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19 produkter
In the Shadow of the Miracle
The Japanese Economy Since the End of High-Speed Growth
Inbunden, 2002
1607 kr
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Japan is living in the shadow of its economic miracle. Its stagnation and decline relative to other advanced economies since the early 1990s is a consequence of business and government difficulty in breaking away from once-successful practices. The Japanese postwar economic miracle created the …
Jews in the Japanese Mind
The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype
Av David G. Goodman, Masanori Miyazawa
Häftad, 2000
642 kr
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Shortly before releasing deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway in March 1995, the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult published a vicious 95-page antisemitic tract that declared war on its Jewish archenemy. The gassing of the Tokyo subway was the culmination of a century of Japanese theorizing about Jews, …
Choshu in the Meiji Restoration
Häftad, 2000
880 kr
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When Commodore Perry arrived in Japan to open the country to Western trade in 1853, he found a medieval amalgam of sword-bearing samurai, castle towns, Confucian academies, peasant villages, rice paddies, upstart merchants, bath houses, and Kabuki. Fifteen years later, Japan was on its way to …
Japan and the Security of Asia
Inbunden, 2001
1461 kr
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In Japan and the Security of Asia Louis Hayes studies modern Japan's frustrated search for national security. The book charts Japan's attempts to fashion its own place in the sun in the face of Great Power interventionism and national demands for regional hegemony: first through nascent …
Unhappy Soldier
Hino Ashihei and Japanese World War II Literature
Inbunden, 2002
1551 kr
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Unhappy Soldier chronicles the writings of Hino Ashihei, Japan's most popular World War II writer. Ashihei rose to national celebrity status during the Pacific War for his accounts of campaigns in China and Southeast Asia, works that identified and sympathized with the common soldier. Despite being …
Spanning Japan's Modern Century
The Memoirs of Hugh Borton
Av Hugh Borton
Inbunden, 2002
1656 kr
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In 1942, Hugh Borton, then a 39-year-old assistant professor of Japanese history, was called to serve in the State Department. Here he rose rapidly to become one of the principal architects of United States policy toward post-war Japan. Drawn from Borton's personal papers, this work provides a …
Spanning Japan's Modern Century
The Memoirs of Hugh Borton
Av Hugh Borton
Häftad, 2002
652 kr
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In 1942, Hugh Borton, then a 39-year-old assistant professor of Japanese history, was called to serve in the State Department. Here he rose rapidly to become one of the principal architects of United States policy toward post-war Japan. Drawn from Borton's personal papers, this work provides a …
Agony of Choice
Matsuoka Yosuke and the Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1880-1946
Av David J. Lu
Inbunden, 2002
1607 kr
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Agony of Choice, the life of Japanese statesman and diplomat Matsuoka Yosuke, offers a vivid narrative of twentieth-century Japanese diplomatic history. Matsuoka was an American-educated Japanese foreign minister who became a vocal advocate of Japanese expansionism in echo of the America he so …
Roadblocks on the Information Highway
The IT Revolution in Japanese Education
Inbunden, 2003
1516 kr
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Although Japanese universities have relied on information technology to resolve numerous problems, their high expectations are undermined by lags in implementing that technology. This innovative edited volume argues that lags in IT implementation in Japanese education are created by contradictory …
Limits to Power
Asymmetric Dependence and Japanese Foreign Aid Policy
Inbunden, 2003
1348 kr
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Why does the Japanese government often alter its course of action under pressure from the United States, even when doing so apparently undermines Japan's own interests? Japan's marked responsiveness to U.S. preferences regarding foreign aid policy appears counterintuitive, since Japan's …
Mori Arinori's Life and Resources in America
Av Mori Arinori, John E. Van Sant
Inbunden, 2003
1389 kr
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"Mori notes, 'Where men think that they know everything, and boast of their superior wisdom, the presumption is that they have yet much to learn.' . . . [T]oday's readers, whether in the United States, in Japan, or elsewhere, who may think they already know so much about the subject, will find much …
Roadblocks on the Information Highway
The IT Revolution in Japanese Education
Häftad, 2003
597 kr
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Although Japanese universities have relied on information technology to resolve numerous problems, their high expectations are undermined by lags in implementing that technology. This innovative edited volume argues that lags in IT implementation in Japanese education are created by contradictory …
In the Shadow of the Miracle
The Japanese Economy Since the End of High-Speed Growth
Häftad, 2003
647 kr
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Japan is living in the shadow of its economic miracle. Its stagnation and decline relative to other advanced economies since the early 1990s is a consequence of business and government difficulty in breaking away from once-successful practices. The Japanese postwar economic miracle created the …
Mori Arinori's Life and Resources in America
Av Mori Arinori, John E. Van Sant
Häftad, 2003
632 kr
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"Mori notes, 'Where men think that they know everything, and boast of their superior wisdom, the presumption is that they have yet much to learn.' . . . [T]oday's readers, whether in the United States, in Japan, or elsewhere, who may think they already know so much about the subject, will find much …
Japan in a Dynamic Asia
Coping with the New Security Challenges
Inbunden, 2006
1207 kr
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Japan in a Dynamic Asia examines a new phenomenon in Japanese foreign policy: Japan's increasing activism under the Koizumi administration. Behind this policy shift are the end of the Cold War, drastic growth of China, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and new transnational security …
Japan in a Dynamic Asia
Coping with the New Security Challenges
Häftad, 2006
628 kr
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Japan in a Dynamic Asia examines a new phenomenon in Japanese foreign policy: Japan's increasing activism under the Koizumi administration. Behind this policy shift are the end of the Cold War, drastic growth of China, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and new transnational security …
Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance
Av David Jortner, Keiko I. McDonald m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
734 kr
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At the heart of the development of modern Japanese culture, the theatre mirrors the issues and concerns of a society transitioning from the Tokugawa era to the modern period. Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance fills a gap in current Japanese theatre scholarship; the book discusses the role of …
Murakami Haruki
The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture
Häftad, 2009
901 kr
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In his book,Murakami Haruki, Dr. Michael Seats offers an important philosophical intervention in the discussion of the relationship between Murakami's fiction and contemporary Japanese culture. Breaking through conventional analysis, Seats demonstrates how Murakami's first and later trilogies …
Japan and Germany under the U.S. Occupation
A Comparative Analysis of Post-War Education Reform
Häftad, 2008
693 kr
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Focusing on the post war reconstruction of the education systems in Japan and Germany under U.S. military occupation after World War II, this book offers a comparative historical investigation of education reform policies in these two war ravaged and ideologically compromised countries. While in …
