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Harvard East Asian Monograph (HEAM) Series
& Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series (HYIMS)

Publications on Japan sponsored and funded by the Reischauer Institute are issued in the Harvard East Asian Monographs (HEAM) series through the Publications Office of the Harvard University Asia Center under, William M. Hammell, Director and Kristen Wanner, Editor. Some 300 publications have been issued in the series to date of which roughly half of deal with Japan. Works in the series are based on scholarly research on all aspects of Japan, with particular emphases on Japanese business history, Japanese culture and society, and Japanese literature. Other works on Japan, particularly in the humanities, are published in the Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series (HYIMS), which is funded by the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Approximately 60 titles have been issued in this series to date with about a fifth of them on Japan. Publications in these series are selected by the Publications Committee of the Harvard University Asia Center on the basis of peer reviews.

Harvard East Asian Monograph (HEAM) series publications to date

Satoru Saito, Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880-1930

Patricia L. MacLachlan, The People's Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010

Jun Uchida, Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945

David B. Lurie, Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing

Ethan Isaac Segal, Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan

Peter Mauch, Sailor Diplomat: Nomura Kichisaburo and the Japanese-American War

Marnie S. Anderson, A Place in Public: Women's Rights in Meiji Japan

Dennis J. Frost, Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan

H. Mack Horton, Traversing the Frontier: The Man'yoshu Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736-737

Miryam Sas, Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagment, and Imagined Return

Mark Jones, Children as Treasures: Childhood and the Middle Class in Early Twentieth Century Japan

Robert I. Hellyer, Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1750-1868

Christopher Gerteis, Gender Struggles: Wage-Earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan

Karen Laura Thornber, Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature

James Dorsey, Critical Aesthetics: Kobayashi Hideo, Modernity, and Wartime Japan

Lori Watt, When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan

Christopher Bolton, The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kobo

Rachel DiNitto, A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan

Yuma Totani, The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II

Rebecca Suter, The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States

Kyu Hyun Kim, The Age of Vision and Arguments: Parliamentarism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan

Barbara Ambros, Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Ōyama Cult and Religion in Early Modern Japan

Gregory Golley, When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism

Eve Zimmerman, Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction

Richard J. Smethurst, From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes

Carol Richmond Tsang, War and Faith: Ikkō Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan

Charo B. D'Etcheverry, Love After The Tale of Genji: Rewriting the World of the Shining Prince

Nam-Lin Hur, Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System

Adam L. Kern, Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan

Franziska Seraphim, War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005

Jonathan Zwicker, Practices of the Sentimental Imagination: Melodrama, the Novel, and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Timothy J. Van Compernolle, The Uses of Memory: The Critique of Modernity in the Fiction of Higuchi Ichiyō

William O. Gardner, Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s

Liang Pan, The United Nations in Japan’s Foreign and Security Policymaking, 1945–1992: National Security, Party Politics, and International Status

Ellen Gardner Nakamura, Practical Pursuits: Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Hiroshi Aoyagi, Island of Eight Million Smiles: Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan

Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno, eds., Gendering Modern Japanese History

Kyu Hyun Kim, The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan

Mark McNally, Proving the Way: Conflict and Practice in the History of Japanese Nativism

Hosea Hirata, Discourses of Seduction: History, Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature

Stephen Dodd, Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature

Gail Bernstein, Andrew Gordon, and Kate Wildman Nakai, eds., Public Spheres, Private Lives in Modern Japan, 1600-1950: Essays in Honor of Albert Craig

Brian Platt, Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890

D. Max Moerman, Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan

Eric C. Rath, The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art

Jordan Sand, House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930

Daqing Yang, Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansionism, 1895–1945

Ezra F. Vogel, ed., The Golden Age of the U.S.-China-Japan Triangle, 1972-1989

Aviad E. Raz, Emotions at Work: Normative Control, Organizations, and Culture in Japan and America

Kenneth J. Ruoff, The People’s Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995

Lee Butler, Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680: Resilience and Renewal

Robert N. Huey, The Making of ‘Shinkokinshū’

Christine Yano, Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song

Terry Kawashima, Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan

Haruo Iguchi, Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937-1952

Curtis J. Milhaupt, J. Mark Ramseyer, and Michael K. Young, eds. and comps., Japanese Law in Context: Readings in Society, the Economy, and Politics

Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka, The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932

