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Nationalism and Gender
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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
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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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    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
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    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...
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    Violence and Democracy Violence and Democracy
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    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...
  • Conceptualizing the Malay World Conceptualizing the Malay World
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    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...
  • 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...
  • Politics of Ethnic Classification in Vietnam Politics of Ethnic Classification in Vietnam
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    Politics of Ethnic Classification in Vietnam

    ITO Masako

    Officially, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam h...
    Officially, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has a total of 54 ethnic groups, including the majority Kinh and 53 ethnic minority groups. This book examines the history of the ethnic group determin...
  • Development Monks in Northeast Thailand Development Monks in Northeast Thailand
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    Development Monks in Northeast Thailand

    LAPTHANANON Pinit

    This study examines the role of Buddhist monks ...
    This study examines the role of Buddhist monks as development agents in rural Thailand. Through 20 years of field studies, and with a focus on Northeast Thailand (which is known as Isan and long cl...
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    Bangsa and Umma

    YAMAMOTO Hiroyuki

    Having experienced a large-scale reorganization...
    Having experienced a large-scale reorganization of social order over the past decade, people of the Malay world have struggled to position themselves. They have been classified - and have classifie...
  • Re-thinking Economic Development Re-thinking Economic Development
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    Re-thinking Economic Development

    FUJITA Koichi

    This study investigates the impact of agrarian ...
    This study investigates the impact of agrarian development programs on rural class structure in Bangladesh, and it highlights how the local administration of infrastructure affected the social stra...
  • The Limits of Tradition The Limits of Tradition
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    The Limits of Tradition

    URANO Mariko

    The Limits of Tradition explores the discourse ...
    The Limits of Tradition explores the discourse of adat (customary or traditional) landownership that played an important role in peasant resistance against Indonesia's state development programs an...
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    Farming with Fire and Water Farming with Fire and Water
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    Farming with Fire and Water

    VIEN Tran Duc, RAMBO A. Terry

    This volume offers the first detailed descripti...
    This volume offers the first detailed description of 'composite swiddening,' a traditional Southeast Asian upland agricultural system that combines shifting cultivation fields on the hillsides with...
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    Myths and Realities Myths and Realities
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    Myths and Realities

    TAMADA Yoshifumi

    This study challenges the prevailing view that ...
    This study challenges the prevailing view that Thailand's democratization process in the 1990s was led by the active middle class. It presents an alternative explanation, examining certain 'passive...