yoshi - Social Science 1

The coauthors of this book draw on their decades of research and innovation to describe an inexpensive and easy-to-interpret early warning system for rainfall-induced landslides. This system will en……続きを見る

This open access book examines food security in China with a specific focus on rice harvesting. As the most populous agricultural developing country, China’s food security is closely related to the ……続きを見る

This book is an exploration of altruism from a sociological perspective. P.A. Sorokin addresses contemporary issues, presents a framework for studying altruism and its impact on individuals and comm……続きを見る

The world was stunned when Putin’s Russia invaded Ukraineーhow could war erupt in Central Europe in the 21st century? Yet it did. Why? One key to understanding this atrocity lies in Vladimir Putin’s……続きを見る

This book examines the background and consequences of the reversal in gender disparities in education through the case of the Philippines. While global education and development discourse has long e……続きを見る

Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937–1945)ーthe most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern historyーthrough the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deft……続きを見る

Yoshida addresses the common misconceptions of single, never-married women and aims to uncover the major social and cultural factors contributing to this phenomenon in Japan. Based on interviews wit……続きを見る

From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan and China. Japan has long learned many things from Chinese civilization, and since the modern era Ch……続きを見る

By the early 1970s, Japan had become an affluent consumer society, riding a growing economy to widely shared prosperity. In the aftermath of the fiery political activism of 1968, the country settled……続きを見る

Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama reflects on the politics, poetics, and ethics of remembering the lives of transnational migrant sex workers……続きを見る

The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945)……続きを見る

By the early 1970s, Japan had become an affluent consumer society, riding a growing economy to widely shared prosperity. In the aftermath of the fiery political activism of 1968, the country settled……続きを見る

During the Japanese 'bubble' economy of the 1980's, the youth of Japan began to exert unprecedented influence on Japanese culture through their spirited patronage of certain art forms previously dee……続きを見る

In this book, Joan C. Lopez and Beth Fisher-Yoshida offer an alternative narrative of youth and peacebuilding, to the popular one about youth, violence, and peacemaking. Using testimonies of current……続きを見る

This book tackles the question of how we can manage flood-related disaster risks, such as from typhoons, monsoons, and torrential rain, which have been intensified by climate change and have generat……続きを見る

This book defines tōjisha manga as Japan’s autobiographical comics in which the author recounts the experience of a mental or neurological condition in a unique medium of text and image. Yoshiko Oku……続きを見る

This title was first published in 1986: This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one pros……続きを見る

Victimology and Victim Assistance offers insights into the criminal justice system from the perspective of often overlooked participantsーvictims. Delving into victim involvement in the criminal jus……続きを見る

蔣介石的一生，可以說是與日本有著切也切不斷的「緣分」。這並不只限定於蔣介石個人，而是生在那個動盪時代的中國人不管願不願意，都無法不去面對時時刻刻來自鄰國日本的「時代的邀請」。 沒有人可以否認，現代中……続きを見る

This book offers a reassessment of how "matter" – in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture – pursued a radical definition of "multiplicity", against the dominant and hierarchical t……続きを見る

This is the first academic study of India's emerging maritime strategy, and offers a systematic analysis of the interplay between Western military thought and Indian maritime traditions. By a quirk ……続きを見る

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theo……続きを見る

This book covers an approach to conversational informatics which encompasses science and technology for understanding and augmenting conversation in the network age. A major challenge in engineering……続きを見る

As communicative, cultural, and political spaces, cities present a vast array of racial, ethnic, national, sexual, and socioeconomic experiences around which human communities take shape. This shapi……続きを見る

Communicating Revenge in Interpersonal Relationships explores how and why people take revenge on others in modern social life. Stephen M. Yoshimura and Susan D. Boon draw from research across academ……続きを見る

Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce ra……続きを見る

This book is unique in applying a consumption approach to the study of ethnicity and nationalism, thereby challenging the usual 'top down' approach to nation-formation. Contributors from a variety o……続きを見る

This book analyzes the structural dynamics of the Sino-American-Japanese triangular relationship by exploring how the 1971 Nixon-Kissinger announcement to pursue reapprochment with the People's Repu……続きを見る

From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, jazz was harnessed as America’s "sonic weapon" to promote an image to the world of a free and democratic America. Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington ……続きを見る

The Japanese Cattle industry has been undergoing major changes for the past three decades. During the 1950's and 1960's mechanized power rapidly. The process of beef industry structure change accele……続きを見る