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Nationalism and GenderUENO 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... -
Japan's Ultra-RightHIGUCHI Naoto
This book is a comprehensive account of the nat...This book is a comprehensive account of the nativist movement in Japan today. Naoto Higuchi uses the life histories of activists to establish that the basis of their support for the movement is the... -
An Intimate JourneyAOYAMA Waka
This work offers a comprehensive description of...This work offers a comprehensive description of the lives of the Sama-Bajau people based on ongoing ethnographic research conducted by the author in Davao City, the Philippines, for over two decade... -
Gender GymnasticsSTICKLAND 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... -
Amorphous DissentKINOSHITA Chigaya, TANAKA Hikaru, HORIE Takashi, KATO Tetsuro, TORIYAMA Atsushi, TANNO Kiyoto
Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in the wak...Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011, Japan has seen a significant revival in its social activism. Large-scale social movements spran... -
The State Construction of 'Japaneseness'ENDO Masataka
For more than 140 years, Japan's koseki registr...For more than 140 years, Japan's koseki registration system has functioned as the official means by which an individual qualifies as "Japanese". Information concerning each family is entered into o... -
Grassroots GlobalizationSHIMIZU Hiromu
Rapidly advancing globalization impacts indigen...Rapidly advancing globalization impacts indigenous people worldwide. In this long-term study of a remote village famous for its World Heritage-listed rice terraces, where the people actively confro... -
OthersKAWAI 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... -
Living on the Streets in JapanFILLER Stephen, MARUYAMA Satomi
Homelessness has been recognized as a serious p...Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant model of a "homeless person" has been that of an unemployed male laborer - a model that has largely ... -
Fighting Prejudice in JapanKUROSAKA Ai
This collection of twelve life stories delves i...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 spanning ... -
Human Survivability StudiesKAWAI Shuichi, FUJITA Masakatsu, KAWAI Eriko
The challenges we face today are growing conspi...The challenges we face today are growing conspicuously broad in scale and complex in nature. Human Survivability Studies is a new transdisciplinary field born from the growing awareness of the urge... -
Learning English in JapanTERASAWA Takunori
Multiple discourses circulate Japanese society ...Multiple discourses circulate Japanese society surrounding the relationship between Japanese people and the English language. For example, 'Japanese people are the worst English speakers in Asia,' ...
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