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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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  • Japan and Its Others Japan and Its Others
    $29.95
    Japan and Its Others

    CLAMMER John

    This book explores Japan's relationship with As...
    This book explores Japan's relationship with Asia and the world, examines contemporary Japanese thinking about Japan's "others" and how this impacts on local discourses about uniqueness, modernity,...
  • Hegemony of Homogeneity Hegemony of Homogeneity
    $29.95
    Hegemony of Homogeneity

    BEFU Harumi

    Much of the misunderstanding by foreigners abou...
    Much of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain stereotypes about the Japanese. Harumi Befu spearheaded the critique of the stereotypical and the es...
  • One Malay Village One Malay Village
    $29.95
    One Malay Village

    TSUBOUCHI Yoshihiro

    In a society recognized for its multi-racial co...
    In a society recognized for its multi-racial constitution, the relative homogeneity of Kelantan has inspired numerous researchers to seek the "essence" of "Malay-ness" in the traditional ethnic eve...
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    Social History of Science and Technology Vol.1 Social History of Science and Technology Vol.1
    $99.95
    Social History of Science and Technology Vol.1

    NAKAYAMA Shigeru

    This title is the first volume of a comprehensi...
    This title is the first volume of a comprehensive, four-volume survey which documents the miraculous growth of Japanese science and technology from post-war devastation to its attaining a leading g...
  • Commodifying Marxism Commodifying Marxism
    $29.95
    Commodifying Marxism

    TEJAPIRA Kasian

    In this study of the formation of modern Thai r...
    In this study of the formation of modern Thai radical culture, Tejapira reveals a process of cultural and political interaction which results in a mutual transformation of exogenous Marxism/communi...
  • The Peripheral Centre The Peripheral Centre
    $29.95
    The Peripheral Centre

    ARNASON Johann

    The main theme of the book is the complex relat...
    The main theme of the book is the complex relationship between the patterns of Japanese modernity and the civilizational legacy on which they continue to grow. The author discusses the East Asian r...
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    A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images
    $39.95
    A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images

    OGUMA Eiji

    This book presents a counter-argument to the Ja...
    This book presents a counter-argument to the Japanese belief that they are a homogeneous nation since the Meiji period. Eiji Oguma demonstrates that the myth of ethnic homogeneity was not establish...
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    An Ecological View of History An Ecological View of History
    $29.95
    An Ecological View of History

    UMESAO Tadao, BEFU Harumi

    This is the first English version of Tadao Umes...
    This is the first English version of Tadao Umesao's classic, published first in Japanese in 1957, with a full description of his ecological theory of civilizations of Eurasia. Dividing the Eurasian...
  • Laying the Tracks Laying the Tracks
    $69.95
    Laying the Tracks

    KAKIZAKI Ichiro

    A joint publication of Trans Pacific Press and ...
    A joint publication of Trans Pacific Press and Kyoto University Press, this economic history of the early development of Thailand's railways details the rail policies of the royal government, from ...
  • Searching for Vietnam Searching for Vietnam
    $79.95
    Searching for Vietnam

    RAMBO A. Terry

    Volume 9 of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia brin...
    Volume 9 of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia brings together the author's selected writings about Vietnam from the past forty years. The book opens with an autobiographical account of his history as ...
  • Fluidity of Place Fluidity of Place
    $34.95
    Fluidity of Place

    YOSHIHARA Naoki

    Fluidity of Place presents an interdisciplinary...
    Fluidity of Place presents an interdisciplinary conversation with theories of space-time, place, and globalization at the cutting edge of social theory. Focusing on the construction of urban space ...
  • Liberalism Liberalism
    $34.95
    Liberalism

    SEIYAMA Kazuo

    In the past two decades, as the tsunami of glob...
    In the past two decades, as the tsunami of globalism followed Marxism's collapse, and the seemingly ubiquitous and transparent principle of 'the market' came to forge a direct link between worldwid...