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East Asia Beyond the History Wars

Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki,Morris Low,Leonid Petrov,Timothy Y. Tsu

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East Asia Beyond the History Wars

Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki,Morris Low,Leonid Petrov,Timothy Y. Tsu

East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no peace treaty has ever been signed to conclude the Korean War. For over a decade, the region’s governments and non-government groups have sought to confront the ghosts of the past by developing paths to reconciliation. Focusing particularly on popular culture and grassroots action, East Asia beyond the History Wars explores these East Asian approaches to historical reconciliation. This book examines how Korean historians from North and South exchange ideas about national history, how Chinese film-makers reframe their views of the war with Japan, and how Japanese social activists develop grassroots reconciliation projects with counterparts from Korea and elsewhere. As the volume’s studies of museums, monuments and memorials show, East Asian public images of modern history are changing, but change is fragile and uncertain. This unfinished story of East Asia’s search for historical reconciliation has important implications for the study of popular memory worldwide. Presenting a fresh perspective on reconciliation which draws on both history and cultural studies, this book will be welcomed by students and scholars working in the fields of Asian history, Asian culture and society as well as those interested in war and memory studies more generally.

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Routledge

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1136192263

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Active Faults and Nuclear Regulation

Background to Requirement Enforcement in Japan

By: Yasuhiro Suzuki

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Active Faults and Nuclear Regulation

Background to Requirement Enforcement in Japan

By: Yasuhiro Suzuki

This book reviews the active faults around nuclear power plants in Japan and recommends an optimal method of nuclear power regulation controlled by the Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan. The active faults around nuclear power plants have been underestimated in Japan since the latter half of the 20th century. However, based on the lessons learned from the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, the book sheds light on why the risks of active faults were underestimated, and discusses the optimal scientific method of assessing those risks. Further, the author shares his experiences in the new standard for nuclear regulation creation team and in the active fault survey at the Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan. This book is a valuable resource for students, researchers, academic and policy-makers, as well as non-experts interested in nuclear safety.

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Springer Nature

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9811507651

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9789811507656

Divided Fates

The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States

By: Kazuko Suzuki

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Divided Fates

The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States

By: Kazuko Suzuki

Winner, ASA Book Award on Asia/Transnational (2017) This book compares the Korean diasporic groups in Japan and the United States. It highlights the contrasting adaptation of Koreans in Japan and the United States, and illuminates how the destinies of immigrants who originally belonged to the same ethnic/national collectivity diverge depending upon destinations and how they are received in a certain state and society within particular historical contexts. The author finds that the mode of incorporation (a specific combination of contextual factors), rather than ethnic ‘culture’ and ‘race,’ plays a decisive role in determining the fates of these Korean immigrant groups. In other words, what matters most for immigrants’ integration is not their particular cultural background or racial similarity to the dominant group, but the way they are received by the host state and other institutions. Thus, this book is not just about Korean immigrants; it is also about how contexts of reception including different conceptualizations of ‘race’ in relation to nationhood affect the adaptation of immigrants from the same ethnic/national origin.

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Lexington Books

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0739129562

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9780739129562

Reading the Kimono in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature and Film

By: Michiko Suzuki

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Reading the Kimono in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature and Film

By: Michiko Suzuki

Often considered an exotic garment of “traditional Japan,” the kimono is in fact a vibrant part of Japanese modernity, playing an integral role in literature and film throughout the twentieth century. Reading the Kimono in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature and Film is the first extended study to offer new ways of interpreting textual and visual narratives through “kimono language”—what these garments communicate within their literary, historical, and cultural contexts. Kimonos on the page and screen do much more than create verisimilitude or function as one-dimensional symbols. They go beyond simply indicating the wearer’s age, gender, class, and taste; as eloquent, heterogeneous objects, they speak of wartime and postwar histories and shed light on everything from gender politics to censorship. By reclaiming “kimono language”—once a powerful shared vernacular—Michiko Suzuki accesses inner lives of characters, hidden plot points, intertextual meanings, resistant messages, and social commentary. Reading the Kimono examines modern Japanese literary works and their cinematic adaptations, including Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s canonical novel, The Makioka Sisters, and its film versions, one screened under the US Occupation and another directed by Ichikawa Kon in 1983. It also investigates Kōda Aya’s Kimono and Flowing, as well as Naruse Mikio’s 1956 film adaptation of the latter. Reading the Kimono additionally advances the study of women writers by discussing texts by Tsuboi Sakae and Miyao Tomiko, authors often overlooked in scholarship despite their award-winning, bestselling stature. Through her analysis of stories and their afterlives, Suzuki offers a fresh view of the kimono as complex “material” to be read. She asks broader questions about the act of interpretation, what it means to explore both texts and textiles as inherently dynamic objects, shaped by context and considered differently over time. Reading the Kimono is at once an engaging history of the modern kimono and its representation, and a significant study of twentieth-century Japanese literature and film.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824896939

