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Featured Publication: 「玩鬼」の遺したもの 資料紹介・原田種夫『九州の玩具』[文学批評 叙説: 2023]
Ohara, Yuji/大原 祐治. “「玩鬼」の遺したもの―資料紹介・原田種夫『九州の玩具』,” Josetsu/叙説. Hana Shoin/花書院, 2023. This article in Josetsu/叙説 features one of our holdings, “Kyushu no gangu/九州の玩具” (1947). (Prange Call No. NK-9002).
Featured Publication: kansai tantei / Sengo senryoki no taishu bunka
Ishikawa, Takumi, ed. Kansai tantei / Sengo senryoki no taishu bunka. Dai1kan/『関西探偵/捕物作家クラブ会報』集成 : 戦後占領期の大衆文化. 第1巻. (Kanazawa: Kanazawa Bumpokaku, 2023) New publication from Kanazawa Bumpokaku on newsletters, such as 探偵小説ニュースＤＳnews and 捕物作家クラブ会報. An excerpt from Kanazawa Bumpokaku’s website: 占領期・戦後期から1960年代に至る関西探偵作家クラブの活動の全貌に迫る貴重な資料となる会報『関西探偵作家クラブ会報』、江戸川乱歩と野村胡堂の絆を軸として1949年に結成された捕物作家クラブの会報『捕物作家クラブ会報』、「読売新聞社・探偵小説を愉しむ会」の『会報』、自由出版株式会社が組織した書籍・雑誌の購買組織であるDS読書会の会員に送られたPR誌『DS news』などを収録。
Newly Acquired Secondary Sources on the Occupation (2023)
We have acquired the following secondary sources on the Occupation period in 2023. See also our acquisitions in 2014, 2015 (Part I), and 2015 (Part II), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Nanako Ōta/太田奈名子. Senryōki rajio hōsō to “maiku no kaihō” : shihai o umu koe, ningen o umu nikusei/占領期ラジオ放送と「マイクの開放」 : 支配を生む声, 人間を生む肉声. 東京 : 慶應義塾大学出版会, 2022. Katsuhiko Murakami/村上勝彦. Shinchūgun […]
Featured Publication: Wagashi
An image of “Sazaesan” (Shimaisha: 1946) is mentioned in an academic journal “Wagashi,” annually published by Toraya (Japanese sweets company) in its April 2023 issue.
Newly Acquired Secondary Sources on the Occupation (2022)
We have acquired the following secondary sources on the Occupation period in 2022. See also our acquisitions in 2014, 2015 (Part I), and 2015 (Part II), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Miyako Okahara/岡原都. Sengo Nihon no media to shakai kyōiku : “fujin no jikan” no hōsō kara “NHK fujin gakkyū” no shūdan gakushū made/戦後日本のメディアと社会教育 : 「婦人の時間」の放送から「NHK婦人学級」の集団学習まで. 東京 : 福村出版, […]
Featured Publication: Sakaguchi Ango Daijiten
Ando, Hiroshi; Ohara, Yuji; Toeda, Hirokazu/ 安藤宏;大原祐治;十重田裕一編集代表. Sakaguchi Ango Daijiten/ 坂口安吾大事典, 2022. Sakaguchi Ango (1906 – 1955), best known for his discourse on failure and decadence, left a manifold legacy ranging from modernist works, historical fiction, detective novels, genre stories and plays, to essays and works of cultural criticism. Based on latest new scholarly research […]
Featured publication: Hokkaido no jido bunkashi
日本児童文学学会北海道支部編著. Hokkaidō no jidō bungaku bunkashi/北海道の児童文学・文化史, 2022.
Newly Acquired Secondary Sources on the Occupation (2021)
We have acquired the following secondary sources on the Occupation period in 2020. See also our acquisitions in 2014, 2015 (Part I), and 2015 (Part II), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. Fukiko Aoki/青木冨貴子. GHQ to tatakatta onna Sawada Miki/GHQと戦った女 沢田美喜. Tokyo/東京: 新潮社, 2018. Daizaburō Yui/油井大三郎. Mikan no senryō kaikaku : Amerika chishikijin to suterareta Nihon minshuka kōsō/未完の占領改革 […]
Featured Publication: Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train
Congratulations to Dr. Jessamyn Abel, a former 20th Century Japan Research Award winner, for the publication of, Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train. According to the Stanford University Press website, “A symbol of the ‘new Japan’ displayed at World’s Fairs, depicted in travel posters, and celebrated as the product of […]
Featured Publication: Bat Kid
We’re pleased to announce the publication of the English translation of Bat Kid (1947 – 1949, Inoue Kazuo) by Ryan Holmberg, a former recipient of a 20th Century Japan Research Award. Bat Kid is considered the first major baseball manga in Japan. According to the publisher, “A rare opportunity to read early postwar manga in English, this edition of […]
Gordon W. Prange Collection 