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Yuiko Asaba
Tango in Japan

Why do Japanese people love tango? Starting with this question, which the author frequently received while working as a tango violinist in Argentina, Tango in Japan reveals histories and ethnographies of …

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Simon Avenell
A History of Postwar Japan

This sweeping history tells the story of contemporary Japan from its defeat in the Asia-Pacific War in 1945 until the early decades of the new millennium. How did the Japanese people deal with the collaps…

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Simon Avenell
A History of Postwar Japan

This sweeping history tells the story of contemporary Japan from its defeat in the Asia-Pacific War in 1945 until the early decades of the new millennium. How did the Japanese people deal with the collaps…

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Joel Bradshaw
Numbami Grammar in Ethnohistorical Context

The Numbami language is a small isolate, tied to only one coastal village, within the Huon Gulf family of Austronesian languages in Papua New Guinea. It is currently classified as threatened, with roughly…

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W Puck Brecher
Loving and Loathing Wildlife in Japan

For over a century, Japan has vexed and disappointed its Western allies by resisting their efforts to protect biodiversity. Consequently, foreign critics have long derided Japan as "the world's bolde…

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Peter J Oluloa Britos
Valley of Spiraling Winds

In the mystical Valley of Spiraling Winds, deep in the mountains of Koʻolaupoko, Oʻahu, old memories stir.Hawaiian writer Peter Britos explores the roots of contemporary Hawaiʻi through the lens of a dyst…

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Maryann Bylander
The Trade-Offs of Legal Status

The Trade-Offs of Legal Status explores the costs, risks, and unfreedoms produced alongside legal status in Southeast Asia. In 2017, Thailand's military government enacted a new migration law cracking dow…

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Nien Yuan Cheng
The Storytelling State

In The Storytelling State, Cheng Nien Yuan, a Singaporean performance scholar and dramaturg, charts Singapore's development into a storytelling state since the 2010s. In such a state, public (auto)biograp…

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Céline Coderey
The Power of Remainder

In The Power of Remainder , Céline Coderey redefines how we understand health, healing, and marginality in Myanmar. Focusing on the Buddhist communities of Rakhine, she explores their rich and diverse &qu…

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Stephen G Covell
The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple Buddhis…

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Robert Cribb, Sandra Wilson
Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away

In Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away , Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson tell the stories of twelve people who were convicted of war crimes in Allied courts in the Asia-Pacific region after …

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Kathryn Dyt
The Nature of Kingship

The Nature of Kingship is an innovative exploration of dynastic power and the environment in nineteenth-century Vietnam. It offers important insights into Vietnamese kingship by delving into the intricate…

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Stephen Eskildsen,
Daoism, Internal Alchemy, and the Wonders of Serenity

Simply keeping the mind clear and calm was, for many post-Tang Daoists, the path to eternal life and freedom. Through sheer serenity, practitioners believed they could attain immunity to hunger, eliminate…

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Benjamin Fairfield
Kani Ka ʻŌpala

A story and hands-on exploration of music made from rubbish!"What is garbage?" Asks Baba. "Garbage is something nobody wants or needs," I say. "It's junk! Rubbish! Trash! Somethin…

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Bernard Faure
From Stars to Stones

Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, From Stars to Stones is the fourth installment of a multivolume project that promises to be a milestone in our understanding of the mythico-rit…

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Jane M Ferguson
Silver Screens and Golden Dreams

In a tour-de-force study of sixty years of cinematic entertainment, Silver Screens and Golden Dreams traces the veins of Burmese popular movies across three periods in history: the colonial era, the parli…

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Janet R Goodwin
Dodging and Confronting Stigma

Dodging and Confronting Stigma examines the lives of people who were stigmatized or marginalized in Japan's late classical and medieval ages. Often characterized as beggars, they in fact pursued a wide ra…

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Alexandra Harrer,
Dougong

"This is the first English-language study devoted to dougong, the block-bracket cluster widely regarded as the epitome of traditional Chinese architecture. For almost two millennia, dougong have been…

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Teru Hasegawa,
Whispers from a Storm

A collection of political writing by the Japanese human rights activist and Esperantist Hasegawa Teru.

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Teru Hasegawa,
Whispers from a Storm

Whispers from a Storm is a collection of political writing by the Japanese human rights activist and Esperantist Hasegawa Teru (1912--1947). In 1937, the twenty-five-year-old Hasegawa sailed from her home…

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