" A sumptuously documented book, one that makes innovative use of the principle of montage
to generate informative historical readings of Japan's myriad mass cultural phenomena in …

The Modern Girl makes only a brief appearance in our histories of prewar Japan. She is a
glittering, decadent, middle-class consumer who, through her clothing, smoking, and drinking, …

One afternoon in tokyo in the summer of 1921, ten Waseda University students visited the
home of Gonda Yasunosuke, the critic of Japanese popular culture. Each was writing a …

… Positioning Nakano's thought within the very history of Japanese Marxism, Miriam Silverberg
applies textual analyses to his pre-war writings to form a new perspective on the history of …

In January 1925, the Osaka Asahi newspaper organized a spectacle. This gathering of
close to one hundred children, whose names contained the Chinese ideogram" Sho" of the …

In diabetes, loss of renal arteriolar smooth-muscle cell contractility leads to intraglomerular
hypertension. In glomeruli isolated from streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats, the …

OBJECTIVE: Age bias has been reported to result in undertreatment of elderly patients with
various medical conditions. We investigated whether a similar bias exists in the treatment of …

Tumor-induced osteomalacia, also known as oncogenic osteomalacia, is a rare paraneoplastic
syndrome in which vitamin D resistant osteomalacia occurs due to the presence of a …

We now know that notwithstanding the stellar example of Abe Sada bad can mean rightfully
vengeful wronged women (the warp and weft of legends), unconventional make-up, and for …

The loneliness of Charlie's body stirred up a fever in my heart on my return from parting with
N at Ueno. They were doing last month's Goldrush at the pitiful Shuraku Cinema on the …