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Taiko boom Japanese drumming in place and motion / by Bender, Shawn Morgan

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Japan : economic success and legal system /

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The Randori principles the path to effortless leadership / by Baum, David H.

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Cultivating spirituality a modern Shin Buddhist anthology /

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Five days in August how World War II became a nuclear war / by Gordin, Michael D.

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Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism

Table of Contents: “…Ruppert -- Collective suicide at the funeral of Jitsunyo : mimesis or solidarity / Mark L. Blum -- At the crossroads of birth and death : the blood pool hell and postmortem fetal extraction / Hank Glassman -- Funerary Zen : Sōtō Zen death management in Tokugawa Japan / Duncan Ryūken Williams -- The structure of Japanese Buddhist funerals / Mariko Namba Walter -- The price of naming the deat : posthumous precept names and critiques of contemporary Japanese Buddhism / Stephen G. …”
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Reprogramming Japan : the high tech crisis under communitarian capitalism / by Anchordoguy, Marie

Table of Contents: “…-- Software : programmed for failure -- Semiconductors : from boom to bust -- Crisis in communitarian capitalism.…”
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Showa Japan the post-war golden age and its troubled legacy / by Brinckmann, Hans, 1932-

Table of Contents: “…The breathless eighties : from boom to bust -- pt. 3. The Magellan decade : a post-bubble x-ray -- pt. 4. …”
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Alegal : Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life /

Table of Contents: “…Japan in the 1950s : symbolic victims -- Okinawa, 1945-1952 : allegories of becoming -- Okinawa, 1952-1958 : solidarity under the cover of darkness -- Okinawa, 1958-1972 : the subaltern speaks -- Okinawa, 1972-1995 : life that matters.…”
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Alegal : Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life /

Table of Contents: “…Japan in the 1950s : symbolic victims -- Okinawa, 1945-1952 : allegories of becoming -- Okinawa, 1952-1958 : solidarity under the cover of darkness -- Okinawa, 1958-1972 : the subaltern speaks -- Okinawa, 1972-1995 : life that matters.…”
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Japanese documentary film the Meiji era through Hiroshima / by Nornes, Markus

Table of Contents: “…A prehistory of the Japanese documentary -- The innovation of Prokino -- A hardening of style -- Stylish charms: when hard style becomes hard reality -- The last stand of theory -- Kamei Fumio: editing under pressure -- After apocalypse: obliteration of the nation.…”
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Erotic grotesque nonsense the mass culture of Japanese modern times / by Silverberg, Miriam Rom, 1951-2008

Table of Contents: “…Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.…”
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The tales of the Heike

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- book 1: The bells of Gion Monastery ; Night attack at Courtiers' Hall ; The sea bass ; Page-boy cuts ; Kiyomori's flowering fortunes ; Giō -- book 2: The admonition ; Signal fires ; The death of the senior counselor ; Yasuyori's prayer -- book 3: The pardon ; The foot-drumming ; Ariō ; The death of Shunkan -- book 4: The battle at the bridge -- book 5: The burning of Nara -- book 6: The death of Kiyomori -- book 7: Sanemori ; Tadanori leaves the capital ; The flight from Fukuhara -- book 8 [summary] -- book 9: The death of Lord Kiso ; The old horse ; The attack from the cliff ; The death of Tadanori ; The capture of Shigehira ; The death of Atsumori -- book 10: Regarding the precepts ; Senju-no-mae ; Yokobue ; Koremori becomes a monk ; Koremori drowns himself -- book 11: The death of Tsuginobu ; Nasu no Yoichi ; The lost bow ; The cockfights and the battle of Dan-no-ura ; Far-flying arrows ; The drowning of the former emperor -- book 12: The execution of Rokudai -- The initiates' book: The imperial lady becomes a nun ; The move to Ōhara ; The retired emperor visits Ōhara ; The six paths of existence ; The death of the imperial lady -- Glossary of characters.…”
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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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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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Faces of aging the lived experiences of the elderly in Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Successful aging through participation in social activities among senior citizens : becoming photographers / Keiko Takahashi, M. Tokoro, and G. …”
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Secret wars and secret policies in the Americas, 1842-1929 by Schuler, Friedrich Engelbert, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Before European and Japanese governments manipulated immigrants in the Americas -- Becoming useful : the first Japanese and German experiments with ethnic manipulations in the West -- Mexico discovers Japan as a potential strategic wedge against the United States -- [pt.] …”
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Race for empire Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II / by Fujitani, Takashi

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Placing Empire : Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan / by McDonald, Kate, 1981-

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Japan's open future an agenda for global citizenship / by Haffner, John

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