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Spirituality as a WayCarl Becker, KASHIO Naoki
How do Japanese people foster spiritual awarene...How do Japanese people foster spiritual awareness? This book provides a fresh perspective on spirituality by highlighting the wisdom of Japan: ‘Way’ (pronounced michi or dō in Japanese), which mak... -
Anthropology of BaKAJIMARU Gaku, Caitlin Coker, KAZAMA Kazuhiro
Do places influence human behavior? In everyday...Do places influence human behavior? In everyday thinking, spaces and places are generally seen as empty vessels where human activity occurs. Digging a bit deeper, we can distinguish spaces from pla... -
Baseball in Occupied JapanTANIKAWA Takeshi
How was baseball used to promote U.S. values in...How was baseball used to promote U.S. values in occupied Japan? The first post-war Japanese professional baseball game was held on November 23, 1945, just 100 days after the end of World War II. D... -
Gender History in ChinaKOHAMA Masako, Linda Grove
How have femininity and masculinity been define...How have femininity and masculinity been defined and understood in China from prehistoric times to the present day? Gender History in China presents for the first time in English the work of leadi... -
Amorphous DissentKINOSHITA Chigaya, TANAKA Hikaru, HORIE Takashi, KATO Tetsuro, TORIYAMA Atsushi, TANNO Kiyoto
Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in the wak...Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011, Japan has seen a significant revival in its social activism. Large-scale social movements spran... -
Violence and DemocracyNAKAMIZO 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... -
An Intimate JourneyAOYAMA Waka
This work offers a comprehensive description of...This work offers a comprehensive description of the lives of the Sama-Bajau people based on ongoing ethnographic research conducted by the author in Davao City, the Philippines, for over two decade... -
Conceptualizing the Malay WorldSODA Naoki
Conceptualizing the Malay World explores the in...Conceptualizing the Malay World explores the interrelations between the indigenization of "colonial knowledge" and the quest for pan-Malay identity in Malaya. In what way, to what extent and for wh... -
Hypothesis - Experiment class (Kasetsu)FUNAHASHI Haruhiko, ITAKURA Kiyonobu
Hypothesis–Experiment (Kasetsu) Class is, in it...Hypothesis–Experiment (Kasetsu) Class is, in its simplest terms, a class designed so that students can learn ‘basic, universal scientific rules and concepts’ in an enjoyable way. This method was ma... -
The State Construction of 'Japaneseness'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... -
U.S. Occupation of OkinawaYOSHIMOTO 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... -
Grassroots GlobalizationSHIMIZU Hiromu
Rapidly advancing globalization impacts indigen...Rapidly advancing globalization impacts indigenous people worldwide. In this long-term study of a remote village famous for its World Heritage-listed rice terraces, where the people actively confro...
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