Reinhard Drifte ``Japanese security relations with China since 1989. From balancing to bandwagoning?'' London: Routledge-Curzon, Jin, Dengjian (2001) The Dynamics of Knowledge Regimes: Technology, culture, and conpetitiveness in the USA and Japan, London: Continuum Horlemann, Ralf (2003) Hong Kong's Transition to Chinese Rule: The limits of autonomy, London: RoutledgeCurzon Malcolm, James D. (2002) Financial Globalization and the Opening of the Japanese Economy, London: Curzon Suzuki, Kenji (2002) Competition Law Reform in Britain and Japan: Comparative analysis of policy networks, London: Routledge Ono Takeo's _Edo no hakurai fuzoku shi_ (vol. 10 of _Edo fuzoku shiryou_) Victoria, Brian. _Zen War Stories_. London/New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 1) "Eating the world: Restaurant culture in early twentieth-century urban Japan," European Journal of East Asian Studies 3 (in press). 2) "Popularising a military diet in wartime and postwar Japan," Asian Anthropology 1: 1-30 (2002). 3) "From Yokohama to Amsterdam: Meidi-ya and dietary change in modern Japan" in N. Liscutin and R. Haak (eds.) Japanstudien 12: Essen und Ern.ANdhrung im Modernen Japan, M.AN|nchen: IUDICIUM Verlag 2000, 45-63. 4) "A note on the making of culinary tradition - an example of modern Japan," Appetite 30: 117-128 (1998). 5)"How cooking became a hobby: Changes in attitude towards cooking in early twentieth century Japan" in S. Fr.AN|hstN|ck and S. Linhart (eds.) The Culture of Japan as Seen Through Its Leisure, New York: SUNY Press 1998, 41-58. 6) "Kindai nihon no shokubunka ni okeru seiyo no juyo" in N. Haga & H. Ishikawa (eds.) Zenshu: Nihon no shokubunka dai 8 kan, Tokyo: Yuzankaku 1997, 76-81. 7) "Wayo setchu ryori chori bunkashiteki kosatsu" in A. Kawabata and S. Otsuka (eds.) 21 seiki no chorigaku: 1. Chori bunka gaku, Tokyo: Kenpakusha 1996, 65-94. Katarzina Cwiertka (dissertation) The Making of Modern Culinary Tradition in Japan (1999, Leiden University), Confluences: Postwar Japan and France Edited by Doug Slaymaker Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No. 42 Bernstein, _Recreating Japanese Women_ Hane, _Reflections of the Way to the Gallows_ Imamura, _Re-Imagining Japanese Women_ Kaneko, _The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman_ Lebra, _Above the Clouds_ Sievers, _Flowers in Salt_ Tsurumi, _Factory Girls_ Chang, _Wild Swans_ Pruitt, _A Daughter of Han_ Vera Mackie, Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, Ezra F. Vogel. _Is Japan Still Number One?_ . Subang Jaya: Pelanduk Publications, 2000. Copeland, Rebecca L. Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan. Honolulu: U of Hawai'i P, 2000. Kano, Ayako. Acting like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalism. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Cornyetz, Nina. Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999. -- Volume 34 Number 3 (September, 2002) of Critical Asian Studies (formerly The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars) is now available. Abstracts of the articles may be found on the Taylor and Francis web site at http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com. The issue contains: Reevaluating the Taiwanese Democracy Movement: A Comparative Analysis of Opposition Organizations under Japanese and KMT Rule Radical Actions by Radical Farmers: Regional Revitalization in the Okitama Basin of Yamagata Prefecture -- Kaneko's most recent book is Chouki Teitai [Long-Term Stagnation], Chikuma Shinsho, 2002. Those books on Japanese religion (#235 and 236) are I believe by H. Byron (not Bryan) Earhart. Tom Gill. Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan SUNY Press, 2001. Saga, Junichi, Confessions of a Yakuza, tr. John Bestor (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1991) Edward Siedensticker's Low City, High City. Abe, Kazuhiro. "Race Relations and the Capitalist State: A Case Study of Koreans in Japan, 1917 through the mid-1920s." Korean Studies 7 (1983): 35-60. Allen, J. Michael. "The Price of Identity: The 1923 Kanto Earthquake and Its Aftermath." Korean Studies 20 (1996): 64-93. Ishiguro, Yoshiaki. "A Japanese National Crime: The Korean Massacre after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923." Korea Journal 38:4 (Winter 1998): 331-354. Weiner, Michael. "Koreans in the Aftermath of the Kanto Earthquake of 1923." Immigrants and Minorities 2:1 (March 1983): 5-32. In addition to the readings already suggested, especially the William McCullough 1967 article and Nickerson (1993), see these two books: Piggott, Joan (1997) The Emergence of Japanese Kingship Ebersole, Gary (1989) Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan _The life of Ancient Japan_ by Kurt Singer (ed.) [The author of "Mirror, Sword and Jewel"] 2002. Cooney, Kevin. Japan's Foreign Policy Maturation: A Quest for Normalcy. New York: Routledge, 2002. Censoring history: Citizenship and memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States / edited by Laura Hein and Mark Selden. