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Contemporary Japanese cinema since Hana-bi
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ISBN: 9780748683734 9780748683741 9780748683765 0748683747 0748683763 0748683739 1474412165 9781474412162 Year: 2015 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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Updates the story of Japanese cinema for the 21st century. Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi is the first study of the significant developments in Japanese genre filmmaking since the turn of the new millennium.This book explores the key films, filmmakers, themes and genres in post-1997 Japanese cinema, during fifteen years in which productivity in the Japanese film industry has reached a higher peak than at any time since the 1950s and a dialogue with earlier traditions of Japanese cinema has been firmly established. Key Features: * Considers films and filmmakers that have yet to feature predominantly in western discourse on Japanese cinema * Analyses in detail the dialogue that can be seen between new Japanese cinema and the significant trends and practices of past generations * Includes a discussion of the modern state of the Japanese documentary feature, based on interviews with some of its leading practitioners * Includes a review of Japanese-language criticism and a consideration of how the country's cinema has been perceived within Japan


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The Shogun's daughter
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ISBN: 1250028620 9700000048615 1250028612 Year: 2015 Publisher: Project Gutenberg


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New perspectives in japanese bioethics
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ISBN: 1443873969 9781443873963 1322889724 9781322889726 9781443871174 Year: 2015 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Post-war Japan has seen profound and rapid social change and transformation. One of the most visible areas of change in Japan has been medicine, and particularly the ethical practices and policies that guide medical decision-making. The formal discipline of bioethics, Seimei Rinri in Japanese, has grown by leaps and bounds since the late 1970s, when it began to appear in the curriculum and professional activities of Japanese medical schools and philosophy departments. The introduction of bioe.


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Japan
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ISBN: 1479830895 9781479830893 9781479889389 1479889385 9781479889389 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York

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On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and the global recession following the US-driven financial crisis of 2008 when the disaster hit, changing its fortunes yet again. This small, populous Asian nation—once thought to be a contender for the role of the world’s number one power—now faces a world of uncertainty. Japan’s economy has shrunk, China has challenged its borders, and it faces perilous demographic adjustments from decreased fertility and an aging populace, with the country’s population expected to drop to less than 100 million by 2048. In Japan: The Precarious Future, a group of distinguished scholars of Japanese economics, politics, law, and society examine the various roads that might lie ahead. Will Japan face a continued erosion of global economic and political power, particularly as China’s outlook improves exponentially? Or will it find a way to protect its status as an important player in global affairs? Contributors explore issues such as national security, political leadership, manufacturing prowess, diplomacy, population decline, and gender equality in politics and the workforce, all in an effort to chart the possible futures for Japan. Both a roadmap for change and a look at how Japan arrived at its present situation, this collection of thought-provoking analyses will be essential for understanding the current landscape and future prospects of this world power.


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Understanding Japan-China relations
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ISBN: 9789814689229 9789814689236 9814689238 981468922X Year: 2015 Publisher: Hackensack, N.J.

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"This timely book examines new developments in Japan–China relations and new research conducted in Japan, China and elsewhere since 2006. The book covers major issues such as the September 2010 Chinese fishing boat collision incident, cross-Strait relations, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, and China's suspension of rare earth exports to Japan. It explores a variety of theoretical understandings of the Sino–Japanese relationship, namely relationship management, domestic politics, national identities and coevolution."--


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Women in Japanese religions
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ISBN: 9781479827626 1479827622 9781479884063 1479884065 1479836516 1479898694 9781479898695 9781479836512 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York

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"Drawing on a diverse collection of writings by and about women, Ambros argues that ambivalent religious discourses in Japan have not simply subordinated women but also given them religious resources to pursue their own interests and agendas. Comprising nine chapters organized chronologically, the book begins with the archeological evidence of fertility cults and the early shamanic ruler Himiko in prehistoric Japan and ends with an examination of the influence of feminism and demographic changes on religious practices during the "lost decades" of the post-1990 era. By viewing Japanese religious history through the eyes of women, Women in Japanese Religions presents a new narrative that offers strikingly different vistas of Japan's pluralistic traditions than the received accounts that foreground male religious figures and male-dominated institutions."--


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Antiquarianism, language, and medical philology : from early modern to modern Sino-Japanese medical discourses
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ISBN: 9004285458 9789004285453 9789004285446 900428544X 1322872872 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill,

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Based on several research seminars, the authors in this volume provide fresh perspectives of the intellectual and cultural history of East Asian medicine, 1550-1800. They use new sources, make new connections, and re-examine old assumptions, thereby interrogating whether and why European medical modernity is an appropriate standard for delineating the modern fate of East Asia’s medical classics. The unique importance of early modern Europe in the history of modern medicine should not be used to gloss over the equally unique and thus different developments in East Asia. Each paper offers an important contribution to understanding the dynamics of East Asian medicine, namely, the relationship between medical texts, medical practice, and practitioner identity. Furthermore, the essays in this volume are especially valuable for directing our attention to the movement of medical texts between different polities and cultures of early modern East Asia, especially China and Japan. Of particular interest are the interactions, similarities, and differences between medical thinkers across East Asia, Contributors include: Susan Burns, Benjamin A. Elman, Asaf Goldschmidt, Angela KC Leung, Federico Marcon, MAYANAGI Makoto, Fabien Simonis, Daniel Trambaiolo, and Mathias Vigouroux.


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Britain & Japan : biographical portraits.
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ISBN: 1898823278 1898823111 Year: 2015 Publisher: Folkestone : Renaissance Books,

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CONTAINING 57 ESSAYS, this ninth volume in the series continues to celebrate the life and work of the men and women, both British and Japanese, who over time played an interesting and significant role in a wide variety of different spheres relating to the history of Anglo-Japanese relations and deserve to be recorded and remembered. When read together they give a picture, even if inevitably a partial one, of important facets of modern history and Anglo-Japanese institutions. They shed light on a number of controversial issues, illuminate past successes and failures while overall providing a valuable point of reference for researchers and historians of the future. Structured thematically in four Parts Japan in Britain, Britain in Japan, Scholars and Writers, Politicians and Officials the highlights in this volume include The Great Japan Exhibition, 1981-82, Japanese Gardens and the Japanese Garden Society in the UK, Cricket in Late Edo and Meiji Japan, Norman Macrae, pioneering journalist of The Economist, Arthur Balfour managing the emergence of Japan as a Great Power, Michio Morishima, an economist made in Japan , and Margaret Thatcher a pragmatist who radically improved Britain s image in Japan.


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Cantankerous essays : musings of a disillusioned Japanophile
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ISBN: 1898823324 1898823197 Year: 2015 Publisher: Folkestone, Kent : Renaissance Books,

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Prompted by increasing evidence of the world s shift to the right, not least among the industrialised nations, here is a cri de coeur from almost the last survivor from the postwar crop of European sociologists and scholars of Japanese Studies. After six decades following developments in Japanese society, economy and culture and as a well-known leftie he describes the evolution of his cognitive and evaluative/emotional perceptions of Japan, and explains why he can no longer be described as a Japanophile. To which are added essays on more general issues of the day, such as events in the Ukraine, Iran and Israel. The key words are indeed cantankerous (because he is greatly exercised by the conspiracies of silence embedded in the culture of modern political and public life; musings (because this is not so much a single-focus monograph, rather a collection of spontaneous, but deeply considered reflections on matters of the moment) and disillusioned (both by Japan s reversion to chauvinistic nationalism, and because, as a youth, he hoped for and expected an enhancement of the role of reason in international affairs.) The book, which comprises eight chapters, opens with The return of the near-native written in diary form, reflecting on current experiences and topics during a summer/autumn visit to Japan in 2014, and concludes with philosophical reflections entitled Human Progress?. Between these two are to be found the core essays: The Social Conditions for Economic Performance, and the Piketty Boom; OPMF, Central Bank Conservatism and Financial Economics; Collision Course; Japan and North Korea; A New Beginning?; The New Cold Wars; Friends, Allies and Enemies. This will be of special interest to all who know or have accessed the author s vast literary output relating to Japan; but it also has considerably wider relevance among those who are in any way connected with contemporary society, politics and economics and wish to confront the conspiracy of silence within our interdependent world.


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Interfirm Relationships and Trade Credit in Japan : Evidence from Micro-Data
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ISBN: 9784431551874 4431551867 9784431551867 4431551875 Year: 2015 Publisher: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer,

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This is the first book to report the details of the current status of interfirm relationships in Japan. Based on a unique data set of firms, the authors describe the characteristics of interfirm transactions in a manner unprecedented in the literature. Special emphasis is placed on the nature of payment/collection between firms. Payment for interfirm transactions is usually made on account, or by payment after delivery, rather than by immediate payment. Thus, most interfirm transactions are accompanied by a provision of credit (i.e., lending/borrowing) from a seller to a buyer, referred to as trade credit. Although trade credit is used all around the world and accounts for a large portion of firms’ balance sheets, researchers, lacking detailed data, have long encountered serious difficulty in clarifying how and why firms use trade credit. In this work the authors use a huge, unique data set of about 380,000 firms in Japan during the 2007–2010 period. To grasp the entirety of this enormous data set, which is tantamount to a picture of all firms currently operating in Japan, this brief summarizes descriptive statistics and conducts univariate analyses of the data. Also provided is the legal background of trade credit practice in Japan from the “law and economics” perspective. In this manner, the book furnishes vital information that can be used as a reference for future theoretical and empirical analyses of trade credit and interfirm relationships.

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