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Volume 57 - November 1998

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Book Reviews—Japan

San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Japan. By Edward Fowler. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. $29.95.
Miriam Silverberg
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26 March 2010, pp. 874-875
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Sources of Ryūkyūan History and Culture in European Collections. Edited by Josef Kreiner. Monographien aus dem Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien der Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stifung, volume 13. Munich: Iudicium, 1996. 396 pp.
David L. Howell
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The Japanese Election System. By Junichiro Wada. London: Routledge, 1996. x, 112 pp. £35.00.
Ray Christensen
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26 March 2010, pp. 1178-1179
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Volume 57 - November 1998

Book Reviews—Japan

San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Japan. By Edward Fowler. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. $29.95.

Sources of Ryūkyūan History and Culture in European Collections. Edited by Josef Kreiner. Monographien aus dem Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien der Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stifung, volume 13. Munich: Iudicium, 1996. 396 pp.

The Japanese Election System. By Junichiro Wada. London: Routledge, 1996. x, 112 pp. £35.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870. By C. A. Bayly. Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv, 412 pp. $64.95(cloth).

Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence. By Paul R. Brass. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xvi, 298 pp. $55.00(cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Individualism and the Japanese: An Alternative Approach to Cultural Comparison. By Yamazaki Masakazu. Tokyo: The Japan Echo, Inc., 1994. x, 175 pp. $18.00.

Japanese Communication: Language and Thought in Context. By Senko K. Maynard. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. xiii, 253 pp. $46.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Die Politik der Sexualwissenschaft. Zur Produktion und Popularisiefung sexologiscben Wissens in Japan 1908–1941. By Sabine Frühstück. Wien: Institut für Japanologie, Universität Wien, 1997. 290 pp.

Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. By Louise Young. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 487 pp. $45.00.

Case Studies on Human Rights in Japan. Edited by Roger Goodman and Ian Neary. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library of Curzon Press, 1996. viii, 309 pp. $45.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Servants, Sirdars and Settlers: Indians in Mauritius, 1834—1874. By Marina Carter. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. xvii, 343 pp. $29.95(cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets. By Brian Moeran. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. xi, 322 pp. $19.95.

Book Reviews—Korea

The Descendants of Cain. By Hwang Sun-won Translated by Suh Ji-moom and Julie Pickering. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe/UNESCO Publishing, 1997. 181 pp. $52.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Immigration Policy and Foreign Workers in Japan. By Hiromi Mori. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xiii, 227 pp. $65.00.

Everyday Things in Premodern Japan. By Susan B. Hanley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xiv, 213 pp. $35.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

From Prosperity to Decline: Eighteenth Century Bengal. By Sushil Chaudhury. New Delhi: Manohar, 1995. xvi, 377 pp. $26.00(cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan. By Carl Mosk. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xxi, 156 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age. Edited by Laura Hein and Mark Selden. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. ix, 300 pp. $66.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

The Trap of History: Understanding Korean Short Stories. By Jeong-Hyun Shin. Korea Research Monograph Series. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1998. xv, 115 pp. $15.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Women in Modern India: The New Cambridge History of India. Volume IV.2.. By Geraldine Forbes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xx, 289 pp. $49.95(cloth).

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