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Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan’s PastBy John Breen (Ed). C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2007, 202 pages, ISBN-10:850659079. Review by Sean Curtin.
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Japan and its worlds: Marius Jansen and the Internationalization of Japanese StudiesJapan and its worlds: Marius Jansen and the Internationalization of Japanese Studies. Edited by Martin Collcut, Kato Mikio and Ronald P. Toby. I House Press, Tokyo, 2007, 299 pages including index, ISBN 978-4-903452-08-1. Review by Ian Nish.
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Conflict and Change: Foreign Ownership and the Japanese FirmBy George Olcott. Cambridge University Press, 2009, 279 pages including index, ISBN 978-0-521-87870-8. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.
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Japan’s Silk Road Diplomacy – Paving the Road AheadEdited by Christopher Len, Tomohiko Uyama and Tetsuya Hirose Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, and The Silk Road Studies Program (Institute for Security and Development Policy), Washington/Stockholm, 2008, ISBN: 978-91-85937-46-2. Review by Sean Curtin.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.