The Russian Impact on Japan: Literature and Social Thought. By Nobori Shomu and Akamatsu Katsumaro. Translated and edited, with introductions and illustrative data, by Peter Berton, Paul F. Longer, and George O. Totten. School of International Relations, University of Southern California, Far Eastern and Russian Research Series, no. 5. Los Angeles, Calif.: University of Southern California Press, 1981. 143 pp. $9.50, cloth. $6.50, paper.