General Articles

Post-war Japan and the law: mapping discourses of legalization and modernization
HIROWATARI Seigo
pp.155-169

'By other means': tourism and leisure as politics in pre-war Japan
David LEHENY
pp.171-186

Meiji-era industrialization and provincial vitality: the significance of the first-enterprise boom of the 1880s
NAKAMURA Naofumi
pp.187-205

Foreign country theme parks: a new theme or an old Japanese pattern?
Joy HENDRY
pp.207-220

Survey Articles

Japanese employment practices in transition: promotion policy and compensation systems in the 1990s
Arne HOLZHAUSEN
pp.221-235

Criminal statistics in Japan: the White Paper on Crime, Hanzai Hakusho and Hanzai Tokeisho
Andrew FINCH
pp.237-249

Elections in Japan in 1999
Steven R. REED
pp.251-260
　

Review Essay

The business of railroads
W. Dean KINZLEY
pp.261-266

Book Reviews

Life on the Line in comtemporary manufacturing: the workplace experience of lean production and the 'Japanese' model (Rick Delbridge)
NAKAMURA Keisuke
pp.267-270

Edo no shijo-keizai: rekishi-seido bunseiki kara mita kabu-nakama (The Edo market economy: commercial guild as seen from historic systems analysis) (Okazaki Tetsuji)
Ronald DORE
pp.270-273

Office ladies and salaried men: power, gender, and work in Japanese companies (Yuko Ogasawara)
Patricia G. STEINHOFF
pp.273-276

Revolution and subjectivity in postwar Japan (J. Victor Koschmann)
SUGIYAMA Mitsunobu
pp.276-279

Literary and script reform in occupation Japan (J. Marshall Unger)
Eleanor H. JORDEN
pp.279-282

Zainichi chosenjin no 'sekai' to 'teikoku' kokka (The 'world' of Korean Japanese and the 'imperial' state) (Nishinarita Yutaka)
John LIE
pp.282-285

The new world fiscal order: implications for industrialized nations
(C. Eugence Steuerle and Masahiro Kawai, eds.)
SHIOJI Etsuro
pp.285-287

The Japanese production system: hybrid factories in East Asia (Hiroshi Itagaki, ed.)
Flordelia A. BALITE
pp.288-291

Takarazuka: sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan (Jennifer Robertson)
KOIKARI Mire
pp.291-293

The art of balance in health policy: maintaining Japan's low-cost, egalitarian system
(John Greighton Campbell and Naoki Ikegami)
SHINKAWA Toshimitsu
pp.293-295

The Ashio riot of 1907: a social history of mining in Japan (Nimura Kazuo)
Irwin SCHEINER
pp.295-298

Joho to kei'ei kakushin: kindai nihon no kiseki (Information and management innovation: the trajectory of modern Japan) (Sasaki Satoshi and Fujii Nobuyujki, eds.)
KAWABE Nobuo
pp.299-301

Passages to modernity: motherhood, childhood, and social reform in early twentieth century Japan (Katheleen S. Uno)
Aya EZAWA
pp.301-303

Japan: the system that soured: the rise and fall of the Japanese economic miracle (Richard Katz)
HASHIMOTO Juro
pp.304-307