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This study offers a fresh perspective on the 'comfort women' debates. It argues that the system can be understood as the mechanism of the intersectional oppression of gender, race, class and colonialism, while illuminating the importance of testimonies of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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Using recently released archival material from the US and Japan, this book critically re-examines US–Japanese relations during the tenure of Sato Eisaku, Japan’s longest serving prime minister. During these critical years in the Cold War in Asia, with the Vietnam War...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-06
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In this book, seven internationally renowned experts on Japanese and Asian history have come together to investigate, with innovative methodological approaches, various aspects of the Japanese experience during and after the First World War.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-05
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Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied examines transwar political, military and social transitions inJapan and various territories that it controlled, including Korea, Borneo, Singapore, Manchuria and China, before and after August 1945. This approach allows a more...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-02
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Shin Kanemaru (1914-1996) served as a key power broker at the national level in Japan from the 1970s until the early 1990s. He was at the heart of the '1955 system' of conservative political rule. Though never Prime Minister himself, he controlled or strongly influenced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-01-28
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Inventing the Way of the Samurai examines the development of the 'way of the samurai' - bushido - which is popularly viewed as a defining element of the Japanese national character and even the 'soul of Japan'. Rather than a continuation of ancient traditions, however,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-12
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This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility. Covers a wide range of subjects, including geology, climate,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-09-11
Collection :
Blackwell History of the World
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The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-08-22
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Today's "clash of civilizations" between the Islamic world and the West are in many ways rooted in 19th-century resistance to Western hegemony. This compellingly argued and carefully researched transnational study details the ways in which Japan served as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-29
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
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Written by leading scholars in the field, this book provides new insights, based on original research, into the full spectrum of modern Japanese political-religious activity: from the prewar uses of Shinto in shaping the modern imperial nation-state to the postwar 'new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-09
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Japan in World History ranges from Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to the Western challenge of the late 1500s, the partial isolation under the Tokugawa family (1600-1868), and the tumultuous interactions of more recent times, whenJapan modernized...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-02-04
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The Meiji Restoration of 1868 is one of the most astonishing political events of the modern era, yet it doesn't fit easily with Western precedents of mass mobilization and social transformation. This book challenges some of the preconceptions that have hindered the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-04
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Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed all over the world, ranging from animated movies and computer games all...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-04-23
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Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed all over the world, ranging from animated movies and computer games all...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-04-23
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The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century. However, the controversy over the rights and wrongs of dropping the bomb has tended to obscure a number of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-02-28
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The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century. However, the controversy over the rights and wrongs of dropping the bomb has tended to obscure a number of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-02-28
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A study of the surprising functions of Buddhist statues, which helped disseminate Buddhist beliefs among the populace in Tenth- and Eleventh-century Japan. Using ethnographic data drawn from present-day fieldwork and marshalling ancient textual evidence, Horton reveals...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-10-01
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This book focuses on the trans-Meiji Restoration story of the ideological transformation that made modern capitalism possible in Japan. To illustrate this transformation, the book looks at four key architects of Meiji Japan's capitalist institutions: Okubo Toshimichi,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-02-04
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This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. An history of science perspective provides insight into their role, helping us to understand the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-05
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In the late Nineteenth-century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. Science, technology and medicine played an important part, showing European nations that Japan was a world power worthy of respect....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-05-05
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