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9781901903638

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The Accentual History of the Japanese and Ryukyuan Languages

Moriyo Shimabukuro, University of Ryukyus

This book looks into the accentual history of the Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages. Applying the comparative method, the author has reconstructed the accentual history of the Japonic languages. The reconstruction is based on modern dialects of Japanese and Ryukyuan, and also on historical ...

€81.00$105.00

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WJH

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9781901903188

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Japanese Women: Emerging from Subservience, 1868–1945

Edited by Hiroko Tomida University of Edinburgh & Gordon Daniels University of Sheffield

This volume contains some of the most recent findings in the field of Japanese women's history in Japan, Australia, the United States and the UK, and introduces new approaches to studying Japanese women’s history.

€48.00$62.00

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RDIS

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9781860340147

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Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn

Edited by Sukehiro Hirakawa

A discussion of one of the great interpreters of Japan. The Japanese have always revered Hearn and this book shows the West why he is revered. Experts look at his writings and discuss his integrity as an observer and interpreter of Japan and the Japanese.

€81.00$105.00

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CPJW

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9781901903287

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Understanding Amae

Takeo Doi

This volume brings together twenty-six of Professor Doi’s principal papers on the subject of the Japanese psyche and the subject of dependency (amae) published in English over the last fifty years, beginning with his paper on Japanese psychiatry (1955) and concluding with ‘Are Psychological ...

€81.00$105.00

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9781905246410

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A History of Japanese Buddhism

Kenji Matsuo, University of Tokyo

First study in English on Japanese Buddhism by a distinguished scholar in the field of Religious Studies will be widely welcomed.The main focus is on the tradition of the monk (o-bo-san) as the main agent of Buddhism, together with the historical processes by which monks have developed Japanese ...

€21.00$27.00

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9781905246595

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A History of Japanese Buddhism

Kenji Matsuo, University of Tokyo

€85.00$117.00

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9789004203860

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A History of the Takarazuka Revue Since 1914

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book provides an in-depth analysis of Takarazuka’s history, educational traditions and theatrical ethos viewed from the prism of Japan’s modernization and globalization in the twentieth century. Its relationship to Japanese popular culture, especially ...

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9781901903232

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A Reader in Edo Period Travel

Herbert Plutschow

Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow’s Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred on fifteen of the period’s most notable travellers. This important research on how the Japanese discovered their own country and cultural identity has ...

€69.00$89.00

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9781860340291

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A Walk in Kumamoto

Yoji Hasegawa

The first part is a new translation of Hearn’s wife’s reminiscences of life with Hearn. Subsequent chapters consider Setsu’s early life and the end of samurai culture following Japan’s decision to modernize, her early encounter with Hearn, marriage and her children’s later life.

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9781901903515

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British Envoys in Japan, 1859-1972

Edited by Hugh Cortazzi

Comprehensive coverage of the diplomatic history in Japan of H.M. Representatives and the events that marked their period of office.