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Honored and Dishonored Guests
Westerners in Wartime Japan
Häftad, 2021
227 kr
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The brutality and racial hatred exhibited by Japan’s military during the Pacific War piqued outrage in the West and fanned resentments throughout Asia. Public understanding of Japan’s wartime atrocities, however, often fails to differentiate the racial agendas of its military and government elites …
Honored and Dishonored Guests
Westerners in Wartime Japan
Inbunden, 2017
448 kr
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The brutality and racial hatred exhibited by Japan’s military during the Pacific War piqued outrage in the West and fanned resentments throughout Asia. Public understanding of Japan’s wartime atrocities, however, often fails to differentiate the racial agendas of its military and government elites …
Aesthetics of Strangeness
Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan
Inbunden, 2013
507 kr
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Eccentric artists are “the vagaries of humanity” that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre–World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan’s modern roots, concluded the …
Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War
Av W. Puck Brecher, Michael W. Myers
Inbunden, 2019
800 kr
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This wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess conventional understanding of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in theme and method, are united in their goal to recover a measured historicity about the conflict by either …
Defamiliarizing Japan's Asia-Pacific War
Av A. Carly Buxton, Annika A. Culver m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
310 kr
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This wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess conventional understanding of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in theme and method, are united in their goal to recover a measured historicity about the conflict by either …
Religion and Sport in Japan
Av Saka Natsuko, Annie Blazer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
847 kr
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The sports world’s attention was focused on Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The years-long buildup to and aftermath of the games occurred in the midst of the global pandemic, which delayed the event until 2021. Given all of this, there is perhaps no better time to delve …
Animal Care in Japanese Tradition
A Short History
E-bok, 2022
264 kr
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This volume provides an historical overview of Japan''s relationship with animals from ancient times to the 1950s. Its analysis serves as a lens through which to scrutinize Japanese tradition and interrogate ahistorical claims about Japan’s culturally endemic empathy for the natural world. …
Loving and Loathing Wildlife in Japan
Four Animal Conservation Paradigms
Inbunden, 2025
817 kr
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For over a century, Japan has vexed and disappointed its Western allies by resisting their efforts to protect biodiversity. Consequently, foreign critics have long derided Japan as "the world’s boldest eco-outlaw." Its animal protections are equally disappointing: comprehensive assessments by the …
