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Good Wife, Wise Mother
Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule
Traces Japan's efforts to modernize Taiwan through gendered educational practices
In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and...
ISBN: 9780295752648
more detailsSeeds of Control
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century 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....
ISBN: 9780295752860
more detailsFukushima Futures
Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape
A probe of the environmental and sociocultural effects of industrialization and nuclear disaster on coastal livelihoods
Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...
ISBN: 9780295751344
more detailsSpawning Modern Fish
Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon
Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology
Multispecies ethnography turns its attention to the bodies of fish
Since the mid-nineteenth century, agricultural development and fisheries management in northern Japan have...
ISBN: 9780295750392
more detailsGreening East Asia
The Rise of the Eco-developmental State
East Asia hosts a fifth of the world’s population and consumes over half the world’s coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, and a tenth of its natural gas. It also produces a third of...
ISBN: 9780295747910
more detailsBringing 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 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 detailsPoetic Imagination in Japanese Art
Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles
Assembled over the last four decades and still growing, the Mary and Cheney Cowles collection of Japanese art is one of the finest in private hands in North America. What began for Cheney Cowles as...
ISBN: 9781883124410
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 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 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 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 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 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 detailsHorihide
Celebrating the Life and Work of Kazuo Oguri
In Horihide we celebrate the life and work of one of Japan's most famous tattoo artists, Kazuo Oguri, the pioneer who introduced traditional Japanese tattoo iconography and techniques to the West. Since Oguri's visit to...
ISBN: 9789491394089
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 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 detailsHakuho Sculpture
Hakuho Sculpture is the first book in any language devoted entirely to Japanese sculpture of the Hakuho period (c. 650-710 CE). It focuses on the stylistic development and aesthetic qualities of Buddhist imagery through a...
ISBN: 9780295991306
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 detailsTosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan
Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan is the first book-length study to focus on short-story small scrolls (ko-e), one of the most complex but visually appealing forms of early Japanese painting. Small...
ISBN: 9780295989020
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