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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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    The Modern Family in Japan The Modern Family in Japan
    $34.95
    The Modern Family in Japan

    UENO Chizuko

    This award-winning book brings together Chizuko...
    This award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall of the modern family in Japan. Combining historical, sociological, anthropological, and journalisti...
  • Amorphous Dissent
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    Amorphous Dissent

    KINOSHITA Chigaya, TANAKA Hikaru, HORIE Takashi, KATO Tetsuro, TORIYAMA Atsushi, TANNO Kiyoto

    Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in the wak...
    Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011, Japan has seen a significant revival in its social activism. Large-scale social movements spran...
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    The State Construction of 'Japaneseness' The State Construction of 'Japaneseness'
    $42.95
    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...
  • Human Survivability Studies Human Survivability Studies
    $89.95
    Human Survivability Studies

    KAWAI Shuichi, FUJITA Masakatsu, KAWAI Eriko

    The challenges we face today are growing conspi...
    The challenges we face today are growing conspicuously broad in scale and complex in nature. Human Survivability Studies is a new transdisciplinary field born from the growing awareness of the urge...
  • Learning English in Japan Learning English in Japan
    $84.95
    Learning English in Japan

    TERASAWA Takunori

    Multiple discourses circulate Japanese society ...
    Multiple discourses circulate Japanese society surrounding the relationship between Japanese people and the English language. For example, 'Japanese people are the worst English speakers in Asia,' ...
  • Social Exclusion Social Exclusion
    $34.95
    Social Exclusion

    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...
  • Class Structure in Contemporary Japan Class Structure in Contemporary Japan
    $29.95
    Class Structure in Contemporary Japan

    HASHIMOTO Kenji

    The author, Hashimoto, has been a solitary voic...
    The author, Hashimoto, has been a solitary voice in the social stratification analysis of Japanese society for the last two decades presenting its class structure in Marxian terms. His models and f...
  • Status and Stratification Status and Stratification
    $34.95
    Status and Stratification

    SHIMA Mutsuhiko

    Exploring the myriad ways that status and strat...
    Exploring the myriad ways that status and stratification manifest in different cultural contexts, this collection presents in-depth studies of a variety of cultural forms in Asia. The first of the ...
  • A Quest for Alternative Sociology A Quest for Alternative Sociology
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    A Quest for Alternative Sociology

    KOSAKA Kenji, OGINO Masahiro

    In 2003, a number of sociology and social work ...
    In 2003, a number of sociology and social work faculty members at Kwansei Gakuin University (Japan) commenced an ambitious program in pursuit of social research that might serve to enhance human we...
  • Deciphering Stratification and Inequality Deciphering Stratification and Inequality
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    Deciphering Stratification and Inequality

    SATO Yoshimichi

    Employing a diverse range of quantitative and q...
    Employing a diverse range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, this book offers a complex examination of the changing nature of social stratification and its subsequent impact on inequali...
  • Frontiers of Social Research Frontiers of Social Research
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    Frontiers of Social Research

    FURUKAWA Akira

    This title is the second volume of the Advanced...
    This title is the second volume of the Advanced Social Research series which Trans Pacific Press publishes in collaboration with Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. In this collection, thirteen ess...
  • Intentional Social Change Intentional Social Change
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    Intentional Social Change

    SATO Yoshimichi

    Why do some efforts to implement social change ...
    Why do some efforts to implement social change succeed while others fail? Yoshimichi Sato observes in this book that existing theories focus on social action at either the micro- or the macro-level...
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