NUMĂR SPECIAL: JAPONIA MODERNĂ

George T. SIPOS, Guest Editor’s Introductory Note: Modern Japan: From the Meiji Restoration to the Takarazuka Revue / 5-8   

Kyu-hyun JO, A Restoration that Never Became a Revolution: The Meiji Restoration as a Rebuilder of Japanese Conservative Nationalism / 9-24

Carlo Edoardo POZZI, A Political Consideration on the Japan-Italy Treaty Revision Relations During the Inoue Kaoru Foreign Affairs Era (1879-1887): Centering on Japanese and Italian Primary Sources / 25-43

George T. SIPOS, Political Conversion Opposites: Two Writers and their 1920s Soviet Union Experience / 45-82

Beatrice-Maria ALEXANDRESCU, Contemporary Urban Hideaways: Shops in Two Japanese Novels / 83-99  

Maria GRAJDIAN, The Representation of War in Takarazuka Revue’s Performance Strategy / 101-120