CHIEKO - 人文・思想・社会 1

The Heisei era saw gradual yet far-reaching transformations in Japanese society and culture. Globalization, shifting identities, evolving family structures, and changes in education and public discourse all reshaped everyday life, while popular culture-from manga and anime to foodways and sport-em……続きを見る

Where Finland and Japan meet, new possibilities for well-being come into view. Drawing on the experiences of two societies facing distinct yet interconnected challenges, this book brings together scholars from Finland and Japan to explore the empowerment of children, youth, and women. Against the ……続きを見る

[About the Book] ー A book for everyone interested in Zen - While leading a busy life as an elementary school teacher and participating in zazen meditation sessions, the author reflects on the accelerating crises of modern society-political and economic instability, poverty and ethnic conflict, en……続きを見る

[About the Book] This volume takes the medieval estate of Tosa Hata-no-shō, located in the southwestern part of present-day Kōchi Prefecture, as a case study to explore the multifaceted relationship between Japanese medieval temples and local communities. Drawing on a close examination of histori……続きを見る

This fully updated edition offers a vastly improved English translation with modernized names and terminology, and for the first time, previously untranslated "racy" Latin passages are rendered clearly in English. The result is a more accessible and complete reading experience, ideal for both firs……続きを見る

What is knowledge? How is it acquired? How certain can we be about it? These questions, which underpin academic and everyday life, and treated in readable language and with a wide range of classroom activities in this text.続きを見る

被爆二世である著者は、30年あまり在宅ホスピスケアのあるべき姿を追求・牽引してきた医師として知られる。著者にとって懸案だったヒロシマと向かい合う旅が実現したのは2023年だった。被爆した父の足跡をたどるなかで、浮かんでくる風景とは何であったか。ホスピス医ならではの温かくも鋭い感性を背景に、思索を重ねた誠……続きを見る

In Japan, where the number of foreign residents is increasing rapidly, how are migrant children whose mother tongue is not Japanese learning their mother tongue and Japanese at school? We call them CLD (Culturally Linguistically Diverse) children (Cummins, 1991). This book is the result of the fir……続きを見る

On July 21, 2017 Komatsu UK celebrated its 30th anniversary. We were engaged in establishment of the company and flew there from Japan and joined the ceremony with our old British colleagues and renewed our old friendship. More than 30 British had been working for Komatsu UK since the Company star……続きを見る

日本のコミュニティのあり方についての議論がかまびすしい。しかし、その問題は、何も日本に限らず、世界各国で政策当局者、学識者、市民等にとっての根源的課題を投げかけている。その問題解決に当たって、人々の絆の強化、将来への不安を払拭する社会システムの希求が重要な視点と認識され、いまやグローバルレベルでの……続きを見る

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IWC (International Whaling Commission) was organized in 1948 for the purpose of conserving whale resources. However, under the trend of natural animal preserving movement, US and some other members dominated the IWC with strong assertion of anti-whaling and decided to adopt 10 years of moratorium ……続きを見る

日本の違憲審査制の原点と現点をドイツ語で発信してきた著者の20年余にわたる研究の集大成。本書により、違憲審査制をその主体によって憲法裁判所型と司法裁判所型に分け、両者の相違点を強調する二元論によって狭められた考察の視界が広がる。著者は、そのより広い視野から、日本の違憲審査の制度とその運用を、ドイツの……続きを見る