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Key Concepts in Economic Geography

By: Yuko Aoyama,James T Murphy,Susan Hanson

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Key Concepts in Economic Geography

By: Yuko Aoyama,James T Murphy,Susan Hanson

A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field." - Allen J. Scott, University of California "Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of economic geography... The key concepts used to structure this narrative range from key actors and processes within global economic change to a discussion of newer areas of research including work on financialisation and consumption. The result is a highly readable synthesis of contemporary debates within economic geography that is also sensitive to the history of the sub-discipline." - Sarah Hall, University of Nottingham "The nice thing about this text is that it is concise but with depth in its coverage. A must have for any library, and a useful desk reference for any serious student of economic geography or political economy." - Adam Dixon, Bristol University Organized around 20 short essays, Key Concepts in Economic Geography provides a cutting edge introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in economic geography. Involving detailed and expansive discussions, the book includes: An introductory chapter providing a succinct overview of the recent developments in the field. Over 20 key concept entries with comprehensive explanations, definitions and evolutions of the subject. Extensive pedagogic features that enhance understanding including figures, diagrams and further reading. An ideal companion text for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in economic geography, the book presents the key concepts in the discipline, demonstrating their historical roots and contemporary applications to fully understand the processes of economic change, regional growth and decline, globalization, and the changing locations of firms and industries. Written by an internationally recognized set of authors, the book is an essential addition to any geography student′s library.

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SAGE

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1446248429

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The Rise of the Hybrid Domain

Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation

By: Yuko Aoyama,Balaji Parthasarathy

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The Rise of the Hybrid Domain

Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation

By: Yuko Aoyama,Balaji Parthasarathy

By conceptualizing the rise of the hybrid domain as an emerging institutional form that overlaps public and private interests, this book explores how corporations, states, and civil society organizations develop common agendas, despite the differences in their primary objectives. Using evidence from India, it examines various cases of social innovation in education, energy, health, and finance, which offer solutions for some of the most pressing social challenges of the twenty-first century.

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247

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1785360434

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Japanese Private International Law

By: Kazuaki Nishioka,Yuko Nishitani

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Japanese Private International Law

By: Kazuaki Nishioka,Yuko Nishitani

This is the leading reference on Japanese private international law in English. The chapters systematically cover the whole of Japanese private international law, not just questions likely to arise in commercial matters, but also in family, succession, cross-border insolvency, intellectual property, competition (antitrust), and environmental disputes. The chapters do not merely cover the traditional conflict of law areas of jurisdiction, applicable law (choice of law), and enforcement. The chapters also look into conflict of law questions arising in arbitration and assess Japanese involvement in the global harmonisation of private international law. In addition to summarising relevant principles and scholarly views, the authors discuss case law whenever possible and identify deficiencies and anticipate difficulties in the existing law. The book thus presents the Japanese conflict of laws through a combination of common and civil law analytical techniques and perspectives, providing readers worldwide with a more profound and comprehensive understanding of the subject.

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336

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509924302

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9781509924301

CultureShock! Tokyo

A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

By: Yuko Morimoto-Yoshida

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CultureShock! Tokyo

A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

By: Yuko Morimoto-Yoshida

A survival guide to customs and etiquette.

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330

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Marshall Cavendish

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9814435910

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9789814435918

Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics

By: Yuko Shibata

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Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics

By: Yuko Shibata

National, disciplinary, and linguistic boundaries all play a role in academic study and nowhere is this more apparent than in traditional humanities scholarship surrounding the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. How would our understanding of this seminal event change if we read Japanese and Euro-American texts together and across disciplines? In Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yuko Shibata juxtaposes literary and cinematic texts usually considered separately to highlight the “connected divides” in the production of knowledge on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, shedding new light on both texts and contexts in the process. Shibata takes up two canonical works—American journalist John Hersey’s account, Hiroshima, and French director Alain Resnais’ avant-garde film, Hiroshima Mon Amour—that are traditionally excluded from study in Japanese literature and cinema. By examining Hersey’s Hiroshima in conjunction with The Bells of Nagasaki (Nagai Takashi) and Children of the A-Bomb (Osada Arata), both Japanese bestsellers, Shibata demonstrates how influential Hersey’s Hiroshima has been in forging the normative narrative of the hibakusha experience in Japan. She also compares Hiroshima Mon Amour with Kamei Fumio’s documentary, Still It’s Good to Live, whose footage Resnais borrowed to depict atomic bomb victimhood. Resnais’ avant-garde masterpiece, she contends, is the palimpsest of Kamei’s surrealist documentary; both blur the binaries between realist and avant-garde representations. Reading Hiroshima Mon Amour in its historical context enables Shibata to offer an entirely new analysis of Renais’ work. She also delineates how Japanese films came to produce the martyrdom narrative of the hibakusha in the early postwar period. Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki allows us to trace the complex and entangled political threads that link representations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, reminding us that narratives and images deploy different effects in different places and times. This highly original approach establishes a new kind of transnational and transpacific studies on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and raises the possibility of a comparative area studies to match the age of world literature.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824876253

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9780824876258

The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Japanese Plays

The Bacchae-Holstein Milk Cows; One Night; Isn't Anyone Alive?; The Sun; Carcass

By: Yuko Kuwabara,Takuya Yokoyama,Shiro Maeda,Satoko Ichihara,Tomohiro Maekawa

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The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Japanese Plays

The Bacchae-Holstein Milk Cows; One Night; Isn't Anyone Alive?; The Sun; Carcass

By: Yuko Kuwabara,Takuya Yokoyama,Shiro Maeda,Satoko Ichihara,Tomohiro Maekawa

Published alongside The Japan Foundation, this collection features five creative and bold plays by some of Japan's most prolific writers of contemporary theatre. Translated into English for the first time, these texts explore a wide range of themes from dystopian ideas of the future to touching domestic tragedies. Brought together in one volume, introduced by the authors and The Japan Foundation, this collection offers English language readers an unprecedented look at some of Japan's finest works of contemporary drama by writers from across the country. The plays include: The Bacchae-Holstein Milk Cows by Satoko Ichihara (Translated by Aya Ogawa) This play takes themes of the ancient Greek tragedy Bacchae by Euripides to examine various aspects of contemporary society, from love and sex, man and woman, intermixture of different species, discrimination and abuse, to artificial insemination, criticism of anthropocentricism and more. It was the winner of the 64th Kishida Drama Award. One Night by Yuko Kuwabara (Translated by Mari Boyd) The setting is a small taxi company run out of the home of its owner in a country town. One night the mother, Koharu Inamura, decides to leave the home in order to protect her children from her husband's domestic violence, promising them that she will come back in 15 years. The play depicts the family's reunion after having to live with the burden of that one night's (hitoyo) incident and how they restarted their lives after it. Isn't Anyone Alive? by Shiro Maeda (Translated by Miwa Monden) This laid back, absurdist work examines death through a goofy lens. In the play, strange urban legends abound in a university hospital where young people die one after another, all with mobile phones in their hands. The Sun by Tomohiro Maekawa (Translated by Nozomi Abe) Depicts young people torn apart in a near future setting where humanity has split into two forms: Nox humans who can only go out at night, and Curios, the original type of humans that can live under the sun. Carcass by Takuya Yokoyama (Translated by Mari Boyd) This play takes its name from the Japanese word for dressed carcasses of beef and pork that have been halved along the backbone for meat . It deals with the dignity of being alive as seen through the lives of workers in the meat industry based on interviews and research. It won the Japan Playwrights Association's 15th New Playwright Award in 2009.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350278408

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9781350278400

Office Ladies and Salaried Men

Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies

By: Yuko Ogasawara

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Office Ladies and Salaried Men

Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies

By: Yuko Ogasawara

In large corporations in Japan, much of the clerical work is carried out by young women known as "office ladies" (OLs) or "flowers of the workplace." Largely nameless, OLs serve tea to the men and type and file their reports. They are exempt from the traditional lifetime employment and have few opportunities for promotion. In this engaging ethnography, Yuko Ogasawara exposes the ways that these women resist men's power, and why the men, despite their exclusive command of authority, often subject themselves to the women's control. Ogasawara, a Japanese sociologist trained in the United States, skillfully mines perceptive participant-observation analyses and numerous interviews to outline the tensions and humiliations of OL work. She details the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that OLs who are frustrated by demeaning, dead-end jobs thwart their managers and subvert the power structure to their advantage. Using gossip, outright work refusal, and public gift-giving as manipulative strategies, they can ultimately make or break the careers of the men. This intimate and absorbing analysis illustrates how the relationships between women and work, and women and men, are far more complex than the previous literature has shown.

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Univ of California Press

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0520919750

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9780520919754

Tokyo at Your Door

By: Yuko Morimoto-Yoshida

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Tokyo at Your Door

By: Yuko Morimoto-Yoshida

- Spending extended time in a city - How to lease or rent apartments - Local food names and where to buy it - How to set up bank accounts and pay taxes What laws may affect you and your long-term residency - The typical workplace, and the entertainment scene in your new city - (See page 83 for full list of Culture Shock! At Your Door guides)

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West Winds Press

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1558687483

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9781558687486

Cities in the Telecommunications Age

The Fracturing of Geographies

By: James O. Wheeler,Yuko Aoyama,Barney Warf

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Cities in the Telecommunications Age

The Fracturing of Geographies

By: James O. Wheeler,Yuko Aoyama,Barney Warf

Offering insights into the challenges and implications for urban planning in the age of telecommunications, this work assembles recent research on how changes and innovations in the economic system are being fuelled by networks of telecommunicators.

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Psychology Press

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0415924413

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9780415924412

The Rise of the Hybrid Domain

Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation

By: Yuko Aoyama,Balaji Parthasarathy

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Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation

By: Yuko Aoyama,Balaji Parthasarathy

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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Book's by Yuko Aoyama

Key Concepts in Economic Geography

Key Concepts in Economic Geography

The Rise of the Hybrid Domain

The Rise of the Hybrid Domain

Japanese Private International Law

Japanese Private International Law

CultureShock! Tokyo

CultureShock! Tokyo

Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Japanese Plays

The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Japanese Plays

Office Ladies and Salaried Men

Office Ladies and Salaried Men

Tokyo at Your Door

Tokyo at Your Door

Cities in the Telecommunications Age

Cities in the Telecommunications Age

The Rise of the Hybrid Domain

The Rise of the Hybrid Domain

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