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9780824896935

Japan's Budget Politics

Balancing Domestic and International Interests

By: Takaaki Suzuki

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Japan's Budget Politics

Balancing Domestic and International Interests

By: Takaaki Suzuki

What is the source of the increasing politicization of Japan's budgetary policy? In this text, Takaaki Suzuki explores this question, finding answers in the interplay of domestic and international politics from the early 1970s through the 1990s.

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Lynne Rienner Publishers

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1555878873

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9781555878870

Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan

Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa

By: James E. Roberson,Nobue Suzuki

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Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan

Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa

By: James E. Roberson,Nobue Suzuki

This book is the first comprehensive account of the changing role of men and the construction of masculinity in contemporary Japan. The book moves beyond the stereotype of the Japanese white-collar businessman to explore the diversity of identities and experiences that may be found among men in contemporary Japan, including those versions of masculinity which are marginalized and subversive. The book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of contemporary Japanese society and identity.

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Routledge

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1134541627

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9781134541621

Gendered Power

Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court

By: Mamiko Suzuki

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Gendered Power

Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court

By: Mamiko Suzuki

Gendered Power sheds light on the sources of power for three prominent women of the Meiji period: Meiji Empress Haruko; public speaker, poet, and diarist Nakajima Shoen; and educator and prolific author Shimoda Utako. By focusing on the role Chinese classics (kanbun) played in the language employed by elite women, the chapters focus on how Empress Haruko, Shoen, and Shimoda Utako contributed new expectations for how women should participate in a modernizing Japan. By being in the public eye, all three women countered criticism of and commentary on their writings and activities, which they parried by navigating gender constraints. The success or failure as women ascribed to these three figures sheds light on the contradictions inhabited by them during a transformative period for Japanese women. By proposing and interrogating the possibility of Meiji women’s power, the book examines contradictions that were symptomatic of their struggles within the vast social, cultural, and political transformations that took place during the period. The book demonstrates that an examination of that conflict within feminist history is crucial in order to understand what radical resistance meant in the face of women-centered authority.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472124161

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9780472124169

Embodying Belonging

Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan

By: Taku Suzuki

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Embodying Belonging

Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan

By: Taku Suzuki

Embodying Belonging is the first full-length study of a Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Under extraordinary conditions throughout the twentieth century (Imperial Japanese rule, the brutal Battle of Okinawa at the end of World War II, U.S. military occupation), Okinawans left their homeland and created various diasporic communities around the world. Colonia Okinawa, a farming settlement in the tropical plains of eastern Bolivia, is one such community that was established in the 1950s under the guidance of the U.S. military administration. Although they have flourished as farm owners in Bolivia, thanks to generous support from the Japanese government since Okinawa’s reversion to Japan in 1972, hundreds of Bolivian-born ethnic Okinawans have left the Colonia in the last two decades and moved to Japanese cities, such as Yokohama, to become manual laborers in construction and manufacturing industries. Based on the author’s multisited field research on the work, education, and community lives of Okinawans in the Colonia and Yokohama, this ethnography challenges the unidirectional model of assimilation and acculturation commonly found in immigration studies. In its vivid depiction of the transnational experiences of Okinawan-Bolivians, it argues that transnational Okinawan-Bolivians underwent the various racialization processes—in which they were portrayed by non-Okinawan Bolivians living in the Colonia and native-born Japanese mainlanders in Yokohama and self-represented by Okinawan-Bolivians themselves—as the physical embodiment of a generalized and naturalized "culture" of Japan, Okinawa, or Bolivia. Racializing narratives and performances ideologically serve as both a cause and result of Okinawan-Bolivians’ social and economic status as successful large-scale farm owners in rural Bolivia and struggling manual laborers in urban Japan. As the most comprehensive work available on Okinawan immigrants in Latin America and ethnic Okinawan "return" migrants in Japan, Embodying Belonging is at once a critical examination of the contradictory class and cultural identity (trans)formations of transmigrants; a rich qualitative study of colonial and postcolonial subjects in diaspora, and a bold attempt to theorize racialization as a social process of belonging within local and global schemes.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824860543

