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The Japanese Family System

Change, Continuity, and Regionality in the Long Twentieth Century

By: Akihiko Kato

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The Japanese Family System

Change, Continuity, and Regionality in the Long Twentieth Century

By: Akihiko Kato

This book offers a new perspective and empirical evidence that are relevant for understanding changes in family structures, intergenerational relationships, and female labor force participation in the “strong family” societies and that also shed light on those in the “weak family” societies. Focusing on the stem family and the gender division of labor, presenting detailed quantitative evidence, and testing the theories on family change and gender revolution, the book provides a comprehensive examination of change, continuity, and regionality in the Japanese family system over the twentieth century. By analyzing data from a nationally representative life course survey with event history techniques, it investigates factors affecting post-marital intergenerational co-residence and proximate residence along with those influencing continuous and/or discontinuous employment of married women across the life course. In this way, it reveals the mechanisms underlying the stem family formation and those behind married women’s M-shaped employment pattern. It further explores regionality in the Japanese family system, applying a demographic mapping method to data from a nationally representative community survey and official statistics. The mapping analyses demonstrate persistent geographical contrasts between two types of living arrangements (single-household versus multi-household) in the stem family accompanied by two types of maternal employment (full-time versus part-time). They also reveal a historical correlation between traditional communal parenting systems and modern childcare services, linking past to present from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.

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Springer Nature

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9811621136

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Ryokan

Japan's Finest Spas and Inns

By: Akihiko Seki,Elizabeth Heilman Brooke

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Ryokan

Japan's Finest Spas and Inns

By: Akihiko Seki,Elizabeth Heilman Brooke

With over 180 color photographs and extensive commentary, this book showcases the beauty of Japanese inn, or ryokan. Featured are both old and new-from inns with a history dating back a thousand years to modern inns with the latest facilities that nonetheless capture the spirit of old Japan. Each of the properties has been handpicked by the authors for their strong design aesthetic, commitment to service and purity of their spring waters. The photographs showcase the resorts at their best and accurately express the unique architectural design of each ryokan. Each chapter begins by introducing the area surrounding the inns and their spas, or onsen, and provides a background of its local history, culture and traditions, as well as the natural environment. The text provides information on the design and development of each ryokan, and descriptions of the owners and their clientele. For those planning a visit to an onsen, this book provides contact details and information on the number of rooms, type of facilities and food, as well as vital information on travel and booking procedures and whether English is spoken. For those fascinated by Japanese culture and design, this book is an absolute delight.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462908330

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Economy and Disability

A Game Theoretic Approach

By: Akihiko Matsui

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Economy and Disability

A Game Theoretic Approach

By: Akihiko Matsui

Society has developed so that it accommodates the needs of intertwined people, but a question arises as to which people have been accommodated. Has everyone been taken care of in an equal manner? If not, who has fallen into the gap between the institutions that are supposed to accommodate them? This book is a study of these issues of economy and disability using game theory, which has provided a means of analyzing various social phenomena. Part I provides actual cases related to economy and disability, with the stories based on interviews by the author. Part II is geared toward a game theoretic analysis. This book explains disability-related issues by game theory and innovates that theory by deeply contemplating the issues. It is not common that first-rate theorists manage to make their research relevant and applicable to the most pressing problems our society faces these days. This is the remarkable achievement of this book. Akihiko Matsui, an internationally recognized leader in economic theory, succeeds in bringing profound game theoretical insights to the questions of disability, the social norms relating to it, and the ethical and economic problems they raise. The book is a tour de force, brilliantly combining economic and sociology, mathematics and philosophy, to provide us a fresh look at the way we run modern societies. Itzahk Gilboa, Professor, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University and Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences, HEC, Paris The present world faces a broad range of societal problems such as discrimination against minorities and conflicts between groups. The market mechanism may solve some of these dilemmas, but many others remain. This book targets various societal problems and provides game theoretical approaches to them, stressing the importance of social institutions including the market system and individual interactive attitudes to society. Aki Matsui’s splendid Economy and Disability is indispensable for students and scholars interested in social science, particularly in economic theory, and gives a better understanding of these phenomena and their potential cures. Mamoru Kaneko, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University In this book, Aki Matsui is revealed to be a fully-fledged humanist in the guise of a game theoretician. He beautifully presents game-theoretical ideas while at the same time suggesting how society should relate to the disabled. This unique combination makes Economy and Disability—apart from anything else—a truly moving book. Ariel Rubinstein, Professor of Economics, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University and Professor of Economics, New York University

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Springer Nature

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9811376239

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9789811376238

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Finance 2011. Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. 3-4 August 2011

By: Akihiko Takahashi

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Proceedings of the International Workshop on Finance 2011. Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. 3-4 August 2011

By: Akihiko Takahashi

This book is the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Finance 2011, held in Kyoto in the summer of 2011 with the aim of exchanging new ideas in financial engineering among researchers from various countries from both academia and industry. The workshop was held as a successor to the Daiwa International Workshop (2004OCo2008), and the KIER-TMU International Workshop (2009OCo2010). This workshop was organized by the Center for Advanced Research in Finance (CARF), Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo, and Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University OCo and co-organized by Life Risk Research Center, Doshisha University. The workshop serves as a bridge between academic researchers and practitioners. This book contains about fifteen papers, all refereed, representing the presentations at the workshop. The papers address state-of-the-art techniques in financial engineering.

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World Scientific

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981440733X

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9789814407335

Otaku Elf Vol. 4

By: Akihiko Higuchi

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Otaku Elf Vol. 4

By: Akihiko Higuchi

When a shrine's deity is a total shut-in who plays games all day and her miko is a girl too mature for her age, it's shocking how many hijinks can still ensue. Their most recent visitors at the shrine include Haila-sama of the Uramimi Shrine and her miko, Isuzu, who happens to be a famous influencer! But as their uneventful days go by, it's the ordinary things they remember: helping with homework, leaking roofs, and reminiscing on bygone days.

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Seven Seas Entertainment

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168579209X

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The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II

By: Akihiko Yoshida

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The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II

By: Akihiko Yoshida

When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War. Drawing heavily from Japanese sources and American wartime intercepts of secret Japanese radio messages, a noted American naval historian and a Japanese mariner painstakingly recorded and evaluated a diverse array of material about Japan's submarines in World War II. The study begins with the development of the first Japanese 103-ton Holland-type submergible craft in 1905 and continues through the 1945 surrender of the largest submarine in the world at the time, the 5300-ton I-400 class that carried three airplanes. Submarine weapons, equipment, personnel, and shore support systems are discussed first in the context of Japanese naval preparations for war and later during the war. Both successes and missed opportunities are analyzed in operations ranging from the California coast through the Pacific and Indian Oceans to the coast of German-occupied France. Appendixes include lists of Japanese submarine losses and the biographies of key Japanese submarine officers. Rare illustrations and specifically commissioned operational maps enhance the text.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612512062

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9781612512068

Japan on the Jesuit Stage

Transmissions, Receptions, and Regional Contexts

By: Haruka Oba,Akihiko Watanabe,Florian Schaffenrath

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Japan on the Jesuit Stage

Transmissions, Receptions, and Regional Contexts

By: Haruka Oba,Akihiko Watanabe,Florian Schaffenrath

Japan on the Jesuit Stage offers a comprehensive overview of the representations of Japan in early modern European Neo-Latin school theater. The chapters in the volume catalog and analyze representative plays which were produced in the hundreds all over Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to present-day Croatia and Poland. Taking full account of existing scholarship, but also introducing a large amount of previously unknown primary material, the contributions by European and Japanese researchers significantly expand the horizon of investigation on early modern European theatrical reception of East Asian elements and will be of particular interest to students of global history, Neo-Latin, and theater studies.

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BRILL

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900444890X

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9789004448902

The Japanese Family System

Change, Continuity, and Regionality in the Long Twentieth Century

By: Akihiko Kato

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Change, Continuity, and Regionality in the Long Twentieth Century

By: Akihiko Kato

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The Japanese Family System

The Japanese Family System

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Economy and Disability

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Proceedings of the International Workshop on Finance 2011. Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. 3-4 August 2011

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Finance 2011. Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. 3-4 August 2011

Otaku Elf Vol. 4

Otaku Elf Vol. 4

The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II

The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II

Japan on the Jesuit Stage

Japan on the Jesuit Stage

The Japanese Family System

The Japanese Family System

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