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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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  • Traditional Neighbors, Different Modernities
    $49.95
    Traditional Neighbors, Different Modernities

    KUMAGAI Seiji, Miguel Álvarez ORTEGA, Françoise POMMARET, Anna Balikci DENJONGPA

    Lying in the south-eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, S...
    Lying in the south-eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Sikkim, and the Mon region show a rich and complex development as a contact area, one of intricate multi-layered cultural tapestries, a fascinating cro...
  • How the Pandemic Changed Work in Japan
    $34.95
    How the Pandemic Changed Work in Japan

    GENDA Yuji, HAGIHARA Makiko

    The COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe from 2019...
    The COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe from 2019 had a major impact on the way people lived and worked. People refrained from going out and, inevitably, the way people worked underwent drastic chang...
  • Money-lending Contracts in Konbaung Burma
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    Money-lending Contracts in Konbaung Burma

    SAITO Teruko

    Various contractual deeds were exchanged betwee...
    Various contractual deeds were exchanged between people in Burmese dynastic society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These deeds, known as thet-kayits, especially debt deeds, are valuabl...
  • Feathers, Horns and Guardians
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    Feathers, Horns and Guardians

    ISHIDA Shin-ichiro

    The Îgembe region of Kenya is a rich agricultur...
    The Îgembe region of Kenya is a rich agricultural area on the equator, where people live in a unique time-world. Whenever a problem arises, people do not hasten to a conclusion, but ‘wait’ as a mea...
  • The Stripper Goddess of Japan
    $29.95
    The Stripper Goddess of Japan

    TSURUMI Shunsuke, AOYAMA Tomoko, BAILEY Penny

    The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Aft...
    The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume is the first complete English translation of Ame no Uzume den (1991) by one of Japan's most influential post-war intellectuals...
  • Reconsidering Resilience in African Pastoralism
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    Reconsidering Resilience in African Pastoralism

    KONAKA Shinya

    What does resilience mean? This is a question f...
    What does resilience mean? This is a question frequently asked and one that this book challenges and turns on its head. This book interrogates the increasingly overused concept of resilience by exa...
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    Muslim and British post-9/11
    $49.95
    Muslim and British post-9/11

    ADACHI Satoshi

    How do second-generation immigrant Muslims, bor...
    How do second-generation immigrant Muslims, born and raised in the UK, perceive themselves and present their identities in the post-9/11 social environment, where Islamophobia is pervasive? Muslim ...
  • Extremes
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    Extremes

    KAWAI Kaori

    Humans have always faced the threat of extincti...
    Humans have always faced the threat of extinction. This book takes a broad perspective of the ‘extreme’ conditions of human existence and survival to examine how extremes have forced humans to chan...
  • Postwar South Korea and Japanese Popular Culture
    $35.95
    Postwar South Korea and Japanese Popular Culture

    KIM Sungmin

    After World War II, Japanese popular culture wa...
    After World War II, Japanese popular culture was "banned" in Korea. However, despite the official ban, Japanese popular culture was introduced and circulated through hidden or unofficial channels. ...
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    Utagawa Hiroshige
    $79.95
    Utagawa Hiroshige

    ABE Mika

    In the late Edo period, when society was maturi...
    In the late Edo period, when society was maturing and Japan was moving to open its doors to the outside world, landscapes were undergoing major changes. Many world-famous ukiyo-e painters were acti...
  • At the Edge of Mangrove Forest
    $37.95
    At the Edge of Mangrove Forest

    OSAWA Takamasa

    This book explores the emergence of indigeneity...
    This book explores the emergence of indigeneity among the Suku Asli, a group of post-foragers living on the eastern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. In the past, despite indefinite ethnic boundaries an...
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    Bali and Hinduism in Indonesia
    $34.95
    Bali and Hinduism in Indonesia

    NAGAFUCHI Yasuyuki

    Why is Bali the only Hindu island in Muslim Ind...
    Why is Bali the only Hindu island in Muslim Indonesia? Although Indonesia is overwhelmingly Muslim, the population in Bali is 90 percent Hindu. In Bali and Hinduism in Indonesia, a comprehensive st...