JICPAS issues an English-language magazine "Review of Japanese Culture and Society" offering an international analysis of Japanese people and culture. This magazine is published with a view to enhance international recognition of Japanese culture and its society as well as to stimulate mutual understanding and study the methods of cultural theory.

Foreword

Mizuta Noriko i

Introduction

Sekine Eiji iii

The Vernacular Movement (言文一致運動) in Japan and the Formation of Selfhood

Sekine Eiji iii

In the Scopic Regime of Discovery: Ishikawa Takuboku's Romaji Nikki and the Gendered Premise of Self-Identity Charles

Shir ? Inoue 10

Salvation from a Barren Paternity: The Concept of Masculinity and Koda Rohan's Writings Ann Sherif 24

 

Mori Ogai: Subjectivity, Historical Change, and Their Proper Language

Lewis Dibble 31

Shimizu Shikin's "The Broken Ring": A Narrative of Female Awakening

Rebecca L. Copeland 38

Modernity and Madness: Lu Sun, Soseki, and Irokawa Takehiro

Sekine Eiji 48

Fiction
Water's Edge

Tsushima Yoko 54