Book reviews

Mark Tilton, Restrained Trade: Cartels in Japan's Basic Materials Industries. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1996. 220pp. $29.95 (pbk).Robert Uriu, Troubled Industries: The Political Economy of Industrial Adjustment in Japan. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1996. 264pp.Brian Woodall, Japan Under Construction: Corruption, Politics and Public Works. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1996. 214pp. $28.00 (pbk).Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business and Brides. Curzon, Richmond, 1997. xii + 195pp. £40.00.Motoyama Yukihiko, Proliferating Talent: Essays on Politics, Thought and Education in the Meiji Era, ed. J. Elisonas and Richard Rubinger. Hawai'i University Press, Honolulu, 1997. xii + 475pp. $48.00.Glenn Davis and John G. Roberts, An Occupation Without Troops. Tuttle, Tokyo, 1996. 255pp. £8.99.Youli Sun, China and the Origins of the Pacific War. Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, 1993. xi + 244pp. £12.90.Maryanne Dever (ed.), Australia and Asia: Cultural Transactions. Curzon, Richmond, 1997. x +230pp.David Matsumoto, Unmasking Japan: Myths and Realities about the Emotions of the Japanese. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1996. xvi + 179pp. £25.00.Gerhard Krebs and Christian Oberlander (eds), 1945 in Europe and Asia: Reconsidering the End of World War II and the Change of the World Order. Deutsches Institut fur Japanstudien, Munich, 1997. 410pp.James Darby (ed.), Japan and the European Periphery. Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, 1996. xvii + 265pp. £45.00Kweku Ampiah, The Dynamics of Japan's Relations with Africa: South Africa, Tanzania and Nigeria. Routledge, London and New York, 1997. xix + 235pp. £45.00.Kendall H. Brown, The Politics of Reclusion: Painting and Power in Moyoyama Japan. Hawai'i University Press, Honolulu, 1997. viii + 248pp.Olive Checkland, Isabella Bird and 'A Woman's Right to Do What She Can Do Well'. Scottish Cultural Press, Aberdeen, 1996. 200pp. £16.95 (pbk).Hiromi Mori, Immigration Policy and Foreign Workers in Japan. Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1996. xiii + 227pp. £42.50.Leo J. Loveday, Language Contact in Japan: A Sociolinguistic History. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996. xii + 238pp. £35.00.Eyal Ben-Ari, Body Projects in Japanese Childcare: Culture, Organisation and Emotions in Preschool. Curzon, Richmond, 1997. x + 166pp. £40.00.Association for Japanese-Language Teaching, Japanese for Busy People I (Kana Version). Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1995. xx + 231pp.Robert Taylor, Greater China and Japan: Prospects for an Economic Partnership in East Asia. Routledge, London and New York, 1996. x + 215pp. £45 (hbk) and £13.99 (pbk).Christopher Howe (ed.) China and Japan: History, Trends and Prospects. Clarendon Paperbacks, Oxford, 1996. ix + 203pp. £12.99.Carolyn S. Stevens, On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass. Routledge, London and New York, 1997. xiii + 282pp.Kuki Shuzō Reflections on Japanese Taste: The Structure of Iki, translated by John Clark and edited by Sakuko Matsui and John Clark. Power Publications, Sydney, 1997. 168 pp.