Five New Books in Japanese Studies You Should Hear About
A Selection from the New Books Network – East Asian Studies List

Kunio Hara, “Joe Hisaishi’s Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
Kirsten L. Ziomek, “Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan’s Colonial Peoples” (Harvard Asia Center. 2019)
Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg, “Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
G. Clinton Godart, “Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
Erin Schoneveld, “Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early Avant-Garde” (Brill, 2018)