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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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    Looking for Money

    GOMES Albert G.

    This book, a joint publication with the Cent...

    This book, a joint publication with the Center for Orang Asli Concerns, Malaysia, provides an illustration of the impact of capitalism and modernity on an indigenous people, the Semai of Malaysi...

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    Growth, Cycles and Distribution

    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...
  • Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800 Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800
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    Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800

    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 ...
  • Japan's New Inequality Japan's New Inequality
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    Japan's New Inequality

    SATO Yoshimichi, IMAI Jun

    After the collapse of Japan's bubble-economy in...
    After the collapse of Japan's bubble-economy in the late 1980s, a wide range of neo-liberal reforms were introduced which dramatically affected the nature of the labor market. These reforms expande...
  • Re-thinking Economic Development Re-thinking Economic Development
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    Re-thinking Economic Development

    FUJITA Koichi

    This study investigates the impact of agrarian ...
    This study investigates the impact of agrarian development programs on rural class structure in Bangladesh, and it highlights how the local administration of infrastructure affected the social stra...
  • The Limits of Tradition The Limits of Tradition
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    The Limits of Tradition

    URANO Mariko

    The Limits of Tradition explores the discour...

    The Limits of Tradition explores the discourse of adat (customary or traditional) landownership that played an important role in peasant resistance against Indonesia's state development programs...

  • East Asian Economies and New Regionalism East Asian Economies and New Regionalism
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    East Asian Economies and New Regionalism

    ABE Shigeyuki

    In the face of the financial crisis of East Asi...
    In the face of the financial crisis of East Asia in 1997, Japan successfully pressed forth the Miyazawa Plan and other efficient rescue packages while the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the ...
  • Escape from Work Escape from Work
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    Escape from Work

    KOSUGI Reiko

    Escape from Work is about an important evolu...

    Escape from Work is about an important evolution which has been occurring in the Japanese labor market over the past decade. As Japanese came to enjoy higher levels of affluence in the late 1980...

  • Toyota's Assembly Line Toyota's Assembly Line
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    Toyota's Assembly Line

    IHARA Ryoji

    Anybody who is a dedicated Toyota driver and...

    Anybody who is a dedicated Toyota driver and admirer of the Toyota Production System would be shocked to read of Ryoji Ihara's experience as a casual worker in a Toyota factory in Japan. As the ...

  • Gender and Japanese Management Gender and Japanese Management
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    Gender and Japanese Management

    KIMOTO Kimiko

    Using data from surveys conducted in a depar...

    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 ...

  • After the Crisis After the Crisis
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    After the Crisis

    SHIRAISHI Takashi, ABINALES Patricio N.

    After the Crisis looks at Southeast Asia-esp...

    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 tak...

  • Japanese Companies Japanese Companies
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    Japanese Companies

    NOMURA Masami, KAMII Yoshihiko

    Why are Japanese companies the best in the w...

    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. ...