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This book investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective. By analyzing a variety of communication during the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the author examines how Japaneseness is constructed in relation to discursive Others.

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This book investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective. By analyzing a variety of communication during the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the author examines how Japaneseness is constructed in relation to discursive Others.

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This study provides a comprehensive institutional history of Japans post-1945 army. It also analyzes representations of the military in popular culture, the place of soldiers in the formation of the countrys postwar national identity, and the social and political impact of constitutional restrictions on the military.

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This study provides a comprehensive institutional history of Japans post-1945 army. It also analyzes representations of the military in popular culture, the place of soldiers in the formation of the countrys postwar national identity, and the social and political impact of constitutional restrictions on the military.

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This cultural history examines representations of pleasure work during Japans transformation into a modern nation-state. It traces the figure of the prostitute in the context of Japanese nation- and empire-building immediately before and during the Meiji era.

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This edited collection raises questions about globalization, Japan's relationships with other Asian countries, and the continued importance of U.S.Japan relations. The contributors analyze the historical development of the region and its current situation from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to answer these questions.

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Situating itself within contemporary Japan, this edited collection raises questions about globalization, Japan's relationships with other Asian countries, and the continued importance of U.S.-Japan relations. The contributors analyze the historical development of the region and its current situation from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to answer these questions.

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Written by the controversial owner of the Yomiuri Shimbun when he was Japans leading political reporter, Japans Backroom Politics is the translation of a classic study of the rough and tumble of Japanese politics and Liberal Democratic Party factions in the first two decades of postwar Japan.

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This book unveils the layers of Japan's democracy, and the essays suggest a widening of disciplinary perspectives. The editors employ an assortment of disciplineshistory, anthropology, sociology, political science, law, and cultural studiesto explore the complex interrelationships between history, institutions, and sociocultural practices.

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This book unveils the layers of Japan's democracy, and the essays suggest a widening of disciplinary perspectives. The editors employ an assortment of disciplineshistory, anthropology, sociology, political science, law, and cultural studiesto explore the complex interrelationships between history, institutions, and sociocultural practices.

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This collection examines literary criticism in postwar Japan. The contributors analyze the debates that occurred among Japanese intellectuals and highlight the various ideological forces that shaped the countrys postwar trajectory.

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This collection examines literary criticism in postwar Japan. The contributors analyze the debates that occurred among Japanese intellectuals and highlight the various ideological forces that shaped the countrys postwar trajectory.

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This book presents an ethnographic portrait of transnational Japanese-Brazilian labor migrants and their families as they navigate life between Japan and Brazil. The author pays particular attention to gender, generation, and class, and to structures besides work such as family, education, and religion.

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This book takes the perspective of Mito Domain, one of three branches of Japan's ruling Tokugawa shogunate, to explore the dynamic history of political reform in early modern Japan. This book, while grounded in Mito, examines the role that this domain and its people played in the birth of the modern Japanese nation-state in the nineteenth century.

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This book analyzes composer Nakayama Shimpeis popular songs in the context of Japans developing record industry and popular music market between 1887 and 1952.

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This book discusses how the evolution of market-driven cultural globalization has reinforced the administration of national cultural borders in Japan. As a result of these processes, a particular kind of cross-border connectivity and exchange is embraced while dialog and engagement with multicultural questions within Japan are discouraged.

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This book discusses how the evolution of market-driven cultural globalization has reinforced the administration of national cultural borders in Japan. As a result of these processes, a particular kind of cross-border connectivity and exchange is embraced while cross-border dialogue and engagement with multicultural questions within Japan are discouraged.

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This study provides a broad examination of the current Shinz Abe government in Japan. It analyzes various controversial domestic and foreign policies and argues that its election in 2012 inaugurated a new political phase characterized by opposition weakness and ruling-party unity around a nationalist agenda.

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This study provides a broad examination of the current Shinz Abe government in Japan. It analyzes various controversial domestic and foreign policies and argues that its election in 2012 inaugurated a new political phase characterized by opposition weakness and ruling-party unity around a nationalist agenda.

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Based on life history interviews of single mothers in Japan, this detailed study examines the socioeconomic consequences of becoming a single mother and pursuing a lifestyle outside of the married mother and housewife norm in contemporary Japan.

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Based on life history interviews of single mothers in Japan, this detailed study examines the socioeconomic consequences of becoming a single mother and pursuing a lifestyle outside of the married mother and housewife norm in contemporary Japan.

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This collection brings together scholars from around the world to recognize and assess the achievements of Tawada Yko, the prolific and highly lauded author who writes in Japanese and German.

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This collection brings together scholars from around the world to recognize and assess the achievements of Tawada Yko, the prolific and highly lauded author who writes in Japanese and German.

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This collection features works by Japanese intellectuals written in the immediate postwar period. These writingsmany appearing in English for the first timeoffer explorations into the social, political, and philosophical debates among Japanese literary elites that shaped the countrys literary culture in the aftermath of defeat.