History and folklore studies in Japan
By: edited by David L. Howell and James C. Baxter.
Contributors: Howell, David Luke.; Baxter, James C., 1944-; Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyū Sentā.
Edition: 1st English ed.
Series: International Symposium in North America -- 2002; Kokusai shinpojūmu -- 2002.
Publisher: International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Kyoto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Folklore and history -- Japan -- Congresses.; Japan -- Civilization -- 1868- -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers from the Conference held in Princeton, Jan. 15-17, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English, with one contribution in Japanese.
Table of contents: value: Foreword / James C. Baxter; value: Introduction / David L. Howell; value: Who oversees the spirit? : a reassessment of the custom of deifying humans / Komatsu Kazuhiko; value: Ogai's antiquarianism : parting with history / Thomas Keirstead; value: When abortion became a crime : abortion, infanticide, and the law in early Meiji Japan / Susan Burns; value: Making sense of senseless violence in early Meiji Japan / David L. Howell; value: Media and the folk / Thomas Looser; value: Kume Kunitake ni okeru 40-nen no okure no imi / Sonoda Hidehiro; value: The battle of tropical Ryukyu kingdom tourist Okimawa / Gerald Figal.