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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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    Ecological Destruction, Health, and Development
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    Ecological Destruction, Health, and Development

    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...
  • Escape from Work Escape from Work
    $34.95
    Escape from Work

    KOSUGI Reiko

    Escape from Work is about an important evolutio...
    Escape from Work is about an important evolution which has been occurring in the Japanese labor market over the past decade. As Japanese came to enjoy higher levels of affluence in the late 1980s a...
  • Extremes
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    Extremes

    KAWAI Kaori

    Humans have always faced the threat of extincti...
    Humans have always faced the threat of extinction. This book takes a broad perspective of the ‘extreme’ conditions of human existence and survival to examine how extremes have forced humans to chan...
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    Farewell to Nippon Farewell to Nippon
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    Farewell to Nippon

    SATO Machiko

    This study presents an ethnographic account of ...
    This study presents an ethnographic account of a fresh breed of emigrants who have left Japan to settle in Australia in pursuit of a better quality of life. They differ from "economic migrants" who...
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    Farming with Fire and Water Farming with Fire and Water
    $89.95
    Farming with Fire and Water

    VIEN Tran Duc, RAMBO A. Terry

    This volume offers the first detailed descripti...
    This volume offers the first detailed description of 'composite swiddening,' a traditional Southeast Asian upland agricultural system that combines shifting cultivation fields on the hillsides with...
  • Feathers, Horns and Guardians
    $45.95
    Feathers, Horns and Guardians

    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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    Fighting Prejudice in Japan Fighting Prejudice in Japan
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    Fighting Prejudice in Japan

    KUROSAKA Ai

    This collection of twelve life stories delves i...
    This collection of twelve life stories delves into the experiences of families of Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) patients who tell their own stories in their own words. In detailed interviews spanning ...
  • Fluidity of Place Fluidity of Place
    $34.95
    Fluidity of Place

    YOSHIHARA Naoki

    Fluidity of Place presents an interdisciplinary...
    Fluidity of Place presents an interdisciplinary conversation with theories of space-time, place, and globalization at the cutting edge of social theory. Focusing on the construction of urban space ...
  • Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan
    $29.95
    Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan

    KOMAI Hiroshi

    This book overviews the present situation of fo...
    This book overviews the present situation of foreign migrants in Japan, based on the latest and most comprehensive available data, and presents necessary policy recommendations. Special attention i...
  • Foreigners' Rights in Japan
    $34.95
    Foreigners' Rights in Japan

    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...
  • From Salvation to Spirituality From Salvation to Spirituality
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    From Salvation to Spirituality

    SHIMAZONO Susumu

    Susumu Shimazono, one of Japan's foremost socio...
    Susumu Shimazono, one of Japan's foremost sociologists of religion, deals with the development of popular religious and spiritual movements in Japan in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. A...
  • Frontiers of Social Research Frontiers of Social Research
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    Frontiers of Social Research

    FURUKAWA Akira

    This title is the second volume of the Advanced...
    This title is the second volume of the Advanced Social Research series which Trans Pacific Press publishes in collaboration with Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. In this collection, thirteen ess...