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With Commodore Perry to Japan

Author : John A Wolter
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513379
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book With Commodore Perry to Japan written by John A Wolter and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Commodore Perry to Japan offers a personal account of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry’s expedition to Japan through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old purser’s clerk of the USS Mississippi. The documentary edition, endorsed by the National Historic Publications & Records Commission, provides excellent coverage of both the political mission of the Perry expedition, the opening of relations with Japan, and of the social history of a naval warship as well. Also included are fifty-five illustrations ranging from hand drawn, pen-and-ink scenes of everyday life sketched by Speiden and other members of the crew to exquisitely detailed pith paintings by Chinese artists.

Intimate Japan

Author : Allison Alexy
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082488244X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Japan written by Allison Alexy and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do couples build intimacy in an era that valorizes independence and self-responsibility? How can a man be a good husband when full-time jobs are scarce? How can unmarried women find fulfillment and recognition outside of normative relationships? How can a person express their sexuality when there is no terminology that feels right? In contemporary Japan, broad social transformations are reflected and refracted in changing intimate relationships. As the Japanese population ages, the low birth rate shrinks the population, and decades of recession radically restructure labor markets, Japanese intimate relationships, norms, and ideals are concurrently shifting. This volume explores a broad range of intimate practices in Japan in the first decades of the 2000s to trace how social change is becoming manifest through deeply personal choices. From young people making decisions about birth control to spouses struggling to connect with each other, parents worrying about stigma faced by their adopted children, and queer people creating new terms to express their identifications, Japanese intimacies are commanding a surprising amount of attention, both within and beyond Japan. With ethnographic analysis focused on how intimacy is imagined, enacted, and discussed, the volume's chapters offer rich and complex portraits of how people balance personal desires with feasible possibilities and shifting social norms. Intimate Japan will appeal to scholars and students in anthropology and Japanese or Asian studies, particularly those focusing on gender, kinship, sexuality, and labor policy. The book will also be of interest to researchers across social science subject areas, including sociology, political science, and psychology.

Hiroshima Diary

Author : Michihiko Hachiya, M.D.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807873551
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Hiroshima Diary written by Michihiko Hachiya, M.D. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. His compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who was a surgical consultant to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission and who became a friend of Dr. Hachiya. In a new foreword, John Dower reflects on the enduring importance of the diary fifty years after the bombing.

Health in Japan

Author : Eric Brunner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192587420
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Health in Japan written by Eric Brunner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latter half of the 20th century, Japan developed into a thriving economy, and the Japanese remain one of the healthiest populations in the world to this day. However, in the past 25 years, low-growth, mounting debt, and rapid ageing have complicated this image, and global interest in the longevity and social cohesion of the Japanese populace is now greater than ever. Health in Japan brings together the perspectives and research of Japan's leading social epidemiologists in English for the first time, creating an enriching reading experience for both Japanese and international readers. With chapters on key topics such as Chronic Disease, Disasters and Health, and Mental Health and Wellbeing, this textbook offers a comprehensive examination of all major health issues facing the country. Focusing on the primary, upstream causes of health and disease, as well as novel evidence on the wider determinants of well-being and illness, this is a must-read for any public health professional or researcher with an interest in Japanese society, culture, and healthcare.

A Journal from Japan

Author : Marie Carmichael Stopes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Journal from Japan written by Marie Carmichael Stopes and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Happiness and the Good Life in Japan

Author : Wolfram Manzenreiter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317352726
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Happiness and the Good Life in Japan written by Wolfram Manzenreiter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Japan is in a state of transition, caused by the forces of globalization that are derailing its ailing economy, stalemating the political establishment and generating alternative lifestyles and possibilities of the self. Amongst this nascent change, Japanese society is confronted with new challenges to answer the fundamental question of how to live a good life of meaning, purpose and value. This book, based on extensive fieldwork and original research, considers how specific groups of Japanese people view and strive for the pursuit of happiness. It examines the importance of relationships, family, identity, community and self-fulfilment, amongst other factors. The book demonstrates how the act of balancing social norms and agency is at the root of the growing diversity of experiencing happiness in Japan today.

Japan Journal, 1855-1861

Author : Henry C. J. Heusken
Publisher : New Brunswick, Rutgers U. P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Japan Journal, 1855-1861 written by Henry C. J. Heusken and published by New Brunswick, Rutgers U. P. This book was released on 1964 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making Meaningful Lives

Author : Iza Kavedžija
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812251369
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Making Meaningful Lives written by Iza Kavedžija and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as "that which makes one's life worth living," ikigai has also come to mean that which gives a person happiness. In Japan, where the demographic cohort of elderly citizens is growing, and new modes of living and relationships are revising traditional multigenerational family structures, the elderly experience of ikigai is considered a public health concern. Without a relevant model for meaningful and joyful older age, the increasing older population of Japan must create new cultural forms that center the ikigai that comes from old age. In Making Meaningful Lives, Iza Kavedžija provides a rich anthropological account of the lives and concerns of older Japanese women and men. Grounded in years of ethnographic fieldwork at two community centers in Osaka, Kavedžija offers an intimate narrative analysis of the existential concerns of her active, independent subjects. Alone and in groups, the elderly residents of these communities make sense of their lives and shifting ikigai with humor, conversation, and storytelling. They are as much providers as recipients of care, challenging common images of the elderly as frail and dependent, while illustrating a more complex argument: maintaining independence nevertheless requires cultivating multiple dependences on others. Making Meaningful Lives argues that an anthropology of the elderly is uniquely suited to examine the competing values of dependence and independence, sociality and isolation, intimacy and freedom, that people must balance throughout all of life's stages.

