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Hi everyone - tomorrow is the beginning of @CornellPress's "Tip the Scale" sale. If I understand it correctly, interest in certain books, measured through clicks and other metrics, will result in flash discounts. Tons of great books from this superb press. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/tip-the-scale-sale-may-11-13/
Before shamelessly plugging my own books, let me plug a few others. My colleague and friend Gracia Liu-Farrer wrote Immigrant Japan, which is a superb account of Japan's handling of transnational migration. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748622/immigrant-japan/
Saori Shibata's recent book is a state-of-the-art account of the politics surrounding economic vulnerability for Japan's irregular workers. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501749933/contesting-precarity-in-japan/
I reviewed @gillsteel's and #蒲島郁夫's Changing Politics in Japan for the Press a number of years back, and it's still the best, most theoretically astute account in English of a crucial period in Japan's postwar political history. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801476006/changing-politics-in-japan/
It'd be hard to find a more interesting account of Japan's early postwar political and artistic history than Justin Jesty's wonderful book. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501715044/art-and-engagement-in-early-postwar-japan/
When I had to teach myself about the history of Japanese modern drama to write one of the chapters of my most recent book, I found David Goodman's book absolutely invaluable, revealing, and insightful. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781885445162/the-return-of-the-gods/
All of @dicksamuelsMIT's books (to my knowledge) have been published by Cornell, and you can't go wrong with any of them; they're all legendary. But this is my personal favorite. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801489822/machiavellis-children/
Todd Hall's Emotional Diplomacy is superb, and deeply influenced the direction of a lot of my own recent research. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501735820/emotional-diplomacy/
Both of Eiko Maruko Siniawer's Cornell books are spectacular: her first earlier "Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists," and her new environmental history, "Waste." https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501725845/waste/
As for my own books, my first, "Rules of Play" examined Japan's postwar leisure and tourism policies as, in part, efforts to transform the putatively unique Japanese lifestyle into something "normal" by the standards of other advanced industrial nations. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801440915/the-rules-of-play/#bookTabs=1
My second, "Think Global, Fear Local," examined the localization of international agreements on criminal justice, engaging debates about terrorism, crime, and sexual exploitation. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801475344/think-global-fear-local/#bookTabs=1
My most recent one is Empire of Hope, which uses a diverse set of case studies to examine how a postwar national narrative shapes permissible forms of emotional representation in Japanese politics. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501729072/empire-of-hope/#bookTabs=1
I've written this thread quickly while having my coffee and preparing to make breakfast for my family when they wake up, so I've missed lots of great books, including many by dear friends, colleagues, and mentors. Please feel free to tag me into your own and I'll RT!
I realize that in my haste, I used "superb" and "examine" repeatedly in this thread. What can I say? I'm so hesitant to mess with tweet threads before sending them (for fear of losing the whole thing) that my proofreading and editing go completely to hell. sorry!!
