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Volume 49 - Issue 2 - May 1990

Book Reviews—Japan

The Formation of Science in Japan. By James R. Bartholomew. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xx, 371 pp. $30.00.

Capitalisme, société, et culture au Japon: Aux origines de l'industrialisation. By Bernard Bernier. Montreal: University of Montreal Press, 1988. x, 456 pp. $34.00.

Strategies for Learning: Small-Group Activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish Industry. By Robert E. Cole. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. xvi, 338 pp.

Jōdo Shinshū: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan. By James C. Dobbins. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989. 352 pp. $35.00.

The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895–1937. Edited by Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. xxx, 454 pp. $45.00.

The Japanese Business Community and National Trade Policy, 1920–1942. By William Miles FletcherIII. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. x, 226 pp.

The Misunderstood Miracle: Industrial Development and Political Change in Japan. By David Friedman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. viii, 265 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

Le Japon: L'ère de Hirohito. By Jacques Gravereau. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1988. 525 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Democracy in Japan. Edited by Takeshi Ishida and Ellis D. Krauss. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. x, 354 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy. Edited by K. V. Kesavan. New York: Advent Books, 1989. xvi, 243 pp.

Agricultural Development in Japan: The Land Improvement District in Concept and Practice. By Gil Latz. Geography Research Paper no. 225. Chicago: University of Chicago, Committee on Geographical Studies, 1989. viii, 135 pp. $12.00 (paper).

Destinies Shared: U.S.-Japanese Relations. Edited by Paul Gordon Lauren and Raymond F. Wylie. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989. x, 198 pp. $34.95.

The Foundational Standpoint of Mādhyamika Philosophy. By Gadjin Nagao. Translated by John P. Keenan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. xii, 183 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture. Edited by Richard Gid Powers and Hidetoshi Kato. Bruce Stronach, Associate Editor. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989. xviii, 350 pp. $59.95.

Strategic Pragmaticism: Japanese Lessons in the Use of Economic Theory. By Michele Schmiegelow and Henrik Schmiegelow. New York: Praeger, 1989. x, 213 pp. $39.95.

Paris in Japan: The Japanese Encounter with European Painting. By Shuji Takashina and J. Thomas Rimer with Gerald D. Bolas. St. Louis: Washington University Press, 1987. 287 pp.

Unit 731: The Japanese Army's Secret of Secrets. By Peter Williams and David Wallace. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989. xxvii, 366 pp. £14.95. U.S. edition, New York: The Free Press, 1989. xi, 303 pp. $22.95.

Book Reviews—Korea

White Badge: A Novel of Korea. By Ahn Junghyo. New York: Soho Press, 1989. 347 pp. $19–95.

A Korean Storyteller's Miscellany. By Peter H. Lee. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. xviii, 312 pp. $38.00.

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