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258 BOOK REVIEWS Shen, Q., & Rosentock, M. (2015). Beyond alterity: German encounters with Modern East Asia. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN: 978-1-782-38360-4. Spang, C. W., & Wippich, R.-H. (2006). Japanese–German relations, 1895–1945. War, diplomacy and public opinion. London: Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-415-34248-3. Christian W. Spang Daito Bunka University, Tokyo spang@daad-alumni.de © 2018 Christian W. Spang https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1468641 A Japanese Jungian perspective on mental health and culture: wandering madness, by Iwao Akita, trans. by Waka Shibata and Kittredge Stephenson, Routledge, 2017（秋田巌『さまよえる狂気—精神学からの提言』創元社、 2012/1/25、240ページ）, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017, xxviii+122 pages, 115.00 EUR, (Hardback), ISBN 978-1138805699 I must confess I find it very difficult to give a summary and provide a whole picture of this book. Its style is not academic but tricky. There seems no logical connection or consistency between each chapter. One biggest question the author asks is, ‘What is madness?,’ to which question the diagnostic system of western psychiatry cannot provide any answer. The author writes he once witnessed a woman whose diagnosis was schizophrenia, screaming, ‘Iam going mad. I am on the brink of madness!’ (preface, p. xix). This episode indicates that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosed schizophrenia, yet she