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Reviews the book 'The Politics of Industrial Recruitment: Japanese Automobile Investment and Economic Development in the American States,' edited by Ernest J. Yanarella and William C. Green.

Reviews the book 'The International Businessman in Japan,' by Herbert Glazer.

The article reviews the book "Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village: The Making and Becoming of Person and Place," by D. P. Martinez.

Katsuya Hirano's The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan offers an Althusser-inflected analysis of the relationship between power structures and the economy of cultural production, with a focus on late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Edo. Hirano spells out his cultural assumptions, and then examines the cultures of parody, comic realism, the grotesque, and the changing relationship between the Meiji state and the body. This theoretical tour de force, however, raises many questions regarding its assumptions about the structure of the early modern Japanese polity, elided evidence, and interpretation. As such, it will stimulate ongoing discussion regarding the place of theory, and in particular of neo-Marxism, in contemporary historiography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Streben Nach Glück: Schicksalsdeutung Und Lebensgestaltung in Japanischen Religionen. Mit Beiträgen von Monika Schrimpf," by Michael Pye and Katja Triplett.

The article reviews the book "Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls Culture in Japan" by Deborah Shamoon.

The article reviews the book "Women and Family in Contemporary Japan," by Susan D. Holloway.

The article reviews the book "Under Japanese Management: The Experience of British Workers," by Michael White and Malcolm Trevor.

The article reviews the book "The Great Japan Exhibition: Art of the Edo Period 1600-1868," edited by Professor William Watson.

A review of the book "MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975," by Chalmers Johnson is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is a book review of "From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan" by Susumu Shimazono.

Reviews the book "Unmasking Japan Today: The Impact of Traditional Values on Modern Japanese Society," by Fumie Kumagai with Donna J. Keyser.

The article reviews the book "Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Sorting and Strategies," edited by Hiroshi Ishida and David H. Slater.

The article reviews the book "Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World," by Theodore C. Bestor.

The article reviews the book "21st Century Japanese Management--New Systems, Lasting Values," by James C. Abegglen.

The article reviews the book "Recreating Japanese Men," edited by Sabine Fr&amp#x00FC;hstück and Anne Walthall.

The article reviews the book "Establishing the Revolutionary: An Introduction to New Religions in Japan," part of the Bunka-Wenhua: Tuebingen East Asian Studies series, edited by Birgit Staemmler and Ulrich Dehn.

The article reviews the book "Hermes Und Buddha: Die Neureligiöse Bewegung Kōfuku No Kagaku In Japan," part of the Religiöse Gegenwart Asiens/Studies in Modern Asian Religions series, by Franz Winter, edited by Michael Pye and Monika Schrimpf.

The article reviews the book "Portraits of Chōgen: The Transformation of Buddhist Art in Early Medieval Japan," by John M. Rosenfield.