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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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TOYAMA Ayako
This book examines the phenomenon of the "judic...This book examines the phenomenon of the "judicialization of politics," which has attracted attention as one of the causes of the retreat of Thai democracy, focusing on the May 1992 bloodshed, the ... -
$99.95
LAPTHANANON Pinit
This study examines the role of Buddhist monks ...This study examines the role of Buddhist monks as development agents in rural Thailand. Through 20 years of field studies, and with a focus on Northeast Thailand (which is known as Isan and long cl... -
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TAMADA Yoshifumi
This study challenges the prevailing view that ...This study challenges the prevailing view that Thailand's democratization process in the 1990s was led by the active middle class. It presents an alternative explanation, examining certain 'passive... -
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HASEGAWA Koichi, YOSHIHARA Naoki
One effect of globalization has been urban rest...One effect of globalization has been urban restructuring in various cities of Asia, increasing migration from Asia to European cities, and the intensification of debates about citizenship. The mult... -
$89.95
SHIRAISHI Takashi
The rise of the new middle classes in Southeast...The rise of the new middle classes in Southeast Asia has brought about important transformations in various countries - politically, socially, economically, and culturally - while producing new 'Ea... -
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INOGUCHI Takashi
This book examines what citizens think about go...This book examines what citizens think about governance and democracy and the actual practices of governments in Asia, one of the most dynamic and divergent regions of the world. Using public opini... -
$74.95
SHIRAISHI Takashi, ABINALES Patricio N.
After the Crisis looks at Southeast Asia-especi...After the Crisis looks at Southeast Asia-especially Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines-after the Asian financial crisis. This eleventh volume of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia takes ... -
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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... -
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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... -
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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 ... -
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TEJAPIRA Kasian
In this study of the formation of modern Thai r...In this study of the formation of modern Thai radical culture, Tejapira reveals a process of cultural and political interaction which results in a mutual transformation of exogenous Marxism/communi...