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9780824860547

Britain, Japan and China, 1876–1895

East Asian International Relations before the First Sino–Japanese War

By: Yu Suzuki

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Britain, Japan and China, 1876–1895

East Asian International Relations before the First Sino–Japanese War

By: Yu Suzuki

This book revises the conventional wisdom about the Anglo-Japanese relationship in the late nineteenth century that these two countries were bound by mutual sympathy and common interests, and therefore the common ground which led to the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1902, had already existed in the 1880s. Such understandings fail to take account of the fact that the Qing dynasty of China had emerged as the strongest regional power in East Asia by reasserting its influence as the traditional suzerain of the region in the years prior to the First Sino-Japanese War. The British and the Japanese governments clearly recognised that it would become difficult to maintain their interests in East Asia if they antagonised the Qing by challenging its claim of suzerainty over Korea. It was difficult for them to come to closer terms when their priority before 1894-5 was to maintain good relations with China, and when they were also experiencing numerous diplomatic difficulties with each other.

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042975549X

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9780429755491

Civilization and Empire

China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society

By: Shogo Suzuki

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Civilization and Empire

China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society

By: Shogo Suzuki

This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International Society as a progressive, linear process, this book contends that imperialism – along with an ideology premised on ‘civilising’ ‘barbarous’ peoples – played a central role in its historic development. Considering how these elements of International Society affected China and Japan’s entry into it, Shogo Suzuki contends that such states envisaged a Janus-faced International Society, which simultaneously aimed for cooperative relations among its ‘civilized’ members and for the introduction of ‘civilization’ towards non-European polities, often by coercive means. By examining the complex process by which China and Japan engaged with this dualism, this book highlights a darker side of China and Japan’s socialization into International Society which previous studies have failed to acknowledge. Drawing on Chinese and Japanese primary sources seldom utilized in International Relations, this book makes a compelling case for revising our understandings of International Society and its expansion. This book will be of strong interest to students and researcher of international relations, international history, European studies and Asian Studies.

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1134063660

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9781134063666

Becoming Modern Women

Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture

By: Michiko Suzuki

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Becoming Modern Women

Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture

By: Michiko Suzuki

Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture is a literary and cultural history of love and female identity in Japan during the 1910s-30s.

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Stanford University Press

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0804761973

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9780804761970

Japanese Investment and British Trade Unionism

Thatcher and Nissan Revisited in the Wake of Brexit

By: Hitoshi Suzuki

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Japanese Investment and British Trade Unionism

Thatcher and Nissan Revisited in the Wake of Brexit

By: Hitoshi Suzuki

This book revisits the long contested negotiation between the Thatcher administration and Nissan for the latter's first green-field plant in Europe. From the very beginning, the plant took Britain’s EC/EU membership and tariff-free access to the single market as a token. A considerable amount of aid including component supplies was provided to attract Japanese investment and to prevent its transfer to the continent. The successful launch of Sunderland highlighted improved Anglo-Japanese relations and put an end to the Japan-EC/EU trade conflict. But the price was paid by Nissan’s slump and fall, and by trade unions in both countries failing to keep counterchecks on management. Brexit and the fall of Carlos Ghosn were a double blow to Anglo-Japanese relations which are in a state of drift and need redefinition.

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Springer Nature

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9811590583

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9789811590580

Manga

A Critical Guide

By: Shige (CJ) Suzuki,Ronald Stewart

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Manga

A Critical Guide

By: Shige (CJ) Suzuki,Ronald Stewart

A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its earliest texts to the internationally popular comics of the 21st century. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers: · The history of Japanese comics, from influences in early visual culture to the global 'Manga Boom' of the 1990s to the present · Case studies of texts reflecting the range of themes, genres, forms and creators, including Osamu Tezuka, Machiko Hasegawa and Katsuhiro Otomo · Key themes and contexts – from gender and sexuality, to history and censorship · Critical approaches to manga, including definitions, biography and reception and global publishing contexts The book includes a bibliography of essential critical writing on manga, discussion questions for classroom use and a glossary of key critical terms.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350072362

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9781350072367

Re-inventing Japan

Nation, Culture, Identity

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Re-inventing Japan

Nation, Culture, Identity

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan.

