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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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  • 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...
  • Nationalism and Gender Nationalism and Gender
    $29.95
    Nationalism and Gender

    UENO Chizuko

    This is written by a sociologist and Japan's "m...
    This is written by a sociologist and Japan's "most famous feminist", Chizuko Ueno. A discursive battle over how Japan's history should be remembered constitutes the most recent, and perhaps the mos...
  • From Salvation to Spirituality From Salvation to Spirituality
    $34.95
    From Salvation to Spirituality

    SHIMAZONO Susumu

    Susumu Shimazono, one of Japan's foremost socio...
    Susumu Shimazono, one of Japan's foremost sociologists of religion, deals with the development of popular religious and spiritual movements in Japan in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. A...
  • Looking for Money
    $19.95
    Looking for Money

    GOMES Albert G.

    This book, a joint publication with the Center ...
    This book, a joint publication with the Center for Orang Asli Concerns, Malaysia, provides an illustration of the impact of capitalism and modernity on an indigenous people, the Semai of Malaysia. ...
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    A History of the Pachinko Industry
    $49.95
    A History of the Pachinko Industry

    HAN Jaehyang

    Pachinko parlors offer a form of gambling uniqu...
    Pachinko parlors offer a form of gambling unique to Japan located near train stations, in the suburbs and in other everyday living spaces. Before World War II, pachinko was born as a game for both ...
  • Gender Gymnastics Gender Gymnastics
    $34.95
    Gender Gymnastics

    STICKLAND Leonie

    The artifice of gender performance - sometimes ...
    The artifice of gender performance - sometimes playful, mostly conscientious - has enthralled and entertained audiences of Japan's all-female Takarazuka Revue for more than 90 years. The dashing ma...
  • Paddy Soil Science
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    Paddy Soil Science

    KYUMA Kazutake

    This book is an important reference for those c...
    This book is an important reference for those concerned with the continuing sustainability of wet rice agriculture, which remains the staple diet for most people throughout Asia. Kazutake Kyuma dra...
  • The Stripper Goddess of Japan
    $29.95
    The Stripper Goddess of Japan

    TSURUMI Shunsuke, AOYAMA Tomoko, BAILEY Penny

    The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Aft...
    The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume is the first complete English translation of Ame no Uzume den (1991) by one of Japan's most influential post-war intellectuals...
  • Democratization and Constitutional Reform in Thailand
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    Democratization and Constitutional Reform in Thailand

    TOYAMA Ayako

    This book examines the phenomenon of the "judic...
    This book examines the phenomenon of the "judicialization of politics," which has attracted attention as one of the causes of the retreat of Thai democracy, focusing on the May 1992 bloodshed, the ...
  • Reconsidering Resilience in African Pastoralism
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    Reconsidering Resilience in African Pastoralism

    KONAKA Shinya

    What does resilience mean? This is a question f...
    What does resilience mean? This is a question frequently asked and one that this book challenges and turns on its head. This book interrogates the increasingly overused concept of resilience by exa...
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    Muslim and British post-9/11
    $49.95
    Muslim and British post-9/11

    ADACHI Satoshi

    How do second-generation immigrant Muslims, bor...
    How do second-generation immigrant Muslims, born and raised in the UK, perceive themselves and present their identities in the post-9/11 social environment, where Islamophobia is pervasive? Muslim ...
  • Extremes
    $49.95
    Extremes

    KAWAI Kaori

    Humans have always faced the threat of extincti...
    Humans have always faced the threat of extinction. This book takes a broad perspective of the ‘extreme’ conditions of human existence and survival to examine how extremes have forced humans to chan...