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Nagasaki: The British Experience, 1854-1945By Brian Burke Gaffney. Global Oriental, 2009, 288 pages including index, bibliography, notes and 66 illustrations in colour and black and white, ISBN 978-1-906876-13-5. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.
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Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and EuropeCompiled by Kunitake Kume, eds. Chushichi Tsuzuki and R. Jules Young; with an introduction by Ian Nish. Cambridge University Press, 2009, 528 pages. Review by Roger Buckley.
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Japanese Intelligence in World War IIBy Ken Kotani (小谷 賢), translated by Chiharu Kotani, Osprey, 2009, 224 pages including end notes, bibliography and index, ISBN 13-978-1-84603-425-1. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi “This study reveals a Japanese military that was in most respects dysfunctional in the field of intelligence. It was not so much a failure of the intelligence organizations themselves […]
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Okamoto Yukio: Genba Shugi o Tsuranuita GaikokanOkamoto Yukio: Genba Shugi o Tsuranuita Gaikokan [岡本行夫 現場主義を貫いた外交官], (Okamoto Yukio: A Diplomat Always in the Field). By Makoto Iokibe [五百旗頭真], Motoshige Ito [伊藤 元重] and Katsuyuki Yakushiji [薬師寺 克行]. Asahi Shimbun Publishing, 2008, 347 pages, ISBN-13: 978-4022504791, 2000 yen. Review by Fumiko Halloran.
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Seiken Kotai – Kono Kuni o Kaeru [政権交代―この国を変える] (Change of Political Power – To Change This Country)By Katsuya Okada, Kodansha, June, 2008, 253 pages, 1500 yen. Review by Fumiko Halloran.
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Minshuto Kaibo and Minshuto No YamiMinshuto Kaibo [民主党解剖] (Anatomy of the Democratic Party of Japan) & Minshuto No Yami [民主党の闇] (The Democratic Party of Japan in Darkness) Minshuto Kaibo, by Sankei Shimbun Political News Division, Sankei Shimbun-sha No Hon, July 2009, 228 pages, 1300 yen Minshuto No Yami, by Keisuke Udagawa, Seiko Shobo, July 2009, 253 pages, 1575 yen Reviews by Fumiko Halloran
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Hatoyama Yukio to Hatoyama-ke YondaiHatoyama Yukio to Hatoyama-ke Yondai, [鳩山由紀夫と鳩山家四代] (Yukio Hatoyama and the Four Generation Hatoyama Family) By Seiho Mori, Chuko Shinsho La Clef, September, 2009, 186 pages, 720 yen Review by Fumiko Halloran
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Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese WarBy Naoko Shimazu Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare (No. 28), Birkbeck College, University of London, 2009, 354 pages, ISBN-13: 9780521859349 Review by Peter Gysin
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Contested Governance In Japan: Sites and IssuesEdited by Glenn D Hook Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/RoutledgeCurzon Series, Abingdon,2005, 288 pages, 978-0-415-36419-5 Review by Roger Buckley
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Mental Health Challenges Facing Contemporary Japanese Society – The ‘Lonely People’By Yuko Kawanishi Global Oriental, 2009, 175 pages including index and bibliography, ISBN 978-1-906876-00-5, £30 Reviews by Sir Hugh Cortazzi & Sandra Lawman