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Volume 48 - Issue 3 - August 1989

Book Reviews—Japan

Widows of Hiroshima: The Life Stories of Nineteen Peasant Wives. By Mikio Kanda. Translated by Taeko Midorikawa. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. 183 pp. $21.95.

Hokusai: One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji. By Katsushika Hokusai. Introduction and commentaries by Henry D. Smith II. New York: George Braziller, 1988. $35.00.

The History and Theology of Soka Gakkai: A Japanese New Religion. By Daniel Metraux. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988. viii, 193 pp.

Beyond Computopia: Information, Automation, and Democracy in Japan. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. London: Kegan Paul International, 1988. x, 221 pp. $59.95.

Behind a Curtain of Silence: Japanese in Soviet Custody, 1945–1956. By William F. Ninmo. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988. xiv, 149 pp. $37.95.

Akutagawa and Dazai: Instances of Literary Adaptation. By James O'Brien. Tempe: Arizona State University, 1988. x, 149 pp. $8.00.

Pilgrimages: Aspects of Japanese Literature and Culture. By J. Thomas Rimer. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. xii, 146 pp.

Government Policy Towards Industry in the United States and Japan. Edited by John B. Shoven. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. viii, 354 pp. $47.50.

Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens: Design Principles, Aesthetic Values. By David A. Slawson. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1987. 220 pp. $34.95.

Health and Illness in Changing Japanese Society. By Kyoichi Sonoda. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1988. x, 170 pp. $39.50.

The Green Archipelago: Forestry in PreindustrialJapan. By Conrad Totman. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989. xxii, 297 pp. $35.00.

Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibuse Masuji. By John Whittier Treat. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988. x, 294 pp.

After the Restoration: The Beginning of Japan's Modern State. By Michio Umegaki. New York: New York University Press, 1988. xiv, 270 pp.

Book Reviews—Korea

Imperialism, Resistance, and Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Korea: Enlightenment and the Independence Club. By Vipan Chandra. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1988. xii, 244 pp. $17.00.

Relationship Between Korea and Japan in Early Period: Paekche and Yamato Wa. By Wontack Hong. Seoul: Pan Korea Book Corporation, 1988. 279 pp.

Faithful Endurance: An Ethnography of Korean Family Dispersal. By Choong Soon Kim. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988. xvi, 181 pp. $25.95.

Japan and Korea: The Political Dimension. By Chong-Sik Lee. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1985. 225 pp.

Alliance Under Tension: The Evolution of South Korean-U.S. Relations. By Man-woo Lee, Ronald McLaurin, and Chung-in Moon. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1988. 229 pp. $35.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Pakistan Society: Islam, Ethnicity, and Leadership in South Asia. By Akbar S. Ahmed. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1986. xii, 264 pp. $25.00. - Islam and the State in the World Today. Edited by Olivier Carré. New Delhi: Manohar, 1987. xxx, 280 pp. Rs. 175.

Das Erbe der Grossmoguln: Völkerschicksale zwischen Hindukusch und Golf von Bengalen. [Legacy of the great Mughals: Destiny of nations between the Hindukush and the Gulf of Bengal]. By Hans Walter Berg. Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe, 1988. 336 pp. DM 38.

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