Japan – April 2012
- The face of Jizō : image and cult in medieval Japanese Buddhism / Hank Glassman.
- Bonds of the dead : temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism / Mark Michael Rowe
- Japan’s shrinking regions in the 21st century / Peter Matanle and Anthony S. Rausch with the Shrinking Regions Research Group.
- Passionate friendship : the aesthetics of girls’ culture in Japan / Deborah Shamoon.
- The Okinawan diaspora in Japan : crossing the borders within / Steve Rabson.
- The making of Monolingual Japan : language ideology and Japanese modernity / Patrick Heinrich.
- Tradition, democracy and the townscape of Kyoto : claiming a right to the past / Christoph Brumann.
- Malfunctioning democracy in Japan : quantitative analysis in a civil society / Yoshiaki Kobayashi.
- Reading colonial Japan : text, context, and critique / edited by Michele M. Mason and Helen J.S. Lee.
- Japanese foreign policy and understanding Japanese politics : the writings of J.A.A. Stockwin
- Superhuman Japan : knowledge, nation and culture in US-Japan relations / Marie Thorsten.
- The U. S.-Japan security alliance : regional multilateralism / edited by Takashi Inoguchi, G. John Ikenberry and Yoichiro Sato.
- Japan’s nuclear crisis : the routes to responsibility / Susan Carpenter.
- Lessons from the disaster : risk management and the compound crisis presented by the Great East Japan Earthquake / Yoichi Funabashi amd Heizo Takenaka, editors.
- Songs from the edge of Japan : music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa / Matt Gillan.
- Detective fiction and the rise of the Japanese novel, 1880-1930 / Satoru Saito.
- Voices of early modern Japan : contemporary accounts of daily life during the age of the shoguns / Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, editor.
- Performing the great peace : political space and open secrets in Tokugawa Japan / Luke S. Roberts.
- Natural disaster and nuclear crisis in Japan : response and recovery after Japan’s 3/11 / edited by Jeff Kingston.
- Hard times in the hometown : a history of community survival in modern Japan / Martin Dusinberre.
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