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Japan --- Japon --- History --- Histoire --- 952 --- Désherbage --- Geschiedenis van Japan --- Deselectie --- 952 Geschiedenis van Japan --- J3300 --- Japan: History -- general histories --- 952 History of Japan --- History of Japan

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This book clarifies the climatic variations in Japan from the historical period to the present based on documentary sources and meteorological data. Japanese society has suffered from various kinds of natural disasters since ancient times, such as floods and high tides caused by torrential rainfall and strong winds. They were described in large numbers of historical documents including official local weather diaries. However, all these documents were written in Japanese or Chinese languages, which prevents non-readers of those languages from accessing them. Also, Japan is a Far Eastern island country, and the unique features of Japanese climate and natural disasters would be unfamiliar and unimaginable to them without being able to read those documents. How is the climate of Japan, and how was the climate during the Little Ice Age in Japan as compared with conditions in Europe and America? When did meteorological observations start, and who (which country) introduced them to Japan? Why did so many natural disasters occur in Japan, and what caused them? This book answers these questions as specifically and objectively as possible using both figures and photographs, which are beneficial to students and the general public who are interested in historical and current climatic change in Japan, as well as professional climate scientists.

Japan --- Climate --- History. --- Climatology. --- Natural disasters. --- Physical geography. --- Climate Sciences. --- Natural Hazards. --- Physical Geography. --- History of Japan.

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This book explains compellingly that, despite common belief, in the early modern period, the intra-East Asian commercial network still functioned sustainably, and within that network, the Sino-Japanese trade can be seen as the most significant part which not only connected the Chinese and Japanese domestic markets but also was linked to the global economy. It is commonly thought that East Asian countries like China and Japan maintained a stance of so-called national isolation during the period from the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. It is true that diplomatic relations between Qing China and Tokugawa Japan could have not been established for reasons such as guarantees of security; however, every year merchants in junks voyaged to Nagasaki and carried out transactions with Japanese merchants or business agents. How this kind of trade relation was maintained stably without any diplomatic guarantees and in which way the governments of the two sides edged into the trade and accommodated the trade conflicts and institutional frictions are essential but seldom-emphasized topics. This book aims to shed light on these issues and thereby examine the character of the unique trade order in early modern East Asia as well, by analyzing a large quantity of the seldom-used and unpublished Chinese and Japanese primary and secondary sources.

Economic history. --- Asia—Economic conditions. --- Japan—History. --- China—History. --- Economic History. --- Asian Economics. --- History of Japan. --- History of China. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics

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“Takamure Itsue, an anarchist, poet, first women’s historian, fanatic nationalist and maternalist feminist, is a controversial figure. This is a challenging and considerate re-examination to allocate her work and life with a new light in the historical context of Japanese feminism.” — Chizuko Ueno, University of Tokyo, Japan This book explores Takamure Itsue’s (1894–1964) intellectual odyssey as Japan’s most notable pioneer in the study of women’s history. When she embarked on a series of scholarly projects that investigated marriage patterns and kinship systems in ancient Japan, it was a response to crisis-ridden modernity. Relentless in her quest to dismantle patriarchy, this “woman from the Land of Fire” (a nickname for her birthplace, Kumamoto Prefecture) locked herself away in 1931 and spent the rest of her life conducting research on female-friendly societies with matrilocal arrangements under kinship-based communal systems. While dissecting the patriarchal norms undergirding the capitalist nation-state, she embraced matricultural paradigms that embodied life-sustaining and life-enhancing values through communal childrearing and matrilineal inheritance. Takamure, a visionary thinker, asked big-picture questions and addressed multifarious issues of contemporary relevance, including beauty standards, human trafficking, gross disparities in wealth, war and imperialism, science and religion, and humanity’s relationship with nature.

Women—History. --- Japan—History. --- History, Modern. --- Women's History / History of Gender. --- History of Japan. --- Modern History. --- Women --- History. --- Itsue, Takamure. --- Japan --- Social conditions

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Japan --- Japon --- History. --- Histoire --- History --- History of Japan --- JP / Japan - Japon --- 92 --- Geschiedenis. --- Histoire. --- 92 Geschiedenis. --- 92 Histoire. --- 92 History. --- Geschiedenis --- J3300 --- Japan: History -- general histories --- History of Japan. --- Japon - Histoire --- Japan - History --- Twenty-first century - Forecasts --- International relations - Forecasting --- Social prediction --- Economic forecasting --- Twenty-first century --- International relations