For your beach reading pleasure, another three Japan Review articles are now available Early Access.
Two of them fill out our Special Section examining “Women in Modern Nichiren Buddhism,” edited by Clinton Godart.
Yulia BURENINA, A Messenger from the Buddha to Modern Japan: Matsudaira Toshiko’s Social Activism, Writings, and Faith in the 1920s and 1930s
https://doi.org/10.69307/japanreview.2025.SS3.Burenina
Clinton GODART, Without the Salvation of Women, No Living Faith in the Lotus Sutra: Koizumi Kikue’s Feminist Nichirenism in Wartime Japan
https://doi.org/10.69307/japanreview.2025.SS4.Godart
Finally, with the Osaka Expo 2025 in full swing, we have a retrospective look at the politics behind an earlier iteration.
Till KNAUDT, Under a Black Sun: Christian Students and Kyoto Intellectuals Challenge the Industrial Modernity of Expo ’70
https://doi.org/10.69307/japanreview.2025.Knaudt