Miki Yamaguchi's Books

We Are Not Garbage!

The Homeless Movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002

By: Miki Hasegawa

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We Are Not Garbage!

The Homeless Movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002

By: Miki Hasegawa

This book offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. It shows how homeless people and their external supporters in the city combined their scarce resources to generate and sustain the movement. The study advocates a more nuanced analysis of movement gains to appreciate how poor people can benefit by acting collectively. It also draws attention to potential difficulties faced by lower-stratum movements aided by external allies. In particular, the study highlights how actions of the state can undermine the relations between aggrieved allies in such a way as to limit gains. The book is the first in English to detail homeless mobilization in Japan. It also addresses the origins of increased homelessness and development of homelessness policy in the country. Besides homelessness, it covers a number of current social issues, including economic globalization, social exclusion, and politics over space.

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230

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Routledge

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113550783X

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9781135507831

Housing Markets and Household Behavior in Japan

By: Miki Seko

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Housing Markets and Household Behavior in Japan

By: Miki Seko

This book addresses essential questions about housing by building theoretical models based on various real world problems in Japan and testing these models using econometric methods. Almost all related empirical analyses use Japanese household longitudinal data. Accordingly, the author analyzes whole aspects of the data, based on an understanding of the actual situation, theory, and empirical analysis, to directly derive a vision of a future housing policy. Why are houses expensive and difficult to obtain in Japan? Why do people have to live in small houses? Why do people not relocate frequently? Why is the earthquake insurance subscription rate so low, particularly in an earthquake-prone country such as Japan, even after such a catastrophic event as the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011? How do existing housing finance and tax policies or laws relate to these real world problems? To answer these questions, the book clarifies the unique criteria that characterize housing problems in Japan and presents a vision of future housing policy. The short answer is that existing housing finance policy that adopts criteria based on the floor space of houses creates incentives for people to live in even smaller houses. Furthermore, the Japan Rental Act, which affects people renting homes, reduces residential mobility. The incidence of underinsurance against earthquake risk is a result of earthquake insurance market imperfections such as crude and rough geographical risk ratings. The book elaborates on these factors in four parts and will be of interest to all readers who are concerned with the housing market and household behavior in Japan.

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291

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Springer

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9811333696

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9789811333699

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success

Rough Trade Book of the Year

By: Miki Berenyi

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Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success

Rough Trade Book of the Year

By: Miki Berenyi

Rough Trade Book of the Year Resident Book of the Year A Rolling Stone Book of the Year A Mojo Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year Formed in 1988, Lush were part of the London gig scene during one of the most vibrant and creative periods in UK music. Now, Miki Berenyi tells all. From the bohemian ways of her father's social circle to the privileged glamour of her mother's acting career, Miki's young life was a blur of travel, celebrities and peripatetic schooling. But frequent relocation, parental neglect and the dark presence of her abusive grandmother resulted in crippling shyness, mental-health issues and a vulnerability to exploitation. The route out of this hole was music - a passion shared by schoolmate Emma Anderson. The teenagers began attending gigs together and would ultimately go on to form Lush. Talented and exuberant, the band became hot property, swiftly transitioning from shoegaze icons to Britpop darlings. Re-living the tours, recording sessions and music-industry madness they experienced along the way, this uncompromising memoir documents Lush's thrilling rise and untimely fall. Yet at the heart of the book are Miki's own battles: the conflict between her mouthy public persona and her thin-skinned private identity; the trials of being a woman in an infuriatingly male world; the struggle to find a middle ground between 'safe' indie obscurity and 'sell-out' international success. Miki also explores her complicated relationship with Emma - one that has fluctuated between camaraderie and rivalry over the years - and addresses the devastating tragedy that led to the band's split. Told through frank confession, wry humour and searing emotional honesty, this is the incredible tale of a trailblazing woman and a seminal band.

