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Nationalism and Gender
UENO Chizuko

This is written by a sociologist and Japan's "most famous feminist", Chizuko Ueno. A discursive...

Hegemony of Homogeneity
BEFU Harumi
Much of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain...
A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images
OGUMA Eiji
This book presents a counter-argument to the Japanese belief that they are a homogeneous nation...
Boundaries of 'the Japanese' Vol.1
OGUMA Eiji

The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have operated for centuries in the island chain that...

A History of Modern Chemistry
HIROTA Noboru

Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has...

Living on the Streets in Japan
FILLER Stephen, MARUYAMA Satomi

Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the...

Cultural Politics around East Asian Cinema 1939-2018
SUDO Noriko, TANIKAWA Takeshi
This book examines the interdependent relationships between the film industry and the state in East...
U.S. Occupation of Okinawa
YOSHIMOTO Hideko

Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persuade the local...

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  • Traditional Iranian Music
    $43.95
    Traditional Iranian Music

    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,’...
  • Traditional Neighbors, Different Modernities
    $49.95
    Traditional Neighbors, Different Modernities

    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...
  • Tsuda Umeko
    $39.99
    Tsuda Umeko

    FURUKAWA Yasu

    Tsuda Umeko—featured on Japan’s newest banknote...
    Tsuda Umeko—featured on Japan’s newest banknote—is widely known in Japan as a pioneer of women’s English education. Yet a remarkable chapter of her life remains largely unknown: during her second s...
  • TSUNAMI
    $32.95
    TSUNAMI

    TOBA Futoshi, MILLER Amya

    In 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake left m...
    In 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake left more than 20,000 people dead or missing. On 11 March 2011, shortly after taking office as mayor, Futoshi Toba, mayor of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefectu...
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    U.S. Occupation of Okinawa U.S. Occupation of Okinawa
    $42.95
    U.S. Occupation of Okinawa

    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...
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    Utagawa Hiroshige
    $79.95
    Utagawa Hiroshige

    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...
  • Village Life in Modern Japan Village Life in Modern Japan
    $34.95
    Village Life in Modern Japan

    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...
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    Violence and Democracy Violence and Democracy
    $34.95
    Violence and Democracy

    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...
  • Widows of Japan Widows of Japan
    $34.95
    Widows of Japan

    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...
  • Wily Monkeys
    $84.95
    Wily Monkeys

    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...
  • Women and Soldiers
    $34.99
    Women and Soldiers

    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 ...
  • Women on the Right
    $37.95
    Women on the Right

    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...