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The article reviews the book "Canada's 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era," by Bryan D. Palmer.

The article reviews the book "Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin," edited by Sonia Ryang.

Reviews the book 'Women, Media and Consumption in Japan,' edited by Lise Skov and Brian Moeran.

Reviews the book 'Social Structures and Economic Dynamics in Japan Up to 1980,' edited by Gianni Podella.

Reviews the book "The Japanese City: A Sociological Analysis," by Takeo Yazaki.

Reviews the book "Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches," edited by Roger Goodman.

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.

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.

Reviews the book "Reformen in Japan (Reforms in Japan)," edited by Friederike Bosse and Patrick Koellner.

Reviews three books focusing on management practice of large Japanese companies. "The Art of Japanese Management," by Richard Tanner Pascale and Anthony G. Athos; "Theory Z," by William G. Ouchi; "The Japanese Company," by Rodney Clark.

The article reviews the book "Network Power: Japan and Asia," edited by Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi.

The article reviews the book "Fault-Zone Properties and Earthquake Rupture Dynamics," edited by Eiichi Fukuyama.

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.

The article reviews the book "Law in Japan," edited by Daniel H. Foote, with contributions from Eric A. Feldman, John O. Harley and Kahei Rokumoto.

The article reviews the book "The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures," edited by D. P. Martinez.

A review is presented of the book "Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago & the Saint Louis Art Museum," edited by Janice Katz.

A review of the book "Television, Japan & Globalization," edited by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Eva Tsai and Jung-Bong Choi is presented.

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.

The article reviews the book "Global Governance and Japan: The Institutional Architecture," edited by Glenn D. Hook and Hugo Dobson.

The article reviews the book "Roadblocks on the Information Highway: The IT Revolution in Japanese Education," edited by Jane M. Bachnik.

Reviews the book "The Political Economy of Japan Money," by Shigeo Nakao.

The article reviews the book "Vision of Japan. A Realistic Direction for the 21st Century," by Ryutaro Hashimoto.

Reviews the book "Can the Japanese Change Their Education System?," edited by Roger Goodman and David Phillips.

The article reviews the book "Japanese Whaling: End of an Era?," by Arne Kalland and Brian Moeran, number 61 in the Monograph Series of the Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies.