U OF M Center for Japanese Studies (Imprint)

Center for Japanese Studies

The Publications Program of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan publishes research on Japan by scholars around the world. Works currently appear in print in three series (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies, and Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) and as nonseries publications. Center books have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, and World Literature Today, as well as in all the major journals on Japanese and Asian studies. Over one hundred universities and colleges have adopted Center titles as textbooks for classes on Japanese language, literature, and culture. The Center also publishes materials of special interest to industry, government, and the general public. The Center published its first book in 1950.CJS series distributed by UMP:

Center for Japanese Studies (CJS) Publications1080 S. University Ave., Suite 4640Ann Arbor 48109-1106

Submissions

Manuscripts or proposals should be sent to the Chair of the Center’s Faculty Advisory Committee for Publications, Professor Hitomi Tonomura (tomitono@umich.edu)

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Black Eggs

Poems by Kurihara Sadako

By Sadako Kurihara
Translated by Richard Minear
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The poetic voice of one of Japan’s greatest 20th-century poets

The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess

Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu

By Edward Kamens
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Religion
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Provides new translations and sensitive readings of the devotional Buddhist poems of Senshi, the Great Kamo Priestess of the Heian period

Going to Court to Change Japan

Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan

Edited by Patricia G. Steinhoff
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the relationship between social movements and the law in bringing about social change in Japan

The Grand Old Man and the Great Tradition

Essays on Tanizaki Jun’ichiro in Honor of Adriana Boscaro

Edited by Luisa Bienati & Bonaventura Ruperti
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan

Collects nine assessments of Tanizaki’s relationship with the classical literary tradition, in honor of the contributions of one of the great modernist’s most tireless scholars

The American and Japanese Auto Industries in Transition

Report of the Joint U.S.–Japan Automotive Study

Edited by Robert Cole & Taizo Yakushiji
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Economics, History of Economic Thought, Mathematics and Engineering

A History of Japan’s Government-Business Relationship

The Passenger Car Industry

By Phyllis Genther
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Business, Economics, History of Economic Thought, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

Examines the interactions between Japan's government and passenger car industry as it traces the development of the industry from its origins in the early 1900s.

Industry at the Crossroads

Edited by Robert Cole
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Economics, History of Economic Thought
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

Proceedings from the second U.S.-Japan Automotive Conference, 1982

Political Leadership in Contemporary Japan

Edited by Terry MacDougall
Subjects: Political Science, Criminology, Sociology, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

A collection of essays capturing the state of leadership in postwar Japan

Tales of Times Now Past

Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection

By Marian Ury
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Fiction, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

Japan in the World, the World in Japan

Fifty Years of Japanese Studies at Michigan

Edited by Center for Japanese Studies
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan

An intimate look at the growth of Japanese studies at the University of Michigan.

Automobiles and the Future

Competition, Cooperation, and Change

Edited by Robert Cole
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Economics, History of Economic Thought
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

Proceedings from the third U.S.-Japan Automotive Conference, 1983

The Wild Goose

By Ogai Mori & Ogai Mori
Translated by Burton Watson
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A recreation of Tokyo in the 1880s by one of Japan’s most influential novelists

Sukeroku’s Double Identity

The Dramatic Structure of Edo Kabuki

Edited by Barbara Thornbury
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

A study of traditional Edo kabuki through the play Sukeroku.

Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan

Edited by Robert Marshall
Subjects: Sociology, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

The first detailed investigation into the decision making processes of rural Japan

The Japanese Automotive Industry

Model and Challenge for the Future?

Edited by Robert Cole
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Economics, History of Economic Thought
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

Proceedings from the first U.S.-Japan Automotive Conference, 1981

Christian Converts and Social Protests in Meiji Japan

By Irwin Scheiner
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

Addresses the reasons for samurai warriors' turn to Christianity and the nature of conversion

The American Automobile Industry

Rebirth or Requiem?

Edited by Robert Cole
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

Proceedings from the fourth U.S.-Japan Automotive Conference, 1984

“The Sting of Death” and Other Stories

By Toshio Shimao
Translated by Kathryn Sparling
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Fiction
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

A translation of “The Sting of Death” and other stories by Japanese short fiction writer Shimao Toshio

Nowaki

By Soseki Natsume & Soseki Natsume
Translated by William N. Ridgeway
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The lives and minds of three men come together in ways that are both commonplace and surprising

The Culture of the Quake

The Great Kanto Earthquake and Taisho Japan

By Alex Bates
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An exploration of Taishō-era narrative fiction

Lords of the Sea

Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan

By Peter D. Shapinsky
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Reframes medieval Japan through the perspective of seafarers, a novel supplement to conventional land-based analyses

Conquering Demons

The “Kirishitan,” Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature

By Jan C. Leuchtenberger
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the origins and influence of three popular anti-Kirishitan (anti-Christian) works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Rethinking Japanese History

By Yoshihiko Amino
Contributions by Hitomi Tonomura
Translated by Alan S. Christy
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A call to reconsider Japanese history from the perspective of the deep past

Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan

The Development of the Feminist Movement

By Mara Patessio
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Offers a fresh perspective on Meiji Japan with a spotlight on women’s activities in the new public spaces of the era

Laughing Wolf

By Yuko Tsushima & Yuko Tsushima
Translated by Dennis Washburn
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Depicts Japan’s grisly postwar years through the eyes of two children travelling by train

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