A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Jap an significantly over the past decades. But so, it must be said, has Japan influenced a variety of critical global developments - globalization is not a one-way street, particularly for a nation as economically influential an d technologically advanced as Japan. The chapters in this collection examin e the impact of globalization on Japan and the impact of Japan on the force s... View More...
Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific provides a broad framework for examining Japan's foreign policy. Leading scholars look at convergence and divergence of interests among Japanese and American policy actors, gove rnmental and non-governmental, as well as domestic and transnational actors . The contributors examine the role of US pressure and its interaction with Japan's domestic and Japan-based transnational actors' interests through g eographically and thematically focused case studies on foreign aid, economi c policy, and military security. View More...
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Out of the ashes of World War II, Japan has risen to become the second-grea test economic force in the free world - at once our most essential ally in the Far East and our most ferocious economic competitor. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Japan's Sex Trade" offers a probing, step by step tour of the country's astonishing professional sex scene: salacious soaplands, hedonistic health clubs, and startling S&M snackbars, as well as the colorful characters who populate them and the off-color language they use. Highlighted are menus of the sexual services offered in each particular area of the red-light"floating worlds" with all specialties unblushingly detailed.As the reader journeys from... View More...
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A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Japanese society is often referred to as an example of a homogeneous culture moderated by an ethos of groupism. Yet often enough homogeneity is its own worst enemy as norms are required and enforced at the centre of power to the detriment of individual and human rights. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Much of the existing literature on happiness in Japan has been produced in the field of economics and psychology and is quantitative in nature. Here, for the first time, a group of anthropologists and sociologists jointly ana lyze the state of happiness and unhappiness in Japan among varying social g roups in its physical, interpersonal, existential and structural dimensions , offering new insights into fundamental issues. This book investigates the c... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong--more than four times the size of the American mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most Westerners. Yakuza is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Originally published in 1986, it was so controversial in Japan that... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Japan's relations with its closest neighbors, China and Korea, are tense - exacerbated by disputes over territorial issues and the unresolved trauma of a tumultuous twentieth-century history. In this book, the author, a veteran Japanese diplomat, examines his nation's relations with its East Asian neighbors along a temporal axis stretching back some two thousand years, a perspective he feels is essential to the construction of a new Asian diplomacy. ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations ? View or edit your browsing history After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The rise of Japan from agrarianism to a position as one of the leading indu strial powers is one of the most dramatic and meaningful phenomena in econo mic history. Professor Lockwood, assistant director of the Woodrow Wilson S chool of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University, lucidly describes this astonishing transformation, analyzes the factors involved (c apital, technology, foreign trade, the role of the state, etc.), and discus ... View More...
A thoughtful, illuminating exploration of modern Japanese politics and cult ure through the eyes of an investigative reporter Dreux Richard presents post-Fukushima Japan in three illustrative parts. He follows members of Japan's Nigerian community, whose struggles with a host ile immigration system lead to the death of a Nigerian immigrant in a Japan ese detention center, investigated here for the first time. In Japan's nort hernmost city, Richard goes door to door with the region's youngest census employee, meeting the city's elderly residents and documenting the stories that comprise the nat... View More...
