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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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    Beyond Fukushima Beyond Fukushima
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    Beyond Fukushima

    HASEGAWA Koichi

    It finally dawned on us. The government was unr...
    It finally dawned on us. The government was unreliable. Politicians and bureaucrats were unreliable. The media were untrustworthy. The brutal reality hit us that we had to protect ourselves...other...
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    Narratives on San Ethnicity

    TAKADA Akira

    The !Xun are a San people living in the Kalahar...
    The !Xun are a San people living in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, Botswana, and in Angola. In this book, the cultural and ecological foundations of ethnicity of the !Xun provide a case study for ...
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    The Sago Palm The Sago Palm
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    The Sago Palm

    Society Of Sago Palm Studies

    In order to produce sufficient quantities of fo...
    In order to produce sufficient quantities of food to feed the world's growing population, we need to increase the food producing capacities of crops and to protect the environments in which they gr...
  • The End of Personal Rule in Indonesia The End of Personal Rule in Indonesia
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    The End of Personal Rule in Indonesia

    MASUHARA Ayako

    Motivated by on-the-ground experiences during I...
    Motivated by on-the-ground experiences during Indonesia's period of political turmoil in the early 2000s following the collapse of the Suharto regime, this book systematically explains the structur...
  • Borobudur as Cultural Landscape Borobudur as Cultural Landscape
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    Borobudur as Cultural Landscape

    KANKI Kiyoko

    Borobudur is a 9th-century Buddhist temple site...
    Borobudur is a 9th-century Buddhist temple site in Central Java, Indonesia. As a cultural landscape, Borobudur is a site of active discussion. Since the start of the International Field School on B...
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    International Migrants in Japan International Migrants in Japan
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    International Migrants in Japan

    ISHIKAWA Yoshitaka

    Japan faces multiple challenges in an era of po...
    Japan faces multiple challenges in an era of population decline. Problems such as aging and a decreasing working-age population are expected to increase in severity, so tackling these challenges an...
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    Arctic Pastoralist Sakha

    TAKAKURA Hiroki

    The Sakha - traditional cattle and horse pastor...
    The Sakha - traditional cattle and horse pastoralists and one of the largest ethnic minorities in Siberia - hold a unique position in human adaptation. This book focuses on the cultural history, pr...
  • Growth, Cycles and Distribution
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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...
  • The Gidra The Gidra
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    The Gidra

    KAWABE Toshio

    For 25 years, author Toshio Kawabe and his coll...
    For 25 years, author Toshio Kawabe and his colleagues periodically lived and worked among the Gidra people of the tropical wet lowland of Papua New Guinea. In this book, Kawabe reports on a continu...
  • The Bushmen
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    The Bushmen

    TANAKA Jiro

    The Bushmen archives nearly 50 years of researc...
    The Bushmen archives nearly 50 years of research with some of Southern Africa's remotest groups. Author Jiro Tanaka's deep connection with his subject matter is evident through his insightful and o...
  • Boundaries of 'the Japanese' Vol.1 Boundaries of 'the Japanese' Vol.1
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    Boundaries of 'the Japanese' Vol.1

    OGUMA Eiji

    The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have op...
    The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have operated for centuries in the island chain that constitutes Japan's southernmost prefecture, Okinawa - otherwise known as the Ryukyu Islands. Are the pe...
  • Migrant Workers in Contemporary Japan Migrant Workers in Contemporary Japan
    $34.95
    Migrant Workers in Contemporary Japan

    TANNO Kiyoto

    With a focus on Brazilian migrant workers in Ja...
    With a focus on Brazilian migrant workers in Japan, this study produces a comprehensive picture of the forces driving transnational labor migration, both in the countries of origin of foreign worke...