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Scott W Aalgaard
Homesick Blues

Homesick Blues explores how artists, fans, amateur practitioners, and others have used music to tell stories of everyday life in Japan from the late 1940s to 2018, a practice that author Scott Aalgaard ca…

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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 ethnographi…

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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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Anne M Blackburn
Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties Across the Indian Ocean

Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties across the Indian Ocean draws attention to the varied, historically contingent, and sometimes competing, arguments for and about sovereignty that operated in the Pali aren…

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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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Roger Casas,
Worldly Engagements

The Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna, located in China's southern Yunnan province, is the largest community of Theravada Buddhists in a country where the Mahayana tradition is dominant. In recent decades, and in …

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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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Sungdai Cho, Hee Chung Chun, Ji-Young Jung, Kijoo Ko
Integrated Korean

This is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: High Advanced 1 , the ninth volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. Al…

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Sungdai Cho, Hee Chung Chun, Ji-Young Jung, Kijoo Ko
Integrated Korean

This is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: High Advanced 2 , the tenth volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. Al…

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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, a geopolitically peripheral state, she …

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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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Annika A Culver
Democratizing Luxury

Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to …

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Treasury of the True Dharma Eye

"This publication represents an English rendering of one of the great classics of Japanese Buddhism, the Shåobåogenzåo, by Dåogen (1200-1253), founder of the Såotåo Zen school. The translation was pr…

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Yi Ding,
Observances, Feasts, and Scripts

Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is the first monograph written in English to offer a comprehensive analysis of the varieties of zhai, a multifaceted term with deep historical and religious significance i…

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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 int…

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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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