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In Godzilla's footsteps Japanese pop culture icons on the global stage /

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Shakespeare in Japan by Kishi, Tetsuo, 1935-

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history Japan.…”
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Personal, portable, pedestrian mobile phones in Japanese life /

Table of Contents: “…Discourses of keitai in Japan / Misa Matsuda -- Youth culture and the shaping of Japanese mobile media: personalization and the keitai internet as multimedia / Tomoyuki Okada -- A decade in the development of mobile communications in Japan (1993-2002) / Kenji Kohiyama -- The third-stage paradigm: territory machines from the girls' pager revolution to mobile aesthetics / Kenichi Fujimoto -- Japanese youth and the imagining of keitai / Haruhiro Kato -- Mobile communication and selective sociality / Misa Matsuda -- The mobile-izing Japanese: connecting to the internet by pc and webphone in Yamanashi / Kakuko Miyata, ...…”
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Soft power superpowers cultural and national assets of Japan and the United States /

Table of Contents: “…-Japanese relations : a vehicle of soft power in historical perspective / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu -- American pop culture as soft power : movies and boradcasting / Matthew Fraser -- Wielding soft power : the key stages of transmission and reception / Kondo Seiichi -- Official soft power in practice : U.S. public diplomacy in Japan / William G. …”
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Material immaterial the new work of Kengo Kuma / by Bognár, Botond, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Kengo Kuma -- Materiality and immateriality in the architecture of Kengo Kuma / Botond Bognar : Architecture in the post-bubble era ; The early stages of Kuma's architecture ; "Particlization" and the blurring of architecture ; Minimalism and materiality ; Sensory design and Japanese traditions ; Urban-scale projects and public space ; In lieu of a conclusion -- Buildings and projects / Balázs Bognár : Old and new: redefining traditions : Waketokuyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo ; Cocon Karasuma, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto ; Ginzen Onsen Fujiya, Obanazawa, Yamagata Prefecture ; Sake No Hana, London ; Yien East/Archipelago, West Japan ; Cha Cha Moon, London -- Elements of organic architecture: building in wood : Yusuhara Town Hall, Yusuhara, Kochi Prefecture ; Y-Hutte, Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture ; Hoshinosato Annex, Kudamatsu, Yamaguchi Prefecture ; Ondo-cho CIvic Center, Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture ; JR Hoshakuji Station, Takanezawa, Tochigi Prefecture --…”
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Modern girls on the go gender, mobility, and labor in Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Yano -- Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman -- The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Frühstück -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siècle modern girls / Elise Edwards -- Miss Japan on the global stage : the journey of Ito Kinuko / Jan Bardsley -- Traveling to learn, learning to lead : Japanese women as American college students, 1900-1941 / Sally A. …”
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Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644 : Local Comparisons and Global Connections / by Tremml, Birgit

Table of Contents: “…The foundations of a global stage -- 3. The trilogy of triangular trade -- III. …”
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