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Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has evolved ...
After World War II, Japanese popular culture was 'banned' in Korea. However, despite the official...
After World War II, Japanese popular culture was 'banned' in Korea. However, despite the official...
Japan's radical development following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, drew the attention of the wo...
What does resilience mean? This is a question frequently asked and one that this book challenges ...
How do second-generation immigrant Muslims, born and raised in the UK, perceive themselves and pr...
In the late Edo period, when society was maturing and Japan was moving to open its doors to the o...
Humans have always faced the threat of extinction. This book takes a broad perspective of the 'ex...
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The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume is the first complete Engl...
The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume is the first complete Engl...
Do foreigners really have 'human rights' in Japan? This book sheds light on the way Japan views f...
After World War II, for a variety of reasons, some women in Japan had intimate relations with occ...
African tropical rainforests are in rapid decline, and their conservation is an urgent priority. ...
Various contractual deeds were exchanged between people in Burmese dynastic society in the eighte...
In 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake left more than 20,000 people dead or missing. On 11 Marc...
In developed countries, non-regular employment in the labor market is increasing and the gap betw...
This book presents a counter-argument to the Japanese belief that they are a homogeneous nation s...
Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant ...
This award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall...
Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persu...
Japan's post-World War II 'economic miracle' is well-known and much discussed, as is the collapse...
Conceptualizing the Malay World explores the interrelations between the indigenization of 'coloni...
This is written by a sociologist and Japan's 'most famous feminist', Chizuko Ueno. A discursive b...
The !Xun are a San people living in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, Botswana, and in Angola. In t...
Do places influence human behavior? In everyday thinking, spaces and places are generally seen as...
How have femininity and masculinity been defined and understood in China from prehistoric times t...
Japan's post-World War II 'economic miracle' is well-known and much discussed, as is the collapse...
Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2...
This book examines the interdependent relationships between the film industry and the state in Ea...
Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has evolved ...
This book takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of a region from the pers...
How was baseball used to promote U.S. values in occupied Japan? The first post-war Japanese profe...
For more than 140 years, Japan's koseki registration system has functioned as the official means ...
Much of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain ...
The Bhagalpur riots occurred in the Indian state of Bihar during the 1989 Lok Sabha election camp...
How have femininity and masculinity been defined and understood in China from prehistoric times t...
Humans have always faced the threat of extinction. This book takes a broad perspective of the ' e...
This book examines the interdependent relationships between the film industry and the state in Ea...
As the sequel to Groups (2013) and Institutions (2017), Others is the third work produced by a co...
Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persu...
This work offers a comprehensive description of the lives of the Sama-Bajau people based on ongoi...
The aim of this book is to highlight the important roles that things play in our everyday lives b...
How do Japanese people foster spiritual awareness? This book provides a fresh perspective on spir...
This book is a comprehensive account of the nativist movement in Japan today. Naoto Higuchi uses ...
This book overviews the present situation of foreign migrants in Japan, based on the latest and m...
In this study of the formation of modern Thai radical culture, Tejapira reveals a process of cult...