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Kindai Chūgoku kankei Ōbun tosho bunrui mokuroku: Tōyō Bunko ...

Kindai Chūgoku kankei Ōbun tosho bunrui mokuroku: Tōyō Bunko ...

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(Studies of the East Asian Institute) [4778] 3120 Pusey, James Reeve. China and Charles Darwin / James Reeve Pusey. Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1983. xi, 544p. ; 24cm. (Harvard East Asian ...
Global Governance and Japan: The Institutional Architecture

Global Governance and Japan: The Institutional Architecture

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... Crises Yukiko Nishikawa Japan's Subnational Governments in International Affairs Purnendra Jain Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism Towards a proactive leadership role? Shigeko Hayashi Japan's Relations with China Facing a ...
Governing Insecurity in Japan: The Domestic Discourse and ...

Governing Insecurity in Japan: The Domestic Discourse and ...

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... Crises Yukiko Nishikawa Japan's Subnational Governments in International Affairs Purnendra Jain Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism Towards a proactive leadership role? Shigeko Hayashi Japan's Relations with China Facing a ...
The Decade of the Great War: Japan and the Wider World in ...

The Decade of the Great War: Japan and the Wider World in ...

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16 Susan C. Townsend, Miki Kiyoshi 1897–1945; Japan's Itinerant Philosopher ( Leiden: Brill, 2009), 55, 98–99.17 Smith, “Tokyo,” 60. 18 Masako Gavin, “Abe Iso and New Zealand as a Model for a 'New'Japan,” Japan Forum 16, no.3 (2004): ...
Japan's Security Policy and the ASEAN Regional Forum: The ...

Japan's Security Policy and the ASEAN Regional Forum: The ...

Takeshi Yuzawa

... Julie Gilson, Christopher Hughes and Hugo Dobson Japan's Changing Role in Humanitarian Crises Yukiko Nishikawa Japan and East AsianMonetary Regionalism Towardsa proactiveleadership role? Shigeko Hayashi Japan's Relations ...
Japan: The Cycle of Life

Japan: The Cycle of Life

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Original photographs and insightful commentary introduce Japan's natural beauty and rich cultural heritage. These classic images only hint at the story of the seasons in Japan.
Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan: Dance, Music, Theater, ...

Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan: Dance, Music, Theater, ...

Thomas R.H. Havens

6; Japan Center for International Exchange, Philanthropy in Japan, Tokyo, Japan Center for International Exchange, rev. ed., 1978, p. 18. Tanaka, Foundations, pp. 6, 17-18; Koshimura interview, November 5, 1980. Kimura, “Nihon no geijutsu ...
Kicks Japan

Kicks Japan

Manami Okazaki

Kicks Japan is the first English-language book to document fashionable and sexy sneaker related cultures in Japan.
Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin

Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin

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Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself.
Rebuilding Urban Japan After 1945

Rebuilding Urban Japan After 1945

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This is the first book in English to examine the reconstruction of Japan's bombed cities after World War II, and it is a must-read not only for Japan specialists but also for those interested in urban history and planing anywhere.
Tradition and modern Japan

Tradition and modern Japan

Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill

The Landing in Japan of Giovanni Battista Sidotti in 1708 ALDO TOLLINI The Christian faith was introduced into Japan by Francis Xavier in 1549. It had a certain degree of success during the second half of the sixteenth century and the first ...
Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New ...

Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New ...

Ellis S. Krauss

This book provides one of the most detailed explanations of U.S.-Japan relations and clearly presents a new way of understanding U.S.-Japan trade and security relations.
Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa

Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa

Miyume Tanji

... in Humanitarian Crises Yukiko Nishikawa Japan's Subnational Governments in International Affairs Purnendra Jain Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism Towards a proactive leadershiprole? Shigeko Hayashi Japan's Relations with ...
Party Politics in Japan: Political Chaos and Stalemate in ...

Party Politics in Japan: Political Chaos and Stalemate in ...

