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Vol.086 Special Feature: Power and Popular Opinion
  • Photographic Report
    Revisiting a Medieval Art Form: The Daimokutate Dramatic Performance    		 by Yukiko Okimoto
  • Preface
    Power and Popular Opinion    		 by Satoshi Machidori
  • Special Feature: Power and Popular Opinion
    When Popular Opinion Threatens Democracy: European Populism and Plebiscites    		 by Jiro Mizushima
  • The Trump Revolution and the Two-Party System in the United States by Hiroshi Okayama
  • The Politics of the Duterte Regime in the Philippines: The Evolution of Politics since the People Power Revolution and Democratization by Yusuke Takagi
  • Chinese Populism in the Internet Age by Tomoko Ako
  • The Administration of Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and the Voice of the People by Toshiyuki Kanai
  • Essays
    Basho’s Haiku and Its French Translation    		 by Toru Haga
  • The “Beheading Cult” in Western Art and Literature by Shuji Takashina
  • Photo-essay
    Islands, People, and the Passage of Time: A Visit to the Holy Island of Toshijima (Toba, Mie Prefecture)    		 by Naoyuki Agawa
  • Articles
    Lies of Meiji History: Talking in 5/7/5 in Haiku    		 by Kaoru Iokibe
  • Toward a Better National Archive System: In Reference to Great Britain by Sochi Naraoka
  • The Legacy of the Security Laws for Future Generations: On the Abe Government by Masaru Kohno
  • Be Mature and Distinguish the Forest from the Trees: Overcoming Korea-Japan Disputes based on Incompatible National Historical Narrative by Seung Hyok Lee

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  • Daring to Ask the Big Questions: On the Forces Moving Twenty-First Century History by Satoshi Ikeuchi
  • Essays
    The Uses of Replicas: The Problem of Preserving “Earthquake Remains”    		 by Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Yakisugi: Building a Japanese Teahouse in London by Terunobu Fujimori
  • Thoughts on Flying Squirrels by Daisaburo Okumoto
  • Tomoo Otaka and the Writing of the Ministry of Education’s 1948-49 Textbook “Democracy” by Tadashi Karube
  • Correspondence on Current Thought
    Aizawa Seishisai and State Shinto    		 by Daiki Takayama
  • The Politics of White Anger in America by Margarita Estevez-Abe
  • The “Infinite” Japanese Language by Jay Rubin
  • A Serious Novel for a Society in the Midst of Rapid Change: “Ordinary World” by Lu Yao and Other Chinese Bestsellers by Kyoka Izumi
  • Dialogue
    Suddenly a Hard-to-Believe Fate: Milan Kundera and Tomáš Sedláček Talk about Leoš Janáček    		  
  • Correspondence
    Is This Time Different? The Crisis of Liberal Democracy: A Discussion among Bill Emmott, Jonathan Rauch, and Masayuki Tadokoro    		  

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  • Serial
    The Transformation of World History: Prolegomenon Rethinking History from China’s Song Dynasty    		 by Masashi Miura
  • Forum Report
    Reexaming Japan in Global Context Part 10: Civil-Military Relations