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Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887-1920
This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West...
ISBN: 9780295743639
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Bringing Whales Ashore
Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan
Today, Japan defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking tradition—but what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the Tokugawa period...
ISBN: 9780295743295
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Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War
This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the question: If the emperor could not stop Japan from going to war with...
ISBN: 9780295742731
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Constructing Empire
The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45
While diplomats and soldiers carve out empires, civilians play a crucial role in building nation‑states. Constructing Empire shows how planners, architects, and civilians contributed to...
ISBN: 9780774836524
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Onnagata
A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater
Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important...
ISBN: 9780295742755
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Spaces of Possibility
In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan
Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washington’s Simpson Center for the Humanities, engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national...
ISBN: 9780295998428
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Conflicts of Interest
Art and War in Modern Japan
This fascinating publication showcases the Saint Louis Art Museum’s collection of Japanese military prints and related materials—one of the largest collections of such works in the world. The...
ISBN: 9780295999814
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Onnagata
A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater
Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important...
ISBN: 9780295995106
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Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945
The Reception of Western Law
Taiwan’s modern legal system--quite different from those of both traditional China and the People’s Republic--has evolved since the advent of Japanese rule in 1895. Japan has gradually adopted...
ISBN: 9780295994475
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Wrongful Deaths
Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea
This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites,...
ISBN: 9780295993133
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The Anguish of Surrender
Japanese POWs of World War II
On December 6, 1941, Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki was one of a handful of men selected to skipper midget subs on a suicide mission to breach Pearl Harbor’s defenses. When his equipment malfunctioned,...
ISBN: 9780295985084
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Shaping the Lotus Sutra
Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China
The Lotus Sutra has been the most widely read and most revered Buddhist scripture in East Asia since its translation in the third century. The miracles and parables in the "king of sutras" inspired...
ISBN: 9780295986852
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Toxic Archipelago
A History of Industrial Disease in Japan
Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them...
ISBN: 9780295991382
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Koizumi Diplomacy
Japan's Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs
Japan's policymaking strategy in foreign and defense affairs changed dramatically in 2001 after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi took the helm of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Following...
ISBN: 9780295986999
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A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine
What we today call Shinto has been at the heart of Japanese culture for almost as long as there has been a political entity distinguishing itself as Japan. A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine...
ISBN: 9780295975009
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Deco Japan
Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945
Deco Japan introduces Japanese art in the art deco style through nearly two hundred works of metal, ceramics, lacquer, glass, furniture, textiles, painting, prints, and graphic design. While...
ISBN: 9780883971574
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Law in Japan
A Turning Point
This volume explores major developments in Japanese law over the latter half of the twentieth century and looks ahead to the future. Modeled on the classic work Law in Japan: The Legal Order in...
ISBN: 9780295987316
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Painting of the Realm
The Kano House of Painters in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Winner of the John Whitney Hall Book PrizeWinner of the Charles Rufus Morey Book AwardIn this eloquent and far-ranging work, Yukio Lippit explores the seventeenth-century consolidation...
ISBN: 9780295991542
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The Constitutional Case Law of Japan
Selected Supreme Court Decisions, 1961-70
The Constitutional Case Law of Japan, 1970 through 1990, contains translations of 47 Japanese judicial decisions, selected after consultation with leading Japanese constitutional lawyers and...
ISBN: 9780295955711
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Village “Contracts” in Tokugawa Japan
Fifty Specimens with English Translations and Comments
There are assembled here the Japanese (sorobun) originals and English translations of over fifty private agreements, mostly dating from the 19th century and selected from eighteen different villages...
ISBN: 9780295954059
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