The Japan Society Review

By Toyoko Yamazaki [山崎豊子] Bungei Shunju, April-June 2009, 4 volumes, each volume is 256 pages, 1524 yen each, volume 1: ISBN 978-4163281100; volume 2: ISBN: 978-4163281209; volume 3: ISBN: 978-4163281308; and volume 4: ISBN: 978-4163281407, Review by Fumiko Halloran.

Gaea Girls is a film about courage, transformation and dreams in the extraordinary world of Japanese women’s wrestling or joshi puroresu.

The Year of No Money in Tokyo, by Wayne Lionel Aponte, Watkins and McKay, 2009, 168 pages, ISBN 0982055005. Review by William Farr.

By Paul Johnson and Kenneth McConkey Published by Sansom and Company, Bristol, 2009, ISBN 978-1-906593-33-9, 1444 pages including illustrations, bibliography and index. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

"Deciphering the Rising Sun: Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators and Interpreters in the Pacific War." By Roger Dingman. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2009, 340 pages, including notes, bibliography and index, ISBN 10: 1591142113, £18.99 (Hardcover). Review by Ian Nish.

By Christopher Baxter. In the series Global Conflict and Security Since 1945, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 250 pages including endnotes, bibliography and index, ISBN: 978-0-230-20297-9, £55. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.

Directed by Yakusho Koji (役所 広司). 2008, 131 minutes. Review by Susan Meehan.

By Yoichi Masuzoe [舛添要一]. Kodansha, 2007, 253 pages, ISBN：978-4-06-214042-3, 1500 yen.

By Shizuka Tendo. Routledge, 2006, 234 pages including photographs, ISBN: 9784770030429, Hardback £13.99p. Review by William Farr.

By Sebastian Izzard. George Braziller Publisher (New York), 2008, 159 pages, Introduction, map, select bibliography, 70 full-colour prints, ISBN978-0-8076-1593-5, US$80. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.