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Archive of Book Reviews Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century: One Hundred Years of Trade and Prejudice, edited by Philip Towle and Nobuko Margaret Kosuge, I.B. Tauris, London and New York, 2007, 236 pages including index, bibliography and end notes, ISBN: 978 1 85411 415 2, £47.50. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Japan's Foreign Policy Maturation: A Quest for Normalcy, by Kevin J. Cooney, Routledge, 2002, 230 pages including appendixes, bibliography and index, ISBN: 0415935164 Review by J. Sean Curtin Read Review Culture and Power in Germany and Japan: The Spirit of Renewal, Nils-Johan Jørgensen, Global Oriental, November 2006, 318 pages£58, ISBN 1-905246-07-6 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi 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 J. Sean Curtin Read Review Philipp Franz von Siebold and The Opening of Japan: A Re-Evaluation by Herbert Plutschow, Global Oriental, 2007, 240 pages, ISBN 978-1-950246-20-5, £50 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds. By L.M. Cullen, Cambridge University Press, 2003, xiv+357 pages, 0-521-52918-2 Review by Ben-Ami Shillony (Review first appeared in Reviews of Institute of Historical Research, February 2004) Read Review Hokusai's Project: The Articulation of Pictorial Space, David Bell, 189 pages including bibliography, glossary and index, numerous colour illustrations, Global Oriental, 2007, ISBN 978-1-905246-15-1 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Photography in Japan 1853-1912, Terry Bennett, 320 pages, 350 photographs (colour and black and white), Periplus Editions Tuttle Publishing, 2007, ISBN 080486337, £45 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Old Japanese Photographs: Collectors' Data Guide, Terry Bennett, 308 pages, over 200 illustrations, Bernard Quarritch, 2006, ISBN- 10: 0-9550852-4-1, and ISBN-13: 978-0-9550852-4-6, £65. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Tokyo Love Hello, by Chris Steele Perkins, Editions Intervalles ISBN 2-916355-05-7 £29.00 240 Pages January 2007 Review by Clare Barclay Read Review Administrative Reform in Japan, by Toshiyuki Masujima, Institute of Administrative Management, 2006, ISBN 906596037 Review by Sean Curtin Read Review Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach by Mark Williams (Editor) & Rachael Hutchinson (Editor) Routledge, 2006, 345 pages including notes and index, ISBN 978-0-415-36185-9 Review by Suefen Tsai Read Review Japan Extolled and Decried Carl Peter Thunberg and the Shogun's Realm, 1775-1796, Annotated and Introduced by Timon Screech, Routledge, 2005, 319 pages including notes and index, ISBN 0-203-02035-9, £75. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, by Herbert P. Bix, Harper-Collins, New York, 2000, 800 pages, ISBN 0060931302 Review by Ben-Ami Shillony Read Review The Book of SAKE, a Connoisseur's Guide by Philip Harper, Kodansha International, 2006, 96 pages, 150 colour photographs, ISBN 4770029985, hardback £14.99 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Who Was Responsible? From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor, edited by James E. Auer, The Yomiuri Shimbun, 2006, ISBN4-643-06012-3 C0021, 410 pages including index, Yen 4,000, available through JP-Books (UK) Limited in London (e-mail: jp-bookslondon@lineone.net.) Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Courtyard Gardens of Kyoto's Merchant Houses, Photographs and text by Katsuhiko Mizuno, translated by Lucy North, Kodansha International, November 2006, 160 pages (149 colour plates and 8 illustrations), ISBN: 4770030231, £25. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review The Samurai and the Sacred : The Path of the Warrior, Stephen Turnbull, Osprey, 2006, 224 pages, including index, bibliography and notes, with copious colour illustrations, ISBN: 1 84603 021 8, £20. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review A Reader in Edo Period Travel by Herbert Plutschow, Global Oriental, 2006, pp 347 including bibliography, glossary and index,ISBN 1-901903-23-0 and 978-1-901903-23-2. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822, annotated and introduced by Timon Screech, Routledge 2006 pp 265 including illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography and index, ISBN 10: 0-700-71720-X and 13: 978-0-700-71720-0 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Mrs Ferguson's Tea-Set, Japan and The Second World War: The Global Consequences Following Germany's Sinking of the SS Automedon in 1940 by Eiji Seki, ISBN 978-1-905246-28-1, pp 187 including plate section, notes, bibliography and index, Global Oriental, 2006, £20 To Japan Society Members when ordered through the society. RRP £35. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History. By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xvii + 411 pages. Review by Professor Ben Ami Shillony (First appeared in Monumenta Nipponica, summer 2003) Read Review Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan : Autonomy, Asian brotherhood, or world citizenship?. By Dick Stegewerns (ed.), Routledge, 2003, xiv + 253 pp. ISBN 0-700-71496-0 Review by Ian Nish Read Review Edo no igirisu netsu: rondon-bashi to rondon-dokei (The Image of England in the Edo Period: London Bridge and London Clocks), by Timon Screech, translated by Kazuhiro Murayama, Kodansha, Tokyo, 2006, 254 pages, ISBN 4-06-258352-6 Review by Sean Curtin Read Review Pars Japonica: The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores of Japan, by William de Lange, Floating World Editions, 2006, 268 pages including index, notes, sources and17 illustrations, 21 maps & charts, ISBN 1-891640-23-2 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review NEW Kim Jong-il: North Korea's Dear Leader, who he is, what he wants, what to do about him, by Michael Breen, John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore), 2004, 200 pages, ISBN: 0-470-82131-0 Reviewed by Tomohiko Taniguchi Read Review Issues and Options for U.S.-Japan Trade Policies, by Robert M. Stern (editor), University of Michigan Press, 2002, 450 pages, ISBN: 0-472-11279-1 Review by Takahiro Miyao Read Review Japanese Popular Prints - from votive slips to playing cards, by Rebecca Salter, A & C Black (London), and University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu), 2006, 208 pages; full colour throughout (221 images), ISBN: 07136 65173, Price: £30. Review by Marie-Thérèse Barrett Read Review A Japanese Menagerie: Animal Pictures by Kawanabe Kyosai, Rosina Buckland, Timothy Clark, Shigeru Oikawa, British Museum Press, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0-7141-2442-I, ISBN-10: 0-7141-2442-7, pp 112 including colour plates, £16.99. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Japan and the Illustrated London News: Complete record of Reported Events 1853-1899, Compiled and introduced by Terry Bennett, Global Oriental, 2006, 411 pages including index, fully illustrated, £125, ISBN 1-901903-26-5, Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers, by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, University of Chicago Press, 2006, 246 pages, ISBN 0-226-61950-8 (available via internet from Blackwells in Oxford for £16 plus postage). Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda, by Barak Kushner The University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. ix+242 pages. (A different version of this article appeared in Monumenta Nipponica, summer 2006) Review by Ben-Ami Shillony Read Review Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese, by Samuel Hideo Yamashita., The University of Hawai'i Press, 2005, xi+330 pages. (A different version of this article appeared in Monumenta Nipponica, summer 2006) Review by Ben-Ami Shillony Read Review In the Faraway Mountains and Rivers: More Voices From A Lost Generation of Japanese Students, translated by. Joseph L. Quinn, S.J., and Midori Yamanouchi, The University of Scranton Press, 2005. xviii+162 pages (A different version of this article appeared in Monumenta Nipponica, summer 2006) Review by Ben-Ami Shillony Read Review Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan 1793-1841, by Donald Keene, Columbia University Press, New York, 2006, 290pp including endnotes, bibliography, index, and 38 colour illustrations, ISBN 