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Routledge

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1317461142

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9781317461142

Clans and Religion in Ancient Japan

The mythology of Mt. Miwa

By: Masanobu Suzuki

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Clans and Religion in Ancient Japan

The mythology of Mt. Miwa

By: Masanobu Suzuki

Clans and Religion in Ancient Japan presents the latest research on the origin of Japanese religion and the clans in charge of religious services in ancient Japan. This book is written from a new analytical perspective and it utilizes not only well-known historical manuscripts which previous research relies upon, but also mythology, archaeological antiquities, pictorial materials and genealogies. The book hopes to differentiate between the religious systems of Japan and those of other Asian countries, and also between eastern and western cultures. Although different and unique, the book aims to show how Japan plays a part in the global environment and captures attention by answering questions from a historical perspective such as "What is Japan?" and "How should Japan relate to the world?".

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1317209354

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9781317209355

Competition Law Reform in Britain and Japan

Comparative Analysis of Policy Network

By: Kenji Suzuki

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Competition Law Reform in Britain and Japan

Comparative Analysis of Policy Network

By: Kenji Suzuki

As market competition replaces state regulation in many economic fields, competition policy has become an area of increasing significance. Against this background, Suzuki highlights the importance of the domestic political structure for competition policy. He does this through the comparative analysis of competition law reforms in Britain and Japan. He argues - controversially - that a country's domestic political structure should be considered a major factor in causing the reform of competition law, and rejects the established view that it is necessarily a result of changes in international economic and political conditions.

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1134520697

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9781134520695

A New Era of Nuclear Structure Physics

Proceedings of the International Symposium, Kurokawa Village, Niigata, Japan, 19-22 November, 2003

By: Yasuyuki Suzuki

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A New Era of Nuclear Structure Physics

Proceedings of the International Symposium, Kurokawa Village, Niigata, Japan, 19-22 November, 2003

By: Yasuyuki Suzuki

This book is a collection of invited talks, oral contributions and poster contributions devoted to advances in nuclear physics. It covers a broad range of topics on nuclear physics, including nuclear force, hypernuclei, nuclear structure, exotic nuclei, clustering, mean-field method, shell structure, nuclear deformation, unstable nuclei, and related topics. The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: . OCo Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings- (ISTP- / ISI Proceedings). OCo Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings). OCo CC Proceedings OCo Engineering & Physical Sciences.

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World Scientific

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9812702407

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9789812702401

Japan's Financial Slump

Collapse of the Monitoring System under Institutional and Transition Failures

By: Yasushi Suzuki

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Japan's Financial Slump

Collapse of the Monitoring System under Institutional and Transition Failures

By: Yasushi Suzuki

This book evaluates the salient features of Japanese relation-based banking, particularly in the post war period, and Anglo-American mode of banking to explain the nature and extent of transition failure that caused prolonged financial and economic slump in Japan.

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Springer

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0230307701

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9780230307704

Eastern Asian Population History and Contemporary Population Issues

By: Toru Suzuki

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Eastern Asian Population History and Contemporary Population Issues

By: Toru Suzuki

This book interprets and explains contemporary population issues from historical and cultural perspectives. These include lowest-low fertility in the Republic of Korea and Taiwan, early population aging in China relative to the developmental level, and various modes of domestic and international migration in the region. The book shows that divergent fertility decline can be attributed to the family patterns established in the pre-modern era in each country. It also examines the diversity of international migration in Eastern Asian countries today is also understood from the long-term historical view.

