Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

R.ハッチンソン他編　近現代日本文学ハンドブック　第2版
Hutchinson, Rachael / Morton, Leith Douglas (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature. 2nd ed. 468 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK)
ISBN 978-1-032-82152-8 hard ¥65,780.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

This new 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive survey of the field of modern Japanese literature and gives readers an overview of how we study Japanese literature today.Including sections on space and time, gender and sexuality, politics, war memory, national and colonial identities and the production and dissemination of literature, the Handbook examines the ways in which it is possible to read modern Japanese literature and situate it in relation to critical theory. It also features updated and brand-new chapters addressing the works of internationally renowned writers such as Futabatei Shimei and Murakami Haruki and defines the way writers produce literature in modern Japan, as well as how those works have been read and understood by different readers in different time periods.Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook examines modes of literary production such as fiction, poetry, and critical essays as distinct forms of expression that nonetheless are closely interrelated and as such it will be a vital resource for students and scholars of Japanese Literature, literature in translation and modern and contemporary literature.

日本と東アジアにおける開発の代替的歴史
Amos, Timothy D. / Ishii, Akiko / Lim, Samson (eds.), Alternative Histories of Development in Japan and East Asia: Unthinking Modernization, Recreating Lifeworlds. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) 256 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-639>
ISBN 978-1-032-80039-4 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book examines the history of development in East Asia in terms of material change and human-nature relations from the perspectives of people living in Asia in modern and pre-modern periods.By challenging the reader to "unthink" what modern development is, each chapter offers a case study which discovers and reconstructs indigenous forms of knowledge and local practice related to material change. In doing so, the book illuminates the point where modern notions of development emerged and thus aids in the process of understanding how they achieved hegemonic status. This in turn expands the notion of what development can and should entail and provides valuable pathways for rethinking our relations with the social world and the environment.This book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Asian development, Asian history and environmental history.

日本のマンガの新しい歴史
Exner, Eike, Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics. 256 pp. 2025:6 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-648>
ISBN 978-0-300-28094-4 hard ¥7,795.- (税込) US$ 37.50 *

A groundbreaking story of Japanese comics from their nineteenth-century origins to the present day The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese comics, has made its mark across global pop culture, influencing film, visual art, video games, and more. This book is the first to tell the history of comics in Japan as a single, continuous story, focusing on manga as multipanel cartoons that show stories rather than narrate them. Eike Exner traces these cartoons' gradual evolution from the 1890s until today, culminating in manga's explosion in global popularity in the 2000s and the current shift from print periodicals to digital media and smartphone apps. Over the course of this 130-year history, Exner answers questions about the origins of Japanese comics, the establishment of their distinctive visuals, and how they became such a fundamental part of the Japanese publishing industry, incorporating well-known examples such as Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon, as well as historical manga little known outside of Japan. The book pays special attention to manga's structural development, examining the roles played not only by star creators but also by editors and major publishers such as Kodansha that embraced comics as a way of selling magazines to different, often gendered, readerships. This engaging narrative presents extensive new research, making it an essential read for enthusiasts and experts alike.

藤川真由著　近世ヨーロッパにおける日本の大使
Fujikawa, Mayu, Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe. 248 pp. 2025:9 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <748-649>
ISBN 978-0-271-09925-5 hard ¥20,787.- (税込) US$ 99.99

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Japan sent its first diplomatic delegations to visit the popes and dignitaries of Europe. European artists portrayed these historic ambassadors-the Tensho embassy (1582-90) and the Keicho embassy (1613-20)-in numerous oil paintings, frescoes, drawings, and prints. Envisioning Diplomacy analyzes these images-including newly discovered and lost works-within their cross-cultural and diplomatic contexts.Drawing on extensive and geographically expansive archival research, art historian Mayu Fujikawa investigates how the embassies were received and either assimilated or differentiated at European courts. She demonstrates how delegates' gifts to their hosts, their Europeanized kimonos, and the Western clothes they wore while traveling functioned as tools of soft diplomacy. Fujikawa also shows how printed materials functioned much as news does today, promoting the embassies widely and conveying information about the guests and their striking physical appearance.Envisioning Diplomacy offers a fascinating look at the political, social, and cultural meanings of visual materials created around the embassies and should be of great interest to scholars, students, and general readers interested in early modern European art and history, costume history, diplomatic history, and Japanese and global studies.

Linton, Charlotte, Dyeing with the Earth: Textiles, Tradition, and Sustainability in Contemporary Japan. 328 pp. 2025:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-651>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2898-7 hard ¥25,987.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-1-4780-3221-2 paper ¥7,068.- (税込) US$ 34.00

現代沖縄の生きている人、死者、犠牲
Nelson, Christopher T., When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa. 304 pp. 2025:7 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-652>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2872-7 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3196-3 paper ¥6,018.- (税込) US$ 28.95 *

Haunted by the past, ordinary Okinawans struggle to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. They are caught up in a web of people and practices - living and dead, visible and immaterial - that exert powerful forces often beyond their control. In When the Bones Speak, Christopher T. Nelson examines the myriad ways contemporary Okinawans experience, remember, and contest sacrifice. He attends to the voices of those who find their vocation in service to others, from shamans, fortune-tellers, laborers, and artists to dead soldiers, war survivors, antiwar activists, and Christian missionaries. Nelson shows how the memories of past sacrifices, atrocities, and exploitation as well as residual trauma shape modern life in Okinawa and the possibility and hope for creative action grounded in the everyday. Offering new understandings of colonial transformation, wartime violence, and military occupation, Nelson writes from the intersection of temporalities and possibilities, where the hard finality of the past may be broken open to reveal a "not yet" that has always remained just beyond reach.

黒潮のフロンティア　第1巻：日本の太平洋の形成における帝国と環境
Rueegg, Jonas, The Kuroshio Frontier. Volume 1: Empire and Environment in the Making of Japan's Pacific. (Cambridge Oceanic Histories) 2025:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-653>
ISBN 978-1-009-53457-4 hard ¥27,170.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

修験道の秘密の世界－災害後の日本における聖なる山と意味の探求
Dahl, Shayne A. P., The Secret World of Shugendo: Sacred Mountains and the Search for Meaning in Post-Disaster Japan. (Where Religion Lives) 272 pp. 2025:11 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-111>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9059-9 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9060-5 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

In this compelling narrative of discovery set in Japan's remote Dewa Sanzan mountain range, Shayne A. P. Dahl describes Shugendo, a secretive religious tradition that combines aspects of Shinto, Buddhism, and mountain worship. As a participant-observer, Dahl invites readers into the practices of contemporary ascetics who see the sacred mountains as wombs within which cycles of life, death, and rebirth can be harnessed for the sake of personal transformation and existential realization. As Dahl argues, immersion in Shugendo provides ascetics and pilgrims with an escape from capitalist modernity and an avenue for self-reflection in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster near Fukushima in March 2011. Immersing readers in the intimate and hidden dimensions of Shugendo, Dahl sheds light on how practitioners sustain their traditions in the face of modern temptations and tensions within their religious communities. Filled with insight into Shugendo's contribution to Japanese cultural identity, this book offers groundbreaking perspective on the intersections of ecology, disaster, religion, the human condition, and death.