0-231-13826-1, £16 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Defending Japan's Pacific War: The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post-White Power, By David Williams, (This review originally appeared in the summer 2006 issue of The Journal of Japanese Studies) RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2004. xxvi, 238 pages, ISBN 0-203-38715-5 Review by Ben-Ami Shillony Read Review The Opening of Japan 1853-1855: A Comprehensive Study of the American, British, Dutch and Russian Naval Expeditions to Compel the Tokugawa Shogunate to Conclude Treaties and Open Ports to Their Ships, by William McOmie, Global Oriental, Folkestone, 2006, 505 pages including bibliography and index, £65, ISBN 1-901903-76-1 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Rondon nikki, 1936-7 [London Diary 1936-7] by Oka Yoshitake, and Edited by Shinohara Hajime and Mitani Taiichiro (Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 1997, 359 pages, ISBN 4-00-022357-by Graham Cooper, Edited by Dennis Sharp, Review by Ian Nish Read Review Japanese Telecommunications: Market and Policy in Transition by Ruth Taplin, and Masako Wakui (Eds), Routledge, 2006, 288 pages, ISBN: 0415368030 Review by Sean Curtin Read Review Japanese Samurai and battles up to 1603, a series of recent books, by Donald Keene, Published by Osprey publishing company, all in soft back and copiously illustrated. Prices vary; obtainable through the internet at a discount. Reviews by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590: The Journey of Four Samurai Boys through Portugal, Spain and Italy, by Michael Cooper, Global Oriental, 2005, ISBN 1-901903-38-9, 262 pages (plus xix, black and white plates, notes, bibliography and index). Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review The Blue Furoshiki by Robert Harrison Crowder Yasumasa Tanano, USA 2005, 81 pages Black and white Illustrations, soft cover Review by Susan House Wade Read Review Foreign Images and Experiences of Japan: Volume I: First Century AD-1841, Compiled, edited and in part translated by William McOmie, Global Oriental, Folkestone, 2005, 494 pages including glossary, bibliography and index, Black and white plate section, ISBN 1-901903-46-X. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia, by Christopher Patten, Times Books/Random House, 1998, 304 pages, including bibliographical references and index, ISBN: 0812930002 Review by Sean Curtin Read Review Kawada Ryokichi - Jeannie Eadie's Samurai: the Life and Times of a Meiji Entrepreneur and Agricultural Pioneer, by Andrew Cobbing and Masataro Itami, Global Oriental, 2006. £35, ISBN 1-901903-02-8 and 978-1-901903-02-7, pp 288, including appendixes, notes, bibliography and index. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Falling Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman, by Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko Williams, Century, (Random House Group) 2006, £12.99, ISBN 9781844138203 (from Jan 2007) ISBN 1844138208, pp 314, including notes and acknowledgements. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review To The Kwai - And Back; war Drawings 1939-1945, by Ronald Searle, Souvenir Press, April 2006, 192 pages, ISBN 0285637452, £25. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Art and Nature: Healing - Design for health in the UK and Japan, by Graham Cooper, Edited by Dennis Sharp, BookART in collaboration with the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, 2006. Review by Sandra Lawman Read Review Risk Management and Innovation in Japan, Britain and the United States, Edited by Ruth Taplin, Routledge, 182 pages including index, ISBN 0-415-36806-5 Review by Sean Curtin Read Review Garden Plants of Japan, by Ran Levy-Yamamori and Gerard Taaffe, Timber Press, Portland, Oregon and Cambridge, UK, 2004, 440 pages, including bibliography and index, copiously illustrated in colour, ISBN 0-88192-650-7, price £45. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review North Korea in the 21st Century, An interpretative guide, by J.E. Hoare and Susan Pares, Global Oriental, 2005, ISBN 1-901903-91-5 (Cloth), 1-901903-96-6 (Paperback), 253 pages (including index, references/bibliography and black and white illustrations). Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Japanese Journeys - Writings and Recollections, by Geoffrey Bownas, Global Oriental, 2005, 264 pages, ISBN 1-905246-01-3 Review by Mike Barrett Read Review The Thames and I - A Memoir of Two Years at Oxford, by Crown Prince Naruhito, translated by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Global Oriental, 2006, 150 pages including bibliography and index, ISBN 1-905246-06-4 Review by Sean Curtin Read Review Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches, by Roger Goodman (Ed), Cambridge University Press, 2002, 237 pages, ISBN-10: 0521016355 Review by Sean Curtin Read Review Japan's Love-Hate Relationship with the West, by Sukehiro Hirakawa, Global Oriental, Folkestone, 2005, ISBN 1-901903-81-8, 557 pages (including index). Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of the Russo-Japanese War, by Tadayoshi Sakurai, Translated by Masujiro Honda, Edited by Alice Mabel Bacon, 2005, Kegan Paul, 270 pages including appendices, ISBN 0-7103-0874-4. Review by D. Colin Jaundrill, Read Review Spitfires in Japan: From Farnborough to the Far East, by Air Vice-Marshal Sir Cecil (Boy) Bouchier, Edited by Dorothy Britton (Lady Bouchier), Global Oriental, 2005, 358 pages, ISBN 1-901903-44-3 Review by Ian Nish Read Review Enigma of the Emperors: Sacred Subservience in Japanese History, by Ben-Ami Shillony Global Oriental, 2005, ISBN 1-901903-34-6, 312 pages (including index and bibliography), £45. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000, By Harald Fuess, Stanford University Press, 2004, 226 pages, ISBN 0-8047-4357-6 Review by Sean Curtin Read Review The Magatama Doodle - One Man's Affair with Japan, 1950-2004, by Hans Brinckmann, Global Oriental,2004, 256 pages, ISBN 1-901903-73-7 Review by Hazuki Saisho Read Review The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy: Essays in honour of J.A.A. Stockwin, Edited by Rikki Kersten and David Williams Routledge, 2006 soft back (ISBN10: 0-415-334345-7) and hardback (ISBN10: 0-415-33434-9) Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Hokusai and His Age Edited by John Carpenter, Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam, 2005, 357 pages including index, copiously illustrated in colour and black and white, ISBN 90-74822-57-6 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review (PDF Document) Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the 21st century, by Jeff Kingston, RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2004, ISBN 0-203-64254-6, 384 pages Review by Sean Curtin Read Review Unequal Allies? United States Security and Alliance Policy towards Japan, 1945-1960, by John Swenson Wright, Stanford University Press, 2005, IISBN 0-8047-3961-7, 349 pages including index, bibliography and notes. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Valuing Intellectual property in Japan, Britain and the United States, by Dr. Ruth Taplin (Ed), RoutledgeCurzon Press, May 2004, ISBN 0-415-34112-4, 160 pages Review by Sean Curtin Read Review Jomon Reflections: Forager life and culture in the prehistoric Japanese archipelago, by Tatsuo Kobayashi, edited by Simon Kaner and Oki Nakamura, Oxbow Books, Oxford and The David Brown Book Company, Oakville, Connecticut 2004, (published with assistance from The Japan Foundation and The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures), ISBN 1-84217-088-0 (hardback) and 1-85217-141-0 (softback), 240 pages including endnotes, bibliography and index. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s, by Sadako Ogata, W.W. Norton and Company of New York and London, 2005, ISBN 0-393-05773-9, 402 pages including index, appendices and maps. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Reporting the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5: Lionel James's first wireless transmissions to The Times, by Peter Slattery, Global Oriental, 2004, ISBN 1-901903-57-5, 144 pages including appendices, bibliography, endnotes and index, plate section. