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THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON JAPAN’S PUBLIC POLICY: How the Government is Reshaping Japan’s Role in the World | Edited by Hiroshi Itoh

Richard Leitch

CHINA’S AFRICAN CHALLENGES | By Sarah Raine

Douglas A. Yates

EAST ASIAN REGIONALISM | By Christopher M. Dent

Jaewoo Choo

THE MANAMBU LANGUAGE OF EAST SEPIK, PAPUA NEW GUINEA | By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, with the assistance of Jacklyn Yuamali Ala and Pauline Agnes Yuaneng Luma Laki

Hilário De Sousa

ISLAM AND NATION: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia | By Edward Aspinall

Shane Joshua Barter

JAPAN’S WHALING: The Politics of Culture in Historical Perspective | By Hiroyuki Watanabe; translated by Hugh Clarke

Arne Kalland

THE DRAGON’S HIDDEN WINGS: How China Rises with Its Soft Power | By Sheng Ding

Li Mingjiang

UNDERSTANDING EAST ASIA’S ECONOMIC “MIRACLES” | By Zhiqun Zhu

Thomas B. Gold

MICHAEL ROCKEFELLER: New Guinea Photographs, 1961 | By Kevin Bubriski; foreword by Robert Gardner; photographs by Michael Rockefeller

Jennifer Wagelie

DEPENDENT COMMUNITIES: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor | By Caroline Hughes

D. Gordon Longmuir