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Monstrous Pasts, Robotic Futures: A Review Essay - Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan. By Miri Nakamura. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. xvi, 178 pp. - Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation. By Jennifer Robertson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xv, 260 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2019

Keita Moore
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kcmoore@umail.ucsb.edu
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 78 , Issue 2 , May 2019 , pp. 449 - 454
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