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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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  • Anthropology of Ba
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    Anthropology of Ba

    KAJIMARU Gaku, Caitlin Coker, KAZAMA Kazuhiro

    Do places influence human behavior? In everyday...
    Do places influence human behavior? In everyday thinking, spaces and places are generally seen as empty vessels where human activity occurs. Digging a bit deeper, we can distinguish spaces from pla...
  • Nationalism and Gender Nationalism and Gender
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    Nationalism and Gender

    UENO Chizuko

    This is written by a sociologist and Japan's "m...
    This is written by a sociologist and Japan's "most famous feminist", Chizuko Ueno. A discursive battle over how Japan's history should be remembered constitutes the most recent, and perhaps the mos...
  • 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...
  • 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...
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    A History of the Pachinko Industry
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    A History of the Pachinko Industry

    HAN Jaehyang

    Pachinko parlors offer a form of gambling uniqu...
    Pachinko parlors offer a form of gambling unique to Japan located near train stations, in the suburbs and in other everyday living spaces. Before World War II, pachinko was born as a game for both ...
  • Gender Gymnastics Gender Gymnastics
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    Gender Gymnastics

    STICKLAND Leonie

    The artifice of gender performance - sometimes ...
    The artifice of gender performance - sometimes playful, mostly conscientious - has enthralled and entertained audiences of Japan's all-female Takarazuka Revue for more than 90 years. The dashing ma...
  • Professional Space of Care
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    Professional Space of Care

    Philippe Mossé

    Although medical specialization can be credited...
    Although medical specialization can be credited with many of the advancements of modern medicine, it also poses obstacles to the delivery of healthcare. Such obstacles are increasingly prevalent in...
  • Spirituality as a Way
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    Spirituality as a Way

    Carl Becker, KASHIO Naoki

    How do Japanese people foster spiritual awarene...
    How do Japanese people foster spiritual awareness? This book provides a fresh perspective on spirituality by highlighting the wisdom of Japan: ‘Way’ (pronounced michi or dō in Japanese), which mak...
  • Baseball in Occupied Japan
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    Baseball in Occupied Japan

    TANIKAWA Takeshi

    How was baseball used to promote U.S. values in...
    How was baseball used to promote U.S. values in occupied Japan? The first post-war Japanese professional baseball game was held on November 23, 1945, just 100 days after the end of World War II. D...
  • Gender History in China
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    Gender History in China

    KOHAMA Masako, Linda Grove

    How have femininity and masculinity been define...
    How have femininity and masculinity been defined and understood in China from prehistoric times to the present day? Gender History in China presents for the first time in English the work of leadi...
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    The State Construction of 'Japaneseness' The State Construction of 'Japaneseness'
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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...
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    U.S. Occupation of Okinawa U.S. Occupation of Okinawa
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    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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