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The Archaeology of Japan

From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State

By: Koji Mizoguchi

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The Archaeology of Japan

From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State

By: Koji Mizoguchi

This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC–AD 700), in which the introduction of rice paddy-field farming from the Korean peninsula ignited the rapid development of social complexity and hierarchy that culminated with the formation of the ancient Japanese state. The author traces the historical trajectory of the Yayoi and Kofun periods by employing cutting-edge sociological, anthropological and archaeological theories and methods. The book reveals a fascinating process through which sophisticated hunter-gatherer communities in an archipelago on the eastern fringe of the Eurasian continent were transformed materially and symbolically into a state.

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393

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Cambridge University Press

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1107244382

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9781107244382

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy

By: Mayako Shimamoto,Koji Ito,Yoneyuki Sugita

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Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy

By: Mayako Shimamoto,Koji Ito,Yoneyuki Sugita

The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Japanese Foreign Policy.

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413

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

1442250674

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9781442250673

Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei

By: Koji Kumeta

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Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei

By: Koji Kumeta

A wickedly twisted comedy by Koji Kumeta Suicidally depressed high school teacher Zetsubou-sensei, a man for whom the light at the end of the tunnel is the coroner inspecting his glazed eyes, continues his attempt to endure life's suffering while teaching a classful of cute girls. Will Kafuka Fuura, the most optimistic teenager on earth, ever convince her beloved sensei to look on the bright side of life? Or will Zetsubou and his students end up lobotomized and starving in a third-world dictatorship? All this, plus a Zetsubou-sensei Christmas! Includes special extras after the story!

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188

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Kodansha Comics

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1612625045

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9781612625041

Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Japan

Beyond lesson study

By: Koji Tanaka,Kanae Nishioka,Terumasa Ishii

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Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Japan

Beyond lesson study

By: Koji Tanaka,Kanae Nishioka,Terumasa Ishii

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history and current status of policy, research and practices of curriculum, classroom instruction and assessment in Japan. It outlines the mechanism of curriculum organization and the history of the National Courses of Study, and assesses the theories of academic ability model. It also discusses in detail the history of "Lesson Study" – a characteristic teaching practice in Japan which utilizes groups, and reviews the history of educational assessment in Japan. Case studies on the practice of portfolio assessment in the Period for Integrated Study, as well as the practice of performance tasks in subject-based education are illustrated to show various examples of teaching practices. Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Japan explores: • Child-centered Curriculum and Discipline-Centered Curriculum • Theories based on Models of Academic Achievement and Competency • Various Methods for Organizing Creative Whole-Class Teaching • Performance Assessment in Subject Teaching A good guideline for those who would like to use the idea of "Lesson Study" in order to improve their own teaching and management practices and a reference to all working in educational improvement, this book will be of interest to educators and policymakers concerned with curriculum practices or those with an interest in the Japanese education system. Chapters 2 and 5 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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148

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Routledge

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1317484924

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9781317484929

Excitation and Inhibition

Synaptic Morphology

By: Koji Uchizono

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Excitation and Inhibition

Synaptic Morphology

By: Koji Uchizono

Excitation and Inhibition: Synaptic Morphology proposes the S-F hypothesis that emphasizes the relationship between structure and function of synapses. This book begins with an introduction to the notion of inhibition in the physiology of the nervous system and history of "synapse, followed by a discussion on the development of concept and morphological correlates of excitation and inhibition in relation to the S-F hypothesis. The mechanism of synaptic excitation and inhibition, physiological classification of neurons, and release mechanism of transmitters are also elaborated. This text describes the synaptic vesicles as a basis of transmitter, membrane recycle, transmission in the sympathetic ganglion, and transmitter substance. The criticism of S-F hypothesis, which deliberates the skeptical investigations of specialists regarding the simplicity and immaturity of the S-F hypothesis of synaptic morphology are provided at the end. This publication is beneficial to medical students and practitioners aiming to acquire knowledge of the physiology of synapses.

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225

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Elsevier

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ISBN 10

1483163938

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9781483163932

Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy, Volume 1

Instrumentation, Methodologies, and Theoretical Simulations

By: Nina Berova,Prasad L. Polavarapu,Koji Nakanishi,Robert W. Woody

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Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy, Volume 1

Instrumentation, Methodologies, and Theoretical Simulations

By: Nina Berova,Prasad L. Polavarapu,Koji Nakanishi,Robert W. Woody

This book provides an introduction to the important methods of chiroptical spectroscopy in general, and circular dichroism (CD) in particular, which are increasingly important in all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, and structural biology. The book can be used as a text for undergraduate and graduate students and as a reference for researchers in academia and industry, with or without the companion volume in this set. Experimental methods and instrumentation are described with topics ranging from the most widely used methods (electronic and vibrational CD) to frontier areas such as nonlinear spectroscopy and photoelectron CD, as well as the theory of chiroptical methods and techniques for simulating chiroptical properties. Each chapter is written by one or more leading authorities with extensive experience in the field.

