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Monstrous Pasts, Robotic Futures: A Review Essay - Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan. By Miri Nakamura. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. xvi, 178 pp. - Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation. By Jennifer Robertson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xv, 260 pp.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2019
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