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Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: The Novel (light novel)

By: Tomoco Kanemaki,Tetsuya Nomura,Masaru Oka

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Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: The Novel (light novel)

By: Tomoco Kanemaki,Tetsuya Nomura,Masaru Oka

Ten years before Sora fought to save the worlds, three young Keyblade wielders named Terra, Aqua, and Ventus trained in the hopes of becoming Masters one day. But everything changed on the day of Terra and Aqua's Mark of Mastery exam, and the three each set off on their own journeys that would test their friendship-and alter the course of their destinies forever.

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Yen Press LLC

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1975357523

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9781975357528

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance The Novel (light novel)

By: Tomoco Kanemaki,Tetsuya Nomura,Masaru Oka

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Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance The Novel (light novel)

By: Tomoco Kanemaki,Tetsuya Nomura,Masaru Oka

To prepare for the great battle to come, Sora and Riku have been summoned to take the Mark of Mastery exam and become full-fledged Keyblade masters. This time, their journey will take them through the Sleeping Worlds, where they must find the seven Keyholes to gain a new kind of power. But not long after their test begins, the two friends find themselves separated, journeying through different versions of each world. What’s going on? And what awaits them at the end...?

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279

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Yen Press LLC

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1975358724

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9781975358723

Japan's Postwar Party Politics

By: Masaru Kohno

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Japan's Postwar Party Politics

By: Masaru Kohno

In this sophisticated theoretical work, Masaru Kohno presents a systematic reexamination of the evolution of party politics in Japan since the end of the second World War. Because of the long one-party dominance by the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan's parliamentary democracy has often been viewed as unique in the developed world, and most of the existing studies of Japanese party politics have addressed such determinants as its political culture, historical background, and socio-ideological cleavages. According to the author, these explanations do not adequately account for some of the most important changes that took place in Japanese party politics during the postwar period. This study advances an alternative set of interpretations based on a microanalytic approach that highlights the incentive and bargaining power of individual political actors, and their competitive and strategic behavior under existing institutional constraints. According to Kohno, the evolution of political life in postwar Japan depends on the same factors that are acknowledged to be at work in other industrialized nations. He reveals, through detailed case studies of government formation processes and statistical examinations of candidate nomination patterns, that the microanalytic approach can establish forward-looking and internally consistent interpretations of the postwar development of Japanese party politics. Because Japan has usually been treated as a country of unique cultural, historical, and societal characteristics, the analyses of this study point to the broader applicability of the microanalytic approach in the field of comparative politics, especially for the exploration of party competition in advanced industrial democracies.

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186

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Princeton University Press

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0691221618

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9780691221618

Asian American Spies

How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

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Asian American Spies

How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

A recovery of the vital role Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans played in US intelligence services in Asia during World War II. Spies deep behind enemy lines; double agents; a Chinese American James Bond; black propaganda radio broadcasters; guerrilla fighters; pirates; smugglers; prostitutes and dancers as spies; and Asian Americans collaborating with Axis Powers. All these colorful individuals form the story of Asian Americans in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of today's CIA. Brian Masaru Hayashi brings to light for the first time the role played by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans in America's first centralized intelligence agency in its fight against the Imperial Japanese forces in east Asia during World War II. They served deep behind enemy lines gathering intelligence for American and Chinese troops locked in a desperate struggle against Imperial Japanese forces on the Asian continent. Other Asian Americans produced and disseminated statements by bogus peace groups inside the Japanese empire to weaken the fighting resolve of the Japanese. Still others served with guerrilla forces attacking enemy supply and communication lines behind enemy lines. Engaged in this deadly conflict, these Asian Americans agents encountered pirates, smugglers, prostitutes, and dancers serving as the enemy's spies, all the while being subverted from within the OSS by a double agent and without by co-ethnic collaborators in wartime Shanghai. Drawing on recently declassified documents, Asian American Spies challenges the romanticized and stereotyped image of these Chinese, Japanese, and Korean American agents--the Model Minority-while offering a fresh perspective on the Allied victory in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

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411

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Oxford University Press

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0190092866

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9780190092863

Democratizing the Enemy

The Japanese American Internment

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

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Democratizing the Enemy

The Japanese American Internment

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

During World War II some 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and detained in concentration camps in several states. These Japanese Americans lost millions of dollars in property and were forced to live in so-called "assembly centers" surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed sentries. In this insightful and groundbreaking work, Brian Hayashi reevaluates the three-year ordeal of interred Japanese Americans. Using previously undiscovered documents, he examines the forces behind the U.S. government's decision to establish internment camps. His conclusion: the motives of government officials and top military brass likely transcended the standard explanations of racism, wartime hysteria, and leadership failure. Among the other surprising factors that played into the decision, Hayashi writes, were land development in the American West and plans for the American occupation of Japan. What was the long-term impact of America's actions? While many historians have explored that question, Hayashi takes a fresh look at how U.S. concentration camps affected not only their victims and American civil liberties, but also people living in locations as diverse as American Indian reservations and northeast Thailand.

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339

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Princeton University Press

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140083774X

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9781400837748

Numerical Relativity

By: Masaru Shibata

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Numerical Relativity

By: Masaru Shibata

This book is composed of two parts: First part describes basics in numerical relativity, that is, the formulations and methods for a solution of Einstein's equation and general relativistic matter field equations. This part will be helpful for beginners of numerical relativity who would like to understand the content of numerical relativity and its background. The second part focuses on the application of numerical relativity. A wide variety of scientific numerical results are introduced focusing in particular on the merger of binary neutron stars and black holes.

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844

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World Scientific

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9814699748

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9789814699747

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: The Novel (light novel)

By: Tomoco Kanemaki,Tetsuya Nomura,Masaru Oka

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Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: The Novel (light novel)

By: Tomoco Kanemaki,Tetsuya Nomura,Masaru Oka

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Yen Press LLC

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1975357523

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Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance The Novel (light novel)

By: Tomoco Kanemaki,Tetsuya Nomura,Masaru Oka

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Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance The Novel (light novel)

By: Tomoco Kanemaki,Tetsuya Nomura,Masaru Oka

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Book's by Masaru Oka

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: The Novel (light novel)

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: The Novel (light novel)

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance The Novel (light novel)

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance The Novel (light novel)

Japan's Postwar Party Politics

Japan's Postwar Party Politics

Asian American Spies

Asian American Spies

Democratizing the Enemy

Democratizing the Enemy

Numerical Relativity

Numerical Relativity

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: The Novel (light novel)

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: The Novel (light novel)

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance The Novel (light novel)

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance The Novel (light novel)

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