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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (2): 371–373.
Published: 01 February 1979
...Merle Goldman The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution . By Chen Jo-hsi . Translated from the Chinese by Nancy Ing and Howard Goldblatt. Introduction by Simon Leys. Bloomington, Indiana, and London : Indiana University Press , 1978 . xxviii...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 269–271.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Michael Lewis The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865–1925 . By Simon Partner . Berkeley and Los Angles : University of California Press , 2009 . xi , 230 pp. $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Simon...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (3): 650–652.
Published: 01 May 1981
...William J. Siffin Interaction in the Thai Bureaucracy: Structure, Culture, and Social Exchange . By David F. Haas . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1979 . xii , 180 pp. Appendixes, References, Tables, Figures. $18. Mayors and Managers in Thailand: The Struggle for Political Life...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 12 (2): 183–202.
Published: 01 February 1953
... (Japan Tax Association) at Tōkyō in 1950, 92 pp. 17 This statement ignores for lack of space the not infrequent cases where mayors are largely honorary officials and their powers are actually wielded by members of their professional staff. 16 Roppō zensho , op. cit., section...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (4): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 1974
.... The foregoing argument has elsewhere been more fully elaborated and supported by two different kinds of data. I carried out a survey of the elected Mayors of all towns in two Philippine provinces13 and a comparative study of changing patterns of leadership and organization in six of those towns14 in 1969-1970...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (2): 185–199.
Published: 01 February 1956
... ], Statistical Part, p. 6 ; those for 1954 on the monthly publication of the National Association of City Mayors, Shisei , III (May 1954 ), 2 . The terms “living in cities” and “living in towns and villages” have been used to denote what Japanese statistics usually call shibu and gumbu . Because...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1952) 11 (2): 183–206.
Published: 01 February 1952
... and was twice elected Mayor of Baybay), Torres was educated at Leyte High School and the University of the Philippines and directly entered the teaching profession. He promptly won recognition as an educator, advancing from high school teacher to supervising teacher at Carigara and then Academic Supervisor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 947–966.
Published: 01 November 1997
... reciprocity. Electoral politics thus works through patron-client networks, stretching from tenants to landlords and barrio-level ward liders to mayors, congressmen, provincial governors, senators, and presidents (Grossholtz 1964; Hollnsteiner 1963; Lande 1964). Consistently bifactional competition between...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (3): 243–262.
Published: 01 May 1945
... of the Census within their [respective] hsien and banners. ARTICLE 9. The Mayor of Hsinking Special Municipality shall be in charge of the carrying out of the Census within his [jurisdictional] area upon receiving the order of the Prime Minister; the mayors of other municipalities and the Mayor of the town...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 345–359.
Published: 01 May 2012
... those from towns that would eventually be declared unsafe—together with others who chose to leave different parts of Fukushima because of radiation are the so-called “voluntary” evacuees. On November 28, 2011, Iitate's Mayor Kanno Norio told me that by his count the number of his town's registered...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 614–615.
Published: 01 May 2003
... from Seki's youth to the theoretical works of his early career and to his achievements as vice mayor and later mayor of Osaka. Refusing to use portraits as decorations, Hanes transforms the biographic introduction into an intriguing view of Seki's formative years. Through the lens of Meiji-era studio...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (4): 826–828.
Published: 01 August 1980
... 826 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES single party. In fact, the dictates of coalition politics and policy constraints led the successful local administrations toward the political center. Thus, both conservative Mayor Yabe of Fuchu and Socialist Mayor Goto of Musashino have cooperated with the center...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 612–614.
Published: 01 May 2003
... the introduction through six chapters, taking the reader from Seki's youth to the theoretical works of his early career and to his achievements as vice mayor and later mayor of Osaka. Refusing to use portraits as decorations, Hanes transforms the biographic introduction into an intriguing view of Seki's formative...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 683–705.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of town leaders in the 1970s—in particular the merchants' reference to “out-migration to other provinces.” Interestingly, the mayor of Kaminoseki from 1971 to 1983, the late Kanō Shin, was himself the sixth-generation head of a merchant household that had prospered greatly in the Tokugawa period but hit...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1954) 13 (2): 175–190.
Published: 01 February 1954
... There are 30 buraku within its boundaries. II The chief executive of a village is the headman or mayor {soncho). One of the major changes in post-war Japan in local administration was the changing of the method of selecting the soncho from nomination by the village assembly (songikai) to open election...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1256–1257.
Published: 01 November 2009
... study of mayors mainly relies on biographical notices published by the Chinese Urban Development Research Council, and his analysis of village cadres on local yearbooks in Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province. It is encouraging that these easily available materials are able to support rigorous statistical analysis...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1948) 7 (2): 136–164.
Published: 01 February 1948
... area of a gun and are administered by city officials under supervision of the ken. Mayors of cities and headmen of towns and villages were virtually appointed by the governor. Government at the city, town, and village levels (and ku ]g leyels in the "Six Great Cities" and other large cities)4...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 294–295.
Published: 01 February 1997
... of an uncertain future, John returned to the United States in 1992, to become an American citizen, as an advisor on Asian affairs for the San Francisco Mayor's Office as well as an interpreter and translator for the mayor and the local media. Like other members of his distinguished family, Gladys and Xianyi Yang...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (4): 823–826.
Published: 01 August 1980
... the successful local administrations toward the political center. Thus, both conservative Mayor Yabe of Fuchu and Socialist Mayor Goto of Musashino have cooperated with the center, and the former's policies have proved more progressive and the latter's more conservative than might have been expected. In the end...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (2): 119–126.
Published: 01 February 1945
... time banua, the ancient leaders of the people. They may be called municipal district mayors and vice-mayors and councillors now, but a provincial administrator does not last long who fails to combine the two sets of titles in one set of men. Although the Taw Sug and Samal, and even the Yakan...