Research Article Shōmu Tennō and the Deity from Kyushu: Hachiman’s Initial Rise to Prominence Bernhard SCHEID
Research Article The Catholic Architecture of Early Modern Japan: Between Adaptation and Christian Identity Rie ARIMURA
Research Article Japanese Art, Aesthetics, and a European Discourse: Unraveling Sharawadgi Wybe KUITERT
Research Article Informal Imperialism and the 1879 Hesperia Incident: Containing Cholera and Challenging Extraterritoriality in Japan Harald FUESS
Research Article Floating Signifiers: The Plural Significance of the Grand Shrine of Ise and the Incessant Re-signification of Shinto Fabio RAMBELLI
Book Review Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931–1945, by Aaron Stephen Moore. Juergen P. MELZER
Book Review The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan, by W. Puck Brecher. Niels VAN STEENPAAL
Book Review Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of ‘National Learning’ and the Formation of Scholarly Societies, by Michael Wachutka. Wilburn HANSEN
Book Review Three-Dimensional Reading: Stories of Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Fiction, 1911–1932, ed. Angela Yiu. Midori TANAKA ATKINS
Book Review Tumultuous Decade: Empire, Society, and Diplomacy in 1930s Japan, ed. Masato Kimura and Tosh Minohara. Jason MORGAN
Book Review Sword of Zen: Master Takuan and His Writings on Immovable Wisdom and the Sword Taie, by Peter Haskel. Jeremy A. SATHER
Book Review Sacred High City, Sacred Low City: A Tale of Religious Sites in Two Tokyo Neighbourhoods, by Steven Heine. Carla TRONU
Book Review Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan, by Darryl E. Flaherty. Makiko HAYASHI
Book Review The Archaeology of Japan: From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State, by Koji Mizoguchi. Gina L.BARNES
Book Review Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts, by Haruo Shirane. Roy STARRS
