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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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TAMADA Yoshifumi
This study challenges the prevailing view that ...This study challenges the prevailing view that Thailand's democratization process in the 1990s was led by the active middle class. It presents an alternative explanation, examining certain 'passive... -
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SHIRAISHI Takashi
The rise of the new middle classes in Southeast...The rise of the new middle classes in Southeast Asia has brought about important transformations in various countries - politically, socially, economically, and culturally - while producing new 'Ea... -
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NOBUTA Toshihiro
Orang Asli is a generic name given to the indig...Orang Asli is a generic name given to the indigenous people living on the Malay Peninsula. Using extensive ethnographic data, Living on the Periphery reveals the way in which state-initiated develo... -
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ABE Shigeyuki
In the face of the financial crisis of East Asi...In the face of the financial crisis of East Asia in 1997, Japan successfully pressed forth the Miyazawa Plan and other efficient rescue packages while the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the ... -
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SODA Ryoji
Based on participant observation and interviews...Based on participant observation and interviews in a village in Sarawak, Ryoji Soda examines outward migration from the village, the migrants' living strategies in urban areas, their frequent moves... -
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SHIRAISHI Takashi, ABINALES Patricio N.
After the Crisis looks at Southeast Asia-especi...After the Crisis looks at Southeast Asia-especially Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines-after the Asian financial crisis. This eleventh volume of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia takes ... -
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ABINALES Patricio N., ISHIKAWA Noboru, TANABE Akio
As much of the world turns its attention to que...As much of the world turns its attention to questions of the role and even survival of the nation-state formation in an increasingly globalized world, the authors of this interdisciplinary volume s... -
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HAYAMI Yoko
In this study, Hayami suggests that the Karen i...In this study, Hayami suggests that the Karen in northwestern Thailand are located "betwixt and between" the peripheries and the mainstream of the modern nation-state. It demonstrates how the Karen... -
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HAYAMI Yoko, TANABE Akio, TOKITA-TANABE Yumiko
Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic fieldwork, ...Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic fieldwork, this anthology examines the complexities of identity formation and self-positioning in post-colonial contexts, ranging from the impact of Christian mi... -
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FURUKAWA Hisao
Uniquely interdisciplinary in orientation, the ...Uniquely interdisciplinary in orientation, the book joins experts in ecology, agriculture, medicine and development studies to produce this large-scale study. The authors argue that a number of qua... -
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HAYASHI Yukio
Based on long-term fieldwork, Hayashi presents ...Based on long-term fieldwork, Hayashi presents the local history of Thai-Lao religion and society, up to and including its present-day dynamics. Working from the analytical premise that concepts su... -
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RAMBO A. Terry
Volume 9 of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia brin...Volume 9 of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia brings together the author's selected writings about Vietnam from the past forty years. The book opens with an autobiographical account of his history as ...