Critical Readings on Japanese Confucianism advances more in-depth understandings of the multifaceted nature of Confucianism in Japan by bringing together important studies from the humanities and works in translation, offering a vision of Confucianism as a dynamic cultural force.

John A. Tucker, Ph.D. (1990), Columbia University, is Professor of Asian History at East Carolina University. He has translated two important Confucian texts, Itō Jinsai's Gomō jigi (Brill, 1996) and of Ogyū Sorai's Bendō and Benmei (2006, University of Hawaii).