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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 916–918.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Hiroshi Shimizu Choose and Focus: Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century . By Ulrike Schaede . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2008 . ix , 291 pp. $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Japan experienced great...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 346–366.
Published: 01 May 1994
... kyōgikai . Rethinking Modernization and Modernity in Japanese History: A Focus on State-Society Relations SHELDON GARON A HERE WAS A TIME, NOT so LONG AGO, when the primary fault line in American studies of Japan lay not between "Japan-bashers" and "Japanapologists," but between those who presented...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (2): 448–449.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Leonard J. Schoppa Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 Power, Economics, and Security: The United States and Japan in Focus . Edited by Henry Bienen . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1992 . xii, 336 pp. $65.00. 448 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES sites...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 20 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 November 1960
...Donn V. Hart Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 Focus on the Barrio. The Story Behind the Birth of the Philippine Community Development Program under President Magsaysay . By Jose V. Abueva . Manila : University of the Philippines, Institute of Pub-lie...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1077–1104.
Published: 01 November 2009
... groups in Tobelo society are attempting to revive previously marginalized adat practices as a way to facilitate reconciliation between Muslim and Christian communities. Those involved in these efforts believe that a revitalization of adat will shift people's focus of identity from their religion...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 24 (1): 75–90.
Published: 01 November 1964
...William R. Roff Abstract Much attention has been devoted, by scholars and others, to the dramatic growth of Singapore in the latter part of the nineteenth century, as a great commercial entrepôt, as a flourishing city of tens of thousands of Chinese migrants, and as the maritime focus of two...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 641–656.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung Abstract Myanmar has been conventionally regarded as one of the most repressive countries in the world. As a result, many scholars, journalists, and human rights organizations understandably focus their attention on the draconian policies of the Myanmarese military regime...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 565–586.
Published: 01 August 1992
... of men. Reading the Woman's Body Let us focus this investigation on the following passage from Volume II, which occurs in a section of text describing the degeneration overtaking Yanagibashi after the Meiji Restoration in a concatenation of episodes. In the passage, which focuses on a pregnant geisha...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 793–817.
Published: 01 November 1991
...Mariko Asano Tamanoi Abstract Komori is a generic term that consists of a noun, ko (a child), and a verb, moru (to protect or to take care of); Japanese use it to refer to any person, male or female, old or young, who takes care of children. This article will focus on the young girls, hired...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 29 (1): 23–33.
Published: 01 November 1969
... historians to focus attention to the dramatic May Fourth Movement of 1919 as the great divide in the cultural transformation of modern China. This tendency resulted in a widespread impression that during the May Fourth period there was a cataclysmic release of new cultural forces which made a clean sweep...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 391–397.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... In the years since its publication, and despite this seemingly delimited focus, The Moral Economy of the Peasant has generated considerable ripples of its own, energizing the waters through which it has moved over the last four decades. A number of excellent reviews have delved deeply into the origins...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 633–658.
Published: 01 August 2020
... engagement of American actors with Indian elite formations and modifications to the agrarian projects contingent upon those interactions. A focus on the Americanist drive for agrarian modernization in India allows for exploring the distinct cultural location of modernization in a long-term perspective...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 333–361.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Michiko Suzuki Abstract The kimono is often overlooked in the study of modern Japanese literature. Yet it plays a vital role in representing character, symbolizing critical aspects of the narrative, and illuminating historical and social contexts. Here I focus on Kimono (1965–68), an unfinished...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (4): 613–635.
Published: 01 August 1965
... and well defined rural social groups, namely, the cultivators and the moneylenders. This paper will focus on the social changes which precipitated this conflict. I shall also attempt to link these changes with the social ideals and the political objectives which inspired the new rulers of Maharashtra...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1954) 13 (2): 175–190.
Published: 01 February 1954
...Paul S. Dull Abstract The basic unit for economic and social activities in rural Japan is the buraku , a cluster of houses, surrounding rice fields, and, very often, a small acreage of forest land. Although the buraku has had no legal status, since the war, it remains as the focus of loyalty...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1954) 14 (1): 37–53.
Published: 01 November 1954
...Richard K. Beardsley Abstract Studies of Japan and the Japanese have tended to deal in large proportion with phenomena and problems of the nation as a whole rather than with its component parts. In contrast, community studies focus upon some of the smallest social units of a nation. Community...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (2): 161–168.
Published: 01 February 1955
... here has been the growth, especially during and since World War II, of so-called “area” studies which focus various disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches upon a region. Furthermore, the region which has constituted perhaps the most active front for such experiments in coordination is the Far...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (4): 479–488.
Published: 01 August 1955
...) by a characteristic cycle in the whole political and economic order of the nation: from successful adjustment and control to maladjustment and chaos. The end of each cycle, if we focus our attention only on these factors, leaves Chinese society much as it was at the end of the cycle before. But this perspective tends...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 24 (1): 63–73.
Published: 01 November 1964
.... There followed a deluge. The focus of this paper is on the Japanese policy which, it is submitted, was primarily responsible for the defeat of the monarchical plan. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 53 Inouye to Ishii, November 26, 1915, JFMA, PVM 12, p. 6351. 54...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 943–951.
Published: 01 November 2017
... this history into focus. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017 Engseng Ho proposes that “the study of Asia, thought of as an Inter-Asian space, and smaller than the whole globe, can provide tractable concepts for a new round of research to shed light on the social shapes...