and the eccentric identities and histories generated there could provide useful context for the discussion of Tokyo and help to make the capital more of a problem. Given the chapters’ brevity (eight over 178 pages), the introduction might have been the best place to provide this context. A longer introduction could also have positioned the collection within its theoretical frameworks. The individual essays engage to varying degrees with spatial analysis and memory studies but lack the space to explore them critically. The important work produced in Japanese memory studies over the last 20 years, much of it concerned with war memory, receives some attention with Thornbury’s discussion of Igarashi and references by Pendleton to Lisa Yoneyama’s work, but I am curious to know how more recent research by scholars such as Philip Seaton could contribute to the discussion of war memory that develops across several essays. Overall, Tokyo does a great service by offering new insights to familiar texts and introducing other important work to a wider audience. It demonstrates the great value of close reading, by outlining the broad spatial dynamics of the city—center and periphery, yamanote and shitamachi, the network of waterways and the bay—and then fi lling in a wealth of streetlevel detail that contributes enormously to our understanding of these emphatically place-based texts. This level of detail makes even a mega-city such as Tokyo feel local and personal, revealing how, as Schulz writes, “transformations of urban space, topography, and culture” can function as “pivotal moments of (auto)biographical identity” (p. 71). Tokyo is a welcome addition to the body of scholarship on Japan’s urban culture.

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酷日本的终结：日本流行文化的伦理、法律和文化挑战编辑。通过马克麦克莱兰

那里产生的古怪身份和历史可以为讨论东京提供有用的背景，并有助于使首都成为一个更大的问题。考虑到这些章节的简短（超过 178 页，共 8 页），引言可能是提供这种上下文的最佳位置。更长的介绍也可以将馆藏置于其理论框架内。个别文章在不同程度上参与了空间分析和记忆研究，但缺乏批判性地探索它们的空间。过去 20 年日本记忆研究的重要作品，其中大部分与战争记忆有关，在桑伯里对五十岚的讨论和彭德尔顿对米山丽莎作品的引用中受到了一些关注，但我很想知道菲利普·西顿 (Philip Seaton) 等学者最近的研究如何有助于在几篇文章中展开的关于战争记忆的讨论。总体而言，东京通过为熟悉的文本提供新的见解并向更广泛的受众介绍其他重要作品，提供了出色的服务。它通过概述城市的广阔空间动态——中心和外围、山手和下町、水道网络和海湾——展示了仔细阅读的巨大价值，然后填充了丰富的街道细节，这些细节对我们的生活有巨大的贡献。理解这些强调基于地点的文本。这种细节水平甚至让像东京这样的特大城市都感到本土化和个性化，正如舒尔茨所写的那样，揭示了“城市空间、地形、和文化”可以作为“（自我）传记身份的关键时刻”（第 71 页）。东京是日本城市文化奖学金体系的一个受欢迎的补充。