Nichi-Bei Domei-toiu Riarizumu (Emerging Realism of the Japan-US Alliance)
By Tomohito Shinoda Chikura Shobou, 2007, 274 pages including notes and index, ISBN: 978-4-8051-0884-0 C3031 Review by Takahiro Miyao
“Koizumi Kantei Hiroku” (Confidential Records of the Office of Prime Minister Koizumi)
By Isao Iijima Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha (Japan Economic Journal), December 2006, 334 pages, 1800 yen Review by Fumiko Halloran
Getting Wet – Adventures in the Japanese Bath
By Eric Talmadge Kodansha Europe Ltd (Japan), 2006, 272 pages (Hardback), ISBN: 9784770030207 Review by William Farr
Divorce in Japan: Family Gender, and the State, 1600-2000
By Harald Fuess Stanford University Press, 2004, 226 pages, ISBN 0-8047-4357-6 Review by Sean Curtin
North Korea in the 21st Century, An interpretative guide
By J.E. Hoare and Susan Pares Global Oriental, 2005, ISBN 1-901903-91-5 (Cloth), 1-901903-96-6 (Paperback), 253 pages (including index, references/bibliography and black and white illustrations). Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Japan and the Illustrated London News: Complete record of Reported Events 1853-1899
Compiled and introduced by Terry Bennett Global Oriental, 2006, 411 pages including index, fully illustrated, £125, ISBN 1-901903-26-5, Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
A Japanese Menagerie: Animal Pictures
By Kawanabe Kyosai, Rosina Buckland, Timothy Clark, Shigeru Oikawa British Museum Press, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0-7141-2442-I, ISBN-10: 0-7141-2442-7, pp 112 including colour plates, £16.99. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Japanese Popular Prints – from votive slips to playing cards
By Rebecca Salter A & C Black (London), and University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu), 2006, 208 pages; full colour throughout (221 images), ISBN: 07136 65173, Price: £30. Review by Marie-Thérèse Barrett
Pars Japonica: The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores of Japan
By William de Lange Floating World Editions, 2006, 268 pages including index, notes, sources and17 illustrations, 21 maps & charts, ISBN 1-891640-23-2 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan
(Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan: Autonomy, Asian Brotherhood, or World Citizenship?) By Dick Stegewerns (ed.) Routledge, 2003, xiv + 253 pp. ISBN 0-700-71496-0 Review by Ian Nish