Table of Contents:

WORLD WAR II AND JAPAN

“Preparing the Flight of the Pheonix:  Nippon Stories:” The Very First Days of the Occupation of Japan  (1)
Wilton S. Dillon

Konoe and Hull:  The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere:  An Act of Benevolence or Imperialism? (23)
Kazuo Yagami

CHINESE CULTURE, HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS

Li Zhishan’s Feminist Activism in Tianjin in the 1920s  (35)
Yuxin Ma

Social Motivations for the Revival of Address Terms in China (51)
Xuexin Liu

Transgression-Obsessed:  A Cross-Cultural Reading of Judou and Curse of the Golden Flower  (63)
Li Zeng

China’s Social Policy: Meeting the Needs of China’s Orphaned and Disabled Children (73)
James W. Yoxall

CHINA AND CENTRAL ASIA

Looking Westward:  China’s Changing Relations with Central Asia (107)
Jonathan Z. Ludwig 

Educating Xinjiang’s Uyghurs: Achieving Success or Creating Unrest? (117)
Timothy A. Grose

INDIA:  CULTURE AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

What’s A Kiss: The Unchaste Chastity of Bollywood  (137)
Devon Burke

India Looks Seaward:  The case of the Proliferation Security Initiative (151)
James R. Holmes

Time Traveling in India: How Much and How Little has Changed in Only a Generation (165)
Jane Pietrowski

JAPAN: HISTORY AND CULTURE

Tokyo’s Dr. Phil  (167)
Benjamin Dorman

“In the Way of the Samurai:” Difference and Connection in Samurai Champloo (171)
Amy Fitzgerald

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK  (185)     

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BOOK REVIEWS  (195)

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John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed. Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Mulsims REALLY THINK.

Mansoor Moaddel, Ed., Values and Perceptions of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Publics
Reviewed by Gordon Bowen

Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, Will the Boat Sink the Water: The Life of China’s Peasants
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux

Gi Wook Shin and Kyung Moon Hwang, Eds. Contentious Kwangju: The May 18 Uprising in Korea’s Past and Present.
Reviewed by Eric Strange

Charles K. Armstrong, The Koreas
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux

Hideaki Matsuoka, Japanese Prayer Below the Equator: How Brazilians Believe in the Church of World Messianity
Reviewed By Daniel A. Métraux

Amy Docksert Marcus, Jerusalem 1913. 
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux.

Kozaburo Nagatsu, Hisao Suzuki, and Toshio Yamamoto, Eds, Against Nuclear Weapons: A Collection of Poems by 181 Poets.  
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux