General Articles

Personnel Management Reforms in Japanese Supermarkets: The Positional Warfare and Limited Assimilation of Conversational Communities
Young Kim
pp. 183-199

Gender in the Meiji Renovation: Confucian ‘Lessons for Women’ and the Making of Modern Japan
SEKIGUCHI Sumiko
pp. 201-221

Bushido Baseball? Three ‘Fathers’ and the Invention of a Tradition
Thomas BLACKWOOD
pp. 223-240

The Burden of Social Capital: Visa Overstaying Among Fujian Chinese Students in Japan
Gracia LIU-FARRER
pp. 241-257

Food Security and International Fisheries Policy in Japan’s Postwar Planning
Roger D. SMITH
pp. 259-276

The LDP’s Defeat in Crucial Single-seat Constituencies of the 2007 Upper House Election
IMAI Ryōsuke and KABASHIMA Ikuo
pp. 277-293

Review Essays

The Debate over Japan’s War Responsibility
INOUE Toshikazu
pp. 295-298

Reexamining Japanese International Relations in the Interwar Period
YASUDA Kayo
pp. 299-302

Book Reviews

Rekishi de Kangaeru (Thinking with History), by Carol Gluck (trans., Umezaki Tōru). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2007, 530 pp., ¥4,800 (ISBN 978-4-00-002535-5)
MASUMI Junnosuke
pp. 303-306

Japan’s Imperial Forest Goryorin, 1889–1945, by Conrad Totman. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2007, 184 pp., $70.00 (hardcover ISBN 1-905246-30-7)
KAWATA Keiichi
pp. 306-309

Agriculture in the Modernization of Japan (1850–2000), edited by Shuzo Teruoka. Delhi: Manohar, 2008, 375 pp., $62.95 (ISBN 81-7304-765-0)
Penelope FRANCKS
pp. 309-312

Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village: Farm Tenancy Conciliation (1924–1938) , by Dimitri Vanoverbeke. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2004, 200 pp., $79.50 (paperback ISBN 90-5867-307-3)
TAKAHASHI Hiroshi
pp. 312-316

Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor, by Edward S. Miller. Annapolis: US Naval Institute Press, 2007, 323 pp., $32.00 (hardcover ISBN 1-59114-520-1)
HATTORI Satoshi
pp. 316-319

Kindai Nihon to Kika Seido (Naturalization in Modern Japan), by Asakawa Akihiro. Tokyo: Keisuisha, 2007, 282 pp., ¥5,000 (hardcover ISBN 978-4-87440-980-0)
HARADA Kazuaki
pp. 319-322

Saiban to Shakai: Shihono ‘Joshiki’ no Saiko (Litigation and Society: Reconsidering the ‘Common Sense’ of the Japanese Judiciary), by Daniel H. Foote (trans. Tamaruya Masayuki). Tokyo: NTT Shuppan, 2006, 340 pp., ¥2,400 (ISBN 4-7571-4095-9)
MAEDA Tomohiko
pp. 322-325

Kaishaho Nyumon (Introduction to Company Law), by Kanda Hideki. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2006, 230 pp., ¥777 (paperback ISBN 4-00-431005-9)
TANAKA Wataru
pp. 325-327

Japan's Aggressive Legalism: Law and Foreign Trade Politics beyond the WTO , by Saadia M. Pekkanen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008, 409 pp., 29.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8047-5866-2), $85.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-8047-5867-0)
NAKAGAWA Junji
pp. 327-330

Client State: Japan in the American Embrace, by Gavan McCormack. London/New York: Verso, 2007, 246 pp., $29.95 (paperback ISBN 1-84467-133-X), $95.00 (hardcover ISBN 1-84467-127-5)
KAN Hideki
pp. 330-333

Securing Japan: Tokyo’s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia by Richard J. Samuels. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, 296 pp., $19.95 (paperback ISBN 978-0-8014-7490-3), $49.95 (hardcover ISBN 978-0-8014-4612-2)
Yujen KUO
pp. 333-337

The New Community Firm: Employment, Governance and Management Reform in Japan, by Takeshi Inagami and D. Hugh Whittaker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 282 pp., $84.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-521-84370-7)
Gregory JACKSON
pp. 337-339

Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity by Masahiko Aoki, Gregory Jackson and Hideaki Miyajima. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 480 pp., $49.95 (paperback ISBN 0-19-928452-0), $99.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-19-928451-2)
Pepper D. CULPEPPER
pp. 339-343

The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy , by Miwa Yoshiro and J. Mark Ramseyer. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006, 181 pp., $32.50 (hardcover ISBN 0-226-53270-4)
Takeo HOSHI
pp. 344-346

Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture: An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France, by Mitchell W. Sedgwick. London: Routledge, 2007, 223 pp., $160.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-44678-3)
Tomoko Hamada CONNOLLY
pp. 346-350

Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World (The Truth of Pay for Performance), by Theodore C. Bestor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 456 pp., $25.95 (paperback ISBN 0-520-22024-2), $60.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-520-22023-4)
SUEHIRO Akira
pp. 350-353

Zainichi Korean Ethnicity and Identity , by David Chapman. London: Routledge, 2007, 192 pp., $160.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-42637-5)
Youngmi LIM
pp. 353-357

Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan’s Sexual Minorities, edited by Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma and James Welker. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007, 372 pp., $36.95 (paperback ISBN 0-7391-2159-6), $84.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-7391-0865-4)
SHIMIZU Akiko
pp. 357-361

Niito tte iu na! (Don’t call us NEET!), by Honda Yuki, Nait Asao and Got Kazutomo. Tokyo: Kbunsha Shinsho, 2006, 310 pp., ¥800 (paperback ISBN 4-334-03337-7)
Wim LUNSING
pp. 361-364

Gakureki to Kakusa-Fubyodo: Seijukusuru Nihongata Gakureki Shakai , (Education and Social Inequality: Contemporary Educational Credentialism in Japan), by Kikkawa Tru. Tokyo: Tky Daigaku Shuppankai, 2006, 288 pp., ¥2,600 (hardcover ISBN 978-4-13-050166-8)
Rebecca Erwin FUKUZAWA
pp. 364-368