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The Gospels: Authorized King James Version
PreviewI thank my colleagues at The Open University in London—Jamal Hadaway, Maurice Hindle, Sophie Oxenham, Alice Whieldon, and Naoko Yamagata— whose kindness enabled me to spend more time on this project. Naoko provided expert ...
Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Preview316–21, and Simpson, Hitchhiker, pp. 12–13. For more on the idea of complexity- from-simplicity, though, see section 3 of this book's Introduction. Nicholas Joll would like to thank James Robson and Naoko Yamagata and the other classicists ...
Homeric Morality
Naoko YamagataFor the heroes of the Iliad' , Victoria Pedrick maintains, 'supplication operates strictly on a human level, commanding respect only so far as custom and human sanctions compel.'2 If so, Phoenix's allegory presents yet another difficulty for the ...
War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the ...
PreviewNaoko Yamagata is particularly interested in the contribution that Homeric studies can make to modern debates about the portrayal of violence in modern media and the question of the entertainment value of war. In Chapter 3, she offers ...
Orality and Literacy: Reflections across Disciplines
PreviewExceptions are the recent work of Naoko Yamagata, 'Plato, Memory, and Performance,' Oral Tradition 20, no. 1 (2005): 111—29; and Harold Tarrant, ' Orality and Plato's Narrative Dialogues,' Word into Text: Orality and Literacy in Ancient ...
America's Geisha Ally
Naoko ShibusawaIn this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to valuable ally that occurred in the two decades after the war.
Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American ...
Michael Cullen GreenNaoko Shibusawa, "America's Geisha Ally: Race, Gender, and Maturity in Refiguring the Japanese Enemy, 1945-1964" (Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 1998), iv. See also Naoko Shibusawa, America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the ...
In Love With Japan: A Gaijin Visits Japan and Tours Around ...
Mike NewtonA Gaijin Visits Japan and Tours Around With His Japanese Partner, Seeing Many Parts of Japan Rarely Seen by Other Westerners Mike Newton, Naoko Motohiro. In Love wi1'h Japan Naoko Mofohir'o & Mike Newton Also by Mike Newton ...
Japan Company Handbook: Second section
More editions... Mizuho Corporate Bank (4.3), Employees' Stockholding (2.6), Fukushima Bank (1 .9), Shinsei Bank (1 .8), Nichido F.& M.lns. (1 .8), Daito Bank (1 .6), Aozora Bank (1 .5), Akira Takahashi (1.4), Kenji Hasegawa (1.2), Yamagata Kyoritsu Co.
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
More editionsKIYOSHI EGAWA, KIKUO NOMOTO, FUJIO MINAMI, and SEIJU SUGITO Introduction The National Language Research Institute (NLRI) carried out a sociolinguistic survey in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture in 1950 (NLRI 1953). Another ...
At the Eleventh Hour
Hugh CecilChapter Fourteen Naoko ShimaZu Of the belligerent states covered in this study, the Japanese response to the Armistice, as discussed below, may come across as curiously detached and even indifferent. This is intriguing, considering that the ...
Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919
Naoko ShimazuThis is the first comprehensive analysis of an historically significant event which has not been given adequate scholarly attention in the past.
Nationalisms in Japan
PreviewI n t r o d u c t i o n Naoko Shimazu This edited volume is based on a twoday closed workshop held at Keiō University in September 2003 on 'Nationalism in Modern and Contemporary Japan'.It represents the culmination of intensive, ...
Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture
Ran Zwigenberg... Pearl Buck and other American intellectu- als who were involved with the movement also called for “moral adop- tion” of A-bomb orphans by Americans and gathered donations for hibakusha relief.44 As Naoko Shibusawa demonstrated, ...
Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics: ...
Preview3 Performing hFreedomi: the Bandung Conference as symbolic postcolonial diplomacy1 Naoko Shimazu Bandung was, in a manner of speaking, a historical pageant, symbolizing the coming of the age of Asia and Africa. (Romulo 1956: 35 ) ...
Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXV
Preview... CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS Yasuyuki Kakihana', Tamotsu Kuniyoshi, Sumikazu Isowaki, Kazumi Tobo, Etsuro Nagata, Naoko Okayama, Kouichirou Kitahara, Takahiro Moriyama, Takeshi Omae, Masayuki Kawakami, Yuichi Kanmura, ...
Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the ...
Naoko ShimazuThis text was the first full-length study to examine the war from the perspective of its impact on Japanese society, and sheds light on its implications for modern Japan.
Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God
Emily AndersonSee for example Naoko Shimazu, Japanese Society at War, 119–56. This impression of unity was not limited to the Christian community, but was common in media portrayals of domestic support of the war during the duration of the war. With a ...
America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts: Cultural ...
Barbara ThornburyAs Naoko Shibusawa has pointed out, in The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Ruth Benedict “depicted [the Japanese] as having a flawed culture that needed reforming in order to be more mature and masculine,” with Benedict suggesting that ...
Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913: An Anthology of Travel ...
David N. Wells... and James Boyd, Katalin Ferber, Naoko Homma, Radha Krishnan, Wolfgang Michel, Takeshi Moriyama, Narrelle Morris and Nobuhiro Yamane for sharing their knowledge of particular aspects of Japanese history, botany and geography.
Between Mao and McCarthy: Chinese American Politics in the ...
Charlotte BrooksMeredith Oda, Madeline Hsu, Shana Bernstein, Jason Chang, and Naoko Shibusawa offered useful comments on the conference papers that became part of the manuscript. Jonathan Soffer, Kristin Cellelo, Lara Vapnek, Vanessa May, Libby ...
Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the ...
Françoise N. HamlinCorey D. B. Walker, Charlie Cobb, Naoko Shibusawa, Paget Henry, Karen Baxter , and Robert Self all read the entire manuscript in earlier drafts, providing specific and vital feedback. I have had lively conversations about Clarksdale and the ...
Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and ...
Marilyn LakeBut its role in the world could not be fully realised 'so long as Japanese and other coloured races are differentially treated in white communities'.1 In his recent study, Japan, Race and Equality, Naoko Shimazu observed that the question of ...
The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero
John SteinbergNaoko Shimazu has provided a lively account of what the experience of riding military trains en route to the sending ports meant to individual soldiers, particularly those bound for Ujina.63 Drawing on the personal diaries of several soldiers, ...
Major Problems in Asian American History
Lon Kurashige... of who we will regard as an Asian American as we address each project. What Is Transnational Asian American History? ERIKA LEE AND NAOKO SHIBUSAWA Beginning IN THE 1990S, THE TERM “globalization” became a catchall ...
Black Yanks in America's Pacific: Race and the Making of a ...
Michael Cullen Green3 For a recent study exploring how the Japanese “sold cherry-blossom visions of Japan to help them revive their prewar tourist industry and downplay their militant wartime reputation” (iv), see Naoko Shibusawa, “America's Geisha Ally: Race, ...
Gendering the "black Pacific": Race Consciousness, National ...
Yasuhiro Okada9 Historian Naoko Shibusawa points out that "Japanese women were held up as exemplars of femininity" in the shifting gender roles of American women during and after World War II in her examination of the mainstream American public ...
Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia: Identity Politics, ...
PreviewIdentity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture Paul Morris, Naoko Shimazu, Edward Vickers. First published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY ...
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