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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 309–313.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Steven Clark Ridgely The Aesthetics of Quietude: Ōta Shōgo and the Theatre of Divestiture . By Mari Boyd . Tokyo : Sophia University Press , 2006 . xii , 293 pp. ¥3,086 (cloth). Theorizing the Angura Space: Avant-Garde Performance and Politics in Japan, 1960–2000 . By Peter...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 926–927.
Published: 01 November 1992
...Yoshinobu Ota Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City . By Jennifer Robertson . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . xvii, 235 pp. $29.95. 926 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES discussed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 928–929.
Published: 01 November 1990
...Yuzo Ota 928 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES JAPAN Foreign Employees in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Edited by E D W A R D R. BEAUCHAMP and AKIRA IRIYE. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990. viii, 312 pp. $35.00. During the nineteenth century, from the closing years of the Tokugawa period, a large number...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 29–49.
Published: 01 February 1989
...John Whittier Treat Abstract In ōta yōko's (1903?–63) novel Han-ningen (Half-Human, 1954) the heroine, named Oda Atsuko, is like author Ōta herself a famous A-bomb writer suffering from severe depression. She enters the hospital in an attempt to cure an addiction to tranquilizers whose intemperate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (3): 499–517.
Published: 01 May 1979
... and educated townsmen classes, kyōshi ranged from silly puns and parodies of long-petrified Chinese verse forms to serious poems that used new subjects, language, and perceptions to revive the old genre, kanshi. Of the major poets, Ōta Nampo (Shokusanjin) of Edo, well-known as a master of kyōka, was equally...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (4): 918.
Published: 01 August 1968
...Thomas Winant Biruma ni okeru Nihon Gunsei-shi no Kenkyu. (Research in the History of the Japanese Military Administration of Burma) . By Tsunezo Ota . Tokyo : Yoshikawa Kobunkan , 1967 . ii, 586 pp. Chronology, Documents, Index. ¥ 2,800. Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 532–533.
Published: 01 May 1998
... into one of two categories. Some analyze Hearn's position between Japan and the West (Earl Miner, "Hearn and Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation"; George Hughes, "Lafcadio Hearn: Between Britain and Japan"; Yuzo Ota, "Lafcadio Hearn: Japan's Problematic Interpreter"; and Paul Murray, "Lafcadio Hearn's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 493–516.
Published: 01 May 2014
... culture. Ōta's unhappiness with the association of Okinawans with other primitive people was similar to the discontent of earlier Chinese protestors. One Chinese writer asserted that it was intolerable to be displayed side by side with races that were known to be inferior, such as “the Indians...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (4): 917–918.
Published: 01 August 1968
... in the History of the Japanese Military Administration of Burma). By TSUNEZO OTA. Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1967. ii, 586 pp. Chronology, Documents, Index. ¥ 2,800. In this book Professor Ota of Toyko Gakugei University has attempted to gather together the many sources on the Japanese occupation of Burma during...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 563–565.
Published: 01 May 2003
...) will be threatened if Futenma Air Base is relocated to an offshore site. Not the first postreversion governor of O k i n a w a - ^ to get face-to-face meetings with top officials of the U.S. Departments of Defense and State, Ota Masahide championed the aggrieved landowners still prominent in the Movement...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (4): 918–920.
Published: 01 August 1968
... of the Archives of the Ateneo de Manila. Syracuse University DONN V. HART Biruma ni okeru Nihon Gunsei-shi no Kenkyu. (Research in the History of the Japanese Military Administration of Burma). By TSUNEZO OTA. Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1967. ii, 586 pp. Chronology, Documents, Index. ¥ 2,800. In this book...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 452–454.
Published: 01 May 1997
..., that this is a text about AIDS, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki. Nor can one say, theoretically, that this text discusses the figures of Nishida Philosophy, Ota Yoko, Takenishi Hiroko, Michel Foucault, David Wojnarowicz, and Sue Golding. These names, these figures, play centrally, but the cast is parodic, curious, and polemic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 1.
Published: 01 February 1989
... for excellence in painting. The next three articles offer a variety of approaches to three topics in postwar Japanese literature. J O H N WHITTIER TREAT explores three of Ota Yoko's book-length works in an attempt to understand what happens when such literary subgenres as the testimonial novel, the documentary...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 27–28.
Published: 01 February 1989
... into the international economic community. As the three articles that follow demonstrate, Japanese writers have responded to their country's special position in a number of ways. Writers like Ota Yoko have sought new narrative methods to describe their experience. Others, such as Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo, have...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 553–554.
Published: 01 May 1998
... counterparts, so a firm of 300 employees is not really so small. However, the "small" firms on which Whittaker focuses are truly small, generally with fewer than 20 employees and owner managed for the most part. Whittaker looked at two districts where small firms clustered: Ota City in Gumma Prefecture...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (3): 942–943.
Published: 01 August 1994
... essay by Henry D. Smith II situates the floating world in its Edo locale between 1750 and 1850. The literature of wit and humor in the late eighteenth century is next examined by Haruko Iwasaki in an essay that concentrates especially on the contributions of Ota Nampo (1749-1823) and Santo Kyoden (1761...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 39 (1): 171–172.
Published: 01 November 1979
... generation's understanding of religious reality to accord with the facts of the contemporary world" (p. 92); by Takeshi Nishida that Kinoshita became interested in Oliver Cromwell "during the critical years between childhood and adolescence" (p. 70); and by Yuzo Ota that Kagawa suffered a "deprivation of love...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 565–566.
Published: 01 May 2003
... does not mention the defeat of two-term governor Ota Masahide. In that election, many Okinawans experienced economic uncertainty as part of the Asian financial crisis exacerbated by the Liberal Democratic Party's unwillingness to accommodate the antibases governor. In neighborhoods abutting military...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1469–1471.
Published: 01 November 2008
... ways of engaging primary source material that could be adapted for advanced high school courses and warrant inclusion in the NCTA's listings of curriculum materials. One example is “The Atomic Body” in chapter 5, which includes a six-page list and discussion of recurring images in Ôta Yôko's work...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (3): 396–397.
Published: 01 May 1962
... architects and builders. But the largest city in the world, where ten percent of the Japanese population resides, which has been since the beginning of the seventeenth century the true political capital of the country, certainly deserves more of our attention and our scholarship. After 1456, when Ota...