The Japan Society Review
The Japan Society Review is published on a quartely basis, both online and printed (members are entitled to receive a copy by post). Since the starting of the publication in 2006, each issue covers a selection of Japan-related books and films, as well as theatre and stage productions, tv series and exhibitions. Its purpose is to inform, entertain and encourage readers to explore the works for themselves.
The Japan Society Review is possible thanks to the work of volunteers who dedicated their time and expertise to help us to promote the learning and understanding of Japanese culture and society.
Books
A Doomed Man [運命の人]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.
Films & Series
Gaea Girls Film Screening and Q&AGaea Girls is a film about courage, transformation and dreams in the extraordinary world of Japanese women’s wrestling or joshi puroresu.
Books
The Year of No Money in TokyoThe Year of No Money in Tokyo, by Wayne Lionel Aponte, Watkins and McKay, 2009, 168 pages, ISBN 0982055005. Review by William Farr.
Books
Alfred East Lyrical Landscape PainterBy 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
Books
Deciphering the Rising Sun"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.
Books
The Great Power Struggle in East Asia, 1944-50, Britain, America and Post-War RivalryBy 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.
Books
Toad’s Oil (ガマの油)Directed by Yakusho Koji (役所 広司). 2008, 131 minutes. Review by Susan Meehan.
Books
Nagata-cho vs. Kasumigaseki [永田町VS霞が関]By Yoichi Masuzoe [舛添要一]. Kodansha, 2007, 253 pages, ISBN:978-4-06-214042-3, 1500 yen.
Books
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster’s DaughterBy Shizuka Tendo. Routledge, 2006, 234 pages including photographs, ISBN: 9784770030429, Hardback £13.99p. Review by William Farr.
Books
Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido – Hiroshige/EisenBy 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.