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9811332304

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9789811332302

Japan's Living Politics

Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Japan's Living Politics

Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democracy. This crisis of democracy has stimulated searches for alternative ways of understanding and enacting politics. Against this background, Tessa Morris-Suzuki explores the long history of informal everyday political action in the Japanese context. Despite its seemingly inflexible and monolithic formal political system, Japan has been the site of many fascinating small-scale experiments in 'informal life politics': grassroots do-it-yourself actions which seek not to lobby governments for change, but to change reality directly, from the bottom up. She explores this neglected history by examining an interlinked series of informal life politics experiments extending from the 1910s to the present day.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108804993

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9781108804998

The Technological Transformation of Japan

From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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The Technological Transformation of Japan

From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

This landmark book is the first general English-language history of technology in modern Japan.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521424925

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9780521424929

Globalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan

By: Motoshi Suzuki

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Globalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan

By: Motoshi Suzuki

Globalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan illuminates Japan’s contemporary and historical struggle to adjust policy and the institutional architecture of government to an evolving global order. This focused and scholarly study identifies that key to this difficulty is a structural tendency towards central political command, which reduces the country’s capacity to follow a more subtle allocation of authority that ensures political leadership remains robust and non-dictatorial. Thus, Motoshi Suzuki argues that it is essential for a globalizing state to incorporate opposition parties and transgovernmental networks into policy-making processes. Providing an in-depth analysis of the theories of institutional change, this book introduces readers to a wealth of perspectives and counterarguments concerning analysis of political decision-making and policy adjustment on both the national and international scale. Placing Japanese policy reform in the global context and relating policy reform to leadership’s political strategies, the author gives a detailed chronological and analytical overview of Japan’s challenging institutional, political and bureaucratic transformations since the Meiji Restoration of the late nineteenth century. Analysis of globalization and policy reform in a non-liberal state, and the relationship between politicians and bureaucrats from an international perspective is included. For those interested in historical and contemporary Japanese politics from a theoretical perspective, particularly the implications of globalization and the politician–bureaucrat relationship, this is an indispensable resource.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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178254478X

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9781782544784

Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume I

Zen

By: Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki

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Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume I

Zen

By: Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside of Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki gathers the full range of Suzuki’s writings—both classic essays and lesser-known but equally significant articles. This first volume in the series presents a collection of Suzuki’s writings on Zen Buddhist thought and practice. In an effort to ensure the continued relevance of Zen, Suzuki drew on his years of study and practice, placing the tradition into conversation with key trends in nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought. Richard M. Jaffe’s in-depth introduction situates Suzuki’s approach to Zen in the context of modern developments in religious thought, practice, and scholarship. The romanization of Buddhist names and technical terms has been updated, and Chinese and Japanese characters, which were removed from many post–World War II editions of Suzuki’s work, have been reinstated. This will be a valuable edition of Suzuki’s writings for contemporary scholars and students of Buddhism.

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Univ of California Press

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0520959612

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9780520959613

Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire

The Global Evolution of the Japanese Red Cross Movement, 1877–1945

By: Michiko Suzuki

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Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire

The Global Evolution of the Japanese Red Cross Movement, 1877–1945

By: Michiko Suzuki

This book examines the history of the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) and through it offers a new account of the humanitarian movement in modern Japan. Michiko Suzuki argues that contrary to its typical portrayal, the JRCS was not wholly subordinate to the government and the Imperial Family, nor was it derivative of Western values and institutional models. Instead, the JRCS operated within a transnational discourse, both contributing to and borrowing from peacetime and wartime international humanitarianism. Grounded in extensive research in the JRCS archives and archives outside Japan, this book explores the melding of Western and Japanese humanitarian traditions and organizational forms. Suzuki examines the role of grassroots efforts in the steady growth of the JRCS, showing how the society became Japan’s largest international organization by the First World War, as well as its pioneering role in Red Cross disaster relief. She traces the inclusion of non-Western national societies in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the evolution of the JRCS from a national into a transnational organization with branches in Japan’s overseas empire as well as in the Asia Pacific and the Americas. A comprehensive chronicle of the JRCS, Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire provides a fresh vantage point on major historical questions relating to Japanese modernization and internationalism before the Second World War.

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Columbia University Press

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0231559011

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9780231559010

Operator Theory and Numerical Methods

By: H. Fujita,N. Saito,T. Suzuki

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Operator Theory and Numerical Methods

By: H. Fujita,N. Saito,T. Suzuki

In accordance with the developments in computation, theoretical studies on numerical schemes are now fruitful and highly needed. In 1991 an article on the finite element method applied to evolutionary problems was published. Following the method, basically this book studies various schemes from operator theoretical points of view. Many parts are devoted to the finite element method, but other schemes and problems (charge simulation method, domain decomposition method, nonlinear problems, and so forth) are also discussed, motivated by the observation that practically useful schemes have fine mathematical structures and the converses are also true.