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797

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John Wiley & Sons

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ISBN 10

1118120175

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9781118120170

The Shining Sea

By: Koji Suzuki

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The Shining Sea

By: Koji Suzuki

IS HOPE ITSELF THE ONLY ANSWER? The renowned author of the Ring novels unravels a story of lovers wrestling with the darkness within themselves—be it selfishness, lust, or despair—in a deeply introspective romantic mystery that will tug at your mind as well as your heart. A seemingly amnesiac woman sits mutely before her psychiatrist. Unable, or perhaps unwilling, to speak, the only time she shows any hint of emotion is when she hums a song—and the song becomes the first clue. Pregnant but abandoned by her lover, who boarded a tuna boat to brave turbulent waters far from home, she’d waded into the pitch-black waves one evening to drown herself...because when you feel like you’re stranded at sea all by yourself in the dead of the night, those waves call for you, lulling you to sink into the silence beneath. What we go on to discover is a cursed fate, a ruthless reality, and the dark humor of a world ruled by the indifferent forces of chance. They say you never know what the future holds, but what if you’re told that you only have precisely a fifty-fifty chance of attaining happiness?

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274

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Vertical Inc

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1647291992

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9781647291990

D-Brane

Superstrings and New Perspective of Our World

By: Koji Hashimoto

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D-Brane

Superstrings and New Perspective of Our World

By: Koji Hashimoto

Superstring theory is a promising theory which can potentially unify all the forces and the matters in particle physics. A new multi-dimensional object which is called "D-brane" was found. It drastically changed our perspective of a unified world. We may live on membrane-like hypersurfaces in higher dimensions ("braneworld scenario"), or we can create blackholes at particle accelarators, or the dynamics of quarks is shown to be equivalent to the higher dimensional gravity theory. All these scenarios are explained in this book with plain words but with little use of equations and with many figures. The book starts with a summary of long-standing problems in elementary particle physics and explains the D-branes and many applications of them. It ends with future roads for a unified ultimate theory of our world.

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176

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642235743

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9783642235740

A Guide on Jazz Piano, Composition, and Arrangement Textbooks (English Edition): Between 1933 and Today

By: Koji Kawai,Akira Kawai

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A Guide on Jazz Piano, Composition, and Arrangement Textbooks (English Edition): Between 1933 and Today

By: Koji Kawai,Akira Kawai

This guide provides an introduction to 260 different jazz piano, composition and arrangement textbooks written between 1933 and today.Though this may be hard to believe, there have been just as many, if not more jazz piano textbooks published in Japan as there have been in the U.S. Most notably, Eiichi Fujii, Yasutoshi Inamori, and Tomoyuki Hayashi have each authored over 100 jazz piano textbooks. In a time when the internet didn't exist as it does today, I would search for textbooks by a few different means which included referring to ads in American Jazz magazines like DownBeat, ordering catalogs from secondhand stores in New York, or asking friends who had studied at the Berklee College of Music, and then purchase any new textbook that caught my attention. Of course, nowadays, there are many more publishers in general, and an abundance of books that are quite similar to one another, so I haven't been purchasing as many publications as I once did. At the same time, I have taken a kind of philological, archaeological interest in unearthing the authors and publication dates of some of the earliest written jazz piano textbooks, and I decided to include many of these elusive, out-of-print works in this guide. I've also written about how I've personally worked with jazz piano manuals over the years through some of my own experiences, and noted where I had questions or doubts about the material or the way it was presented. I hope they can be of some use to aspiring students like yourself. Furthermore, I have limited this guide to the textbooks which I actually purchased and played through. Although it really goes without saying, this is because it would be just as impossible a task to review a textbook without having played through it as it would be to critique a CD or album without having listened to it. Consequently, I believe there are a number of works, some of which are highly acclaimed by instructors and students, that are missing in this guide when looking at the textbooks included from the perspective of jazz piano instruction as a whole. In this regard, I must take this opportunity here to apologize. I hope to include these works in future revised editions.

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114

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4906858368

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9784906858361

Free Jazz & Free music 1960~80: Disk Guide

By: Koji Kawai,Takeo Suetomi,Yoshiaki Kinno,Kazue Yokoi,Sabu Toyozumi,KenYa Kawaguchi,Harumi Makino,Masafumi Oda

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Free Jazz & Free music 1960~80: Disk Guide

By: Koji Kawai,Takeo Suetomi,Yoshiaki Kinno,Kazue Yokoi,Sabu Toyozumi,KenYa Kawaguchi,Harumi Makino,Masafumi Oda

In the previous work ""Free Music1960 80: Anthology of Open Music"", we originally planned to feature about 1,000 albums from 1960 to 2000, but since the contents of the book was up to 1980, we could introduce only 166 albums as Disk Guide in the latter half of the book and could not introduce other many albums. Therefore, from that experience, we decided to independently publish the Disk Guide part as a sequel to the previous work, adding 234 albums to the 166 albums already introduced in ""Fee music1960 80"" and featuring a total of 401 albums. And The title of the book was renamed "freeJazz & Freemusic" and published.

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212

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Lulu.com

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1794735070

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9781794735071

Book's by Koji Kawai

The Archaeology of Japan

The Archaeology of Japan

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy

Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei

Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei

Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Japan

Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Japan

Excitation and Inhibition

Excitation and Inhibition

Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy, Volume 1

Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy, Volume 1

The Shining Sea

The Shining Sea

D-Brane

D-Brane

A Guide on Jazz Piano, Composition, and Arrangement Textbooks (English Edition): Between 1933 and Today

A Guide on Jazz Piano, Composition, and Arrangement Textbooks (English Edition): Between 1933 and Today

Free Jazz & Free music 1960~80: Disk Guide

Free Jazz & Free music 1960~80: Disk Guide

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