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The Evolutionary Game of Mind and Society

By: Toshio Yamagishi

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The Evolutionary Game of Mind and Society

By: Toshio Yamagishi

This book is written around the central message that collectivist societies produce security, but destroy trust. In collectivist societies, people are connected through networks of strong personal ties where the behavior of all agents is constantly monitored and controlled. As a result, individuals in collectivist networks are assured that others will abide by social norms, and gain a sense of security erroneously thought of as “trust.” However, this book argues that this security is not truly trust, based on beliefs regarding the integrity of others, but assurance, based on the system of mutual control within the network. In collectivist societies, security is assured insofar as people stay within the network, but people do not trust in the benevolence of human nature. On the one hand, transaction costs are reduced within collectivist networks, as once accepted into a network the risk of being maltreated is minimized. However, joining the network requires individuals to pay opportunity cost, that is, they pay a cost by forgoing potentially superior opportunities outside the security of the network. In this era of globalization, people from traditionally collectivistic societies face the challenge of learning how to free themselves from the security of such collectivistic networks in order to explore the opportunities open to them elsewhere. This book presents research investigating how the minds of individuals are shaped by the conflict between maintaining security inside closed networks of strong ties, and venturing outside of the network to seek out new opportunities.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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4431539360

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9784431539360

Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society

The Japanese Experience

By: Toshio Yamada

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Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society

The Japanese Experience

By: Toshio Yamada

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society proposed unique thinking about “freedom and equality” and “human rights” in the postwar era but could not help to come up with effective concepts for an economic analysis of that capitalism of the period. On the other hand, the régulation theory born in the 1970s is well known by its definition of postwar capitalism as Fordism, based on the elaboration of a new conceptual framework, but it soon proved unable to directly explain Japan’s experience by that central concept of Fordism. Inspired by consideration of Japanese civil society and also by the regulationist framework, the author has forged new analytical concepts such as “companyism” to understand Japanese capitalism including the recent “lost decades”, and he elaborates more carefully the concepts of “growth regime” and “institutional change” to grasp the dynamics of the world economy including today’s neoliberal trend. The original benefits of the book consist in 1) reviving a Japanese theory of civil society in the postwar period, 2) applying the régulation theory to the analysis of contemporary Japan, and 3) offering theoretical reflections on the conception of the world economy. Consequently, the author pays special attention to the relationship between the political and the economic as well as regulationist tools and the theory of civil society’s perspective. The principal message of the book is that capitalism or the market economy must be supported by a sound civil society.

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234

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Springer

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981130517X

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9789811305177

Microlithography Fundamentals in Semiconductor Devices and Fabrication Technology

By: Saburo Nonogaki,Ueno Takumi,Toshio Ito

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Microlithography Fundamentals in Semiconductor Devices and Fabrication Technology

By: Saburo Nonogaki,Ueno Takumi,Toshio Ito

Explores the science and technology of lithographic processes and resist materials and summarizes the most recent innovations in semiconductor manufacturing. Considers future trends in lithography and resist material technology. Reviews the interaction of light, electron beams, and X-rays with resist materials.

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336

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CRC Press

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1482273764

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9781482273762

Small Cetaceans of Japan

Exploitation and Biology

By: Toshio Kasuya

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Small Cetaceans of Japan

Exploitation and Biology

By: Toshio Kasuya

This book summarizes and analyzes the biology, ecology, exploitation and management of small cetaceans in Japan. It describes the various types of cetacean fisheries in Japan and their historical development, the life histories and ecologies of the main species involved, and the history and problems of conservation and management. The data show that in some cases the number of small cetaceans harvested exceed sustainable limits and have led to depletion of populations. The book provides a case study of what can go wrong when the needs of industry and conservation collide. The descriptions of life history and ecology are relevant to issues of conservation and management, not just for cetaceans, but for all fisheries around the world.

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510

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CRC Press

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131539541X

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9781315395418

The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan

By: Toshio Watanabe

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The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan

By: Toshio Watanabe

The Meji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan describes the story of Japan's involvement and administration of Taiwan in the pre-war era, with a focus on the period from 1895, when Taiwan was made a part of the Japanese Empire, to 1945, when the Pacific War ended. It introduces the policies pursued and equally important, the personalities, philosophies, and ambitions of the administrators, engineers, and technicians behind those policies. In particular, the unique thinking, leadership styles, and contributions of Kodama Gentaro, Goto Shinpei, Hatta Yoichi, Iso Eikichi, and Sugiyama Tatsumaru, among others who contributed to the development of modern Taiwan, are introduced in great detail. Their accomplishments remain with Taiwan today, which helps explain the extremely close relationship between Taiwan (officially known as the Republic of China) and Japan maintain today.

