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Protohistoric Yamato
Archaeology of the First Japanese State
Av Gina L. Barnes, Gina Barnes
Häftad, 1988
270 kr
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Nara is located in the center of what is known today as the Kinai region of Japan. The ancient name for the region was the Go-Kinai ("five-within the royal domain"), referring to the five provinces of which it was composed: Settsu, Kawachi, Izumi, Yamato and Yamashiro. The name Yamato, presented …
Political Leadership in Contemporary Japan
Häftad, 1982
96 kr
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Those who do not read Japanese seldom have access to analytic studies of the fascinating and surprisingly diverse world of contemporary Japanese political leadership. This volume constitutes a step toward bringing to the English reader some sense of the norms, beliefs, styles, and modes of …
Japanese Automotive Industry
Model and Challenge for the Future?
Av Robert Cole
Häftad, 1981
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As the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies reflected on the deteriorating position of the domestic auto industry in the fall of 1980, and the strong competitive threat being posed by the Japanese automakers, we were struck by the extraordinary low quality of the public discussion of …
Sukeroku’s Double Identity
The Dramatic Structure of Edo Kabuki
Häftad, 1982
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The aim of this book is to show that seemingly illogical double identity of the townsman, Sukeroku, and the samurai, Soga Goro, in the play Sukeroku is a surviving element of what was once a complex and coherent structure based on a traditional performance calendar. To show how the calendar …
Industry at the Crossroads
Av Robert Cole
Häftad, 1982
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The mood of the first U of M U.S.-Japan Auto conference in January 1981 could only be described as electric. People wanted to know what our problems were and how we could begin to solve them. Inherent in the latter issue was the questions, what could we learn from the Japanese? One left the …
Automobiles and the Future
Competition, Cooperation, and Change
Av Robert Cole
Häftad, 1983
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At the time of the U.S.-Japan auto conferences in March 1983, the hoped-for economic recovery as manifested in auto sales had revealed itself quite modestly. Three months later, the indicators were more robust and certainly long overdue for those whose livelihood depends on the health of the …
Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan
Häftad, 1984
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This study is a result of three continuous years of fieldwork in a hamlet in rural Japan. The data presented and analyzed here consist of records from participant observation, formal and informal interviews, casual conversation and formal questionnaires, and public and private documents. The …
“The Sting of Death” and Other Stories
Häftad, 1985
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Until a recent “boom,” Shimao Toshio, writer of short fiction, critic, and essayist, was not widely known, even in Japan. He has never won the Akutagawa or the Naoki Prize, and none of his works had previously appeared in English translation. He is less well known than other writers (Yasuoka …
American Automobile Industry
Rebirth or Requiem?
Av Robert Cole
Häftad, 1984
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Amid the gloom, indeed the despair, that prevailed among auto industry spokesmen during early 1981, the University of Michigan held the first U.S.-Japan Auto Conference. With all the uncertainty that accompanies a march into new territory, the conference very much resembled a call to arms as …
Continuous Improvement
Quality Control Circles in Japanese Industry
Av Paul Lillrank, Noriaki Kano
Häftad, 1989
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Quality Control Circles (QCCs) are small groups of workers from the same workshop, which meet, often on their own time, to discuss ways to improve the quality of their work. They are supported by management; the circles and the support structure together are called Quality Control Circle (QCC) …
History of Japan’s Government-Business Relationship
The Passenger Car Industry
Häftad, 1990
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Despite the economic and political importance of the U.S.-Japan relationship and the extensive attention paid to automotive trade, few American scholars or policy makers are familiar with the history of Japanese government-business relations, either generally or for specific industries such as …
Parties, Candidates, and Voters in Japan
Six Quantitative Studies
Häftad, 1981
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Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies No. 2
Survey of Japanese Collections in the United States, 1979–1980
Av Naomi Fukuda
Häftad, 1979
81 kr
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Scholarly inquiry into any distant culture is considerably promoted when the materials on which it is based are made proximate to the inquiring scholar. The library, for a student of foreign things, is normally a sine qua non; for the work of U.S. scholars and students in Japanese studies, the …
Culture and Religion in Japanese-American Relations
Essays on Uchimura Kanzo, 1861–1930
Av Ray Moore
Häftad, 1982
127 kr
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Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies No. 5
Japanese Educational Productivity
Av Robert Leestma, Herbert Walberg
Häftad, 1992
313 kr
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Japanese Education Today, the first volume resulting from the U.S. Study of Education in Japan, made important contributions to our understanding of Japanese education in cultural context [vii]. This report is now widely considered the most informative and readable summary of Japanese education in …
Literary Patronage in Late Medieval Japan
Häftad, 1993
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The late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Japan, which were dominated by social upheavals and political conflicts, were the scene of a fundamental expansion of arts patronage. This was a time of great change in all areas of Japanese life: old centralized political establishments were …
Student Guide to Japanese Sources in the Humanities
Av Yasuko Makino, Masaei Saito
Häftad, 1994
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This work is directed at students who are about to start library research for papers, theses, and dissertations. It walks readers through the process of researching topics and familiarizes them with Japanese reference works of all kinds, from general bibliographies and dictionaries to publisher's …
Tale of Saigyo
Häftad, 1998
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The Tale of Saigyo is a poetic biography of the late Heian poet Saigyo (1118-90), one of the most loved and respected poets in Japanese literary history. Its anonymous author followed the venerable "poem-tale" tradition by using 128 of Saigyo's finest and best-known poems and weaving around them …
My Life
Living, Loving, and Fighting
Häftad, 2001
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Sumii Sue (1902-97), author and human rights leader, was best known for her novel about childhood in a burakumin village, The River with No Bridge (Hashi no nai kawa). The burakumin, who had been a lower caste in the highly stratified society of feudal Japan, were still suffering severe …
