100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan Japan Contemporary Books Understanding for 100 Books Vol. 2 Vol. for Understanding Contemporary Japan Vol. 2 Contents Program Committee 7 Read Japan Project Opening Dialogue 8 Politics / International Relations ・ 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan / Richard J. Samuels 14 ・ Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism / William W. Grimes 15 ・ The Diplomatic History of Postwar Japan / Makoto Iokibe (ed.) (Robert D. Eldridge, tr.) 16 ・ Five Years After: Reassessing Japan’s Responses to the Earthquake, Tsunami, and the Nuclear Disaster / Keiichi Tsunekawa (ed.) 17 ・ Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China / Sheila A. Smith 18 ・ Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011 / Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger and David H. Slater 19 ・ Japan’s ASEAN Policy: In Search of Proactive Multilateralism / Sueo Sudo 20 ・ Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan / Peter Matanle and Wim Lunsing (eds.) 21 ・ Precarious Japan / Anne Allison 22 ・ Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan: Party, Bureaucracy, and Business / Margarita Estévez-Abe 23 ・ Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO / Christina L. Davis 24 Economics / Business ・ Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan / Takeo Hoshi and Anil K. Kashyap 26 ・ Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity / Masahiko Aoki, Gregory Jackson and Hideaki Miyajima (eds.) 27 ・ Examining Japan’s Lost Decades / Yoichi Funabashi and Barak Kushner (eds.) 28 ・ The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850–2000 / Penelope Francks and Janet Hunter (eds.) 29 ・ The Japanese Employment System: Adapting to a New Economic Environment / Marcus Rebick 30 ・ Japan’s Bubble, Deflation, and Long-term Stagnation / Koichi Hamada, Anil K. Kashyap and David E. Weinstein (eds.) 31 ・ Japan’s Long Stagnation, Deflation, and Abenomics: Mechanisms and Lessons / Kenji Aramaki 32 ・ A Nagging Sense of Job Insecurity: The New Reality Facing Japanese Youth / Yuji Genda (Jean Connell Hoff, tr.) 33 ・ The Political Economy of Japan’s Low Fertility / Frances McCall Rosenbluth (ed.) 34 ・ The Public Sector in Japan: Past Developments and Future Prospects / Takero Doi and Toshihiro Ihori 35 ・ Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis / Masahiko Aoki 36 Society / Culture ・ Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities / Romit Dasgupta 65 ・ Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan / Jason Danely 38 ・ Resonances of Chindon-ya: Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan / Marié Abe 66 ・ Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture ・ Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation / Jennifer Ellen Robertson 67 / Griseldis Kirsch, Dolores P. Martinez and Merry I. White (eds.) 39 ・ Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society / ・ Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival / David Pilling 40 Victoria Lyon Bestor, Theodore C. Bestor and Akiko Yamagata (eds.) 68 ・ The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture / Yoshio Sugimoto (ed.) 41 ・ Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation during Economic and Demographic Stagnation / David Chiavacci and Carola Hommerich (eds.) 69 ・ Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan / Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales and Romit Dasgupta (eds.) 42 ・ A Tokyo Romance / Ian Buruma 70 ・ Empire of Signs / Roland Barthes (Richard Howard, tr.) 43 ・ Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan / Eiko Maruko Siniawer 71 ・ From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen: A Remarkable Century of Transmission and Transformation / ・ Women in Japanese Religions / Barbara R. Ambros 72 Steven Heine 44 Literature / Arts ・ The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Disaster: Investigating the Myth and Reality / ・ Arata Isozaki / Ken Tadashi Oshima 74 The Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident 45 ・ The Artist in Edo: Studies in the History of Art, vol. 80 / Yukio Lippit (ed.) 75 ・ Generations in Touch: Linking the Old and Young in a Tokyo Neighborhood / Leng Leng Thang 46 ・ The Book of Tea / Kakuzo Okakura 76 ・ Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone / Richard Lloyd Parry 47 ・ Convenience Store Woman / Sayaka Murata (Ginny Tapley Takemori, tr.) 77 ・ The Happy Youth of a Desperate Country: The Disconnect between Japan’s Malaise and Its Millennials / Noritoshi Furuichi (Raj Mahtani, tr.) 48 ・ Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime and Religion in Contemporary Japan / Jolyon Baraka Thomas 78 ・ Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai / (Christopher Stephens, tr.) 49 ・ The Empty Museum: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan / Masaaki Morishita 79 ・ A History of