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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 disco……続きを見る

This innovative book situates research on the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of institutional and grassroots participation, participatory and deliberative democracy, and science and risk communication. ……続きを見る

This book presents the "New Vision 2050," which adds the concept of the “platinum society” to the “Vision 2050”. The 20th century was a century in which energy led the development of material civili……続きを見る

Examining language support practices in both formal and nonformal education, ranging from public night school to community-based language classes, this volume encourages the development of systems i……続きを見る

This open access book is about a recent movement toward the “partnership between agriculture and social welfare” in Japan, which has been based on the idea that the shorthanded agricultural sector o……続きを見る

Le paradoxe des écoles d’art est de se présenter comme des lieux d’apprentissage de ce qui ne s’apprend pas : le « talent » est ce que l’on possède à titre personnel. Et ce alors même que l’accès à ……続きを見る

Although local neighborhood associations are found in many countries, Japan’s are distinguished by their ubiquity, scope of activities, and very high participation rates, making them important for t……続きを見る

This book elucidates state-society relations in East Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic from a comparative perspective. Based on the findings of cross-national surveys in Japan, South Korea, and Chin……続きを見る

Addressing a dearth of literature in this area, this book provides a comprehensive overview and framework of study of the politics of religious tourism. Existing work shows awareness that politics i……続きを見る

Drawing on international comparisons of data on happiness, this book offers both general and academic audiences a simple, deep, and honest answer to the timeless question: "What makes people happy"?……続きを見る

Are we seeing the presidentialization of politics in Japan? Certainly, many recent prime ministers have demonstrated powerful leadership, notably Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe. While the phenomen……続きを見る

This book focuses on the 3.11 disaster in Japan, involving a powerful earthquake and tsunami, from an anthropological perspective. It critically reflects on the challenges of conducting anthropologi……続きを見る

This book examines the demographic development of Russia from the late Russian Empire to the contemporary Russian Federation, and includes discussions of marriage patterns, fertility, mortality, and……続きを見る

The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich symbolism, yet most discussions on this kind of garden rarely provide more than a superficial overview. This book takes ……続きを見る

In the first book to focus on the experiences of older Americans of mixed race, Cathy J. Tashiro explores questions of identity and the significance of family experiences, aging and the life course,……続きを見る

This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance. Around 1500 an absolute majority of population was illiterate. Henry……続きを見る

Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players. H……続きを見る

Explores the trend of lifelong learning in Japan as a means to deal with risk in a neoliberal era. Akihiro Ogawa explores Japan's recent embrace of lifelong learning as a means by which a neoliberal……続きを見る

Shanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of t……続きを見る

Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failureーand what lessons they hold for today's world of growing extremism Why have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times ended in……続きを見る

In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The book is important both for what it reveals abou……続きを見る

In Social Economy in Asia: Realities and Perspectives, thirteen scholars from various academic disciplines analyze the reality and different understandings of the social economy in Asia. By providin……続きを見る

The current indicators used to measure the impact of science and technology in developing countries have been formulated based on conditions and assumptions that are primarily relevant to developed ……続きを見る

Taking mainly Japanese and other Asian case studies as examples, Ogino examines the motivations behind the preservation of objects and sites considered to be of cultural significance. Using mainly t……続きを見る

This title provides a systematic examination of the philosophy of Chinese art, exploring the peculiarity of artistic forms and distinctive conceptions and artistic principles of Chinese art which ar……続きを見る

This book explores social productivity in work teams on production sites, with an eye toward human welfare. It focuses especially on "sympathy management" by the use of multivariate analysis in a wo……続きを見る

Drawing interview material, together with extensive data from the authors’ original social movement database, this book examines the development of social movements in resistance to perceived politi……続きを見る

Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathe……続きを見る

Events in the Indian sub-continent during the 1970s, where, in the summer of 1975, the ruling party engineered a ‘constitutional’ coup by declaring a national emergency, re-emphasised the need for a……続きを見る

Genocide mass murder massacres. The words themselves are chilling evoking images of the slaughter of countless innocents. What dark impulses lurk in our minds that even today can justify the erad……続きを見る