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This study analyzes American, Vietnamese and Japanese personal values, attempting to understand how it can be ethnographers find large differences in values between cultures, yet …

In contrast to Euro-centric works on comparative fascism that set Japan apart from Germany and Italy, this book emphasizes parallels between Japan and its Axis Allies. In both …

Okinawan life, at the crossroads of American militarism and Japanese capitalism, embodies a fundamental contradiction to the myth of the monoethnic state. Suspended in a state of …

Oil is the world's most important commodity. It is also one of the most politicized, with national oil companies controlling most of the world's reserves. Contrary to conventional …

Against Harmony traces the history of progressive and radical experiments in Japanese Buddhist thought and practice, from the mid-Meiji period through the early Showa. Perhaps the …

...ある日本の島への自転車旅行が、愛と食を巻き込んで大冒険に発展。定年退職したばかりの詩人の元大学教授と、ジャズ歌手を目指す若き女性医師が、瀬戸内海に浮かぶ四国を自転車で放浪することになった。この旅は、二人を精神的にも肉体的にも近づけ、またそれぞれが心の奥に隠していた過去の悲劇と向き合い、新しい人生を模索する機会を与えた。二人が乗る自転車、桜、野生的な海岸 …

The Translocal Island of Okinawa reveals the underrepresented memories, visions and actions that are involved in the making of Okinawan resistance against its subordinated status …

In Better Must Come, Matthew D. Marr reveals how social contexts at various levels combine and interact to shape the experiences of transitional housing program users in two of the …

Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express diverse affective …

Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in return migration decision making of …