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Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012

Nuclear crisis given lightweight treatment

By JEFF KINGSTON

JAPAN'S NUCLEAR CRISIS: The Routes of Responsibility

Susan Carpenter. Palgrave MacMillan

Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012

Bold move into Tamura's cold verse

By DAVID BURLEIGH

TAMURA RYUICHI: On the Life and Work of a 20th Century Master

Takako Lento &

Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012

Gallant cop, reporter on quest hit right notes

By MARK SCHREIBER

RED JADE

Henry Chang. Soho Press

Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012

Behavioral patterns in the male

By KRIS KOSAKA

RECREATING JAPANESE MEN

Sabine Fruhstuck and Anne Walthall. University of California Press

Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012

'Art Seto' bringing islands back to life

By STEPHEN MANSFIELD

INSULAR INSIGHT: Where Art and Architecture Conspire with Nature

Lars Muller and Akiko Miki. Lars Muller

Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012

Fresh light on history books

By PHILIP SEATON

POSTWAR HISTORY EDUCATION IN JAPAN AND THE GERMANYS: Guilty Lessons

Julian Dierkes. Routledge

Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012

The other side of world's 'worst battle'

By MICHAEL HOFFMAN

FIGHTING SPIRIT: The Memoirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie and the Battle of Iwo Jima. Edited

Robert D. Eldridge and Charles W. Tatum. Naval Institute Press

Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012

Grace shines through Nagai's tales of horror

By STEVE FINBOW

GEORGIC

Mariko Nagai. BkMk Press

Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012

Sophisticated and sordid: a geisha's dance

By DAVID COZY

RIVALRY

Nagai Kafu. Translated by Stephen Snyder. Columbia University Press

Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012

Holding court on warped ideas of sex and love

By JEFF KINGSTON

LOVESICK JAPAN: Sex

Mark D. West. Cornell University Press

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