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Violence and DemocracyNAKAMIZO Kazuya
The Bhagalpur riots occurred in the Indian s...
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 e...
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An Ecological View of HistoryUMESAO Tadao, BEFU Harumi
This is the first English version of Tadao U...
This is the first English version of Tadao Umesao's classic, published first in Japanese in 1957, with a full description of his ecological theory of civilizations of Eurasia. Dividing the Euras...
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U.S. Occupation of OkinawaYOSHIMOTO Hideko
Throughout twenty-seven years of military oc...
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 ...
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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... -
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... -
Others in Japanese AgricultureYASUOKA Kenichi
Japan's national identity associates the 'Japan...Japan's national identity associates the 'Japanese people' with the Japanese land, making the farmer the backbone of the nation. Others in Japanese Agriculture challenges this mythology, revealing ... -
A History of Modern ChemistryHIROTA Noboru
Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical a...Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has evolved over centuries. Spanning more than eight hundred pages, this book presents an exhaustive study of th... -
Beyond FukushimaHASEGAWA Koichi
It finally dawned on us. The government was unr...It finally dawned on us. The government was unreliable. Politicians and bureaucrats were unreliable. The media were untrustworthy. The brutal reality hit us that we had to protect ourselves...other... -
The Sago PalmSociety Of Sago Palm Studies
In order to produce sufficient quantities of...
In order to produce sufficient quantities of food to feed the world's growing population, we need to increase the food producing capacities of crops and to protect the environments in which they...
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International Migrants in JapanISHIKAWA 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... -
Farming with Fire and WaterVIEN 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... -
Myths and RealitiesTAMADA Yoshifumi
This study challenges the prevailing view that ...This study challenges the prevailing view that Thailand's democratization process in the 1990s was led by the active middle class. It presents an alternative explanation, examining certain 'passive...
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