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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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  • Living on the Periphery Living on the Periphery
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    Living on the Periphery

    NOBUTA Toshihiro

    Orang Asli is a generic name given to the indig...
    Orang Asli is a generic name given to the indigenous people living on the Malay Peninsula. Using extensive ethnographic data, Living on the Periphery reveals the way in which state-initiated develo...
  • East Asian Economies and New Regionalism East Asian Economies and New Regionalism
    $89.95
    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 ...
  • Social Welfare in Japan Social Welfare in Japan
    $79.95
    Social Welfare in Japan

    FURUKAWA Kojun

    Social Welfare in Japan is an important study o...
    Social Welfare in Japan is an important study of the historical development and fundamental characteristics of social welfare in Japan and beyond. Reviewing arguments about the welfare state and th...
  • Escape from Work Escape from Work
    $34.95
    Escape from Work

    KOSUGI Reiko

    Escape from Work is about an important evolutio...
    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 1980s a...
  • Gender and Career in Japan Gender and Career in Japan
    $34.95
    Gender and Career in Japan

    SUZUKI Atsuko

    In Japanese society, gender has long been a maj...
    In Japanese society, gender has long been a major determinant of individuals' work-career and life trajectory. Due to the complexity of this social phenomenon, Gender and Career in Japan probes the...
  • Village Life in Modern Japan Village Life in Modern Japan
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    Village Life in Modern Japan

    FURUKAWA Akira

    In Village Life in Modern Japan, author Akira F...
    In Village Life in Modern Japan, author Akira Furukawa argues that the mainstream of environmentalism today remains trapped within the modernist paradigm that has led to the present global environm...
  • 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 ad...
    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 Toy...
  • Wily Monkeys
    $84.95
    Wily Monkeys

    OGAWA Hideshi

    Tibetan monkeys (Macaca thibetana) live at Mt. ...
    Tibetan monkeys (Macaca thibetana) live at Mt. Huangshan in Anhui province, China. They are called 'Duanweihou' in Chinese ('Duan' means short, 'wei' means tail, and 'hou' means monkey). They belon...
  • Social Justice in Japan Social Justice in Japan
    $34.95
    Social Justice in Japan

    OHBUCHI Ken-Ichi

    Theoretical and practical issues of social just...
    Theoretical and practical issues of social justice and fairness - in both the Japanese and international context - form the central theme of this collection of studies by twelve Japanese researcher...
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    People on the Move People on the Move
    $79.95
    People on the Move

    SODA Ryoji

    Based on participant observation and interviews...
    Based on participant observation and interviews in a village in Sarawak, Ryoji Soda examines outward migration from the village, the migrants' living strategies in urban areas, their frequent moves...
  • 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...
  • Scams and Sweeteners Scams and Sweeteners
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    Scams and Sweeteners

    OGINO Masahiro

    In Scams and Sweeteners, author Masahiro Ogino ...
    In Scams and Sweeteners, author Masahiro Ogino presents his sociological reflections on fraudulent acts, which are preformed in the space that is not governed by social norms. In this ambitious stu...