Yoshimi questioned the very nature of thought, arguing that thinking is less a subjective act than an opening to alterity. His works were central in drawing Japanese attention to the problems inherent in Western colonialism & to the cultural importance of Asia.
Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1941Ð1945)Ñthe most important though least understood experience of JapanÕs modern historyÑthrough the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deftly from the struggles of the home front to the occupied territories to the ravages of the front line, the book offers rare insight into popular experience from the warÕs troubled beginnings through JapanÕs disastrous defeat in 1945 and the new beginning it heralded. Yoshimi Yoshiaki mobilizes personal diaries, memoirs, and government documents to portray the ambivalent position of ordinary Japanese as both wartime victims and active participants. He also provides equally penetrating accounts of the war experience of JapanÕs imperial subjects, including Koreans and Taiwanese. This book challenges the idea that the Japanese operated as a passive, homogenous mass during the warÑa mere conduit for a militaryÐimperial ideology imposed upon them by the political elite. Viewed from the bottom up, wartime Japan unfolds as a complex modern mass society, with a corresponding variety of popular roles and agendas. In chronicling the diversity of the Japanese social experience, YoshimiÕs account elevates our understanding of JapanÕs war and ÒJapanese Fascism,Ó and in its relation of World War II to the evolutionÑand destructionÑof empire, it makes a fresh contribution to the global history of the war. Ethan MarkÕs translation supplements the Japanese original with explanatory annotations and an in-depth analytical introduction, drawing on personal interviews to situate the work within Japanese studies and global history.
Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese government's responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale imprisonment and rape of thousands of women, who were euphemistically called "comfort women" by the Japanese military, first seized public attention in 1991 when three Korean women filed suit in a Toyko District Court stating that they had been forced into sexual servitude and demanding compensation. Since then the comfort stations and their significance have been the subject of ongoing debate and intense activism in Japan, much if it inspired by Yoshimi's investigations. How large a role did the military, and by extension the government, play in setting up and administering these camps? What type of compensation, if any, are the victimized women due? These issues figure prominently in the current Japanese focus on public memory and arguments about the teaching and writing of history and are central to efforts to transform Japanese ways of remembering the war. Yoshimi Yoshiaki provides a wealth of documentation and testimony to prove the existence of some 2,000 centers where as many as 200,000 Korean, Filipina, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Burmese, Dutch, Australian, and some Japanese women were restrained for months and forced to engage in sexual activity with Japanese military personnel. Many of the women were teenagers, some as young as fourteen. To date, the Japanese government has neither admitted responsibility for creating the comfort station system nor given compensation directly to former comfort women. This English edition updates the Japanese edition originally published in 1995 and includes introductions by both the author and the translator placing the story in context for American readers.
Kuroda uses quantitative measures to investigate the rice production structure and effects of agricultural policies in Japan over the second half of the 20th century. Almost all policies have played negative roles in transferring paddy lands from small- to large-scale farms, which has slowed down to modernize the rice sector.
This book presents the experience of coastal and port engineering development, as well as coastal environmental problems, in Asian and Pacific countries. It also provides information and promotes technological progress and activities, international technical transfer and cooperation, and opportunities for engineers and researchers to maintain and improve scientific and technical competence. The subject areas are not limited to the classical topics of coastal engineering but are extended to related fields, including environments, marine ecology, coastal oceanography, fishery, etc.
This book integrates the fundamentals of quantitative significance, using existing estimates of the elasticities of demand for tax, health insurance, and medical services in a static microsimulation model. It serves as a guide to the financial and social basics of health insurance and provides the reader with the intellectual groundwork indispensable for understanding the incorrect assumptions about the elasticities of demand and pattern of tax and health insurance. Most countries feel constant pressure because expenditure is increasing and resources are scarce. The topics addressed in this book including several frameworks leading to over-insurance, excess demand for medical care, and rapid expenditure growth in the medical care sector. Illustrated by carefully chosen examples and supported by extensive data analyses, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date integrated overview of the ever-expanding theoretical and quantitative fields of containing costs, increasing funding for health services, or both.
Analyses quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of post-war Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the twentieth century, more specifically, 1957-97.
This book delves into how Japanese schools evaluate and enhance education quality through lesson study, curriculum management, and school self-evaluation. It explores the concept of “understanding by design” in the context of the historical background and the challenges of the present, providing practical methods of educational evaluation for the future. Through in-depth case studies of two primary schools, readers gain a comprehensive understanding of educational evaluation and improvement. The book proposes a new theoretical framework for a comprehensive quality care process that links lesson study, curriculum management, and school evaluation. Based on authentic assessment, the strategies and examples presented can be applied to any quality system. The conclusion offers core ideas for successful implementation of educational evaluation and improvement. This book is essential reading for teachers and school leaders seeking to build their schools’ quality systems, and for researchers and graduate students interested in improving educational evaluation.
