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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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    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...
  • Spirituality as a Way
    $32.95
    Spirituality as a Way

    Carl Becker, KASHIO Naoki

    How do Japanese people foster spiritual awarene...
    How do Japanese people foster spiritual awareness? This book provides a fresh perspective on spirituality by highlighting the wisdom of Japan: ‘Way’ (pronounced michi or dō in Japanese), which mak...
  • Anthropology of Ba
    $35.95
    Anthropology of Ba

    KAJIMARU Gaku, Caitlin Coker, KAZAMA Kazuhiro

    Do places influence human behavior? In everyday...
    Do places influence human behavior? In everyday thinking, spaces and places are generally seen as empty vessels where human activity occurs. Digging a bit deeper, we can distinguish spaces from pla...
  • Baseball in Occupied Japan
    $59.95
    Baseball in Occupied Japan

    TANIKAWA Takeshi

    How was baseball used to promote U.S. values in...
    How was baseball used to promote U.S. values in occupied Japan? The first post-war Japanese professional baseball game was held on November 23, 1945, just 100 days after the end of World War II. D...
  • Gender History in China
    $69.95
    Gender History in China

    KOHAMA Masako, Linda Grove

    How have femininity and masculinity been define...
    How have femininity and masculinity been defined and understood in China from prehistoric times to the present day? Gender History in China presents for the first time in English the work of leadi...
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    Violence and Democracy Violence and Democracy
    $34.95
    Violence and Democracy

    NAKAMIZO Kazuya

    The Bhagalpur riots occurred in the Indian stat...
    The Bhagalpur riots occurred in the Indian state of Bihar during the 1989 Lok Sabha election campaign. In the lead-up, political actors and parties exploited religious identities for their own elec...
  • An Intimate Journey An Intimate Journey
    $79.95
    An Intimate Journey

    AOYAMA Waka

    This work offers a comprehensive description of...
    This work offers a comprehensive description of the lives of the Sama-Bajau people based on ongoing ethnographic research conducted by the author in Davao City, the Philippines, for over two decade...
  • Conceptualizing the Malay World Conceptualizing the Malay World
    $59.95
    Conceptualizing the Malay World

    SODA Naoki

    Conceptualizing the Malay World explores the in...
    Conceptualizing the Malay World explores the interrelations between the indigenization of "colonial knowledge" and the quest for pan-Malay identity in Malaya. In what way, to what extent and for wh...
  • Hypothesis - Experiment class (Kasetsu) Hypothesis - Experiment class (Kasetsu)
    $49.95
    Hypothesis - Experiment class (Kasetsu)

    FUNAHASHI Haruhiko, ITAKURA Kiyonobu

    Hypothesis–Experiment (Kasetsu) Class is, in it...
    Hypothesis–Experiment (Kasetsu) Class is, in its simplest terms, a class designed so that students can learn ‘basic, universal scientific rules and concepts’ in an enjoyable way. This method was ma...
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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...
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    U.S. Occupation of Okinawa U.S. Occupation of Okinawa
    $42.95
    U.S. Occupation of Okinawa

    YOSHIMOTO Hideko

    Throughout twenty-seven years of military occup...
    Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persuade the local Okinawan public that the US administration of Okinawa should be maintained. The US mai...