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2000.. Education and training in Japan / edited by Thomas Rohlen and Christopher Bj?? Bk. London; New York: Routledge, 1998. (3 volumes). National standards and school reform in Japan and the United States / edited by Gary DeCoker. New York: Teachers College Press, c2002 Matsui Seikun is $B>>0f@6=uBg0S(B, I think. As for Mongolian independent movement and Japan, I think the below book is very useful. $BFbLX8E%"%Q%+2q(B/$B6&JT(B $B2,B<=(B@O:(B/$B6&JT!"!XFCL35!4X!Y!"(B $B9q=q4)9T2q!"(B1990$BG/(B5$B7n(B I am looking for any information about a person named Matsui Seikun. Matsui Seikun is mentioned in Sechin Jagchid's book "The Last Mongol Prince" on several occasion, on one of which Matsui is referred to as "a very influential Japanese political broker". A person of the same name is also mentioned on several occasions in the Kido diaries, and I assume they are the same person. From: Richard Katz My new book, "Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival" is due back from the printers in about three weeks. For more information on the book contents, see the M.E. Sharpe website at http://www.mesharpe.com/results.asp?Title=Japanese+Phoenix%3A+The+Long+Road+to+Economic+Revival 'Print Club Photography in Japan: Framing Social Relationships' by Richard Chalfen and Mai Marui. --- In Visual Sociology16(1)pp. 55-77, pub 2001 by the International Visual Sociology Association. 'The Iconic Communication through "Print-club"' by Kurita Nobuyoshi. --- In Journal of Mass Communication Studies 55, pp. 131-152 My greatest interest at the present is the Allied occupation of 1945-1952. Some books I've enjoyed reading on the topic include "An American in Japan 1945-1948 : A Civilian View of the Occupation" by Jacob Van Staaveren, "The Wages of Guilt" by Ian Buruma, and "The Honorable Conquerors" by Walt Sheldon. Beard, Mary R. Force of Women in Japanese History. Washington D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1953. Bernstein, Gail. Recreating Japanese Women. University of California Press, 1991. Condon, Jane. A Half Step Behind: Japanese Women in the ' 80s. Dodd Mead, 1985. Copeland, Rebecca L. Lose Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan. Honolulu: University Press, 2000. Cornyetz, Nina. Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Women. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Fujimara-Fanselow, Kumiko, and Kameda Atsko eds. Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives of the Past, Present, and Future. New York: Feminist Press, 1995. Garon, Sheldon. Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Gluck, Carol. "The People in History: Recent Trends in Japanese Historiography." Journal of Japanese Studies 38 (1978): 25-50. Hane, Mikiso. Reflections of the Way to the Gallows. University of California Press, 1993. Hayakawa, Noriyo. "Feminism and Nationalism in Japan, 1868-1945." Journal of Women's History (1995): 108-119. Imamura, Anne. Re-Imaging Japanese Women. University of California Press, 1996. Kaneko, Fumiko. The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman. ME Sharpe, 1997. Kano, Ayako. Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theatre, Gender, and Nationalism. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Kelsky, Karen. Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams. Duke University Press, 2001. Kyoko, Mori. Polite Lies: On Being a Women Caught Between Cultures. Fawcett Books, 1999. Lebra, Takie Sugiyama. Above the Clouds. University of California Press, 1995. Nagatsuka, Takashi. The Soil: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan. Trans. Ann Waswo. University of California Press, 1994. Nanako, Kurinara. "Ripples of Change." (Video) New York: Women Make Movies, 1993. 57 min. Roberts, Glenda S. Staying on the Line: Blue Collar Women in Contemporary Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 1994. Robertson, Jennifer. Takarazuka. Berkley: University of California Press, 1998. Rosenberger, Nancy Ross. Gambling With Virtue: Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing Nation. University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Sievers, Sharon. Flowers in Salt: The Beginning of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Tanizaki, Junichiro. The Makioka Sisters. Knopf, 1993. Tomida, Hiroko. "The Evolution of Japanese Women's Historiography." Japan Forum (1996): 189-203. Tsurumi, Patricia. "The Accidental Historian, Yamakawa Kikue." Gender and History 8 (1996): 258-276. Uno, Kathleen S. Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century Japan University of Hawaii Press, 1999. Walthall, Anne The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration University of Chicago Press, 1998. Wakita, Haruko, Narita Ryuichi, Anne Walthall, and Hitomi Tonomura Women and Class in Japanese History Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1999. Yamazaki, Tomoko The Story of Yamada Waka: From Prostitute to Feminist Pioneer Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1985. Wamazaki, Tomoko Sandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of Lower Class Japanese Women Trans Karen Colligan-Taylor London: ME Sharpe, 1999.