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Japan and Africa

Big Business and Diplomacy

By: Jun Morikawa

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Japan and Africa

Big Business and Diplomacy

By: Jun Morikawa

Big Business and Diplomacy An analysis of Japan's policies towards African countries which illustrates the breadth and depth of Japan's official and 'semi-official' relationship with Africa.

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Africa World Press

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0865435774

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9780865435773

Antibiotics as Anti-Inflammatory and Immunomodulatory Agents

By: Bruce K. Rubin,Jun Tamaoki

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Antibiotics as Anti-Inflammatory and Immunomodulatory Agents

By: Bruce K. Rubin,Jun Tamaoki

Although the potential for immunomodulation has been recognized for many years there has been an explosion of data in this field with relevance especially to the treatment of chronic airway diseases. Most of the work in this field has been conducted by Japanese investigators but in the last decade there has been a body of work outside of Japan that supports and enhances these findings. The book covers basic research like effects on bacteria, anti-inflammatory and mucoregulatory effects, but also clinical results with up-to-date information for the use of such medications to potentially treat diseases as diverse as chronic airway diseases, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and cancer. The volume is intended for pulmonary physicians, researchers in inflammation research, and pharmaceutical companies interested in the development of such agents. It provides background information for the clinician as well as in depth exploration of cutting edge science.

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300

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3764359250

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9783764359256

Provincializing Empire

Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora

By: Jun Uchida

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Provincializing Empire

Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora

By: Jun Uchida

Provincializing Empire offers a stimulating and persuasive account of the longue durée of Japanese capitalist development, connecting Japanese historiography to important conversations on the history of racial capitalism and geographies of space, place, and scale."—David Ambaras, author of Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire "Wide-ranging yet richly documented, Provincializing Empire offers a powerful new transregional history of Japanese capitalism, challenging claims about the developmental state. It tells the fascinating story of a merchant diaspora whose growth was entwined with Japanese imperialism, and of the invented traditions that sustained provincial identity amid global commercial expansion."—Jordan Sand, author of Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects "A tour de force! Jun Uchida's lucid narrative illuminates the multidirectional movements of settler-migrant merchants from peripheral Japan that cut across the prescribed borders of empires and nation-states. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, Provincializing Empire calls into question many assumptions about Japanese imperialism and offers a less spatially bounded story of grassroots expansionism."—Eiichiro Azuma, author of In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire

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Univ of California Press

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0520390113

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9780520390119

Religious Discourse in Modern Japan

Religion, State, and Shintō

By: Jun'ichi Isomae

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Religious Discourse in Modern Japan

Religion, State, and Shintō

By: Jun'ichi Isomae

Religious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the introduction of the Western concept of “religion” to Japan in the modern era, and the emergence of discourse on Shinto, philosophy, and Buddhism. Taking Anesaki’s founding of religious studies (shukyogaku) at Tokyo Imperial University as a pivot, Isomae examines the evolution of this academic discipline in the changing context of social conditions from the Meiji era through the present. Special attention is given to the development of Shinto studies/history of Shinto, and the problems of State Shinto and the emperor system are described in relation to the nature of the concept of religion. Isomae also explains how the discourse of religious studies developed in connection with secular discourses on literature and history, including Marxism.

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500

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BRILL

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9004272682

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9789004272682

Statistical Methods for Handling Incomplete Data

By: Jae Kwang Kim,Jun Shao

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Statistical Methods for Handling Incomplete Data

By: Jae Kwang Kim,Jun Shao

Due to recent theoretical findings and advances in statistical computing, there has been a rapid development of techniques and applications in the area of missing data analysis. Statistical Methods for Handling Incomplete Data covers the most up-to-date statistical theories and computational methods for analyzing incomplete data. Features Uses the mean score equation as a building block for developing the theory for missing data analysis Provides comprehensive coverage of computational techniques for missing data analysis Presents a rigorous treatment of imputation techniques, including multiple imputation fractional imputation Explores the most recent advances of the propensity score method and estimation techniques for nonignorable missing data Describes a survey sampling application Updated with a new chapter on Data Integration Now includes a chapter on Advanced Topics, including kernel ridge regression imputation and neural network model imputation The book is primarily aimed at researchers and graduate students from statistics, and could be used as a reference by applied researchers with a good quantitative background. It includes many real data examples and simulated examples to help readers understand the methodologies.

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CRC Press

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1000466299

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9781000466294

Brokers of Empire

Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945

By: Jun Uchida

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Brokers of Empire

Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945

By: Jun Uchida

Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians—merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers—left their homeland for a new life on the Korean peninsula. Although most migrants were guided primarily by personal profit and only secondarily by national interest, their mundane lives and the state’s ambitions were inextricably entwined in the rise of imperial Japan. Despite having formed one of the largest colonial communities in the twentieth century, these settlers and their empire-building activities have all but vanished from the public memory of Japan’s presence in Korea. Drawing on previously unused materials in multi-language archives, Jun Uchida looks behind the official organs of state and military control to focus on the obscured history of these settlers, especially the first generation of “pioneers” between the 1910s and 1930s who actively mediated the colonial management of Korea as its grassroots movers and shakers. By uncovering the downplayed but dynamic role played by settler leaders who operated among multiple parties—between the settler community and the Government-General, between Japanese colonizer and Korean colonized, between colony and metropole—this study examines how these “brokers of empire” advanced their commercial and political interests while contributing to the expansionist project of imperial Japan.

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BRILL

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1684175100

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9781684175109

Theta Functions

By: Jun-ichi Igusa

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Theta Functions

By: Jun-ichi Igusa

The theory of theta functions has a long history; for this, we refer A. Krazer and W. Wirtinger the reader to an encyclopedia article by ("Sources" [9]). We shall restrict ourselves to postwar, i. e., after 1945, periods. Around 1948/49, F. Conforto, c. L. Siegel, A. Well reconsidered the main existence theorems of theta functions and found natural proofs for them. These are contained in Conforto: Abelsche Funktionen und algebraische Geometrie, Springer (1956); Siegel: Analytic functions of several complex variables, Lect. Notes, I.A.S. (1948/49); Well: Theoremes fondamentaux de la theorie des fonctions theta, Sem. Bourbaki, No. 16 (1949). The complete account of Weil's method appeared in his book of 1958 [20]. The next important achievement was the theory of compacti fication of the quotient variety of Siegel's upper-half space by a modular group. There are many ways to compactify the quotient variety; we are talking about what might be called a standard compactification. Such a compactification was obtained first as a Hausdorff space by I. Satake in "On the compactification of the Siegel space", J. Ind. Math. Soc. 20, 259-281 (1956), and as a normal projective variety by W.L. Baily in 1958 [1]. In 1957/58, H. Cartan took up this theory in his seminar [3]; it was shown that the graded ring of modular forms relative to the given modular group is a normal integral domain which is finitely generated over C

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642653154

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9783642653155

Wastewater Treatment

Application of New Functional Materials

By: Jianyu Chen,Jun Luo,Qijin Luo,Zhihua Pang

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Wastewater Treatment

Application of New Functional Materials

By: Jianyu Chen,Jun Luo,Qijin Luo,Zhihua Pang

This book describes the research results and applications of functional zeolite, functional ceramsite, modified montmorillonite and other functional materials in water purification areas. With abundant project experiences, the book is an essential reference for researchers and PhD students in environmental science, material science, environmental chemistry, as well as industrial engineers.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110542986

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9783110542981

Gold & Silver

By: Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

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Gold & Silver

By: Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

This volume includes four short stories and three novellas by the acclaimed Japanese novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki. These early works were published in the Jun'ichiro Tanizaki edition of "Japanese Detective Novels" (Nihon Tantei Shosetsu Zenshu).

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Shelley Marshall

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1959002031

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9781959002031

Longing and Other Stories

By: Jun'ichirō. Tanizaki

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Longing and Other Stories

By: Jun'ichirō. Tanizaki

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut in 1910. This book presents three powerful stories of family life from the first decade of Tanizaki’s career that foreshadow the themes the great writer would go on to explore. “Longing” recounts the fantastic journey of a precocious young boy through an eerie nighttime landscape. Replete with striking natural images and uncanny human encounters, it ends with a striking revelation. “Sorrows of a Heretic” follows a university student and aspiring novelist who lives in degrading poverty in a Tokyo tenement. Ambitious and tormented, the young man rebels against his family against a backdrop of sickness and death. “The Story of an Unhappy Mother” describes a vivacious but self-centered woman’s drastic transformation after a freak accident involving her son and daughter-in-law. Written in different genres, the three stories are united by a focus on mothers and sons and a concern for Japan’s traditional culture in the face of Westernization. The longtime Tanizaki translators Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy masterfully bring these important works to an Anglophone audience.

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Columbia University Press

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0231554419

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9780231554411

In Black and White

A Novel

By: Jun'ichirō. Tanizaki

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In Black and White

A Novel

By: Jun'ichirō. Tanizaki

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno has penned a story about the perfect murder. His fictional victim is modeled on an acquaintance, a fellow writer. When Mizuno notices just before the story is about to be published that this man’s real name has crept into his manuscript, he attempts to correct the mistake, but it is too late. He then becomes terrified that an actual murder will take place—and that he will be the main suspect. Mizuno goes to great lengths to establish an alibi, venturing into the city's underworld. But he finds himself only more entangled as his paranoid fantasies, including a mysterious "Shadow Man" out to entrap him, intrude into real life. A sophisticated psychological and metafictional mystery, In Black and White is a masterful yet little-known novel from a great writer at the height of his powers. The year 1928 was a remarkable one for Tanizaki. He wrote three exquisite novels, but while two of them—Some Prefer Nettles and Quicksand—became famous, In Black and White disappeared from view. All three were serialized in Osaka and Tokyo newspapers and magazines, but In Black and White was never published as an independent volume. This translation restores it to its rightful place among Tanizaki's works and offers a window into the author's life at a crucial point in his career. A critical afterword explains the novel's context and importance for Tanizaki and Japan's literary and cultural scene in the 1920s, connecting autobiographical elements with the novel's key concerns, including Tanizaki's critique of Japanese literary culture and fiction itself.