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Elsevier

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0080538029

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9780080538020

The Kingdom of Pigs

By: Shinji Suzuki

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The Kingdom of Pigs

By: Shinji Suzuki

This is a parody of society in one Asian nation. I got the idea of "the nation of pigs" from the prediction of one writer. I think what he predicted more than 50 years ago is becoming a reality. Most people in the country have lost their own pride and discretion but they don't realize it. Even though it is affluent materially, they have lost important things and it makes society in it distorted. Because of this, I predict the collapse of the nation in the near future. As a man who lives there, I want to record what is going on in it as a novel. This version is the earlier part of the novel and if some people buy it, I will write a latter part.

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The Fourth International Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations and Their Origin

Kanazawa, Japan, 10-14 February 2003

By: Y. Suzuki,Y. Itow,M. Nakahata,Y. Obayashi,M. Shiozawa

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The Fourth International Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations and Their Origin

Kanazawa, Japan, 10-14 February 2003

By: Y. Suzuki,Y. Itow,M. Nakahata,Y. Obayashi,M. Shiozawa

Annotation. Contents: Status and Future Prospects of Reactor Neutrinos, Solar Neutrinos, and Supernova Neutrinos; Status and Future Prospects of Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments, Atmospheric Neutrinos; Dark Matter Searches and Double Beta Decays; Lepton Number Violated Muon Decays; Proton Decay Searches; Neutrino Phenomenology and Model Building.

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World Scientific

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9812703101

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Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800

The Dutch East India Company and Beyond

By: Yasuko Suzuki

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Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800

The Dutch East India Company and Beyond

By: Yasuko Suzuki

In the early modern period, relations between the Netherlands and Japan were founded on trade. The Dutch United East India Company operated in Japan for over 100 years, from 1609 to the early 18th century. The Dutch-Japanese relationship - built sometimes on understanding and at other times on resentment - is recorded in great detail in the trade-related archives of the period. This book closely examines these documents to reveal the changing market conditions of the main commodities exported by the Dutch from Japan at the time: silver, koban (gold), copper, and camphor. This analysis of both Dutch and Japanese perspectives on the trade market forms an intricate picture of the cultural, political, and economic context of trade between the Netherlands and Japan in the early modern period. *** "...many useful tables and charts in this book, which economic historians of Japan and Asian trade networks will be able to use in the future." - Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 39:2, 2013

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1920901515

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Tactile Score

A Knowledge Media for Tactile Sense

By: Yasuhiro Suzuki,Rieko Suzuki

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Tactile Score

A Knowledge Media for Tactile Sense

By: Yasuhiro Suzuki,Rieko Suzuki

This book deals with one of the most novel advances in natural computing, namely, in the field of tactile sense analysis. Massage, which provides relaxation and stimulation for human beings, is analyzed in this book for the first time by encoding the motions and tactile senses involved. The target audience is not limited to researchers who are interested in natural computing but also includes those working in ergonomic design, biomedical engineering, Kansei engineering, and cognitive science.

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Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan

The Archaeology of Things in the Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Periods

By: Hiroyuki Suzuki

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Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan

The Archaeology of Things in the Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Periods

By: Hiroyuki Suzuki

This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan’s rapid modernization. Originally published in Japanese, Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan looks at the approach toward object-based research across the late Tokugawa and early Meiji periods, which were typically kept separate, and elucidates the intellectual continuities between these eras. Focusing on the top-down effects of the professionalizing of academia in the political landscape of Meiji Japan, which had advanced by attacking earlier modes of scholarship by antiquarians, Suzuki shows how those outside the government responded, retracted, or challenged new public rules and values. He explores the changing process of evaluating objects from the past in tandem with the attitudes and practices of antiquarians during the period of Japan’s rapid modernization. He shows their roots in the intellectual sphere of the late Tokugawa period while also detailing how they adapted to the new era. Suzuki also demonstrates that Japan’s antiquarians had much in common with those from Europe and the United States. Art historian Maki Fukuoka provides an introduction to the English translation that highlights the significance of Suzuki’s methodological and intellectual analyses and shows how his ideas will appeal to specialists and nonspecialists alike.

