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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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  • Indigenous Peoples and Forests
    $49.95
    Indigenous Peoples and Forests

    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...
  • Indonesia at the Crossroads
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    Indonesia at the Crossroads

    OKAMOTO Masaaki

    After a swift and bloody regime change in 1998,...
    After a swift and bloody regime change in 1998, Indonesia established democratic institutions. Democratization over the first two decades of the 21st century fundamentally transformed Indonesia as ...
  • Inequality amid Affluence Inequality amid Affluence
    $34.95
    Inequality amid Affluence

    HARA Junsuke, SEIYAMA Kazuo

    Highlighting the limits of existing approaches ...
    Highlighting the limits of existing approaches in the study of stratification in contemporary Japanese society, Inequality Amid Affluence adopts a new framework that distinguishes between the conce...
  • Inequality, Discrimination and Conflict in Japan Inequality, Discrimination and Conflict in Japan
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    Inequality, Discrimination and Conflict in Japan

    ASAI Nobuko, OHBUCHI Ken-Ichi

    After a decade of deregulation and economic lib...
    After a decade of deregulation and economic liberalization, the high levels of unity and social harmony that had been achieved during Japan's decades of rapid economic growth are under threat. Soci...
  • Institutions Institutions
    $99.95
    Institutions

    KAWAI Kaori

    As the sequel to Groups: The Evolution of Human...
    As the sequel to Groups: The Evolution of Human Sociality (2013), this book has broadened the discussion to examine the actions of people, apes, and monkeys in terms of 'what they do' by forming gr...
  • Intentional Social Change Intentional Social Change
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    Intentional Social Change

    SATO Yoshimichi

    Why do some efforts to implement social change ...
    Why do some efforts to implement social change succeed while others fail? Yoshimichi Sato observes in this book that existing theories focus on social action at either the micro- or the macro-level...
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    International Migrants in Japan International Migrants in Japan
    $84.95
    International Migrants in Japan

    ISHIKAWA Yoshitaka

    Japan faces multiple challenges in an era of po...
    Japan faces multiple challenges in an era of population decline. Problems such as aging and a decreasing working-age population are expected to increase in severity, so tackling these challenges an...
  • Japan and Bengal
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    Japan and Bengal

    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...
  • Japan and Its Others Japan and Its Others
    $29.95
    Japan and Its Others

    CLAMMER John

    This book explores Japan's relationship with As...
    This book explores Japan's relationship with Asia and the world, examines contemporary Japanese thinking about Japan's "others" and how this impacts on local discourses about uniqueness, modernity,...
  • Japan's New Inequality Japan's New Inequality
    $34.95
    Japan's New Inequality

    SATO Yoshimichi, IMAI Jun

    After the collapse of Japan's bubble-economy in...
    After the collapse of Japan's bubble-economy in the late 1980s, a wide range of neo-liberal reforms were introduced which dramatically affected the nature of the labor market. These reforms expande...
  • Japan's Ultra-Right Japan's Ultra-Right
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    Japan's Ultra-Right

    HIGUCHI Naoto

    This book is a comprehensive account of the nat...
    This book is a comprehensive account of the nativist movement in Japan today. Naoto Higuchi uses the life histories of activists to establish that the basis of their support for the movement is the...
  • Japan's Underclass Japan's Underclass
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    Japan's Underclass

    AOKI Hideo

    Condemned by economic forces and the prejudices...
    Condemned by economic forces and the prejudices of others to remain forever in the underclass, the homeless and day laborers in present-day affluent Japan struggle to survive in its cities. Japan's...