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UENO Chizuko
This is written by a sociologist and Japan's "most famous feminist", Chizuko Ueno. A discursive...
BEFU Harumi
Much of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain...
OGUMA Eiji
This book presents a counter-argument to the Japanese belief that they are a homogeneous nation...
OGUMA Eiji
The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have operated for centuries in the island chain that...
HIROTA Noboru
Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has...
FILLER Stephen, MARUYAMA Satomi
Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the...
SUDO Noriko, TANIKAWA Takeshi
This book examines the interdependent relationships between the film industry and the state in East...
YOSHIMOTO Hideko
Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persuade the local...
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$42.95
ENDO Masataka
For more than 140 years, Japan's koseki registr...For more than 140 years, Japan's koseki registration system has functioned as the official means by which an individual qualifies as "Japanese". Information concerning each family is entered into o... -
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TSURUMI Shunsuke, AOYAMA Tomoko, BAILEY Penny
The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Aft...The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume is the first complete English translation of Ame no Uzume den (1991) by one of Japan's most influential post-war intellectuals... -
$34.95
IHARA Ryoji
Anybody who is a dedicated Toyota driver and ad...Anybody who is a dedicated Toyota driver and admirer of the Toyota Production System would be shocked to read of Ryoji Ihara's experience as a casual worker in a Toyota factory in Japan. As the Toy... -
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TANI Masato
Improvisation is a defining characteristic of t...Improvisation is a defining characteristic of traditional Iranian music. Iranian musicians describe their music as ‘impossible to play in the same way twice’ or ‘able to be performed in many ways,’... -
$49.95
KUMAGAI Seiji, Miguel Álvarez ORTEGA, Françoise POMMARET, Anna Balikci DENJONGPA
Lying in the south-eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, S...Lying in the south-eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Sikkim, and the Mon region show a rich and complex development as a contact area, one of intricate multi-layered cultural tapestries, a fascinating cro... -
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YOSHIMOTO Hideko
Throughout twenty-seven years of military occup...Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persuade the local Okinawan public that the US administration of Okinawa should be maintained. The US mai... -
$49.95
ABE Mika
In the late Edo period, when society was maturi...In the late Edo period, when society was maturing and Japan was moving to open its doors to the outside world, landscapes were undergoing major changes. Many world-famous ukiyo-e painters were acti... -
$34.95
FURUKAWA Akira
In Village Life in Modern Japan, author Akira F...In Village Life in Modern Japan, author Akira Furukawa argues that the mainstream of environmentalism today remains trapped within the modernist paradigm that has led to the present global environm... -
$79.95
NAKAMIZO Kazuya
The Bhagalpur riots occurred in the Indian stat...The Bhagalpur riots occurred in the Indian state of Bihar during the 1989 Lok Sabha election campaign. In the lead-up, political actors and parties exploited religious identities for their own elec... -
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AOKI Deborah Mcdowell
This book presents a wide-ranging study of wido...This book presents a wide-ranging study of widows in Japan, filtered through the dramatic and complex intersection of women with death. These experiences are portrayed as intensely personal and yet... -
$84.95
OGAWA Hideshi
Tibetan monkeys (Macaca thibetana) live at Mt. ...Tibetan monkeys (Macaca thibetana) live at Mt. Huangshan in Anhui province, China. They are called 'Duanweihou' in Chinese ('Duan' means short, 'wei' means tail, and 'hou' means monkey). They belon... -
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CHAZONO Toshimi
After World War II, for a variety of reasons, s...After World War II, for a variety of reasons, some women in Japan had intimate relations with occupying US soldiers. These women were called ‘panpan’, a derogatory label, and to this day have been ...