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Bringing Whales Ashore
Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan
Japan today 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 (1603–1868), Jakobina Arch shows that the organized, shore-based...
ISBN: 9780295748108
more detailsSeeds of Control
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government...
ISBN: 9780295747453
more detailsYumeji Modern
Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan
The hugely popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884–1934) is an emblematic figure of Japan’s rapidly changing cultural milieu in the early twentieth century. His graphic works include leftist and antiwar illustrations in socialist bulletins, wrenching...
ISBN: 9780295746838
more detailsJapanese 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 at the turn of...
ISBN: 9780295743639
more detailsEmperor 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 the Allied Powers in...
ISBN: 9780295742731
more detailsOnnagata
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 aspect of kabuki since its...
ISBN: 9780295742755
more detailsSpaces 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 borders of Japan and Korea. Some...
ISBN: 9780295998428
more detailsConflicts 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 1,400 objects in the collection are mostly...
ISBN: 9780295999814
more detailsOnnagata
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 aspect of kabuki since its...
ISBN: 9780295995106
more detailsThe 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, he couldn’t find...
ISBN: 9780295985084
more detailsLegal 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 Western law during the 19th-century and when...
ISBN: 9780295994475
more detailsShaping 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 a...
ISBN: 9780295986852
more detailsToxic 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 as well....
ISBN: 9780295991382
more detailsKoizumi 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 a series of bland and short-lived prime ministers,...
ISBN: 9780295986999
more detailsWrongful 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, into the realm of everyday...
ISBN: 9780295993133
more detailsA 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...
ISBN: 9780295975009
more detailsLaw 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 a...
ISBN: 9780295987316
more detailsJapan Supernatural
Ghost, Goblins, and Monsters, 1700 to Now
From the pioneering work of eighteenth-century painter Toriyama Sekien to contemporary superstar Takashi Murakami, Japan Supernatural presents wildly imaginative works by Japanese artists past and present and takes readers on a journey of discovery through...
ISBN: 9781741741469
more detailsThe 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 judges. Landmark decisions, cases considered legally, socially, or politically importatn,...
ISBN: 9780295955711
more detailsVillage “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 scattered about the main island of Japan....
ISBN: 9780295954059
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