General Articles

Storming the Castle: The Battle for Postal Reform in Japan
Patricia L. MACLACHLAN
pp. 1-18

Checking the Center: Popular Referenda in Japan
Chieko NUMATA
pp. 19-31

Japanese Feminism and Commercialized Sex: The Union of Militarism and Prohibitionism
Yuki FUJIME
pp. 33-50

The Inner and the Outer Domain’: Sexuality and the Nation-State in Japanese Feminist Historiography
Andrea GERMER
pp. 51-72

Survey Articles

The Vanishing Killer: Japan’s Postwar Homicide Decline
David T. JOHNSON
pp. 73-90

From Mothers of the Nation to Global Civil Society: The Changing Role of the Japanese Women’s Movement in Globalization
Ilse LENZ
pp. 91-102

Review Essays

Bridging the Gap: Images of Okinawa in Japanese Popular Culture
Matthew PENNEY
pp. 103-108

‘Loser Dogs’ and ‘Demon Hags’: Single Women in Japan and the Declining Birth Rate
Tomomi YAMAGUCHI
pp. 109-114

Book Reviews

Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, by Ken'ichi Gotō. Athens: Ohio University Research in International Studies, 2003, 344 pp., $24.95 (paperback ISBN 0896802310)
Aiko UTSUMI
pp. 115-118

Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750–1890, by Brian Platt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004, 318 pp., $45.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-674-01396-4)
Yasuaki SHIN'YA
pp. 118-121

Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory: Cultural Nationalism and Orientalism, by Yuko Kikuchi. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, 309 pp., £75.00 (hardcover ISBN 0415297907)
Kim BRANDT
pp. 121-125

New Times in Modern Japan, by Stefan Tanaka. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, 225 pp., $29.95 (ISBN 0691117748)
Ikuko NISHIMOTO
pp. 125-128

The Birth of Tardiness: The Formation of Time Consciousness in Modern Japan, edited by Hashimoto Takehiko and Kuriyama Shigehisa. Special issue ofJapan Review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 14 (2002), 238 pp. (ISSN 0915-0986)
Steven J. ERICSON
pp. 128-131

The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka, by Jeffrey E. Hanes. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2002, xii + 348 pp., $45.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-520-22849-9)
Masafumi MIKI
pp. 132-134

Women and the Labour Market in Japan’s Industrializing Economy: The Textile Industry Before the Pacific War, by Janet Hunter. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, 320 pp., £65.00 (ISBN 0-415-29731-1)
Masaki NAKABAYASHI
pp. 134-13.

Nihon Denryokugyō Hatten no Dainamizumu(Dynamism of Development in the Japanese Electric Power Industry), by Kikkawa Takeo. Nagoya: Nagoya Daigaku Shuppankai, 2004, 600 pp., ¥6,090 (hardcover ISBN 4815804826)
Satoru KOBORI
pp. 138-140

A Japanese Company in Crisis: Ideology, Strategy and Narrative, by Fiona Graham. London and New York: RoutlegeCurzon, 2005, 288 pp., $115.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-34685-1)
Kuniko ISHIGURO
pp. 141-143

Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon, edited by Joseph Tobin. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004, 304 pp., $21.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8223-3287-6), $74.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-8223-3250-7)
Fiona GRAHAM
pp. 144-146

Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan, edited by William W. Kelly. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004, 202 pp., $19.95 (paperback ISBN 0-791-46032-0)
E. Taylor ATKINS
pp. 146-149

Kodomo ga Hette, Nani ga Warui ka!(Fewer Children—What's Wrong with That?), by Akagawa Manabu. Tokyo: Chikuma Shinsho, 2004, 217 pp., ¥735 (paperback ISBN 4480062114)
Liv COLEMAN
pp. 149-152

Tōgō Sareru Danjo no Shokuba(Gender Integration in the Workplace), by Shutō Wakana. Tokyo: Keisō Shobō, 2003, 300 pp., ¥5,670 (hardcover ISBN 4326648597)
Makiko NISHIKAWA
pp. 152-155

Japan’s Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change, by Jennifer Amyx. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, 408 pp., $39.50 (hardcover ISBN 0-691-11447-1)
Masako SUGINOHARA
pp. 155-158.

Gikai Seido to Nihon Seiji(Agenda Power in the Japanese Diet), by Masuyama Mikitaka. Tokyo: Bokutakusha, 2003, 291 pp., ¥4,200 (hardcover ISBN 4-83-322339-2)
Masahiko ASANO
pp. 158-161

Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan: Global Norms and Domestic Networks, by Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004, 220 pp., $45.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-8047-5022-x)
Yumiko MIKANAGI
pp. 162-164

Bōryoku no Tetsugaku(Philosophy of Violence), by Sakai Takashi. Tokyo: Kawade Shob Shinsha, 2004, 239 pp., ¥1,500 (ISBN 4309243088)
Eiko MARUKO
pp. 165-167

The Rule of Law in Japan: A Comparative Analysis, by Carl F. Goodman. The Hague, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2003, 391 pp., $105.00 (hardcover ISBN 9-041-18903-3)
Ichirō OZAKI
pp. 167-169