Analyzes quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of postwar Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the 20th century, more specifically, 1957-97.
I can't get distracted by him. I'm here for a reason! Samantha, a model living in New York, needs important information about her grandfather. In order to get it, she must get close to Cal Lorrimore, an English nobleman, and be invited into the old castle where he lives. She devises a plan and successfully gets into Lorrimore Castle, but she’s surprised to see that Cal is very different than she’d expected. Samantha's exploration of the castle begins as she suppresses the urge to fall under the spell of his suspicious gray eyes!
Publisher description: Yoshimi "Shimi" Shibata grew up with a kendo sword in one hand and flowers in the other. Born to Japanese immigrants in Oakland, California, Shimi spent his childhood in Mt. Eden, an agricultural community on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. There, amidst his family's greenhouses, Shimi overcame a serious illness to learn kendo, Japanese sword fighting, from master teachers from Japan. While being exposed to Japanese culture and the Japanese American community, Shimi, as the eldest surviving son, was also being groomed to become a flower grower and take over the family business. Attending Ohio State University, the premiere floriculture school in the country, and traveling throughout North America to see the best in flower growing at the time, Shimi began to cultivate dreams for Mt. Eden Nursery. However, World War II intervened and the Shibata family was forcibly removed to Tule Lake War Relocation Center in Northern California near the Oregon border. Now the lessons Shimi learned from his early years had to sustain him through battling factions within the detention center. And finally released, Shimi had to make his way home and help rebuild the family business into a large diversified enterprise that his late father would have never imagined. Struggling to hold on to and release different aspects of his cultural upbringing, Shimi discovered that he would have to create success in his own unique way-- the Nisei way, the Shimi Shibata way...
Gina is a club singer who has come to the mansion of the influential King family to audition as a wedding singer. Even though she suffers from severe stage fright, the Kings’ grandson, Alex, encourages her and helps bring out her true singing potential. Even though they come from different worlds, Gina can’t help but fall for his ocean-blue eyes and the way his kindness soothes her heart… The only problem is, he’s already dating an extremely beautiful woman!
An introduction to dynamical systems theory, a detailed mathematical analysis of pairs of Braitenberg vehicles, and a look at how these results apply to the study of physical and biological organisms. Powering the concept of a Braitenberg vehicle, developed in 1984 by the Italian-Austrian cyberneticist Valentino Braitenberg, is the idea that simple systems can produce complex behaviors. A pair of interacting Braitenberg vehicles is simple, but they can meander, wind around, and follow each another in a number of ways. In this book, Scott Hotton and Jeff Yoshimi show how dynamical systems theory—in particular the theory of open dynamic systems—can be used to analyze pairs of these vehicles in great detail. The result of the authors’ long-standing collaboration at the intersection of mathematics, philosophy, cognitive science, and biology, The Open Dynamics of Braitenberg Vehicles offers a rigorous mathematical foundation for embodied cognition, especially when it comes to two-way interactions between an agent and its environment. Following an introduction to dynamical systems theory, and the most detailed mathematical analysis of Braitenberg vehicles to date, Hotton and Yoshimi discuss how their results can be applied to the study of physical and biological systems. They also describe their work's relevance to debates in the philosophy of embodied cognitive science. Combining the best features of embodied and representational approaches to cognitive science, complete with code and simulations, The Open Dynamics of Braitenberg Vehicles provides an extremely accessible and visually rich look into the workings and applications of open dynamical systems.
Historian Nicole accepts the job to write a book on the history of the colorful King family. At the behest of her client, Isabella King, Nicole heads over to the family’s fruit orchard. However, what awaits her there is a terrifyingly charming man named Matt King. He immediately assumes that she’s been sent by his grandmother to be his potential bride. His eyes are full of suspicion as he tells Nicole that he won’t be playing along!
Historian Nicole accepts the job to write a book on the history of the colorful King family. At the behest of her client, Isabella King, Nicole heads over to the family’s fruit orchard. However, what awaits her there is a terrifyingly charming man named Matt King. He immediately assumes that she’s been sent by his grandmother to be his potential bride. His eyes are full of suspicion as he tells Nicole that he won’t be playing along!
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