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Japan and the Illustrated London News: Complete record of Reported Events 1853-1899Compiled 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
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A Japanese Menagerie: Animal PicturesBy 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
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Japanese Popular Prints – from votive slips to playing cardsBy 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
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Pars Japonica: The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores of JapanBy 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
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Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan(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
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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese HistoryBy 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)
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Mrs Ferguson’s Tea-Set, Japan and The Second World War(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
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Madmen in the CourtyardBy the Mugensha Theatre Company, inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Knock at the Manor Gate, Director So-un Kotakebayashi Theatro Technis, London, Saturday 7 October to Saturday 21 October 2006 Review by Sean Curtin
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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
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The Japanese Housewife Overseas: Adapting to Change of Culture and StatusBy Ruth Martin Global Oriental, 2007, 162 pages including index bibliography and endnotes, ISBN 978-1-905246-43-4, £45. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi