June issue is out and we’re off to Kathmandu

June issue is out and we’re off to Kathmandu

June issue now available and the journal will have a booth at the AAS-in-Asia conference.

Underrepresentation of Women in Japanese Politics with Comparative Reference to Taiwan

Underrepresentation of Women in Japanese Politics with Comparative Reference to Taiwan

Yasuo Takao

Volume 98 – No. 2

June 2025 Book Reviews

DEGLOBALIZATION | By Edward Ashbee

Marina Yue Zhang

SHIFTING SANDS: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China’s Contemporary Borderlands | By Xiaoxuan Lu

Tianlong You

CLIMATE POLITICS IN OCEANIA: Renewing Australia-Pacific Relations in a Warming World | Edited by Susan Harris Rimmer, Caitlin Byrne, and Wesley Morgan

Milla Vaha

JAPANESE RACIAL IDENTITIES WITHIN US-JAPAN RELATIONS, 1853–1919 | By Tarik Merida

Michael Sharpe

VOICES OF THE SILENCED | Directed by Soo-nam Park and Maeui Park; produced by Emi Ueyama

Jooyeon Rhee

TOWARD A FREE ECONOMY: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India | By Aditya Balasubramanian

Yasser Ali Nasser

RIGHTEOUS DEMAGOGUES: Populist Politics in South Asia and Beyond | By Adnan Naseemullah and Pradeep Chhibber

Sefika Kumral