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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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SAITO Teruko
Various contractual deeds were exchanged betwee...Various contractual deeds were exchanged between people in Burmese dynastic society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These deeds, known as thet-kayits, especially debt deeds, are valuabl... -
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ISHIDA Shin-ichiro
The Îgembe region of Kenya is a rich agricultur...The Îgembe region of Kenya is a rich agricultural area on the equator, where people live in a unique time-world. Whenever a problem arises, people do not hasten to a conclusion, but ‘wait’ as a mea... -
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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 ... -
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SUZUKI Ayaka
Right-wing social movements have been increasin...Right-wing social movements have been increasingly active in Japan since around 2000. Female members of right-wing political parties and other women activists on the right, including "internet righ... -
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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,’... -
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ICHIKAWA Mitsuo
African tropical rainforests are in rapid decli...African tropical rainforests are in rapid decline, and their conservation is an urgent priority. However, forest conservation efforts have typically neglected the rights of people like pygmies, who... -
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TANNO Kiyoto
Do foreigners really have ‘human rights’ in Jap...Do foreigners really have ‘human rights’ in Japan? This book sheds light on the way Japan views foreigners by examining court cases initiated in the wake of the issuance of deportation orders.‘Spec... -
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Pratyay BANERJEE
Japan's radical development following the Meiji...Japan's radical development following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, drew the attention of the world. Among other provinces in British India, it was in Bengal chiefly, that one witnessed a sustaine... -
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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... -
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TOYAMA Ayako
This book examines the phenomenon of the "judic...This book examines the phenomenon of the "judicialization of politics," which has attracted attention as one of the causes of the retreat of Thai democracy, focusing on the May 1992 bloodshed, the ... -
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KONAKA Shinya
What does resilience mean? This is a question f...What does resilience mean? This is a question frequently asked and one that this book challenges and turns on its head. This book interrogates the increasingly overused concept of resilience by exa... -
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ADACHI Satoshi
How do second-generation immigrant Muslims, bor...How do second-generation immigrant Muslims, born and raised in the UK, perceive themselves and present their identities in the post-9/11 social environment, where Islamophobia is pervasive? Muslim ...