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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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  • Constructing Civil Society in Japan Constructing Civil Society in Japan
    $49.95
    Constructing Civil Society in Japan

    HASEGAWA 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...
  • Youth Deviance in Japan Youth Deviance in Japan
    $34.95
    Youth Deviance in Japan

    YODER 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...
  • Between Hills and Plains Between Hills and Plains
    $69.95
    Between Hills and Plains

    HAYAMI Yoko

    In this study, Hayami suggests that the Karen i...
    In this study, Hayami suggests that the Karen in northwestern Thailand are located "betwixt and between" the peripheries and the mainstream of the modern nation-state. It demonstrates how the Karen...
  • Practical Buddhism Among the Thai-Lao Practical Buddhism Among the Thai-Lao
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    Practical Buddhism Among the Thai-Lao

    HAYASHI Yukio

    Based on long-term fieldwork, Hayashi presents ...
    Based on long-term fieldwork, Hayashi presents the local history of Thai-Lao religion and society, up to and including its present-day dynamics. Working from the analytical premise that concepts su...
  • Fluidity of Place Fluidity of Place
    $34.95
    Fluidity of Place

    YOSHIHARA Naoki

    Fluidity of Place presents an interdisciplinary...
    Fluidity of Place presents an interdisciplinary conversation with theories of space-time, place, and globalization at the cutting edge of social theory. Focusing on the construction of urban space ...
  • Searching for Vietnam Searching for Vietnam
    $79.95
    Searching for Vietnam

    RAMBO A. Terry

    Volume 9 of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia brin...
    Volume 9 of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia brings together the author's selected writings about Vietnam from the past forty years. The book opens with an autobiographical account of his history as ...
  • Laying the Tracks Laying the Tracks
    $69.95
    Laying the Tracks

    KAKIZAKI Ichiro

    A joint publication of Trans Pacific Press and ...
    A joint publication of Trans Pacific Press and Kyoto University Press, this economic history of the early development of Thailand's railways details the rail policies of the royal government, from ...
  • Globalization, Culture and Inequality in Asia Globalization, Culture and Inequality in Asia
    $34.95
    Globalization, Culture and Inequality in Asia

    HOLDEN Todd Joseph Miles

    Contemplating globalization from a sociological...
    Contemplating globalization from a sociological perspective, it is without doubt that a major site for social, political, economic and cultural change in the new millennium lies in the Asian region...
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    An Ecological View of History An Ecological View of History
    $29.95
    An Ecological View of History

    UMESAO 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-images A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images
    $39.95
    A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images

    OGUMA 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...
  • The Peripheral Centre The Peripheral Centre
    $29.95
    The Peripheral Centre

    ARNASON Johann

    The main theme of the book is the complex relat...
    The main theme of the book is the complex relationship between the patterns of Japanese modernity and the civilizational legacy on which they continue to grow. The author discusses the East Asian r...
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    Social History of Science and Technology Vol.1 Social History of Science and Technology Vol.1
    $99.95
    Social History of Science and Technology Vol.1

    NAKAYAMA Shigeru

    This title is the first volume of a comprehensi...
    This title is the first volume of a comprehensive, four-volume survey which documents the miraculous growth of Japanese science and technology from post-war devastation to its attaining a leading g...