Herbert Plutschow, Matsuri: The Festivals of Japan. Japan Library, Folkestone, 1996.
Gordon Matthews, What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1996. x +269pp.
Natsuko Tsujimura, An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics. Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass., and Oxford, 1996. xiv + 401pp. £50.00 (hbk), £16.99 (pbk).
W. G. Beasley, Japan Encounters the Barbarian: Japanese Travellers in America and Europe. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1995. xi + 252pp.
Beatrice Bodart‐Bailey and Derek Massarella, The Furthest Goal: Engelbert Kaempfer's Encounter with Japan. Japan Library, Folkestone, 1995. xii + 204pp. £35.00.
Jon Woronoff, The Japanese Social Crisis. Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1997. viii + 287pp. £45.00 (hbk), £16.99 (pbk).
J. Marshall Unger, Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1996. x + 176pp. £27.50.
Odagiri Hiroyuki and Gotō Akira, Technology and Industrial Development in Japan: Building Capabilities by Learning, Innovation, and Public Policy. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996. xiii + 309pp.
Makoto, Kumazawa Portraits of the Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, and Managers, ed. Andrew Gordon; trans. Andrew Gordon and Mikiso Hane. Westview Press, Boulder and Oxford, 1996. xv + 267pp. £48.50 (hbk), £14.95 (pbk).
Mari Sako and Hiroki Sato (eds), Japanese Labour and Management in Transition: Diversity, Flexibility and Participation. Routledge, London and New York, 1997. xv + 344pp. £14.99.
Brian Bocking, A Popular Dictionary of Shinto. Curzon Press, Richmond, 1996. 251pp.
Christopher Aldous, The Police in Occupation Japan: Control, Corruption and Resistance to Reform. Routledge, London and New York, 1997. xiii + 310pp. £45.00.
Marie Soderberg (ed.), The Business of Japanese Foreign Aid. Routledge, London and New York, 1996. xvii + 299pp. £47.50.
Ann Waswo, Modern Japanese Society, 1868–1994. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1996. 179pp. £7.99.
Izumi Kyōka, Japanese Gothic Tales, trans. Charles Inouye. Hawaii University Press, Honolulu, 1996. 202pp. $30 (hbk), $15.95 (pbk).
Yuriko Nagata, Unwanted Aliens: Japanese Internment in Australia. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, 1996. xv + 307 pp.