The Bibliographical Control of English-Language Writings About Japan With Particular Focus on the Social Sciences and Area Studies

none. Footnotes: 47 footnotes. Maps: none. Ulustrations: 8 photographs (black and white). Special Notations: none. Classification: History (Local). Time Period Covered: 1860s. Geographical Coverage: Nagasaki. Subject Terms (General): Bakumatsu Period; Meiji Restoration; Military modernization. Subject Terms (Specific): Arms smuggling; British merchants; Choshu loyalists. Subject Terms (Personal): Glover, Thomas Blake (1838-1912); Kido Takayoshi (1833-1877). Subiect Terms (Place Names): Nagasaki (city). Furthermore, all book reviews of publications focusing on Japan that appear within the periodicals covered by the "Index Japonicus" team would be indexed for inclusion either within the "Index Japonicus" database or in a separate bibliographic database. The books in question would include not only publications in European languages but also works written in Chinese, Japanese and Korean that have been introduced to Western audiences through the reviewing media. A typical database entry for such a publication would include its basic bibliographical particulars together with a complete listing of its reviews. Both the names of the reviewers and the language of each review (if other than English) would be specified. When initially conceived in the mid-1970s, this was envisaged as part of a related project that would cover China, Hong Kong, Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan and Tibet as well as Japan. The compilation of a reasonably comprehensive bibliography of book reviews dealing with all of East Asia would entail relatively little extra effort insofar as the primary stage of the project—tracking down appropriate reviews—is concerned because most of the journals focusing on China would be checked for articles relating to Japan in the course of the "Index Japonicus" project Author, titie and subtitle, edition, city of publication, publisher, date of publication, and series statemen t. iThis may be seen in the following example: Minear, Richard H. Victors'Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. Reviews: Terry L. Albertson, Harvard International Law Journal 13, no.3 (Summer 1972): 550-54; Burton F. Beers, Journal of American History 61, no.3 (Dec. 1974): 836-37; Milton Cantor, American Journal of Legal History 16, no.4 (Oct 1972): 369-73; Kenneth Fuchs, Journal ofPolitics 35, no.l (Feb. 1973): 261; Donald R. Harkleroad, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 5, no.2 (Summer 1972): 413-17; Erwin Knoll, Washington Post (Dec. 17,1971): section 6, p.8; Theodore McNelly, American Political Science Review 67, no.2 (June 1973): 721-22; Melvin Small, American Historical Review 79, no.5 (Dec. 1974): 1613- 14; Kurt Steiner, Journal ofAsian Studies 32, no.4 (Aug. 1973): 708-09; Richard Storry, Pacific Affairs 45, no.3 (Fall 1972): 431-32; Bernard D. Williams, Best Sellers 31, no.18 (Dec. 15,1971): 419; Lawrence S. Wittner, Pacific Historical Review 41, no.2 (May 1972): 262-63; The Economist 243 (June 17,1972): 62-63; Kirkus Reviews 39, no.19 (Oct 1,1971): 1104; T.LS. The Times Uterary Supplement (Sept. 1, 1972): 1029.