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Kozo Kaikaku No Shinjitsu: Takenaka Heizo Daijin NisshiBy Heizo Takenaka Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, December 2006, 344 pages, 1800 yen Review by Fumiko Halloran
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Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45By Max Hastings Harper Press, 2007, 673 pages including index, notes and bibliography Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
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Nichi-Bei Domei-toiu Riarizumu (Emerging Realism of the Japan-US Alliance)By Tomohito Shinoda Chikura Shobou, 2007, 274 pages including notes and index, ISBN: 978-4-8051-0884-0 C3031 Review by Takahiro Miyao
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“Koizumi Kantei Hiroku” (Confidential Records of the Office of Prime Minister Koizumi)By Isao Iijima Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha (Japan Economic Journal), December 2006, 334 pages, 1800 yen Review by Fumiko Halloran
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Getting Wet – Adventures in the Japanese BathBy Eric Talmadge Kodansha Europe Ltd (Japan), 2006, 272 pages (Hardback), ISBN: 9784770030207 Review by William Farr
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Divorce in Japan: Family Gender, and the State, 1600-2000By Harald Fuess Stanford University Press, 2004, 226 pages, ISBN 0-8047-4357-6 Review by Sean Curtin
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North Korea in the 21st Century, An interpretative guideBy J.E. Hoare and Susan Pares Global Oriental, 2005, ISBN 1-901903-91-5 (Cloth), 1-901903-96-6 (Paperback), 253 pages (including index, references/bibliography and black and white illustrations). Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
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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