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MIDDLEMEN OF MODERNITY: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan | By Christopher Craig

Kerry Smith

OISHII: The History of Sushi | By Eric C. Rath

Sora Skye Osuka 

THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA’S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD: Control, Self-Preservation and Continuity | By Gonzaga Puas

Ashley Meredith

SWEAT AND SALT WATER: Selected Works | By Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa, compiled and edited by Katerina Teaiwa, April K. Henderson, and Terence Wesley-Smith

Peter McQuarrie

HARVESTING STATE SUPPORT: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture | By Hanno Jentzsch

Steven R. McGreevy

KARMA AND PUNISHMENT: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan | By Adam J. Lyons

Justin McDaniel and Kirby Sokolow

JAPAN, THE SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits | By John Lie

David Leheny

FROM COUNTRY TO NATION: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan | By Gideon Fujiwara

Susan L. Burns

NEW ASIAN DISORDER: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century | Edited by Lowell Dittmer

David Bachman

EXPERIMENTS IN SKIN: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam | By Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

Elizabeth Wijaya