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  • Japan Between Asia and the West Japan Between Asia and the West
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    Japan Between Asia and the West

    Japan seeks economic competitiveness vis-a-vis the West and economic dominance in Asia, but it mainly competes through cooperative use of economic resources, which facilitates realization of the...
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  • Western Interactions With Japan Western Interactions With Japan
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    Western Interactions With Japan

    Japan's concern for defending cherished Japanese values during a century of fantastic change (1859-1956) is one of the key themes explored by the ten contributors to this volume.
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  • Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy
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    Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy

    It has been customary in the appraisal of the different approaches to the study of Japan anthropology to invoke an East-West dichotomy positing hegemonic 'Western' systems of thought against a more...
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  • Japan in Analysis Japan in Analysis
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    Japan in Analysis

    This book addresses three key questions: "Why is there psychoanalysis in Japan?", "What do we learn about Japan from its own forms of analysis?", and "What do we learn about ourselves from Japan?"...
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  • Literary Representations of Japan Literary Representations of Japan
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    Literary Representations of Japan

    This book will focus on analyzing the different aspects of Japan's representation in the novels of Haruki Murakami and David Mitchell. It is proven that Murakami creates and recreates Japan without...
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  • Japanese Writers and the West Japanese Writers and the West
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    Japanese Writers and the West

    Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 'Failed individualism' observed in Japan: The Novels of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) The trip of Hiroshi (1873-1935) and Akiko Yosano (1878-1942) to France and...
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  • FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN
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    FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN

    Japan began to fascinate the West after the account of Marco Polo's sojourn in China. This set off an interest in the oriental world. The Portuguese, being the first, arrived in Japan in 1543 which...
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  • The Beatles in Japan The Beatles in Japan
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    The Beatles in Japan

    Following their first tour to Japan in 1966, the Beatles would become an important part of Japan's postwar cultural development and its deepening relationship with the West. By the 1960s Japan's...
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  • Koreans in Japan Koreans in Japan
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    Koreans in Japan

    Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyzes these relations in the context of the particular conditions and...
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  • The Care of the Elderly in Japan The Care of the Elderly in Japan
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    The Care of the Elderly in Japan

    The problems of an ageing population are particularly acute in Japan. These problems include people living longer, with many needing more care, and the problems of supporting them by a diminishing...
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  • Japan-Bashing Japan-Bashing
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    Japan-Bashing

    The aim of this book is to examine and analyse the phenomenon of 'Japan-bashing', from its invention and popularisation in the United States in the late 1970s to the emergence of other national...
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  • Japan and the Wider World Japan and the Wider World
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    Japan and the Wider World

    Akira Iriye assesses Japan's international relations, from a Japanese perspective, in the century and a half since she ended her self-imposed isolation and resumed her place in the international...
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  • Japan and Britain after 1859 Japan and Britain after 1859
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    Japan and Britain after 1859

    In the years following Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation from the world, Japan developed a new relationship with the West, and especially with Britain, where relations grew to be...
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    Japan Story
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    Japan Story

    A magical cultural history of modern JapanJapan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the...
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  • The Making of Monolingual Japan
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    The Making of Monolingual Japan

    Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. There is a connection between these two views. As...
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  • Managing Innovation in Japan Managing Innovation in Japan
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    Managing Innovation in Japan

    Formation of IT Features through Interaction with Institutional Systems: Empirical Evidence of Unique Epidemic Behavior.- Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality...
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  • Dawn in the Sea of Japan Dawn in the Sea of Japan
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    Dawn in the Sea of Japan

    Dawn in the Sea of Japan: The Nelson Chronicles is about the trials and tribulations of Brandon Horatio Buck Nelson III, an American descendant of the great Lord Horatio Nelson, Englands greatest...
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  • Postmodernism and Japan
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    Postmodernism and Japan

    Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri, from the often startling perspective of a...
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  • Work and Lifecourse in Japan Work and Lifecourse in Japan
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    Work and Lifecourse in Japan

    The durability of Japan's industrial products now holds world acclaim. But the durability of jobs in Japan-despite misleading Western images of lifetime employment-is no better than in other...
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  • Japan As It Was and Is Japan As It Was and Is
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    Japan As It Was and Is

    In this extensive study of Japanese history, authors K. Murakawa and Richard Hilderth offer readers a detailed look into the culture, politics, and social dynamics of this fascinating country...
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  • Ambition Facing West Ambition Facing West
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    Ambition Facing West

    Three generations of a family move ever westward, restless, seeking. As they migrate from Croatia, through Wyoming, and on to Japan, the land of opportunity keeps moving, and the past keeps catching...
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  • Understanding Humor in Japan Understanding Humor in Japan
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    Understanding Humor in Japan

    Japanese conventions about comedy and laughter are largely unanalyzed. For many students of Japanese culture and visitors to Japan, Japanese humor seems obscure, incomprehensible, paradoxical, and...
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  • Japan and the Dutch 1600-1853 Japan and the Dutch 1600-1853
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    Japan and the Dutch 1600-1853

    This is the history of Dutch influence on Japan during the so-called 'closed centuries' between 1640 and 1853. Dutch maritime traders provided the only commercial link which Japan maintained with the...
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    Otaku Japan
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    Otaku Japan

    Whether you're planning a trip to Japan, or are just interested in manga, anime and Japanese pop culture, let Otaku Japan Travel Guide transport you to the global capital of cool! If...
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  • Recollections of Japan Recollections of Japan
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    Recollections of Japan

    Recollections of Japan is a personal account of living in Tokugawa Japan in the beginning of the nineteenth century, from a European's perspective. The author, Hendrik Doeff, chief of the United...
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  • Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan
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    Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan

    This book provides an important overview of key criminology and criminal justice concerns in Japan. It highlights similarities between the practice of criminology research in Japan, as well as...
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  • Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan
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    Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan

    The Pacific War was the most traumatic experience for Japan in modern times. This book examines the politics and culture of Japan during this period: the establishment of the wartime regime, its...
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  • West Wind Clear West Wind Clear
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    West Wind Clear

    Did the American Government and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt have advance information about Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and was this fact later suppressed, either to conceal incompetence or...
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  • The Spirit of Japan
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    The Spirit of Japan

    The Spirit of Japan (1916) is a speech by Rabindranath Tagore. Published after he received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Spirit of Japan is a powerful lecture on Japanese culture in...
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  • Geography and Japan's Strategic Choices Geography and Japan's Strategic Choices
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    Geography and Japan's Strategic Choices

    Geography, this author contends, is the indisputably unique feature of any country. Geography and Japan's Strategic Choices begins by explaining Japan's unique location and topography in comparison...
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  • Music and the Making of Modern Japan Music and the Making of Modern Japan
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    Music and the Making of Modern Japan

    Japan was the first non-Western nation to compete with the Western powers at their own game. The country's rise to a major player on the stage of Western music has been equally spectacular. The...
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  • East To The West East To The West
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    East To The West

    This book is a travel guide written by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore. It provides information about the principal cities of the Straits Settlements, China, and Japan, as well as the American railway route...
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  • The Culture of Copying in Japan The Culture of Copying in Japan
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    The Culture of Copying in Japan

    This book challenges the perception of Japan as a 'copying culture' through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies. It addresses a question about why the West has had such a...
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  • Lovesick Japan
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    Lovesick Japan

    In Lovesick Japan, Mark D. West explores an official vision of love, sex, and marriage in contemporary Japan. A comprehensive body of evidence-2,700 court opinions-describes a society characterized...
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  • The Rutgers Graduates In Japan (1916) The Rutgers Graduates In Japan (1916)
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    The Rutgers Graduates In Japan (1916)

    The Rutgers Graduates In Japan is a historical book written by William Elliot Griffis and published in 1916. It is a detailed account of the experiences of a group of Rutgers University graduates who...
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    A History of Japan, 1334-1615
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    A History of Japan, 1334-1615

    This is a straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization from 1334 to 1615 by the author of Japan: A Short Cultural History. While complete in itself, it is also the first...
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  • Farthest East, and South and West Farthest East, and South and West
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    Farthest East, and South and West

    Farthest East, and South and West - Notes of a Journey Home Through Japan, Australasia and America is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892.Hansebooks is editor of the...
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  • Japan as a Low-Crime Nation Japan as a Low-Crime Nation
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    Japan as a Low-Crime Nation

    Criminologists have despaired that modernization and crime are inseparable. The more modern we become, the more criminal. Japan has long been seen as an exception to the rule. The reasons for this,...
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  • Life in Treaty Port China and Japan Life in Treaty Port China and Japan
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    Life in Treaty Port China and Japan

    This edited volume moves beyond the traditional examination of the treaty ports of China and Japan as places of cultural interaction. It moves 'beyond the Bund', presenting instead the history of...
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  • Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan
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    Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan

    Civic engagement is a concept of action that has become part of common vocabulary, not only in the West but also in many other regions of the world as well. A growing, yet still small number of...
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