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185

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666908541

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9781666908541

Feudal Control in Tokugawa Japan

The Sankin Kōtai System

By: Toshio G. Tsukahira

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Feudal Control in Tokugawa Japan

The Sankin Kōtai System

By: Toshio G. Tsukahira

The author describes the Sankin Kōtai System,a policy institututed by the Tokugawa shoguns requiring alternate year residency of daimyōs in Edo. It's aim was to exert control on the feudal lords.

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240

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BRILL

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1684171512

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9781684171514

Yokohama, California

By: Toshio Mori

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Yokohama, California

By: Toshio Mori

Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s. Replaces ISBN 9780295961675

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177

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University of Washington Press

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0295806427

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9780295806426

Heian Temples

Byodo-in and Chuson-ji

By: Toshio Fukuyama

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Heian Temples

Byodo-in and Chuson-ji

By: Toshio Fukuyama

The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, V.

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180

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Weatherhill, Incorporated

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0834810239

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9780834810235

Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of the Brain

By: Toshio Moritani,Sven Ekholm,Per-Lennart A. Westesson

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Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of the Brain

By: Toshio Moritani,Sven Ekholm,Per-Lennart A. Westesson

Few advances in MR imaging have had the impact degenerative neurologic disorders, white matter d- that dif usion-weighted (DW) imaging has had in the eases, toxic/metabolic disorders, and tumors. As one evaluation of brain. From the time of the early de- can easily see from the table of contents, the authors scriptions by LeBihan and colleagues of the ability have systematically covered all major areas of neu- to image and measure the micromovement of water radiology. T is will allow cross-referencing to pr- molecules in the brain to the present time, dif usion lematic cases which one may encounter. Additionally, imaging and its derivatives have made an impact in knowledge of what represents a normal adult brain the evaluation of multiple disease processes, primar- and a normal developing brain along with an exp- ily in ischemia, but also in other conditions of the nation of artifacts seen in DW imaging makes this a brain. In most medical centers dif usion imaging is valuable book. It is noteworthy that the authors have no longer considered a sequence to be used in spe- chosen to abundantly illustrate the clinical material, cial circumstances, but rather it is employed as part drawing on pathologic correlations in a number of of routine MR imaging of the brain. Because the in- areas.

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411

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540787852

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9783540787853

Civil Society and Social Science in Yoshihiko Uchida

By: Toshio Yamada

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Civil Society and Social Science in Yoshihiko Uchida

By: Toshio Yamada

This book introduces the work of Yoshihiko Uchida (1913–1989), one of the most prominent Japanese thinkers on the topic of civil society in the post-World War II era. The distinctive features of Uchida’s approach to civil society are his view of the metabolic relationship between human beings and nature and his call for a social science rooted in the experiences and inquiries of ordinary citizens. This original approach did not develop in a straight line from Uchida’s early work to his mature period, and this book follows the twists and turns in its formation through his reflections on the relationships between “the civil” and “the capitalistic,” “the modern” and “the pre-modern,” “the historical” and “the trans-historical,” and “science by specialists” and “inquiry by laypeople.” As a historian of economic thought, Uchida pursued these topical themes by examining figures such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Hajime Kawakami, a prominent thinker in Japan. By casting a light on these inquiries, this book offers the first depiction of Uchida’s body of work as a whole and in doing so illuminates the emergence of original democratic thought in post-war Japan.

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Springer Nature

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981191138X

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9789811911385

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Trust

Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society

Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society

Microlithography Fundamentals in Semiconductor Devices and Fabrication Technology

Microlithography Fundamentals in Semiconductor Devices and Fabrication Technology

Small Cetaceans of Japan

Small Cetaceans of Japan

The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan

The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan

Feudal Control in Tokugawa Japan

Feudal Control in Tokugawa Japan

Yokohama, California

Yokohama, California

Heian Temples

Heian Temples

Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of the Brain

Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of the Brain

Civil Society and Social Science in Yoshihiko Uchida

Civil Society and Social Science in Yoshihiko Uchida

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