Jitsuroku Koizumi Gaiko (Records of Koizumi Diplomacy)
By Isao Iijima Nihon Keizai Shimbun Shuppansha, 2007,343 pages. Hardback ¥1,890. ISBN -13: 978-4532352714 Review by Fumiko Halloran
Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s: From Isolation to Integration
Edited by Iokibe Makoto, Caroline Rose, Tomaru Junko, and John Weste Routledge, 2007, 215 pages including index and notes. Hardback £75.00. ISBN13: 978-0415372961 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics – Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement
By Sandra Collins Routledge, London and New York, 2007, 198 pages. Hard Back £65.00. ISBN-13: 978-0415373173 Review by Ben-Ami Shillony
Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade
By Bill Emmott Allen Lane, London, 2008, 314 pages including notes and index. ISBN -13: 978-1-846-14009-9, price hardback £20. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Designing and Creating Japanese Gardens
By Penny Underwood The Crowood Press, 2005, 192 pages, including bibliography and index. Hardback £25. ISBN 13: 978 – 186126 7832 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Netto Senso (The Net War)
By Izumi Harada and Yasuhide Yamanouchi NTT Publications,2007, 285 pages, including notes and index. Hardback ¥3,360. ISBN -13:978-47571-0223-1 Review by Takahiro Miyao
Japan’s Imperial Forest, Goryōrin, 1889-1945
Japan’s Imperial Forest, Goryōrin, 1889-1945: With a supporting study of the Kan/Min division of woodland in early Meiji Japan, 1871-76) By Conrad Totman Global Oriental, 2007, 184 pages, including index and bibliography. Hardback £50.00. ISBN – 13: 978-1905246304 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Death of a Salaryman
By Fiona Campbell Chatto and Windus, 2007, 320 pages. Paperback £7.99. ISBN 13: 978-0099503699 Review by Anna Davis
Minka, My Farmhouse in Japan
By John Roderick Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2008, 255 pages, many black and white illustrations.Hardback £14.99. ISBN – 13: 978-1-56898-731-6 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Waga Jinsei No Utagatari – Showa No Aikan
(Song Story in My Life – The Joys and Sorrows of Showa Era) By Hiroyuki Itsuki Kadokawa Shoten, 2007, 250 pages. Hardback ¥2,500. ISBN – 13: 978-4048839693 Review by Mikihiro Maeda