Timothy S. George, Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan

Michael Lewis, Becoming Apart: National Power and Local Politics in Toyama, 1868-1945

Kerry Smith, A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization

Brian D. Ruppert, Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan

Nam-lin Hur, Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society

Atsuko Sakaki, Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction

Edward Pratt, Japan’s Protoindustrial Elite: The Economic Foundations of the Gōnō

John Solt, Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1902-1978)

Frederick R. Dickinson, War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919

Deborah J. Milly, Poverty, Equality, and Growth: The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan

Aviad E. Raz, Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland

Charles Shirō Inouye, The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyōka (1873-1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright

Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan, Hiraizumi: Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-Century Japan

Andrew Edmund Goble, Kenmu: Go-Daigo’s Revolution

Steven J. Ericson, The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan

Anthony Hood Chambers, The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki’s Fiction

Thomas R. H. Havens, Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu-Saison Enterprises in Twentieth-Century Japan

James C. Baxter, The Meiji Unification Through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefecture

Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishōsetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan

William Johnston, The Modern Epidemic: History of Tuberculosis in Japan

William Wayne Farris, Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan’s Military, 500-1300

George J. Tanabe, Jr., Myōe the Dreamkeeper: Fantasy and Knowledge in Kamakura Buddhism

Mark Mason, American Multinationals and Japan: The Political Economy of Japanese Capital Controls, 1899-1980

Gail Lee Bernstein, Japanese Marxist: A Portrait of Kawakami Hajime, 1879-1946

Laura E. Hein, Fueling Growth: The Energy Revolution and Economic Policy in Postwar Japan

Mary Elizabeth Berry, Hideyoshi

Barbara Molony, Technology and Investment: The Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry

Marie Anchordoguy, Computers, Inc.: Japan’s Challenge to IBM

William D. Wray, ed., Managing Industrial Enterprise: Cases from Japan’s Prewar Experience

George Elison, Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan

Joshua A. Fogel, Nakae Ushikichi in China: The Mourning of Spirit

Heinz Morioka and Miyoko Sasaki, Rakugo: The Popular Narrative Art of Japan

Susan Downing Videen, Tales of Heichū

Parks M. Coble, Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937

Kate Wildman Nakai, Shogunal Politics: Arai Hakuseki and the Premises of Tokugawa Rule

Atsuko Hirai, Individualism and Socialism: The Life and Thought of Kawai Eijirō (1891-1944)

Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The “New Theses” of 1825

Steven D. Carter, The Road to Komatsubara: A Classical Reading of the Renga Hyakuin

Michael A. Cusumano, The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota

Robert Borgen, Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court

Christine Guth Kanda, Shinzō: Hachiman Imagery and Its Development

Andrew Gordon, The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955

C. Andrew Gerstle, Circles of Fantasy: Convention in the Plays of Chikamatsu

Joshua A. Fogel, Politics and Sinology: The Case of Naitō Konan (1866-1934)

William D. Wray, Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K, 1870-1914: Business Strategy in the Japanese Shipping Industry

Neil L. Waters, Japan’s Local Pragmatists: The Transition from Bakumatsu to Meiji in the Kawasaki Region

Thomas A. Stanley, Ōsugi Sakae, Anarchist in Taishō Japan: The Creativity of the Ego

Kenneth Alan Grossberg, Japan’s Renaissance: The Politics of the Muromachi Bakufu

Martin Collcutt, Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan

J. W. Dower, Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954

William J. Tyler, tr., The Psychological World of Natsume Sōseki, by Doi Takeo

Meron Medzini, French Policy in Japan During the Closing Years of the Tokugawa Regime

Peter Frost, The Bakumatsu Currency Crisis

Tuvia Blumenthal, Saving in Postwar Japan

Toshio G. Tsukahira, Feudal Control in Tokugawa Japan: The Sankin Kōtai System

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series (HYIMS) publications to date

Steven D. Carter, Householders: The Reizei Family in Japanese History

Susan Blakeley Klein, Allegories of Desire: Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan

Joel R. Cohen, Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction

Andrew Lawrence Markus, The Willow in Autumn: Ryutei Tanehiko, 1783-1842

Susan Jolliffe Napier, Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo

Peter Nosco, Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Japan,

Robert W. Leutner, Shikitei Sanba and the Comic Tradition in Edo Fiction

William Wayne Farris, Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan