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The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice

By: Noriko Iwasaki,Yuri Kumagai

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The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice

By: Noriko Iwasaki,Yuri Kumagai

The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader: A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice is designed for intermediate to advanced learners of Japanese and presents twenty-five authentic texts taken from a wide range of media and literary sources, which promote a deeper understanding of Japan among readers. The book is divided into ten genre-based chapters, allowing the learner to focus on the textual features relevant to that genre. Key features include: Selected texts covering topics related to Japanese language, society and culture encountered in the Japanese media, from news reports to interviews, book reviews, short stories and editorials. Word lists for challenging vocabulary and kanji provided throughout to aid comprehension and learning. Pre-reading activities to enable familiarity with the topic, the text’s background and words to be encountered in the reading passages. Short grammar explanations of essential structures. Questions to help comprehension, raise awareness of genre features, promote critical reading, and to encourage the reader to think more deeply about the content. Opportunities to write passages, utilizing what has been learned by reading the text. Vocabulary and grammar lists at the back of the book. The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader emphasizes reading as a purposeful social act, which requires readers to make meaning of the text by considering the authors’ choices in language (scripts, vocabulary, styles) in the text. The learners are guided to situate each text in society (for example, the author, target audience, social-cultural background related to the subject) in order to understand the social significance of reading and writing. This book aims to help learners develop the ability to critically read and write in Japanese for their own social purposes. It is suitable for both class use and independent study.

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1000408949

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Japan's Quest for Nuclear Energy and the Price It Has Paid

Accidents, Consequences, and Lessons Learned for the Global Nuclear Industry

By: Noriko Hikosaka Behling,Thomas G. Behling,Mark C. Williams,Shunsuke Managi

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Japan's Quest for Nuclear Energy and the Price It Has Paid

Accidents, Consequences, and Lessons Learned for the Global Nuclear Industry

By: Noriko Hikosaka Behling,Thomas G. Behling,Mark C. Williams,Shunsuke Managi

Japan's Quest for Nuclear Energy and the Price it has Paid: Accidents, Consequences, and Lessons Learned for the Global Nuclear Industry identifies major accidents in Japan that have happened at different stages of the nuclear fuel cycle in Japan, assesses the underlying causes of nuclear accidents, and identifies other systemic problems in the nuclear industry. It provides recommendations on how government, industry and academic institutions can work together toward achieving a zero-accident safety culture. - Reviews the history of Japan's nuclear programs and commercial activities from the 1950s to the present - Describes the underlying causes of major accidents that have afflicted Japan's nuclear industry, along with consequences, including technical difficulties, costs and program delays - Outlines the evolution of nuclear policies promoted by competing bureaucracies and how these rivalries influenced program priorities and impeded safety

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Elsevier

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0128179619

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Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction

Twentieth Century Short Fiction

By: Noriko Mizuta Lippit,Kyoko Iriye Selden

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Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction

Twentieth Century Short Fiction

By: Noriko Mizuta Lippit,Kyoko Iriye Selden

This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought. "Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, devoted daughters. ... a new sense of the richness of Japanese women's experience, a new appreciation for feelings too long submerged". -- The New York Times Book Review

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Routledge

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1317466934

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Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan

By: Noriko T. Reider

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Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan

By: Noriko T. Reider

In Japanese culture, oni are ubiquitous supernatural creatures who play important roles in literature, lore, and folk belief. Characteristically ambiguous, they have been great and small, mischievous and dangerous, and ugly and beautiful over their long history. Here, author Noriko Reider presents seven oni stories from medieval Japan in full and translated for an English-speaking audience. Reider, concordant with many scholars of Japanese cultural studies, argues that to study oni is to study humanity. These tales are from an era in which many new oni stories appeared for the purpose of both entertainment and moral/religious edification and for which oni were particularly important, as they were perceived to be living entities. They reflect not only the worldview of medieval Japan but also themes that inform twenty-first-century Japanese pop and vernacular culture, including literature, manga, film, and anime. With each translation, Reider includes an introductory essay exploring the historical and cultural importance of the characters and oni manifestations within this period. Offering new insights into and interpretations of not only the stories therein but also the entire genre of Japanese ghost stories, Seven Demon Stories is a valuable companion to Reider’s 2010 volume Japanese Demon Lore. It will be of significant value to folklore scholars as well as students of Japanese culture.

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307

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University Press of Colorado

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1607324903

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9781607324904

Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953

By: Noriko Kamachi,John K. Fairbank,Chūzō Ichiko

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Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953

By: Noriko Kamachi,John K. Fairbank,Chūzō Ichiko

A comprehensive bibliographical guide to Japanese research published between 1953 and 1969 on the topic of Modern China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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646

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BRILL

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1684171911

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9781684171910

Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning

By: Jenefer Philp,Rebecca Adams,Noriko Iwashita

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Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning

By: Jenefer Philp,Rebecca Adams,Noriko Iwashita

Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning synthesizes the existing body of research on the role of peer interaction in second language learning in one comprehensive volume. In spite of the many hours that language learners spend interacting with peers in the classroom, there is a tendency to evaluate the usefulness of this time by comparison to whole class interaction with the teacher. Yet teachers are teachers and peers are peers – as partners in interaction, they are likely to offer very different kinds of learning opportunities. This book encourages researchers and instructors alike to take a new look at the potential of peer interaction to foster second language development. Acknowledging the context of peer interaction as highly dynamic and complex, the book considers the strengths and limitations of peer work from a range of theoretical perspectives. In doing so, Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning clarifies features of effective peer interaction for second language learning across a range of educational contexts, age spans, proficiency levels, and classroom tasks and settings.

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260

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Routledge

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1135914605

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9781135914608

Mountain Witches

Yamauba

By: Noriko T. Reider

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Mountain Witches

Yamauba

By: Noriko T. Reider

Mountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamauba—female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and large mouths that open from ear to ear and who live in the mountains—and the evolution of their roles and significance in Japanese culture and society from the premodern era to the present. In recent years yamauba have attracted much attention among scholars of women’s literature as women unconstrained by conformative norms or social expectations, but this is the first book to demonstrate how these figures contribute to folklore, Japanese studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. Situating the yamauba within the construct of yōkai and archetypes, Noriko T. Reider investigates the yamauba attributes through the examination of narratives including folktales, literary works, legends, modern fiction, manga, and anime. She traces the lineage of a yamauba image from the seventh-century text Kojiki to the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo, and explores its emergence as well as its various, often conflicting, characteristics. Reider also examines the adaptation and re-creation of the prototype in diverse media such as modern fiction, film, manga, anime, and fashion in relation to the changing status of women in Japanese society. Offering a comprehensive overview of the development of the yamauba as a literary and mythic trope, Mountain Witches is a study of an archetype that endures in Japanese media and folklore. It will be valuable to students, scholars, and the general reader interested in folklore, Japanese literature, demonology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, and the visual and performing arts.

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239

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University Press of Colorado

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1646420551

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9781646420551

Japanese Discourse Markers

Synchronic and diachronic discourse analysis

By: Noriko O. Onodera

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Japanese Discourse Markers

Synchronic and diachronic discourse analysis

By: Noriko O. Onodera

This book is one of the pioneering historical pragmatic studies of Japanese. It closely illustrates the usage and contributions of some Japanese discourse markers, and reveals their developmental history. The section on Synchronic Analysis explores the previously uninvestigated functions of some discourse markers used in Present Day Japanese. Moment by moment in on-going conversations, where culturally rigidly-defined interactional norms are highly valued, a specific marker is chosen and used by the speakers as their strategy, based on their quite subjective judgment. The section on Diachronic Analysis then demonstrates chronologically how the meanings and forms of the same markers have come into being. Results include some noticeable changes related to the strengthened intersubjectivity. This multi-dimensional study also discusses the relevance of findings to typological characteristics and productivity. Consideration is further given to why certain expressions (rather than others) become discourse markers and independent forms in Japanese.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027294879

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9789027294876

Teaching and Learning Pragmatics

Where Language and Culture Meet

By: Noriko Ishihara,Andrew D. Cohen

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Teaching and Learning Pragmatics

Where Language and Culture Meet

By: Noriko Ishihara,Andrew D. Cohen

An understanding of sociocultural context is crucial in second language learning–yet developing this awareness often poses a real challenge to the typical language learner. This book is a language teachers’ guide that focuses on how to teach socially and culturally preferred language for effective intercultural communication. Moving beyond a purely theoretical approach to pragmatics, the volume offers practical advice to teachers, with hands-on classroom tasks included in every chapter. Readers will be able to: · Understand the link between language use, linguacultural diversity, and multilingual identity · Identify possible causes of learner errors and choices in intercultural communication · Understand applied linguistics theories that support culturally sensitive classroom practices · Develop a pragmatics-focused instructional component, classroom-based assessments, and curricula · Help learners to become more strategic about their learning and performance of speech acts · Incorporate technology into their approach to teaching pragmatics This book aims to close the gap between what research in pragmatics has found and how language is generally taught today. It will be of interest to all language teachers, graduate students in language teaching and linguistics, teacher educators, and developers of materials for teaching language.

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Routledge

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100039722X

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9781000397222

Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983)

By: Noriko Mizuta Lippit,Kyoko Iriye Selden

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Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983)

By: Noriko Mizuta Lippit,Kyoko Iriye Selden

This title was first published in 1982. The authors deal with the experiences of modern women with penetrating sincerity and honesty, but their philosophic profundity in understanding modern life, their intellectual capacity to view their experience in a historical and social context, and their mastery of the art of fiction render the traditional category of 'female school literature' totally inadequate to characterize their works. Indeed, they stand at the core of modern Japanese literature as a whole.

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1351716492

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Japanese Demon Lore

Oni from Ancient Times to the Present

By: Noriko T. Reider

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Japanese Demon Lore

Oni from Ancient Times to the Present

By: Noriko T. Reider

Oni, ubiquitous supernatural figures in Japanese literature, lore, art, and religion, usually appear as demons or ogres. Characteristically threatening, monstrous creatures with ugly features and fearful habits, including cannibalism, they also can be harbingers of prosperity, beautiful and sexual, and especially in modern contexts, even cute and lovable. There has been much ambiguity in their character and identity over their long history. Usually male, their female manifestations convey distinctivly gendered social and cultural meanings. Oni appear frequently in various arts and media, from Noh theater and picture scrolls to modern fiction and political propaganda, They remain common figures in popular Japanese anime, manga, and film and are becoming embedded in American and international popular culture through such media. Noriko Reiderýs book is the first in English devoted to oni. Reider fully examines their cultural history, multifaceted roles, and complex significance as "others" to the Japanese.

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248

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University Press of Colorado

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0874217946

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9780874217940

Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan

By: Bettina Gramlich-Oka,Anne Walthall,Fumiko Miyazaki,Noriko SUGANO

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Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan

By: Bettina Gramlich-Oka,Anne Walthall,Fumiko Miyazaki,Noriko SUGANO

Although scholars have emphasized the importance of women’s networks for civil society in twentieth-century Japan, Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan is the first book to tackle the subject for the contentious and consequential nineteenth century. The essays traverse the divide when Japan started transforming itself from a decentralized to a centralized government, from legally imposed restrictions on movement to the breakdown of travel barriers, and from ad hoc schooling to compulsory elementary school education. As these essays suggest, such changes had a profound impact on women and their roles in networks. Rather than pursue a common methodology, the authors take diverse approaches to this topic that open up fruitful avenues for further exploration. Most of the essays in this volume are by Japanese scholars; their inclusion here provides either an introduction to their work or the opportunity to explore their scholarship further. Because women are often invisible in historical documentation, the authors use a range of sources (such as diaries, letters, and legal documents) to reconstruct the familial, neighborhood, religious, political, work, and travel networks that women maintained, constructed, or found themselves in, sometimes against their will. In so doing, most but not all of the authors try to decenter historical narratives built on men’s activities and men’s occupational and status-based networks, and instead recover women’s activities in more localized groupings and personal associations.

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301

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University of Michigan Press

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0472127330

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9780472127337

Japan Guide

By: Patrice Fusillo,Noriko Araki

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Japan Guide

By: Patrice Fusillo,Noriko Araki

With the Winter 1998 Olympics in Nagano coming up, Japan is already a travel hot spot. "Japan Guide" includes listings for great hotels, restaurants, tickets, venues, and much more. Readers will discover the people, culture, and history that make Japan an exciting place to visit. Festivals and holidays are detailed, and there are sections in each chapter on shopping for both traditional and modern goods, from pottery and silk to exquisite lacquerware.

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1883323649

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The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice

By: Noriko Iwasaki,Yuri Kumagai

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A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice

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1000408868

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The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

Japan's Quest for Nuclear Energy and the Price It Has Paid

Japan's Quest for Nuclear Energy and the Price It Has Paid

Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction

Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction

Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan

Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan

Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953

Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953

Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning

Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning

Mountain Witches

Mountain Witches

Japanese Discourse Markers

Japanese Discourse Markers

Teaching and Learning Pragmatics

Teaching and Learning Pragmatics

Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983)

Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983)

Japanese Demon Lore

Japanese Demon Lore

Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Japan Guide

Japan Guide

The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader

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