Editorial Note

Tales of Silver and Ash - Silver in Sixteenth-Century Relations between Korea and Japan

Guillaume Carré

Brush Talk between Literati from Both Sides of the Sea:

Arai Hakuseki and Korean Envoys to Edo in 1711

Vincent Grépinet

Kokan hitsudan (...): Brush Talk in Edo with Korean Envoys

Translated by Vincent Grépinet

"The Script of the Gods": Hirata Atsutane and the Korean Script

The Need for a High Quality Native Writing System in Pre-Modern Japan

François Macé

Reconstructing a National Identity: Physical Anthropology in Post-Colonial Japan

(1945-2000)

Arnaud Nanta

The Debate on Shôwa History and the Japan of 1955:

Towards a New Meaning for Historical Knowledge

Tristan Brunet

In Memoriam

Chalmers Johnson (1931-2010)

Japan as a "Developmental State" and the Challenge to the Neo-Liberal Consensus

J.A.A Stockwin

Reviews

Books Received