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

BEFU Harumi
Much of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain...

OGUMA Eiji
This book presents a counter-argument to the Japanese belief that they are a homogeneous nation...

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

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

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

SUDO Noriko, TANIKAWA Takeshi
This book examines the interdependent relationships between the film industry and the state in East...

YOSHIMOTO Hideko
Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persuade the local...
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$59.95
SASAKI Hiroaki
This book is a collection of Hiroaki Sasaki's c...This book is a collection of Hiroaki Sasaki's contributions to further developing the Kaleckian model of analyzing economic growth cycles and distribution. The Kaleckian model is a post-Keynesian t... -
$54.95
OGUMA Eiji
The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have op...The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have operated for centuries in the island chain that constitutes Japan's southernmost prefecture, Okinawa - otherwise known as the Ryukyu Islands. Are the pe... -
$34.95
TANNO Kiyoto
With a focus on Brazilian migrant workers in Ja...With a focus on Brazilian migrant workers in Japan, this study produces a comprehensive picture of the forces driving transnational labor migration, both in the countries of origin of foreign worke... -
$79.95
TANABE Shunsuke
In this study, eight young Japanese sociologist...In this study, eight young Japanese sociologists analyze quantitative social survey data to understand the new phase of Japanese nationalism. They asked ordinary Japanese people to share their view... -
$34.95
KIMURA Toshiaki
Stratification in Cultural Contexts is a collec...Stratification in Cultural Contexts is a collection drawn from research results of the East Asian Division of the Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality at Tohoku University. ... -
$34.95
MINAMIDA Katsuya, TSUJI Izumi
Manga, anime, J-pop, and other forms of Japan's...Manga, anime, J-pop, and other forms of Japan's mass culture are increasingly popular around the world, a situation which requires structural, demographic, and communicative research from sociologi... -
$109.95
SUZUKI Yasuko
In the early modern period, relations between t...In the early modern period, relations between the Netherlands and Japan were founded on trade. The Dutch United East India Company operated in Japan for over 100 years, from 1609 to the early 18th ... -
$34.95
HUMBERT Marc, SATO Yoshimichi
Just within a few decades, the global dream of ...Just within a few decades, the global dream of building a 'middle class society' has vanished almost everywhere, giving way to an emerging global nightmare: 'social exclusion.' France and Japan hav... -
$34.95
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... -
$89.95
AMANO Ikuo
In this English translation of a semi-classic s...In this English translation of a semi-classic study, readers have the opportunity to explore the manner in which both credentialism and the various levels of the modern education system have develo... -
$34.95
SHIRAHASE Sawako
Japan is a rapidly aging society with a declini...Japan is a rapidly aging society with a declining birthrate and increasing lifespan. The nation's youth tend to marry late, and some never engage in this form of social contract. Further, the numbe... -
$34.95
AMANO Masako
This is a study of Japan's home-grown concept o...This is a study of Japan's home-grown concept of seikatsusha that resembles 'citizen,' 'people,' 'consumer,' 'common man,' and 'the public,' though not exactly identical with any of them. The idea ...