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Columbia University Press

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0231546254

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9780231546256

Invertebrate Tissue Culture Methods

By: Jun Mitsuhashi

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Invertebrate Tissue Culture Methods

By: Jun Mitsuhashi

The techniques for establishing and maintaining invertebrate tissues and cells in culture remain difficult due to the diversity of invertebrates and their structural and physiological characteristics. Research involving invertebrate cell cultures continues to increase, although the number of cell lines used is still limited. This manual gives detailed descriptions of the technical procedures for the establishment of primary invertebrate cell cultures in vitro. Nutritional requirements, culture media, and species-specific methods for both cell and organ cultures as well as useful techniques for studies on cultured cells are described. The Appendix lists established cell lines available for research with information on the composition of their physiological and nutrient solutions. This comprehensive manual, the first of its kind, is a valuable reference for investigators working with invertebrate cell cultures in academia and industry.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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4431703136

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9784431703136

Autophagy and Cardiometabolic Diseases

From Molecular Mechanisms to Translational Medicine

By: Jun Ren,James R. Sowers,Yingmei Zhang

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Autophagy and Cardiometabolic Diseases

From Molecular Mechanisms to Translational Medicine

By: Jun Ren,James R. Sowers,Yingmei Zhang

Autophagy and Cardiometabolic Diseases: From Moleculer Mechanisms to Translational Medicine covers the science of autophagy in relation to cardiometabolic diseases and the future therapeutic potentials of autophagy regulation in these processes. Processes are not described in isolation, but in concert with other cellular and/or metabolic processes, such as lipogenesis, glucose, energy metabolism and apoptosis. This approach recognizes the multifactorial nature of cardiometabolic diseases, including obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, hypertension and dyslipidemia. The book provides explanations, while also distinguishing the delicate role for autophagy in pathogenesis and exploring complications for cardiometabolic diseases. By targeting autophagy, it offers new avenues for drug discovery and treatment for cardiometabolic anomalies. It is a perfect resource for cardiology researchers, scientists and medical practitioners. - Explains the processes inherent in the protein quality control for pathogenesis and complications of cardiometabolic diseases - Provides knowledge from internationally recognized contributors in the field - Incorporates a translational approach, covering the basic cellular biology of autophagy and presenting the role of autophagy regulation for both pathogenesis and complication in cardiometabolic diseases - Contains access to a companion website with additional illustrations

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Academic Press

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0128054425

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9780128054420

Japan and Africa

Big Business and Diplomacy

By: Jun Morikawa

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Japan and Africa

Big Business and Diplomacy

By: Jun Morikawa

By the early 1990s, Japan had replaced the United States as the world's largest donor of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and has become a major subscriber to World Bank loans. Thus a clear understanding of its policy objectives in the developing world is extremely important, particularly given its recent efforts to quietly enhance the image of its relationship with Africa. In the opening chapter, the author sets out the historical dimensions of Japan's relationship with Africa, especially its long involvement with South Africa, going back to the end of the 19th century -- thus correcting a widespread impression that it has been a post-World War II phenomenon. In the post-1945 world, certainly, it has taken enormous strides forward, in step with Japan's growing economic power. Morikawa illuminates the breadth and depth of official and "semi-official" contacts with South Africa, even at the height of UN sanctions, and the motivations behind the ways in which official aid has been handed out to particular sub-Saharan countries, the "key countries" in its strategy. This has been the essence of Japan's "dual diplomacy" with regard to Africa. Jun Morikawa elucidates the constellation of political, economic and bureaucratic actors who participate in the formulation of Japanese foreign policy. He illustrates clearly how Japan develops its policies and the way it uses corporations as an arm of government in its relations with the rest of the world. Japan's endemic racism is examined, as is anti-racism which found expression in anti-apartheid organizations and a program of "overseas cooperation volunteers". The author looks critically into the heart of Japan's government-business nexus.A readable narrative is supplemented by extensive documentation and statistics.

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0865435766

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Japan and Africa

Japan and Africa

Antibiotics as Anti-Inflammatory and Immunomodulatory Agents

Antibiotics as Anti-Inflammatory and Immunomodulatory Agents

Provincializing Empire

Provincializing Empire

Religious Discourse in Modern Japan

Religious Discourse in Modern Japan

Statistical Methods for Handling Incomplete Data

Statistical Methods for Handling Incomplete Data

Brokers of Empire

Brokers of Empire

Theta Functions

Theta Functions

Wastewater Treatment

Wastewater Treatment

Gold & Silver

Gold & Silver

Longing and Other Stories

Longing and Other Stories

In Black and White

In Black and White

Invertebrate Tissue Culture Methods

Invertebrate Tissue Culture Methods

Autophagy and Cardiometabolic Diseases

Autophagy and Cardiometabolic Diseases

Japan and Africa

Japan and Africa

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