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Hood 39 The Ethics of Japan's Global Environmental Policy The conflict between principles and practice MidoriKagawaFox 40 Superhuman Japan Knowledge, nation and culture in USJapan relations Marie Thorsten 41 Nationalism, Realism  ...
Fishing Villages in Tokugawa, Japan

Fishing Villages in Tokugawa, Japan

Arne Kalland

What is more, Japan's fishing villages played a significant role in Japan's economic development.
Japan Versus the West: Image and Reality

Japan Versus the West: Image and Reality

Endymion Porter Wilkinson

Are the Europeans and Americans lazy as well as improving European and US ability to cope with the rise of Japan. This book was previously published as "Japan Versus Europe."
In Love With Japan: A Gaijin Visits Japan and Tours Around ...

In Love With Japan: A Gaijin Visits Japan and Tours Around ...

Mike Newton

A 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 ...
Adoption in Japan: Comparing Policies for Children in Need

Adoption in Japan: Comparing Policies for Children in Need

Peter Hayes

The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan.
Japan's Foreign Policy Maturation: A Quest for Normalcy

Japan's Foreign Policy Maturation: A Quest for Normalcy

Kevin Cooney

The clear implication is that while japan is willing to do its part to protect its interests, it is unwilling to go the extra mile and place itself at risk for the interests of others (more on this later). 13 Milton Ezrati, japan's Aging Economics, Foreign  ...
The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America

The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America

Merry White

As she describes the youth culture of Japan, Merry White draws comparisons with the interests and activities pursued by teenagers in the United States and the contrasting attitudes of adults in Japan and the U.S. towards adolescence.
Queer Voices from Japan: First Person Narratives from ...

Queer Voices from Japan: First Person Narratives from ...

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These essays trace the evolution of queer voices in Japan with analyses of the presence of homosexuality in the Japanese Imperial Army, the development of Japan's first gay bars, and same-sex experiences in the pre- and post-war periods.
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 ...
Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork ...

Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork ...

Amy Catalinac

1998a. “How a Dietmember's Koenkai Adapts to Political and Social Changes.” In How Electoral Reform Boomeranged. Continuity in Japanese Campaigning Style , ed. Hideo Otake. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Center for International Exchange, pp.
Zeta Functions, Topology and Quantum Physics

Zeta Functions, Topology and Quantum Physics

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AND QUANTUM PHYSICS Edited by TAKASHI AOKI Kinki University, Japan SHIGERU KANEMITSU Kinki University, Japan MIKIO NAKAHARA Kinki University, Japan YASUO OHNO Kinki University, Japan 2) Springer Zeto functions, ...
Photography in Japan 1853 - 1912

Photography in Japan 1853 - 1912

Terry Bennett

Taken between 1853 and 1912 by the most important Japanese and foreign photographers working in Japan, this is the first book to document the history of early photography in Japan a comprehensive and systematic way.
Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation ...

Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation ...

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... Yoichi Funabashi and Barak Kushner Japanese Women in Science and Engineering History and policy change Naonori Kodate and Kashiko Kodate Japan's Border Issues Pitfalls and prospects Akihiro Iwashita Japan, Russia and Territorial ...
Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in ...

Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in ...

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Hashimoto, Mitsuru. “Chih6: Yanagita Kunio's Japan.” Pp. 133—43 in Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern japan, ed. Stephen Vlastos. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1998. Ivy, Marilyn. Discourses of the Vanishing: ...
Japan after 3/11: Global Perspectives on the Earthquake, ...

Japan after 3/11: Global Perspectives on the Earthquake, ...

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Experiencing Disasters in Two Places: China's 1976 Tangshan Earthquake and Japan's 2011 Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Radiation Lisa Yinghong Li, J. F. Oberlin University 22. Liquefaction in the 2011 Earthquake in Japan and the  ...
Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, ...

Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, ...

Anne Stefanie Aronsson

... the Representation of Japanese History Edited by Roman Rosenbaum Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan Edited by Rachael Hutchinson EU– Japan Relations, 1970–2012 From confrontation to global partnership Edited by Jörn Keck, ...
Tanuma Okitsugu, 1719-1788, forerunner of modern Japan

Tanuma Okitsugu, 1719-1788, forerunner of modern Japan

John Whitney Hall

This is a study of Tanuma Okitsugu, the most powerful political figure in Japan during the quarter century between 1760-1786. The book also provides a descriptive history of mid-eighteenth-century Japan.

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