Role-Playing Game Studies

Author : Sebastian Deterding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317268318
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Role-Playing Game Studies written by Sebastian Deterding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 50 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively multiplayer online RPG franchises, like Fallout and World of Warcraft. Individual chapters survey the perspectives, concepts, and findings on RPGs from key disciplines, like performance studies, sociology, psychology, education, economics, game design, literary studies, and more. Other chapters integrate insights from RPG studies around broadly significant topics, like transmedia worldbuilding, immersion, transgressive play, or player–character relations. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help fans, students, and scholars new to RPG studies find their way into this new interdisciplinary field.

Faking Liberties

Author : Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022661882X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Faking Liberties written by Jolyon Baraka Thomas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious freedom is a founding tenet of the United States, and it has frequently been used to justify policies towards other nations. Such was the case in 1945 when Americans occupied Japan following World War II. Though the Japanese constitution had guaranteed freedom of religion since 1889, the United States declared that protection faulty, and when the occupation ended in 1952, they claimed to have successfully replaced it with “real” religious freedom. Through a fresh analysis of pre-war Japanese law, Jolyon Baraka Thomas demonstrates that the occupiers’ triumphant narrative obscured salient Japanese political debates about religious freedom. Indeed, Thomas reveals that American occupiers also vehemently disagreed about the topic. By reconstructing these vibrant debates, Faking Liberties unsettles any notion of American authorship and imposition of religious freedom. Instead, Thomas shows that, during the Occupation, a dialogue about freedom of religion ensued that constructed a new global set of political norms that continue to form policies today.

My Year of Dirt and Water

Author : Tracy Franz
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611729300
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book My Year of Dirt and Water written by Tracy Franz and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married to a Zen monk in training, an American woman in Japan chronicles her own year of growth and discovery In February 2004, when her American husband, a recently ordained Zen monk, leaves home to train for a year at a centuries-old Buddhist monastery, Tracy Franz embarks on her own year of Zen. An Alaskan alone—and lonely—in Japan, she begins to pay attention. My Year of Dirt and Water is a record of that journey. Allowed only occasional and formal visits to see her cloistered husband, Tracy teaches English, studies Japanese, and devotes herself to making pottery. Her teacher instructs her to turn cup after cup—creating one failure after another. Past and present, East and West intertwine as Tracy is twice compelled to return home to Alaska to confront her mother’s newly diagnosed cancer and the ghosts of a devastating childhood. Revolving through the days, My Year of Dirt and Water circles hard questions: What is love? What is art? What is practice? What do we do with the burden of suffering? The answers are formed and then unformed—a ceramic bowl born on the wheel and then returned again and again to dirt and water.

Lectures on Japanese Law from a Comparative Perspective

Author : Luis Pedriza
Publisher : 大阪大学出版会
ISBN 13 : 9784872596052
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Japanese Law from a Comparative Perspective written by Luis Pedriza and published by 大阪大学出版会. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 外国人研究者の視点から、日本法の歴史的形成・発展や現代法の構造や制度を英語で解説。外国人学習者・研究者に最適なテキスト。

The Business Reinvention of Japan

Author : Ulrike Schaede
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503612368
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Business Reinvention of Japan written by Ulrike Schaede and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two decades of reinvention, Japanese companies are re-emerging as major players in the new digital economy. They have responded to the rise of China and new global competition by moving upstream into critical deep-tech inputs and advanced materials and components. This new "aggregate niche strategy" has made Japan the technology anchor for many global supply chains. Although the end products do not carry a "Japan Inside" label, Japan plays a pivotal role in our everyday lives across many critical industries. This book is an in-depth exploration of current Japanese business strategies that make Japan the world's third-largest economy and an economic leader in Asia. To accomplish their reinvention, Japan's largest companies are building new processes of breakthrough innovation. Central to this book is how they are addressing the necessary changes in organizational design, internal management processes, employment, and corporate governance. Because Japan values social stability and economic equality, this reinvention is happening slowly and methodically, and has gone largely unnoticed by Western observers. Yet, Japan's more balanced model of "caring capitalism" is both competitive and transformative, and more socially responsible than the unbridled growth approach of the United States.

The Political History of Modern Japan

Author : Kitaoka Shinichi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429808461
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Political History of Modern Japan written by Kitaoka Shinichi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this book introduces students to the formation, collapse, and rebirth of the modern Japanese state. It demonstrates how, faced with foreign threats, Japan developed a new governing structure to deal with these challenges and in turn gradually shaped its international environment. Had Japan been a self-sufficient power, like the United States, it is unlikely that external relations would have exercised such great control over the nation. And, if it were a smaller country, it may have been completely pressured from the outside and could not have influenced the global stage on its own. For better or worse therefore, this book argues, Japan was neither too large nor too small. Covering the major events, actors, and institutions of Japan’s modern history, the key themes discussed include: Building the Meiji state and Constitution. The establishment of Parliament. The First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars. Party Politics and International Cooperation. The Pacific War. Development of LDP politics. Changes in the international order and the end of the Cold War. This book, written by one of Japan's leading experts on Japan's political history, will be an essential resource for students of Japanese modern history and politics.

A Journal From Japan

Author : Marie C. Stopes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781021186621
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book A Journal From Japan written by Marie C. Stopes and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for 1977-1979 include also Special List journals being indexed in cooperation with other institutions. Citations from these journals appear in other MEDLARS bibliographies and in MEDLING, but not in Index medicus.

The Journal of Socho

Author : S?ch?
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804735069
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Socho written by S?ch? and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Saiokuken Socho (1448-1532)—the preeminent linked-verse (renga) poet of his time—provides in his journal a vivid portrayal of cultural life in the capital and the provinces, together with descriptions of battles and great warrior families, the dangers of travel through war-torn countryside, and the plight of the poor.