This book presents a counter-argument to the widely held view that the Japanese have believed tha...

Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant ...

This award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall...

This is written by a sociologist and Japan's 'most famous feminist', Chizuko Ueno. A discursive b...

The !Xun are a San people living in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, Botswana, and in Angola. In t...

With a focus on Brazilian migrant workers in Japan, this study - now available in paperback - pro...

Japan's post-World War II 'economic miracle' is well-known and much discussed, as is the collapse...

Traditionally the Japanese have shunned those not fitting the majority heterosexual mould. Those ...

Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has evolved ...

This book takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of a region from the pers...

As the plight of refugees around the world looms large as one of the central problems facing the ...

Susumu Shimazono, one of Japan's foremost sociologists of religion, deals with the development of...

For more than 140 years, Japan’s koseki registration system has functioned as the official means ...

Much of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain ...

This is the first English version of Tadao Umesao's classic, published first in Japanese in 1957,...

This book examines the interdependent relationships between the film industry and the state in Ea...

As the sequel to Groups (2013) and Institutions (2017), Others is the third work produced by a co...

This book presents a wide-ranging study of widows in Japan, filtered through the dramatic and com...

Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persu...

This book is a comprehensive account of the nativist movement in Japan today. Naoto Higuchi uses ...

In Pursuit of Composite Beauty is a study of the life and thought of Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961), k...

This book overviews the present situation of foreign migrants in Japan, based on the latest and m...

In this study of the formation of modern Thai radical culture, Tejapira reveals a process of cult...

This book is an important reference for those concerned with the continuing sustainability of wet...

Analysis of Japanese society has been hampered by its use of static models: by its assumption tha...

The artifice of gender performance - sometimes playful, mostly conscientious - has enthralled and...

The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have operated for centuries in the island chain that cons...

Japan's national identity associates the 'Japanese people' with the Japanese land, making the far...

The challenges we face today are growing conspicuously broad in scale and complex in nature. Huma...

Groups: The Evolution of Human Sociality is the product of a collaborative project based at the R...

Hypothesis-Experiment (Kasetsu) Class is, in its simplest terms, a class designed so that student...

Conceptualizing the Malay World explores the interrelations between the indigenization of 'coloni...

How was baseball used to promote U.S. values in occupied Japan? The first post-war Japanese profe...

How have femininity and masculinity been defined and understood in China from prehistoric times t...

After a swift and bloody regime change in 1998, Indonesia established democratic institutions. De...

In the early modern period, relations between the Netherlands and Japan were founded on trade. Th...

After World War II, Japanese popular culture was 'banned' in Korea. However, despite the official...

After World War II, Japanese popular culture was 'banned' in Korea. However, despite the official...

Japan's radical development following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, drew the attention of the wo...

What does resilience mean? This is a question frequently asked and one that this book challenges ...

How do second-generation immigrant Muslims, born and raised in the UK, perceive themselves and pr...

Humans have always faced the threat of extinction. This book takes a broad perspective of the 'ex...

What does resilience mean? This is a question frequently asked and one that this book challenges ...

The Îgembe region of Kenya is a rich agricultural area on the equator, where people live in a uni...

Right-wing social movements have been increasingly active in Japan since around 2000. Female memb...

Do foreigners really have ' human rights' in Japan? This book sheds light on the way Japan views ...

Various contractual deeds were exchanged between people in Burmese dynastic society in the eighte...

Various contractual deeds were exchanged between people in Burmese dynastic society in the eighte...