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Inequality amid AffluenceHARA 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... -
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![Gender and Japanese Management]()
Gender and Japanese ManagementKIMOTO Kimiko
Using data from surveys conducted in a departme...Using data from surveys conducted in a department store and a supermarket, Kimoto discusses the forces shaping job segregation by gender. One of the main themes is the need for Japanese women's lab... -
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A Sociology of HappinessKOSAKA Kenji
Written by the sociologists at Kwansei Gakuin U...Written by the sociologists at Kwansei Gakuin University who are engaged in 'Social Research for the Enhancement of Human Well-being', this study explores issues of happiness from a wide variety of... -
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The Big Bang' in Japanese Higher EducationEADES J.S.
On April 1, 2004, Japanese higher education exp...On April 1, 2004, Japanese higher education experienced a 'big bang'-a set of reforms that have been described as the most significant institutional changes for over a century. One of the main aims... -
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Social History of Science and Technology Vol.2NAKAYAMA Shigeru
This title is the second volume of a comprehens...This title is the second volume of a comprehensive, four-volume survey which documents the miraculous growth of Japanese science and technology from postwar devastation to its attaining a leading g... -
![Constructing Civil Society in Japan]()
![Constructing Civil Society in Japan]()
Constructing Civil Society in JapanHASEGAWA Koichi
Japan's post-World War II "economic miracle" is...Japan's post-World War II "economic miracle" is well-known and much discussed, as is the collapse of the "bubble economy" and the almost decade long economic stagnation of the 1990s. In this collec... -
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Japanese CompaniesNOMURA Masami, KAMII Yoshihiko
Why are Japanese companies the best in the worl...Why are Japanese companies the best in the world? What is the driving force behind their strength? This study critiques comprehensively the widely-shared theories concerning Japanese companies. Whi... -
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Youth Deviance in JapanYODER Robert Stuart
Based on fieldwork spanning two decades, this b...Based on fieldwork spanning two decades, this book presents a longitudinal study of deviance and crime among youths in Kanagawa-ken, with a focus upon two groups of young people - a working class g... -
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Native AnthropologyKUWAYAMA Takami
A major task in contemporary anthropology is th...A major task in contemporary anthropology is the creation of dialogic space among all the people concerned with the culture studied, without privileging one kind of discourse over another. Seen glo... -
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![Gender and Modernity]()
Gender and ModernityHAYAMI Yoko, TANABE Akio, TOKITA-TANABE Yumiko
Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic fieldwork, ...Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic fieldwork, this anthology examines the complexities of identity formation and self-positioning in post-colonial contexts, ranging from the impact of Christian mi... -
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An Ecological View of HistoryUMESAO Tadao, BEFU Harumi
This is the first English version of Tadao Umes...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 Eurasian... -
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A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-imagesOGUMA Eiji
This book presents a counter-argument to the Ja...This book presents a counter-argument to the Japanese belief that they are a homogeneous nation since the Meiji period. Eiji Oguma demonstrates that the myth of ethnic homogeneity was not establish...
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