Welcome to H-Japan, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online. H-Japan is an international, nonpartisan electronic discussion group. It provides scholars, graduate students and professionals a free daily forum to discuss Japanese history, culture, religion, and society, including contemporary political, diplomatic, security, and economic issues.

- H-Japan (E): H-Net Review Publication: 'The Evolution of the Role of the Prime Minister's Office in Crisis Legislation'  H-Japan Editor <j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> - H-Japan (E): Nichibunken Evening Seminar  H-Japan Editor <j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> - H-Japan (E): Request for information from a non-list member  H-Japan Editor <j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> - H-Japan (E): "Work and resistance in neoliberal Japan," January 10th, Graduate Fieldwork Workshop, Sophia University  H-Japan Editor <j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> - H-Japan (E): "CFP: Independence and Decolonization, April 2010, Institute for Historical Studies at UT-Austin"  H-Japan Editor <j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> - H-Japan (E): Food and Food Culture Reading List?  H-Japan Editor <j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> - H-Japan (E): Announcement: Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Meiji Prints  H-Japan Editor <j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>

Reviewer: Robert Hellyer Title: Cultural Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture: The Influence of European Material Culture on Japan, 1700-1850 Author: Martha Chaiklin Reviewer: Brian McVeigh Title: A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People Author: Kevin M. Doak Reviewer: Julian Dierkes Title: Japanese Education and the Cram School Business: Functions, Challenges and Perspectives of the Juku Author: Marie HÖ¸jlund Roesgaard