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1606067435

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History of Japanese Economic Thought

By: Tessa Morris Suzuki

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History of Japanese Economic Thought

By: Tessa Morris Suzuki

Economics, in the modern sense of the word, was introduced into Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, Japanese thinkers had already developed, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a variety of interesting approaches to issues such as the causes of inflation, the value of trade, and the role of the state in economic activity. Tessa Morris-Suzuki provides the first comprehensive English language survey of the development of economic thought in Japan. She considers how the study of neo-classical and Keynesian economics was given new impetus by Japan's 'economic miracle' while Marxist thought, particularly well established in Japan, was developing along lines that are only now beginning to be recognized by the West. She concludes with an examination of the radical rethinking of fundamental economic theory currently occuring in Japan and outlines some of the exciting new approaches which are emerging from this 'shaking of the foundations.

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Routledge

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100015405X

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Reforming Lesson Study in Japan

Theories of Action for Schools as Learning Communities

By: Yuta Suzuki

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Reforming Lesson Study in Japan

Theories of Action for Schools as Learning Communities

By: Yuta Suzuki

This book elucidates the formation and development of theories of action in school reforms for Schools as Learning Communities (SLC) during ten years from its inception in 1998 in select Japanese elementary schools, junior high schools, and one secondary school. While growing international interest in Japanese lesson study is in pursuit of a standard lesson study, Suzuki offers a unique perspective into school reforms for SLC and how they resisted the standardization of lesson study out of concerns that it would limit a teacher’s autonomous judgment and choice. Through a theory-of-action approach in its examination of the pilot schools for SLC, this book clarifies: • Why did teachers reform lesson study? • What were the difficulties in reforming lesson study? • Why were teachers working on school reform for SLC? • Why did the school reform for SLC evolve from an elementary school to the junior high schools and high schools? This book provides a theoretical foundation for reviewing the past efforts and histories of Japanese lesson study reforms, and will interest academics and practitioners looking for insights into the future of lesson study.

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1000530477

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On the Frontiers of History

Rethinking East Asian Borders

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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On the Frontiers of History

Rethinking East Asian Borders

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places on the borderlands of East Asia and looking outwards from the small towards the large, asking what these ‘minor pasts’ tell us about the grand narratives of history. In the process, it takes the reader on a journey from Renaissance European visions of ‘Tartary’, through nineteenth-century racial theorising, imperial cartography and indigenous experiences of modernity, to contemporary debates about Big History in an age of environmental crisis.

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1760463701

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Getting to the Core of Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Strategy and Best Practices for the Corporate DE&I across Cultures

By: Tatsuya Suzuki

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Getting to the Core of Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Strategy and Best Practices for the Corporate DE&I across Cultures

By: Tatsuya Suzuki

When you hear “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion(DE&I),” what images occur in your mind? I guess that you imagined the charisma of a CEO’s public commitment like saying, “I commit to increasing female manager mix to 50% by 2025!”. Many companies set female employee mix (%) as the goal of their diversity improvement plan, but as far as my research, those companies that only focus on increasing female employee percentage don’t create a positive DE&I image, or some of them received a negative feedback from field employees regardless they achieved their target. This book provides the best practices to make the DE&I initiative succeed. I am going to introduce a perception-based research method, which minimizes the bias of the survey respondents. I conducted the survey among Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and people in Oceania. The research result will provide you with new insights.

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Partridge Publishing Singapore

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1543781888

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Narrating the Self

Fictions of Japanese Modernity

By: Tomi Suzuki

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Narrating the Self

Fictions of Japanese Modernity

By: Tomi Suzuki

Narrating the Self examines the historical formation of modern Japanese literature through a fundamental reassessment of its most characteristic form, the 'I-novel, ' an autobiographical narrative thought to recount the details of the writer's personal life thinly veiled as fiction. Closely analysing a range of texts from the late nineteenth century through to the present day, the author argues that the 'I-novel' is not a given form of text that can be objectively identified, but a historically constructed reading mode and cultural paradigm that not only regulated the production and reception of literary texts but also defined cultural identity and national tradition. Instead of emphasising, as others have, the thematic and formal elements of novels traditionally placed in this category, she explores the historical formation of a field of discourse in which the 'I-novel' was retroactively created and defined.

