Issue 2 (March 2006, Volume 1, Number 2)
Welcome to the second edition of Japan Book Review. In this issue we have some sharply contrasting books, starting off with a look at how the latest developments in risk management are sustaining Japanese capitalism and then
turning in the opposite direction to chart the decline of the left in Japanese politics.
The next two books span the spectrum of history from the shinkansen, icon of Japanese modernity, to the prehistoric Jomon period. The regular memoirs section features a personal account of life in prewar Shanghai and Tokyo. We also examine a book on the development of a remote Japanese outpost that was eventually swallowed up by an expanding metropolis.
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Contents
- Risk Management and Innovation in Japan, Britain and the United States
- The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy: Essays in honour of J.A.A. Stockwin
- Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan
- Jomon Reflections: Forager life and culture in the prehistoric Japanese archipelago
- That Last Glorious Summer 1939: Shanghai - Japan
- Culture, Community and Change in a Sapporo Neighborhood, 1925-1988
Contributors
Editor
Sean Curtin
Assistant Editor
Clare Barclay
Reviewers
Sean Curtin, Sir Hugh Cortazzi and Tomohiko Taniguchi