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Volume 48 - Issue 4 - November 1989

Book Reviews—Japan

Defending an Economic Superpower: Reassessing the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance. By Tetsuya Kataoka and Ramon H. Myers. Westview Special Studies on East Asia. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989. x, 120 pp. $18.50 (paper).

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. By Yasunari Kawabata. Translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman. Berkeley: North Point Press, 1988. xiv, 241 pp. $19.95.

The Japanese Psyche: Major Motifs in the Fairy Tales of Japan. By Hayao Kawai. Dallas: Spring Publications, 1988. vi, 234 pp. $17.50.

The Male Journey in Japanese Prints. By Roger S. Keyes. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989. xxx, 189 pp. $45.00.

The Birth of the Japanese Labor Movement. By Stephen E. Marsland. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. 271 pp. $27.00.

Matsuri: Festival and Rite in Japanese Life. Contemporary Papers on Japanese Religion 1. Tokyo: Kokugakuin University, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, 1988. iv, 156 pp.

Modernization and Beyond: The Japanese Trajectory. Edited by Gavan McCormack and Yoshio Sugimoto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. viii, 300 pp.

Images of Japanese Society. By Ross Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto. London: KPI Limited, 1986. xxxii, 552 pp. $59.95.

The Automobile Industry in Japan: A Study of Ancillary Firm Development. By Konosuke Odaka, Keinosuke Ono, and Fumihiko Adachi. Hitotsubashi University, Institute for Economic Research, Economic Research Series, no. 26. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xvi, 339 pp. $68.00.

Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan. By Robert A. Rosenstone. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. xiv, 315 pp. $25.00.

Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750–1920. By Thomas C. Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988. x, 278 pp.

The Confucian Way of Contemplation. By Rodney L. Taylor. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. 230 pp. $24.95.

Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation. By William M. Tsutsui. Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series. New York: Routledge, 1988. xiv, 156 pp. $59.50.

Confessions of Love. By Uno Chiyo. Translated by Phyllis Birnbaum. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. x, 157 pp. $27.00 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

Le commerce extérieur du Japon: Des origines au XVIe siècle [Japanese foreign trade: From its origins to the sixteenth century]. By Charlotte von Verschuer. Collège de France, Bibliothèque de l'Institut des Hautes Études Japonaises. Paris: Éditions Maisonneuve & Larose, 1988. 202 pp.

An Empire in Eclipse: Japan in the Postwar American Alliance System. By John Welfield. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Athlone Press, 1988. xiv, 513 pp. $80.00.

Book Reviews—Korea

Economic Relations Between the United States and Korea: Conflict or Cooperation? Edited by Thomas O. Bayard and Soo-Gil Young. Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1989. x, 177 pp. $12.95 (paper).

A Heritage of Kings: One Man's Monarchy in the Confucian World. By JaHyun Kim Haboush. Studies in Oriental Culture 21. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xiv, 327 pp. $35.00.

Political Change in South Korea. Edited by Ilpyong J. Kim and Young Whan Kihl. New York: Korean PWPA, 1988. viii, 263 pp.

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