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Stanford University Press

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0804731624

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Microbial Diversity in Asia

Technology and Prospects

By: Been Hen Nga,Hai-Meng Tan,Ken-ichiro Suzuki

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Microbial Diversity in Asia

Technology and Prospects

By: Been Hen Nga,Hai-Meng Tan,Ken-ichiro Suzuki

This work presents results from five years of research on microbial species in exotic and pristine locations in Asian countries, by contributors in food science, microbiology, and agricultural and environmental sciences in the UK, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Korea, and Philippines. Some microorganisms are described here for the first time. Specific topics include lactic acid bacteria in fermented foods in Southeast Asia, culture collection networks in Asia, high actinomycete diversity in the topical rainforests of Singapore, and engineering biphenyl dioxygenases to acquire wide degradation capabilities of polychlorinated biphenyls and aromatic hydrocarbons. The editor is affiliated with the Department of Microbiology at the National University of Singapore. c. Book News Inc.

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World Scientific

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9810243081

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Social Attitudes in Japan

Trends and Cross-National Perspectives

By: Masamichi Sasaki,Tatsuzo Suzuki

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Social Attitudes in Japan

Trends and Cross-National Perspectives

By: Masamichi Sasaki,Tatsuzo Suzuki

Why is it important to study general social attitudes? To compare social attitudes across nations? To conduct such research longitudinally? The answers reveal the significance of such social research under unprecedented globalization, which creates imperatives for mutual international understanding. Though principally focused on Japanese social attitudes, these attitudes must be compared across nations and time, one means being cross-national attitude surveys, encompassing special methodologies and data analytic techniques. In 1953, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics began nationwide, longitudinal surveys of the Japanese way of thinking. All of the work described in this book stems from this research. This book is intended as a learning tool for those engaged in or contemplating social scientific research. At both national and international levels, survey and analytic methodologies are explored, explicated and applied to real world data. This publication has also been published in hardback (no longer available ISBN 90 04 11853 5).

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BRILL

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9004476105

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9789004476103

Clans and Genealogy in Ancient Japan

Legends of Ancestor Worship

By: Masanobu Suzuki

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Clans and Genealogy in Ancient Japan

Legends of Ancestor Worship

By: Masanobu Suzuki

In recent years, there has been a noticeable and enthusiastic increase of interest in Buddhist temples and Shintō shrines in Japan. The legends of these temples and shrines are recorded in many historical manuscripts and these genealogies have such great significance that some of them have been registered as national treasures of Japan. They are indispensable to elucidate the history of these temples and shrines, in addition to the formation process of the ancient Japanese nation. This book provides a comprehensive examination of the genealogies and legends of ancient Japanese clans. It advances the study of ancient Japanese history by utilizing new analytical perspective from not only the well-known historical manuscripts relied upon by previous researchers, but also valuable genealogies and legends that previous researchers largely neglected.

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Routledge

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1351983318

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Medicine Master Buddha: The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan

By: Yui Suzuki

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Medicine Master Buddha: The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan

By: Yui Suzuki

Through analysis of sculptural representations of the Medicine Buddha (J: Yakushi Nyorai), this book offers a fresh perspective on the seminal role played by Saich? and the Tendai school in disseminating this devotional cult throughout Japan during the Heian period.

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9004196013

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9789004196018

Exodus to North Korea

Shadows from Japan's Cold War

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Exodus to North Korea

Shadows from Japan's Cold War

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Ranging from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the "return" of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. Presented to the world as a humanitarian venture and conducted under the supervision of the International Red Cross, the scheme was actually the result of political intrigues involving the governments of Japan, North Korea, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The great majority of the Koreans who journeyed to North Korea in fact originated from the southern part of the Korean peninsula, and many had lived all their lives in Japan. Though most left willingly, persuaded by propaganda that a bright new life awaited them in North Korea, the author draws on recently declassified documents to reveal the covert pressures used to hasten the departure of this unwelcome ethnic minority. For most, their new home proved a place of poverty and hardship; for thousands, it was a place of persecution and death. In rediscovering their extraordinary personal stories, this book also casts new light on the politics of the Cold War and on present-day tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world.

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0742554422

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9780742554429

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