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Chinese and Japanese music-dramas
Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas is the result of a conference on the relations between Chinese and Japanese music-drama held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on October 1–4, 1971. In addition to the Association for Asian Studies, four U-M departments participated in the conference: the Center for Japanese Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies, the School of Music, and the Speech …
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- 9780472901371
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- VIII, 255 p.
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- Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies, 19
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- 782.10951 CHI c
The Japanese automotive industry: model and challenge for the future?
As the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies reflected on the deteriorating position of the domestic auto industry in the fall of 1980, and the strong competitive threat being posed by the Japanese automakers, we were struck by the extraordinary low quality of the public discussion of these critical issues. The national importance of the issues seemed only matched by the superficia…
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- 9780472902033
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- ix, 147 p. ; 23 cm.
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- Michigan papers in Japanese studies ; no. 3
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- 338.4762920952 JAP j
The making of Japanese settler colonialism : Malthusianism and trans-Pacific …
This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation discourse as 'Malthusian expansionism'. This was a set of ideas that demanded additional land abroad to accommodate the supposed surplus people in domestic society on the one hand and …
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- 9781108687584
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- xv, 313p. : ill.
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- 304.8095209034 LU m
Beyond the limits to growth: new ideas for sustainability from Japan
At a time when contemporary challenges seem to many to be insurmountable, this book offers an optimistic view of the future and provides a road map for societies to get there. Drawing upon extensive research and many years as a thought leader in environmental and sustainability issues in Japan and internationally, Hiroshi Komiyama analyzes the most pressing challenges to the attainment of susta…
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- 9784431545590
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- 1 electronic resource (xxix, 103 pages )
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- Science for sustainable societies
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- 338.95207 KOM b
What is a family?: answers from early modern Japah
What is a family? The essays gathered here explore disparate family histories in early modern Japan, attending variously to the samurai elite, agrarian villagers, urban merchants, communities of out castes, and the circles surrounding priests, artists, and scholars. They draw on diverse sources—from population registers and legal documents to personal letters and diaries, from genealogies and…
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- 9780520974135
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- x, 291 hlm.
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- 306.850952 WHA w
Operations of the navy in the Dutch East Indies and the bay of Bengal
compiled by the War History Office of the National defense College of Japan ; edited and translated by Willem Remmelink.
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- 9789400602939
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- xxxiv, 742p : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
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- War history series ; volume 26
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- 940.5425 REM o
Stories that make history : the experience and memories of the Japanese milit…
What would it be like if your existence was erased for half a century? This is the reality for the Korean comfort girls-women whose lives had been erased since the time of the expansion of comfort stations by the Japanese military in 1937. This book is an effort to bring these women back to life and to make their voices, experiences and memories available to future generations. The experiences …
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- 9783110670523
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- XXX, 304 p.
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- Genocide and Mass Violence in the Age of Extremes, 3
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- 952 STO s
Rules of the house: family law and domestic disputes in colonial Korea
Rules of the House examines the transformation of the Korean family during and after Japanese colonial rule. Through in-depth reading of civil litigation records, the book shows how the Japanese colonial legal system transformed Korean families from the traditional patrilineal family system into small, patriarchal households. The new domestic pattern proved remarkably durable, forming the basis…
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- 9780520972506
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- xi, 174p.: ill.
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- 346.51901509041 LIM r
Radiological issues for Fukushima's revitalized future
This book overviews environmental issues 4 years after the Fukushima nuclear accident, covering a wide range of areas related to radiation and radioactivity. The topics discussed are necessary to make clear the relationship between the results of research and Fukushima’s revitalized future. The chapters are divided into four parts: Part 1 presents the identification of radionuclides in soil a…
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- 9784431558484
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- xiii, 232p. : ill.
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- 363.738 RAD r
invasion of the Dutch East Indies
compiled by the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan ; edited and translated by Willem Remmelink.Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan published the 102-volume Senshi Sōsho (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the S…
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- 9789400602298
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- xxxii, 640 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
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- War history series ; v. 3
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- 959.80224 REM i
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