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Population Decline and Ageing in Japan - The Social Consequences

Population Decline and Ageing in Japan - The Social Consequences

Florian Coulmas

Tamaki Saitō (Saitō and Sakai 2006:11) In a countrywherea song contest between a male and a femaleteam continues to beapopular TV programme on New Year'sEve, the penchant for dealing with relationships in termsof highand lowis ...
Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan: The Performing ...

Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan: The Performing ...

Adam Broinowski

Coined by psychologist Saitō Tamaki (Saitō 1998), hikikomori, initially known as ( rijinshō), were those who practiced abnormal degrees of social avoidance ( inertia, depression, paranoia, voyeurism, agoraphobia, physical violence directed ...
Beautiful Fighting Girl

Beautiful Fighting Girl

Tamaki Saitō

From Nausicaä to Sailor Moon, understanding girl heroines of manga and anime within otaku culture.
Butterfly in the Wind

Butterfly in the Wind

Rei Kimura

This is the true story of the tragic life of Okichi Saito who became the pawn to placate Townsend Harris, the first American Consul to Japan in the turbulent mid 1800's.
Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End

Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End

Tamaki Saitō

"First published in Japan in 1998 by PHP Institute, Inc. [as Shakaiteki hikikomori: owaranai shishunki]."
Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End

Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End

Tamaki Saitō

"First published in Japan in 1998 by PHP Institute, Inc. [as Shakaiteki hikikomori: owaranai shishunki]."
Competing Globally

Competing Globally

Ph D Farid D Elashmawi

For example, consider what happened to my colleague, Dave Perkins, an American engineer. Not long ago, he took a trip to Japan and Malaysia to meet with Dr. Noburu Saito in Osaka and Dr. Omar Faiz in Kuala Lumpur. Afterward, he wrote ...
Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios: 6th ...

Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios: 6th ...

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Hirose, M., Hirota, K., Ogi, T., Yano, H., Kakehi, N., Saito, M., Nakashige, M.: HapticGEAR: The Development of a Wearable ... Amemiya, T., Ando, H., Maeda, T.: Virtual Force Display: Direction Guidance Using Asymmetric Acceleration via ...
Darger’s Resources

Darger’s Resources

Michael Moon

The prominent Japanese social psychologist Tamaki Saitō notes the similarity and devotes a chapter to Darger's work in his recent psychoanalytic study of the sexuality of otaku (obsessive fans of manga, anime, and related video games).14  ...
Graph Theory and Algorithms: 17th Symposium of Research ...

Graph Theory and Algorithms: 17th Symposium of Research ...

N. Saito

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Anime: A Critical Introduction

Anime: A Critical Introduction

Rayna Denison

Tamaki Saitō ([2000] 2011) goes further than this, listing thirteen different lineages of anime heroine in his work on the beautiful fighting women of anime. Among these traditions in anime production, he notes a wide variety of female character ...
Electrical Phenomena at Interfaces and Biointerfaces: ...

Electrical Phenomena at Interfaces and Biointerfaces: ...

Hiroyuki Ohshima

R. Ohori, K. Uchida, A. Saito, H. Yajima. Chem. Lett. 37 (2008) 324-325. B. P. Devlin, D. A. Tirrell. Macromolecules 19 (1986) 2465-2466. C. Kojima, K. Kono, K . Maruyama, T. Takagishi. Bioconjugate Chem. 11 (2000) 910-917. J. Haensler ...
Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture ...

Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture ...

