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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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    GOMES Albert G.

    This book, a joint publication with the Cent...

    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 Malaysi...

  • Nationalism and Gender Nationalism and Gender
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    Nationalism and Gender

    UENO Chizuko

    This is written by a sociologist and Japan's...

    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 ...

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    Others

    KAWAI Kaori

    As the sequel to Groups (2013) and Institutions...
    As the sequel to Groups (2013) and Institutions (2017), Others is the third work produced by a collaborative research project involving primatologists and anthropologists on the evolutionary histor...
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    Fighting Prejudice in Japan Fighting Prejudice in Japan
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    Fighting Prejudice in Japan

    KUROSAKA Ai

    This collection of twelve life stories delve...

    This collection of twelve life stories delves into the experiences of families of Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) patients who tell their own stories in their own words. In detailed interviews spanni...

  • Aftermath Aftermath
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    Aftermath

    TSUJINAKA Yutaka, INATSUGU Hiroaki

    "Aftermath: Fukushima and the 3.11 Earthquake" ...
    "Aftermath: Fukushima and the 3.11 Earthquake" is a comprehensive analysis of recovery and reconstruction following the triple disaster in Japan on March 11, 2011. This collection addresses the que...
  • Boundaries of 'the Japanese' Vol.2 Boundaries of 'the Japanese' Vol.2
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    Boundaries of 'the Japanese' Vol.2

    OGUMA Eiji

    In this the parallel volume to The Boundarie...

    In this the parallel volume to The Boundaries of 'the Japanese': Volume 1: Okinawa 1818-1972 (2014), renowned historical sociologist Eiji Oguma further explores the fluctuating political, geogra...

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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...
  • Globalizing Japan Globalizing Japan
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    Globalizing Japan

    MOUER Ross

    The Japanese people are again struggling wit...

    The Japanese people are again struggling with their nation's insularity. The Meiji Restoration and the end of the Asia-Pacific War gave way to concerted efforts to connect the country with the o...

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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 ...
  • 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...

    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...

  • Migrant Workers in Contemporary Japan Migrant Workers in Contemporary Japan
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    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...
  • Stratification in Cultural Contexts Stratification in Cultural Contexts
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    Stratification in Cultural Contexts

    KIMURA Toshiaki

    Stratification in Cultural Contexts is a col...

    Stratification in Cultural Contexts is a collection drawn from research results of the East Asian Division of the Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality at Tohoku Universit...