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Handbook of Civil Society in Japan

Civil society in Japan is a large and multifaceted sphere with a diversity of actors pursuing various social, political, and economic objectives. The sphere has experienced major waves of transformation i…

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Lisa Katayama
Parenting the Japanese Way

In this fascinating half-memoir, half-parenting guide, Lisa Katayama shares her quest to raise her American kids using Japanese parenting principles which combine unconditional love with unwavering rulesW…

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Ju Hui Judy Chun, Jennifer Jihye Chun
Against Abandonment

"Across the world, protest has become a much-debated tactic in struggles against extreme inequality, political corruption, and ecological disaster. In South Korea, protest is a ubiquitous and essenti…

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Claudia Huang
Dancing for Their Lives

Dancing for Their Livesdelves into the world of retired Chinese "dancing grannies" who seek fulfillment amid broad social transformation. Based on ethnographic research, it challenges convention…

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Charlotte Setijadi
Memories of Unbelonging

The ethnic Chinese have had a long and problematic history in Indonesia, commonly stereotyped as a market-dominant minority with dubious political loyalty toward Indonesia. For over three decades under Su…

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Global Asias

"Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowled…

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Claudia Huang
Dancing for Their Lives

Dancing for Their Livesdelves into the world of retired Chinese "dancing grannies" who seek fulfillment amid broad social transformation. Based on ethnographic research, it challenges convention…

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Raji C Steineck
Zen Time

Offers a groundbreaking approach to a key text in Zen Buddhism. In Zen Time, Raji C. Steineck provides a robust contextualization of D¿gen's Uji, the most renowned text on time in Zen Buddhism. Situating …

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Dalit Journeys for Dignity

Examines the challenges and opportunities faced by Dalits in modern India.The past decade has seen a surge in Dalit studies, offering key theoretical insights into the study of marginalized groups. This c…

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Kee Howe Yong
Thailand's Far South

Questioning the naturalness of the nation state, Thailand's Far South explores the recurring conflict in Muslim-majority provinces in Thailand's southern region.

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Samantha Bresnahan
In Blood, Flowers Bloom

"In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War II, the common act of soldiers taking their enemy's possessions after victory. This is the story of a single Japanese …

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Ashish Koul
Reinventing Caste

This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was sup…

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Ashish Koul
Reinventing Caste

This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was sup…

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Nature Unfurled

"As immigrants and laborers, gardeners and artists, activists and vacationers, Asian Americans have played, worked, and worshipped in nature for almost two centuries, forging enduring relationships w…

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Sweetening and Intensification

Explores how these two currents are shaping the contours of contemporary Hindu worship, myth, and visual and material culture in contemporary South Asia and its diasporas.This volume focuses on two altern…

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Jeongmin Kim
Black Market Intimacies

Black Market Intimacies reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the region…

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Jeongmin Kim
Black Market Intimacies

Black Market Intimacies reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the region…

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Midori Ogasawara
Colonial Surveillance

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along with China's CNSA, US's NASA, and Russia's Roscosmos. JAXA's budget is more than $1 billi…

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Midori Ogasawara
Colonial Surveillance

In order to compete with Western powers, Japan began to rapidly modernize its governing institutions, in the process creating a national population registration and identification bureaucracy, the Koseki …

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Adeana McNicholl
Of Ancestors and Ghosts

Of Ancestors and Ghostsanalyzes a type of Buddhist literature in which immoral, stingy people are reincarnated as hungry, suffering ghosts. It traces the emergence of this genre in relation to contemporar…

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