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Enigma of the Emperors: Sacred Subservience in Japanese History, by Ben-Ami Shillony Global Oriental, 2005, ISBN 1-901903-34-6, 312 pages (including index and bibliography), £45. Review Stephen S. Large (University of Cambridge) Read Review Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern, edited by Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, Gavan McCormack and Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 302 pages, ISBN: 0-521-00362-8 Review by Takahiro Miyao Read Review Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, by James Bradley, Little, Brown and Company, 2003, 400 pages, ISBN: 0-316-10584-8 Review by Tomohiko Taniguchi Read Review Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan, by Joshua Hotaka Roth, Cornell University Press, 2002, 161 pages (Paperback), Review by Takahiro Miyao Read Review Financial Markets and Policies in East Asia, by Gordon de Brouwer (Editor), Routledge, 2002, 340 pages, ISBN: 0-415-27388-9 Review by Takahiro Miyao Read Review Economic Reform in Japan: Can the Japanese Change?, by Craig Freedman, Edward Elgar, 2001, 231 pages Review by Takahiro Miyao Read Review Japan: The System That Soured, by Richard Katz, M.E. Sharpe, 1998, 463 pages Review by Takahiro Miyao Read Review Japan's Asian Policy: Revival and Response, Takashi Inoguchi (Ed), Palgrave, 2002, 261 pages, ISBN: 0-312-29480-8 Review by Takahiro Miyao Read Review Children of the Japanese State - The Changing Role of Child Protection Institutions in Contemporary Japan, by Roger Goodman, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-19-823422-8, 248 pages Review by Sean Curtin Read Review ASEAN-Japan Cooperation: A Foundation for East Asian Community, Tadashi Yamamoto and Charles Morrison, et. al., Japan Center for International Exchange, 2003, 236 pages, ISBN: 4-88907-071-0 Review by Tomohiko Taniguchi Read Review Japanese Foreign Policy At The Cross Road - Challenges and Options for the Twenty-First Century, by Yutaka Kawashima, Brookings Institution Press, 2003, 163 pages, ISBN: 0-8157-4870-1 Review by Mikihiro Maeda, Read Review Japan's Managed Globalization: Adapting to the Twenty-first Century, by Ulrike Schaede, William Grimes (Eds), M.E.Sharpe, Inc., 2003, 263 pages, ISBN: 0-7656-0952-5 Review by Mikihiro Maeda Read Review Strategic Asia: Fragility and Crisis, Aaron Friedberg, Richard Ellings, et. al., National Bureau of Asian Research, 2003, 544 pages, ISBN: 0971393834 Review by Tomohiko Taniguchi Read Review That Last Glorious Summer 1939: Shanghai - Japan, Rena Krasno, Old China Hand Press, 2001, 177 pages, ISBN: 962-7872-17-2 Review by Tomohiko Taniguchi Read Review Bernard Leach Life & Work, by Emmanuel Cooper Yale University Press,, 2003, 419 pages including plates, notes, bibliography and index. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Read Review Culture, Community and Change in a Sapporo Neighborhood, 1925-1988: Hanayama, by John Mock, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999, ISBN 0-7734-7974-0, 232 pages Review by Sean Curtin Read Review Doing Business with the Japanese: A One-stop Guide to Japanese Business Practice, Geoffrey Bownas, David Powers, Christopher P. Hood, et. al., Direct Image, London, UK, 2003, 193 pages, ISBN: 0-9537465-1-8 Review by Tomohiko Taniguchi Read Review Japanese Phoenix, Richard Katz, M.E. Sharpe, 2003, 352 pages, 0-7656-1074-4 Review by Takahiro Miyao Read Review U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World, edited by Steven K. Vogel, Brookings Institution Press, 2002, 286 pages, 0-8157-0629-4 Review by Takahiro Miyao Read Review Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan, Edited by Alex Kerr, Penguin Books, 2001, 432 pages, ISBN: 0141010002 Review by Hiroko Kawai (GLOCOM) Read Review A Guide to Japanese Art Collections in the UK by Gregory Irvine (Ed), The Japan Society/Hotei Publishing, 2004, ISBN 9074822746, pp 196, 70 b/w and 20 colour ill. Review by Marie Therese Barrett Read Review Japan Encyclopedia By Louis Frederic (Translated by Kathe Roth) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002, (one volume), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, 1,102 pages, (£41.50) Review by Susan House Wade Read Review

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