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Volume 37 - Issue 1 - November 1977

Book Reviews—Japan

The Japanese Economic System: An Institutional Overview. By Kanji Haitani. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1976. xiii, 190 pp. Figures, Tables, Index. $15.00

Japan's Multinational Enterprises. By M. Y. Yoshino. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. xv, 191 pp. Tables, Index. $12.50

Japan's Parliament: An Introduction. By Hans H. Baerwald. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. 155 pp. Bibliography, Index. $8.95

The Modern Japanese Military System. Edited by James H. Buck. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications (Sage Research Progress Series on War, Revolution, and Peacekeeping V), 1975. 253 pp. Bibliography, Notes on Contributors. $15.00 (cloth); $7.50 (paper).

Three Decades in Shiwa: Economic Development and Social Change in a Japanese Farming Community. By Mitsuru Shimpo. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1976. xxvi, 141 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Appendixes, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. $15.00

Thought Control in Prewar Japan. By Richard H. Mitchell. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976. 226 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $10.95

Legal Reform in Occupied Japan: A Participant Looks Back. By Alfred C. Oppler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. xvii, 345 pp. Illustrations, Index. $20.00

Kindai Nihon to Tōyō shigaku (Modern Japan and East Asian Historiography). By Goi Naohiro. Tokyo: Aoki shoten, 1976. 260 pp. ¥1600

A Dictionary of Japanese Artists: Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints, Lacquer. By Laurance P. Roberts. Tokyo and New York: Weatherhill, 1976. xi, 299 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Indexes. $22.50

The Family. By Toson Shimazaki translated and with an introduction by Cecilia Segawa Seigle. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1976. xxxiii, 311 pp. $16.00

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Transport of Love: The Meghadūta of Kālidāsa. Translated and introduced by Leonard Nathan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. ix, 115 pp. Notes, Appendixes. $7.50 (cloth); $2.95 (paper).

The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad. Transcreated from the Sanskrit by P. Lal. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, Saffronbird Book, 1974. 117 pp. Rs. 60.00 (cloth); Rs. 15.00 (paper). (Dist. by InterCulture Associates, $11.25 [cloth]; $5.00 [paper]).

Life of Tagore. by Probhat Kumar Mukherji, translated by Sisirkumar Ghosh. Thompson, Conn.: InterCulture Associates, 1976. 208 pp. Index. $15.00

Padma River Boatman. By Manik Bandopadhyaya, translated by Barbara Painter and Yann Lovelock. St. Lucia (Australia) and New York: University of Queensland Press, 1973. xii, 142 pp. Glossary, Select Bibliography. $9.30 (cloth); $4.25 (paper).

History in Modern Indian Literature. Edited by S. P. Sen. Calcutta: Institute of Historical Studies, 1975. xii, 226 pp. Rs. 50.00; $15.00

Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by S. P. Sen. Calcutta: Institute of Historical Studies, 1972. 4 vols. (I: lx, 480 pp.; II: lxviii, 418 pp.; Ill: lxviii, 562 pp.; IV: lxvii, 465 pp.) Lists of Contributors and of Biographical Entries. Rs. 500.00; $100.00

Hinduism: New Essays in the History of Religions. Edited by Bardwell L. Smith. Leiden: E. J. Brill (Studies in the History of Religions [Supplements to Numen] XXXIII), 1976. viii, 231 pp. Index. D.Gld. 48.00

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