prospects for China's Oil and Natural Gas, by Tatsu Kambara and Christopher Howe, Edward Elgar publishing, 2007, 160 pages, ISBN-13: 9781845429669 Review by J. Sean Curtin Read Review Japanese Envoys in Britain, 1862-1964: A Century of Diplomatic Exchange, Compiled and edited by Ian Nish, Global Oriental/Japan Society, 2007, 255 pages, ISBN 978-1-905246-32-8, £55.00 Review by Sean Curtin Read Review Innovation and Business Partnering in Japan, Europe and the United States, edited by Ruth Taplin, Routledge, 2006, ISBN 0-415-40287-5 Review by Christopher Williams Read Review Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan: A Vision of Empire, by Brij Tankha, University of Hawaii Press/Global Oriental, 2006, 272/352 pages. ISBN 1901903990/ ISBN 1-901903-99-0 Review by Ben-Ami Shillony Read Review

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