Book Reviews—Japan
Rethinking Okinawa and Okinawan Studies: Three Perspectives - 40 Years since Reversion: Negotiating the Okinawan Difference in Japan Today. Edited by Ina Hein and Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer . Vienna: Department of East Asian Studies/Japanese Studies, University of Vienna, 2015. 277 pp. ISBN: 9783900362270 (paper). - Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000. By Tze May Loo . Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2014. xii, 209 pp. ISBN: 9780739182482 (cloth, also available as e-book). - The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community. By Wendy Matsumura . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. xiii, 273 pp. ISBN: 9780822357889 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 08 September 2017, pp. 795-801
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When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan. By Gregory Smits . Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. xv, 209 pp. ISBN: 9781442220096 (cloth, also available as e-book). - Megaquake: How Japan and the World Should Respond. By Tetsuo Takashima . Translated and edited by Robert D. Eldridge . Lincoln, Neb.: Potomac Books, 2015. xxvi, 216 pp. ISBN: 9781612346656 (cloth).
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- 01 March 2017, pp. 230-232
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Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity. By Franck Billé . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780824839826 (cloth, also available in paper).
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- 13 June 2017, pp. 516-517
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The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion. By Peter Jackson . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2017. xx, 614 pp. ISBN: 9780300125337 (cloth, also available as e-book).
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Remaking Japan through Transnational Encounters, Difference, and Struggles for Social Equality - Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan. By Joseph D. Hankins . Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. xxii, 277 pp. ISBN: 9780520283299 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). - Embracing Differences: Transnational Cultural Flows between Japan and the United States. By Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt . Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2013. 262 pp. ISBN: 9783837626001 (paper). - New Policies for New Residents: Immigrants, Advocacy, and Governance in Japan and Beyond. By Deborah J. Milly . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780801452222 (cloth). - Reinventing Citizenship: Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation. By Kazuyo Tsuchiya . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. viii, 273 pp. ISBN: 9780816681112 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 08 September 2017, pp. 802-812
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Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China's West. Edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle . New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. vi, 268 pp. ISBN: 9780231169981 (cloth, also available as e-book).
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- 13 June 2017, pp. 517-518
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Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea. By Sandra Fahy . New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xii, 252 pp. ISBN: 9780231171342 (cloth, also available as e-book). - The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea. By Hyun Ok Park . New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xvii, 349 pp. ISBN: 9780231171922 (cloth, also available as e-book). - North Korea: Markets and Military Rule. By Hazel Smith . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xi, 381 pp. ISBN: 9781316235867 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 01 March 2017, pp. 233-239
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Seeing into Stone: Pre-Buddhist Petroglyphs and Zangskar's Early Inhabitants. By Rob Linrothe . Berlin: Studio Orientalia, 2016. xx, 218 pp., DVD. ISBN: 978819245028 (cloth).
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Resituating Modern Japan in Empire, Fascism, and Defeat: A Review Essay - The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan. By Akiko Hashimoto . New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780190239152 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952. By Reto Hoffman . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780801453410 (cloth, also available as e-book). - In Transit: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere. By Faye Yuan Kleeman . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780824838607 (cloth, also available as e-book). - Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique. Edited by Michelle M. Mason and Helen J. S. Lee . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780804776967 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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Layered Sovereignties and Contested Seas: Recent Histories of Maritime Japan - Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations. By Joshua Fogel . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 301 pp. ISBN: 9780520283305 (cloth, also available as e-book). - Empires on the Waterfront: Japan's Ports and Power, 1858–1899. By Catherine L. Phipps . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 308 pp. ISBN: 9780674417168 (cloth). * - Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan. By Peter D. Shapinsky . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. xiii, 327 pp. ISBN: 9781929280803 (cloth, also available in paper). - Defensive Positions: The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan. By Noell Wilson . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. xiii, 244 pp. ISBN: 9780674504349 (cloth). *
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- 13 June 2017, pp. 518-529
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Translation's Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature. By Heekyoung Cho . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2016. x, 242 pp. ISBN: 9780674660045 (cloth).
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- 01 March 2017, pp. 239-241
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A Korean Model of Development: Sustainable and Transferrable - The Strategy for Korea's Economic Success. By Hwy-chang Moon . New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xviii, 304 pp. ISBN: 9780190228798 (cloth, also available as e-book). - Developmental Mindset: The Revival of Financial Activism in South Korea. By Elizabeth Thurbon . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2016. xii, 221 pp. ISBN: 9781501703102 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 31 July 2017, pp. 813-815
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Environmental Histories of Japan - Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present. Edited by Bruce L. Batten and Philip C. Brown . Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2015. 291 pp. ISBN: 9780870718014 (paper). - Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950. By Robert Stolz . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780822356905 (cloth, also available in paper). - A Concise History of Japan. By Brett L. Walker . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 336 pp. ISBN: 9781107004184 (cloth, also available in paper).
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Sovereign Violence: Ethics and South Korean Cinema in the New Millennium. By Steve Choe . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. 319 pp. ISBN: 9789089646385 (cloth).
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- 31 July 2017, pp. 816-817
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Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa: Women, Militarized Domesticity, and Transnationalism in East Asia. By Mire Koikari . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xi, 235 pp. ISBN: 9781107079502 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 11 December 2017, pp. 1113-1114
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The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation. By JaHyun Kim Haboush . New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780231172288 (cloth, also available as e-book).
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- 01 March 2017, pp. 241-242
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Citizens and Borders - Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea. By Hae Yeon Choo . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2016. xi, 200 pp. ISBN: 9780804791274 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea. By Jaeeun Kim . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2016. xv, 340 pp. ISBN: 9780804797627 (cloth, also available as e-book).
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An Asian Frontier: American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945. By Robert Oppenheim . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. xx, 423 pp. ISBN: 9780803285613 (cloth).
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Tourist Distractions: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema. By Youngmin Choe . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. 264 pp. ISBN: 9780822361114 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media. Edited by Sangjoon Lee and Abé Markus Nornes . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. 276 pp. ISBN: 9780472072521 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 04 May 2017, pp. 535-539
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Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945. By Carter J. Eckert . Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016. xii, 472 pp. ISBN: 9780674659865 (cloth).
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- 31 July 2017, pp. 818-819
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