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Japan Studies

Japan

Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan

A review of Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900, by Jakobina Arch. Jakobina Arch’s pathbreaking disser...
Japan

Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary in Japan

A review of Verbeck of Japan: Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary, Oyatoi Gaikokujin, and “Foreign Hero”, by James Mitchell Hommes In the early 185...
Japan

Shinto, Nature, and Sacred Space in Japanese Forests

A review of Forests of the Gods: Shinto, Nature, and Sacred Space in Contemporary Japan, by Aike P. Rots Aike Rots’ thesis expands our understanding.....
Japan

Biopower, Governmentality & Life Insurance in Modern Japan

A review of Tabling Death: Life Insurance in Modern Japan, 1881-1945, by Ryan Moran. From the 1820s onward, Western societies, roughly in tandem, bore...
Japan

Idealism and Allusion in the Poetry of Shimazaki Tosun, Doi Bansui, and Yosano Akiko

A review of Beyond Shasei, Beyond Nature: Idealism and Allusion in the Poetry of Shimazaki Tōson, Doi Bansui, and Yosano Akiko, by Nicholas Albertson ...
Japan

Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki

A review of Teleology of the Self: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki, by Tiffany Hong Tiffany Hong’s dissertation is, as it...
China

Japanese Mobilization in Colonial Taiwan

A review of Marshaling Culture: Strategies of Japanese Mobilization in Colonial Taiwan, by Winifred Kai-wen Chang. Winifred Chang’s dissertation is a ...
Japan

Social Knowledge & Cultural Memory in Japanese Waka Poetry

A review of Learning with Waka Poetry: Transmission and Production of Social Knowledge and Cultural Memory in Premodern Japan, by Ariel G. Stilerman. ...
Asian Archaeology

DHAsia 2017 Call for Proposals

DHAsia, a pioneering Digital Humanities initiative at Stanford University, is seeking proposals for its 2017 short-term residency program focused on E...
Fresh from the Archives

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A Review of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, Massachusetts, United States) My research interests lie at the intersection of book studies and t...
Gender

Modern Fatherhood, Nationhood, and Globalization in Japan

A review of Gender, Family, and New Styles of Fatherhood: Modernization and Globalization in Japan, by Atsuko Oyama. Atsuko Oyama’s dissertation provi...
Asian Art

Representations of Commoner Performance in Early Medieval Japan

A review of Performing Culture: Representations of Commoner Performance in Early Medieval Japan, by Ashton Lazarus. The clatter of binzasara rattles a...
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