Popular Culture in Japan: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present / ・ Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art: 1600–2005 / Patricia J. Graham 80 E. Taylor Atkins 50 ・ History of Art in Japan / Nobuo Tsuji (Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, tr.) 81 ・ Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923 / ・ The History of Japanese Photography / Anne Wilkes Tucker et al. 82 Gennifer Weisenfeld 51 ・ Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave / Timothy Clark (ed.) 83 ・ Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts / Haruo Shirane 52 ・ The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States / ・ Japan: The Basics / Christopher P. Hood 53 Rebecca Suter 84 ・ Japanese Diasporas: Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents, and Uncertain Futures / Nobuko Adachi (ed.) 54 ・ The Legends of Tono / Kunio Yanagita (Ronald A. Morse, tr.) 85 ・ The Japanese House: Material Culture in the Modern Home / Inge Daniels 55 ・ Long Strange Journey: On Modern Zen, Zen Art, and Other Predicaments / Gregory P. A. Levine 86 ・ Japanese Women and Sport: Beyond Baseball and Sumo / Robin Kietlinski 56 ・ Obtaining Images: Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan / Timon Screech 87 ・ Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan / Mary C. Brinton 57 ・ The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories / ・ Lost Japan: Last Glimpse of Beautiful Japan / Alex Kerr 58 Jay Rubin (ed.); Haruki Murakami, introduction 88 ・ Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art / Susan Napier 59 ・ Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan / Reiko Tomii 89 ・ The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan / ・ A Tale for the Time Being / Ruth Ozeki 90 Rebecca L. Copeland and Melek Ortabasi (eds.) 60 ・ The Tales of Ise / (Peter Macmillan, tr.) 91 ・ Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions / Paul L. Swanson and Clark Chilson (eds.) 61 History ・ Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan’s 3/11 / Butterfly’s Sisters: The Geisha in Western Culture / 94 Jeff Kingston (ed.) 62 ・ Yoko Kawaguchi A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism / 95 ・ Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek across the Pacific / Christine R. Yano 63 ・ William E. Deal and Brian Ruppert The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan / 96 ・ Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey / Mikiso Hane and Louis G. Perez 64 ・ Scott O’Bryan ・ Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power / Ian Jared Miller, Juliet Adeney Thomas and Brett L. Walker (eds.) 97 ・ Japan Since 1945: From Postwar to Post-Bubble / Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George 98 ・ Japan: The Precarious Future / Frank Baldwin and Anne Allison (eds.) 99 Program Committee ・ Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire / David R. Ambaras 100 ・ The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan / Akiko Hashimoto 101 ・ A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present / Andrew Gordon 102 Timothy T. Clark The British Museum ・ A New History of Shinto / John Breen and Mark Teeuwen 103 ・ A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital / John Breen and Mark Teeuwen 104 Andrew Gordon Harvard University Photography ・ Dawn of Japanese Photography: The Anthology / Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (ed.) 106 Takeo Hoshi Stanford University ・ Fukushima 2011–2017 / Hiromi Tsuchida (Alan Gleason, tr.) 107 Kotaro Iizawa Photography Critic ・ Ise Jingu / Shoichi Fujita 108 ・ Mt. Fuji / Yukio Oyama 109 Simon Kaner Sainsbury Institute for ・ Rikuzentakata 2011–2014 / Naoya Hatakeyama 110 the Study of Japanese Arts ・ Risen in the East / Shintaro Sato 111 and Cultures ・ Satoyama / Mitsuhiko Imamori 112 Roland Kelts Critic, Professor at Others Waseda University ・ Japan as a Maritime Power / Masataka Kosaka 114 ・ The Last and Longest Mile: Yohei Sasakawa’s Struggle to Eliminate Leprosy / Yoshiko Kojo The University of Tokyo Fumihiko Takayama (Waku Miller, tr.) 115 Thang Leng Leng National University of Singapore ・ My Struggle against Leprosy / Yohei Sasakawa 116 No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me: One Man’s Quest for a Leprosy-Free World / ・ Helen Macnaughtan SOAS University of London Yohei Sasakawa 117 ・ Politics and Power in 20th-Century Japan: The Reminiscences of Miyazawa Kiichi / Richard Lloyd Parry The Times of London Takashi Mikuriya and Takafusa Nakamura (Timothy S. George, tr./ed.) 118 ・ Sasakawa Ryoichi: A Life / Seizaburo Sato (Fujiko Hara, tr.) 119 Pamela Winfield Elon University ・ Sugamo Diary / Ryoichi Sasakawa (Ken Hijino, tr.) 120 (Affiliations and titles are based on the most recent information provided by committee members.) 7 100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan Read Japan Project Opening Dialogue Venue: