JSR 2009 [Volume XIII]

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction

Volume XIII Introduction

Articles

The Triviality of a Pop Song: How Murakami's Characters Overcome Detachedness
Christopher Mihalo

The Healing Process in Two Religious Worlds
Leila Marrach Basto de Albuquerque

Ganguro in Japanese Youth Culture: Self-Identity in Cultural Conflict
Xuexin Liu

The Soka Gakkai in Cambodia
Daniel A. Métraux

Why Did Japan Fail to Achieve Full-Fledged Democracy Before World War II? An Analysis of Class Relations and Forces Using Marxian Class Theories
Yukio Yotsumoto

New Trends in the Production of Japanese Ladies' Comics: Diversification and Catharsis
Kinko Ito

Disaster-Relief Confucian-Style: Ninomiya Sontoku's Philosophical Approach to Late-Tokugawa Poverty
John A. Tucker

Sacred Pariahs: Hagiographies of Alterity, Sexuality, and Salvation in Atomic Bomb Literature
Yuki Miyamoto

Featured Essay

Dōgen and Plato on Literature and Enlightenment
Carol S. Gould

Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Complete Issue

2009 Issue