Dennis J. Frost

My work is undoubtedly better for having known and worked with Tobias Barske, Steven Bryan, Paul Droubie, Joy Kim, Ian Miller, Thomas Mullaney, David Obermiller, Lee Pennington, Satoru Saito, Tomoko Sakomura, Mathew Thompson, and ...
Japan: The Precarious Future

Japan: The Precarious Future

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The psychiatrist and social critic Tamaki Saitō calls Japan a “family-dependent society” whose dependency is severely strained today. But if the family/ marriage has been Japan's primary social unit, welfare institution, and prop to corporate ...
Tropical Veterinary Medicine: Current Issues and Perspectives

Tropical Veterinary Medicine: Current Issues and Perspectives

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Current Issues and Perspectives Jim C. Williams, Katherine M. Kocan, E. Paul J. Gibbs. 5. ... 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. McKERCHER, D. G., B. McGowAN, J. A. HowARTH & J. K. SAITO. ... P. Roy & B. Osburn, Eds.: 1-6. NERC Institute.
Anime and Manga

Anime and Manga

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... Alpha, 109 Subtitle (captioning), 102 Subtitled, 107, 252 Subtitles, 271 Succor, 159 Suda 51, 297 Sukeban Deka, 187 Sumika Yamamoto, 147 Sunbow Productions, 126 Talking animal, 16 Tamaki Saitō, 341, 364, 370 Tamaki Saitou,.
Transactions of the Mining, Geological and Metallurgical ...

Transactions of the Mining, Geological and Metallurgical ...

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R. S. Saigal, M. Sengupta, R. N. Sharma, M. L. Shome, A. Shome, D. P. Sengupta , Ajit Singh, Dr. B. N. Sinha, Dr. V. Subramanvaru, V. P. Sondhi, R. Sondhi, Mrs. R . Sondhi, Messrs. R. Shorne, M. Saito, V. K. Seth, R. K. Seth, P. M. Spencer, ...
The Official Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, ...

The Official Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, ...

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Beisen Kubota. Fuko Matsumoto, Hono Fukuda, Tama Komiya, Rie Asama, Jyotaro Araki, Sojiro Saito, Masaaki Yuki. Toshiaki Shimamura, Sessho Sugitani, Chikanobu Hashimoto, Gaho Hashimoto, Kunichika Toyowara, Gekko Ogata, Shotei ...
Los Angeles's Boyle Heights

Los Angeles's Boyle Heights

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... Albert Johnson Jr. Moira Kenney Daniel Kawahara George Lipsitz Katby Masaoka Valerie Matsumoto Mollie Murphy Don Nakanishi Armida Ramirez Louie Ramirez Alvaro Rodriguez James Rojas Leland Saito George Sanchez Howard ...
Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, ...

Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, ...

Deborah Elizabeth Whaley

Sutherland Hotel (Chicago), 56 Swahili language, 167 Swing Papa (Quinn), 37– 38 Syracuse University, 147 T Taija (in Millennia Wars), 171 “Taking Back Troy” ( Yang), 9 Taliban, 31 talking heads, 148, 150, 210n18 Tamaki, Saitō, 142–43 ...
Wir sind Tier: Was wir von den Tieren für unsere Gesundheit ...

Wir sind Tier: Was wir von den Tieren für unsere Gesundheit ...

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

... Nativeand Exotic BirdsDuring the 1999 Outbreakin New York City, NewYork«, Veterinary Pathology 37(2000): S. 208–224; PeterP. Marra, Sean Griffing, Carolee Caffrey, A. MarmKilpatrick, Robert McLean, Christopher Brand, Emi Saito etal., ...
Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a ...

Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a ...

Leland T. Saito

Tamayo, William, Robin Toma, and Stewart Kwoh. 1991. The voting rights of Asian Pacific Americans. Public Policy Project. Los Angeles: Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles. Thernstrom, Abigail M. 1987.
Avant-garde Videogames: Playing with Technoculture

Avant-garde Videogames: Playing with Technoculture

Brian Schrank

... 59 Saito, Takako, Smell Chess, 89 Salla, Jeanine, 115, 116 San culture, 168 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 70 Sasser, Cabel, 116 Schell, Jesse, 32–33 Schleiner, Anne- Marie, 41, 130, 181 Schrank, Brian Bishop's Game (with Jeremy Rogers), 105, 106 ...

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