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This article reviews a compilation of research on the traveling circuit priests called "oshi" who were associated exclusively to the Mount Fuji area of Japan. Based on materials from the Kawaguchi region, the papers discuss religion and society around Mt. Fuji in the medieval and Edo periods. The reviewer notes that explaining each paper’s stance on regional history would have helped readers.

This article provides a review of Goto and Yoshida's book, based on papers presented at a 2008 symposium on social life and conditions in Japan's mountain villages from the 18th century through the 20th century. Divided into three thematic parts -- on "things," "people," and "place" -- the book contains ten articles by different authors on specific Japanese villages that focus on one of the themes, such as peasant production of charcoal a Japanese feudal domain, and the development of the Tokyo-based lime industry in coordination with village enterprises during the Meiji era. The reviewer notes that the numerous subjects introduced in this work can provide future scholars with many new approaches and topics.

This article reviews folklore scholar Yamaji's second collection of papers focusing on folk arts and customs, such as the Gion Festival, in Kyoto, Japan. Yamaji's study on the Gion Goryo-e highlights his characteristic approach of combining his specialty, folklore, with history.

This article reviews Yui's posthumous book, which discusses the process whereby the Japanese military integrated all human resources into a Total War System. Yui's papers, originally published several decades ago, used new sources and still present a pioneering perspective of modern Japan's military history.