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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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    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...
  • The Rise of Middle Classes in Southeast Asia The Rise of Middle Classes in Southeast Asia
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    The Rise of Middle Classes in Southeast Asia

    SHIRAISHI Takashi

    The rise of the new middle classes in Southeast...
    The rise of the new middle classes in Southeast Asia has brought about important transformations in various countries - politically, socially, economically, and culturally - while producing new 'Ea...
  • Living on the Periphery Living on the Periphery
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    Living on the Periphery

    NOBUTA Toshihiro

    Orang Asli is a generic name given to the indig...
    Orang Asli is a generic name given to the indigenous people living on the Malay Peninsula. Using extensive ethnographic data, Living on the Periphery reveals the way in which state-initiated develo...
  • East Asian Economies and New Regionalism East Asian Economies and New Regionalism
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    East Asian Economies and New Regionalism

    ABE Shigeyuki

    In the face of the financial crisis of East Asi...
    In the face of the financial crisis of East Asia in 1997, Japan successfully pressed forth the Miyazawa Plan and other efficient rescue packages while the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the ...
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    People on the Move People on the Move
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    People on the Move

    SODA Ryoji

    Based on participant observation and interviews...
    Based on participant observation and interviews in a village in Sarawak, Ryoji Soda examines outward migration from the village, the migrants' living strategies in urban areas, their frequent moves...
  • After the Crisis After the Crisis
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    After the Crisis

    SHIRAISHI Takashi, ABINALES Patricio N.

    After the Crisis looks at Southeast Asia-especi...
    After the Crisis looks at Southeast Asia-especially Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines-after the Asian financial crisis. This eleventh volume of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia takes ...
  • Dislocating Nation-States Dislocating Nation-States
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    Dislocating Nation-States

    ABINALES Patricio N., ISHIKAWA Noboru, TANABE Akio

    As much of the world turns its attention to que...
    As much of the world turns its attention to questions of the role and even survival of the nation-state formation in an increasingly globalized world, the authors of this interdisciplinary volume s...
  • Between Hills and Plains Between Hills and Plains
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    Between Hills and Plains

    HAYAMI Yoko

    In this study, Hayami suggests that the Karen i...
    In this study, Hayami suggests that the Karen in northwestern Thailand are located "betwixt and between" the peripheries and the mainstream of the modern nation-state. It demonstrates how the Karen...
  • Gender and Modernity Gender and Modernity
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    Gender and Modernity

    HAYAMI Yoko, TANABE Akio, TOKITA-TANABE Yumiko

    Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic fieldwork, ...
    Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic fieldwork, this anthology examines the complexities of identity formation and self-positioning in post-colonial contexts, ranging from the impact of Christian mi...
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    Ecological Destruction, Health, and Development
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    Ecological Destruction, Health, and Development

    FURUKAWA Hisao

    Uniquely interdisciplinary in orientation, the ...
    Uniquely interdisciplinary in orientation, the book joins experts in ecology, agriculture, medicine and development studies to produce this large-scale study. The authors argue that a number of qua...
  • Practical Buddhism Among the Thai-Lao Practical Buddhism Among the Thai-Lao
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    Practical Buddhism Among the Thai-Lao

    HAYASHI Yukio

    Based on long-term fieldwork, Hayashi presents ...
    Based on long-term fieldwork, Hayashi presents the local history of Thai-Lao religion and society, up to and including its present-day dynamics. Working from the analytical premise that concepts su...