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357

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Nine Eight Books

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1788705564

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9781788705561

Brainware

Bio-inspired Architecture and Its Hardware Implementation

By: Tsutomu Miki

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Brainware

Bio-inspired Architecture and Its Hardware Implementation

By: Tsutomu Miki

The human brain, the ultimate intelligent processor, can handle ambiguous and uncertain information adequately. The implementation of such a human-brain architecture and function is called OC brainwareOCO. Brainware is a candidate for the new tool that will realize a human-friendly computer society. As one of the LSI implementations of brainware, a OC bio-inspiredOCO hardware system is discussed in this book. Consisting of eight enriched versions of papers selected from IIZUKA ''98, this volume provides wide coverage, from neuronal function devices to vision systems, chaotic systems, and also an effective design methodology of hierarchical large-scale neural systems inspired by neuroscience. It can serve as a reference for graduate students and researchers working in the field of brainware. It is also a source of inspiration for research towards the realization of a silicon brain. Contents: Neuron MOS Transistor: The Concept and Its Application (T Shibata); Adaptive Learning Neuron Integrated Circuits Using Ferroelectric-Gate FETs (S-M Yoon et al.); An AnalogOCoDigital Merged Circuit Architecture Using PWM Techniques for Bio-Inspired Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (T Morie et al.); Application-Driven Design of Bio-Inspired Low-Power Vision Circuits and Systems (A KAnig et al.); Motion Detection with Bio-Inspired Analog MOS Circuits (H Yonezu et al.); cents MOS Cellular-Automaton Circuit for Picture Processing (M Ikebe & Y Amemiya); Semiconductor Chaos-Generating Elements of Simple Structure and Their Integration (K Hoh et al.); Computation in Single Neuron with Dendritic Trees (N Katayama et al.). Readership: Graduate students, researchers and industrialists in artificial intelligence, neural networks, machine perception, computer vision, pattern/handwriting recognition, image analysis and biocomputing.

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245

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World Scientific

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9812810250

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9789812810250

Selected Papers of Morikazu Toda

By: Morikazu Toda,Miki Wadati

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Selected Papers of Morikazu Toda

By: Morikazu Toda,Miki Wadati

This volume contains selected papers of Dr Morikazu Toda. The papers are arranged in chronological order of publishing dates. Among Dr Toda's many contributions, his works on liquids and nonlinear lattice dynamics should be mentioned. The one-dimensional lattice where nearest neighboring particles interact through an exponential potential is called the Toda lattice which is a miracle and indeed a jewel in theoretical physics. The papers in this volume can be grouped into five subjects: statistical mechanics, theory of liquids and solutions, lattice dynamics, Toda lattice and soliton theory and its applications.

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336

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World Scientific

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9810214693

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9789810214692

Characterization and Design of Zeolite Catalysts

Solid Acidity, Shape Selectivity and Loading Properties

By: Miki Niwa,Naonobu Katada,Kazu Okumura

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Characterization and Design of Zeolite Catalysts

Solid Acidity, Shape Selectivity and Loading Properties

By: Miki Niwa,Naonobu Katada,Kazu Okumura

Catalysis and catalyst is a key technology to solve the problems in energy and environment issues to sustain our human society. We believe that comprehensive understanding of the catalysis and catalyst provides us a chance to develop a new catalyst and contributes greatly to our society. However, the ?eld of heterogeneous catalyst is dif?cultto study andstill stays behindmoredeveloped?elds ofchemistry such as organic and physical chemistries. This is a dilemma to the chemists who study the catalysis and catalyst. While we can accomplish the progress in the - dustrial application, the scienti?c understandingis not complete yet. A gap between the useful application and incomplete scienti?c understanding, however, becomes smaller and smaller in recent years. Because zeolites are ?ne crystals, and the structure is clearly known, the study on the catalysis using the zeolites is easier than those encountered in other catalysts such as metals and metal oxides. Very fortunately, zeolites provide us the strong acidity with the ?ne distribution which enables various useful catalytic reactions. When some metals and cations are loaded in close to the acid sites, these loadede- ments show extraordinarycharacters, and many catalytic reactions proceed thereon.

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189

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642126200

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9783642126208

Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

By: Miki Yoshikawa

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Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

By: Miki Yoshikawa

A BOY WITCH IS BORN?! It’s a brand-new year for Yamada-kun and the rest of the Student Council, and for once, everything seems to be normal…but not for long! In an attempt to get in Miyamura’s good graces, Kurosaki devises a plan to switch bodies with Yamada-kun. But instead of swapping bodies after they kiss, Kurosaki develops a strange and wonderful power—and becomes a (boy) witch! Not only that, but the Student Council discovers that they now have a whole other set of seven witches to worry about. When trying to learn about Kurosaki’s newfound witch power, Yamada-kun and Kurosaki encounter a suspicious, long-haired boy. Could he be the new Seventh Witch and hold the answers to all of the Student Council’s questions?

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194

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Kodansha Comics

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1642120693

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9781642120691

Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches 27-28

By: Miki Yoshikawa

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Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches 27-28

By: Miki Yoshikawa

Oh, To Be Young! After everything that has happened, Yamada is steadfast in his goal to go to university, but now he must face his next biggest challenge: basic, simple questions for the entrance exam! Determined to not disappoint Shiraishi, he goes on an entrance exam prep trip with everyone. But why does he want to go to university? And for that matter, which university? With the onslaught of so many questions on his future, Shiraishi may give the gentle push Yamada needs.

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386

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Kodansha USA

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1684917522

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9781684917525

Book's by Miki Yamaguchi

We Are Not Garbage!

We Are Not Garbage!

Housing Markets and Household Behavior in Japan

Housing Markets and Household Behavior in Japan

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success

Brainware

Brainware

Selected Papers of Morikazu Toda

Selected Papers of Morikazu Toda

Characterization and Design of Zeolite Catalysts

Characterization and Design of Zeolite Catalysts

Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches 27-28

Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches 27-28

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