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
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.
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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.
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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.
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Nihon no Rekishi wo Eigode Yomu [日本の歴史を英語で読む] (Reading Japanese History in English)Akinori Endo [遠藤 昭則] and Henry Buckley. Besutoshinsho, 2009, 192 pages, ISBN: 978-4-12225-9, 740 yen. Review by Sean Curtin.
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How I Caused the Credit Crunch: An Insider’s Story of the Financial MeltdownBy Tetsuya Ishikawa. Icon Books Ltd, 2009, ISBN 978-1848310674, £8.99. Review by Natasha Hamilton.
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Japan in Late Victorian London: The Japanese Native Village in Knightsbridge and The Mikado, 1885By Sir Hugh Cortazzi. Sainsbury Institute, 2009, 100 pages including 16 plates, 12 illustrations, bibliography and index, ISBN: 0-9545921-1-5. Review by Sean Curtin.
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Japan in Late Victorian London: The Japanese Native Village in Knightsbridge and The Mikado, 1885By Sir Hugh Cortazzi. Sainsbury Institute, 2009, 100 pages including 16 plates, 12 illustrations, bibliography and index, ISBN: 0-9545921-1-5. Review by Sean Curtin.
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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 […]