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Brewed in Japan the evolution of the Japanese beer industry / by Alexander, Jeffrey W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: beer's evolution into a Japanese commodity -- Foreign influences: the origins of Japan's beer brewing industry, 1868-1906 -- Keeping up appearances: maintaining beer's German authenticity, 1906-36 -- Brewing self-sufficiency: beer, empire, and the wartime command economy, 1937-45 -- "The taste of home": beer as postwar Japanese commodity, 1945-72 -- Learning from Japan: "Orion beer" and Okinawan consumer identity, 1945-72 -- Indigenous brews: innovation, entrepreneurship, and beer's continuing evolution.…”
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Kimono in the boardroom the invisible evolution of Japanese women managers / by Renshaw, Jean R.

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The idea of English in Japan ideology and the evolution of a global language / by Seargeant, Philip

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The Buddhist goddess Marishiten : a study of the evolution and impact of her cult on the Japanese warrior / by Hall, David A.

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The business, life and letters of Frederick Cornes aspects of the evolution of commerce in modern Japan, 1861-1910 / by Davies, Peter N.

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Japan's financial crisis : institutional rigidity and reluctant change / by Amyx, Jennifer Ann

Table of Contents: “…Contours of Japan's financial policy networks -- part II. Evolution of network-based regulation -- part III. …”
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A diplomat in Japan by Satow, Ernest Mason, 1843-1929

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Going to Court to Change Japan : Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Steinhoff -- Karōshi activism and recent trends in Japanese civil society : creating credible knowledge and culture / Scott North -- Courting justice, contesting "bureaucratic informality" : the Sayama case and the evolution of Buraku liberation politics / John H. Davis, Jr. -- Becoming unforgettable : leveraging law for labor in struggles for employment security / Christena Turner -- Suing for redress : Japanese consumer organizations and the courts / Patricia L. …”
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Beyond Ainu studies : changing academic and public perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Hudson -- Trade and the paradigm shift in research on Ainu hunting practices / Deriha Kōji -- Our ancestors' handprints: the evolution of Ainu women's clothing culture / Tsuda Nobuko -- The gender of cloth: Ainu women and cultural revitalization / ann-elise lewallen -- From collecting words to writing grammars: a brief history of Ainu linguistics / Kirsten Refsing -- The Ainu, law, and legal mobilization, 1984-2009 / Georgina Stevens.…”
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The challenge of linear time : nationhood and the politics of history in East Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Viren Murthy, Axel Schneider -- [1] Time, history, and moral responsibility -- Negativity and historicist time : facticity and intellectual history of the 1930s / Naoki Sakai -- Ontological optimism, cosmological confusion, and unstable evolution : Tan Sitong's Renxue and Zhang Taiyan's response / Viren Murthy -- Nation, history and ethics : the choices of post-imperial historiography in China / Axel Schneider -- Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi and reading history / Sun Ge -- [2] The burden of the past and the hope for a better future -- An eschatological view of history : Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s / Takahiro Nakajima -- The campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius and the problem of "Restoration" in Chinese Marxist historiography / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- [3] Recollection of the past and the popularization of history -- Popular readings and wartime historical writings in modern China / Long-Hsin Liu -- Figuring history and horror in a provincial museum : the water dungeon, the rent collection courtyard, and the socialist undead / Haiyan Lee -- [4] History and the definition of spatial, cultural and temporal boundaries -- Revolution as restoration : meanings of "national essence" and "national learning" in Guocui Xuebao / Tze-Ki Hon -- Temporality of knowledge and history writing in early twentieth-century China : Liu Yizheng and The history of Chinese culture / Ya-Pei Kuo.…”
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Small houses : contemporary Japanese dwellings / by Hildner, Claudia

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Thought Crime : Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan / by Ward, Max M., 1973-

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