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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (2): 305–322.
Published: 01 May 1990
... the dilemma quickly took on a note of desperation: in the first twenty years of the Meiji era, the government radically altered the system of local administration four times. The Second Transition: Early to Mid-Meiji in Kanagawa Prefecture NEIL L. WATERS IT is NO EASY MATTER for a government seeking to foster...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 997–999.
Published: 01 November 1996
...M. William Steele The Meiji Unification through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefecture . By James C. Baxter . Harvard University Press , 1994 . xvi, 358 pp. $38.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 997 In various useful appendices...
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in Blazing Pelts and Burning Passions: Nationalism, Cultural Politics, and Spectacular Decommodification in Tibet
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2013
Video 2. Participants of the fourth Khampa Arts festival, Kardzé Prefecture, in 2004, heavily adorned with jewelry and pelts. Clip from Meili Ganzi ( Enchanting Ganzi ), Sichuan Publishing Group. (view video here )
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1950) 9 (3): 231–244.
Published: 01 May 1950
..., politics ( New York , 1939 ), 29 – 32 . 3 The Ministry of Home Affairs (Naimusho) was dissolved June 27, 1947. A local autonomy-committee was appointed to co-ordinate and supervise the decentralization process. The three members of the committee are: one cabinet minister, one prefectural...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1944) 3 (4): 313–361.
Published: 01 August 1944
... in 1925.] 10 [Counting from the traditional date of Jimmu Tennô's accession, February 11, 660 B. C.] 11 From the standpoint of population phenomena, Niigata prefecture would be included in the Tôhoku region; the three prefectures of Toyama, Ishikawa, and Fukui would constitute Hokuriku...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 309–326.
Published: 01 February 1970
.... The prefecture (the kun , or county) became the most important administrative unit. Through collectivization of farms and accompanying administrative reorganization, the ri (the precinct) was transformed from a purely administrative unit to a production unit. The functions traditionally performed by the People's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 62–87.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Kevin Kind Abstract This article draws on archival materials from late Qing Turpan Prefecture to explore Qing colonialism within the context of mass vaccination efforts in Xinjiang from 1880 to 1911. Following the reconquest of the region in 1877, Xiang Army leaders established official vaccination...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 347–362.
Published: 01 February 1970
.... This was confirmed by an analysis of all increases and decreases in operations at the prefectural level—the level at which integration had been critical. The second major change occurred between 1884—1889 as the result of a series of reforms aimed at rationalizing the bureaucratic role. Analysis of the backgrounds...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1079–1108.
Published: 01 November 2003
... between four and seven thousand Yunnan Hui—men, women, and children—burned the city's mosques to the ground, and posted orders to exterminate the Hui in every prefecture, department, and district in Yunnan (QPHF 1968, 6:20a, 8:4a; Gui 1953, 73). This massacre and the widespread attacks that followed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 845–853.
Published: 01 November 1993
...Tetsuo Najita Abstract I should like to share with you some thoughts about modernity and modernization that are drawn from notes I took during a visit in October 1992 to Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. I report from these notes mainly as a historian and partly as an amateur...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (4): 749–759.
Published: 01 August 1971
... is without factual substance—land productivity was probably the highest in the kinki region (prefectures of Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Wakayama, Mie, Hyogo, and Shiga), but this region was the last place where farming technology could have been bottled up. The han governments could not set up effective artificial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 805–834.
Published: 01 August 2009
... on democracy and waste control. Relying on the idea of “purity” (jôka), these women gendered the discourse of democracy along the divide of “pure” women and “impure” men, and succeeded, to a certain extent, in eliminating corrupt officials from the Tokyo prefectural and city assemblies. Yet their efforts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 24–44.
Published: 01 February 1994
...Stefan Tanaka Abstract A commission sponsored by the meiji government and headed by Okakura Tenshin (Kakuzō), Kanō Tessai, and Ernest F. Fenollosa traveled to Nara Prefecture in 1884 to catalog the important artifacts in temples and shrines. Fenollosa's later description of an event of this trip...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (2): 185–199.
Published: 01 February 1956
... had the legal denomination of a city. In 1950 of Japan's 46 prefectures there were five in which the population living in cities outnumbered the populations of towns and villages; in April 1953 their number had risen to seven. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 1...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Erik Mueggler Abstract In 1533, Lady Qu, native prefect of Wuding Prefecture in northern Yunnan, sponsored the inscription of two texts on a cliff face at the center of her domain. One was in Nasu, the language of the ruling lineage; the other was in Chinese. Both commemorated the long, powerful...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1109–1142.
Published: 01 November 2003
... chieftainships of Yongchang {Prefecture}). In Qingjingshi wenbian (Collected writings on statecraft from the Qing dynasty), Edited by Changling Ho Vol. 3. Beijing : Zhonghua shuju . Liu Cheng-Yun. 1985 . “ Kuo-lu: A Sworn Brotherhood Organization in Szechuan .” Late Imperial China 6 ( 1...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 12 (2): 183–202.
Published: 01 February 1953
... that the new Local Autonomy Law and related acts have been remarkably successful in decentralizing 'This paper is based primarily on research carried on by the author throughout the year 1950 in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. During most of that period he served as Field Director of the University of Michigan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 510–512.
Published: 01 May 1999
... (cloth). In Environmental Politics in Japan, Jeffrey Broadbent traces in considerable detail the long struggle over industry and pollution between local government officials and residents in the rural Kyushu prefecture of Oita from the 1950s through the 1970s. The prefectural government officials...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (2): 273–291.
Published: 01 February 1978
... of Asahi Shinbun ) and three regional newspapers ( Hokkaidō Shinbun in Sapporo, Chūbu Nippon Shinbun in Nagoya, and Nishi Nippon Shinbun in Fukuoka)—all published at the regional centers of the nation. Then, for each incident thus identified, there was a check of a prefectural newspaper from one month...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1948) 7 (2): 136–164.
Published: 01 February 1948
..., Inc. 1948 1948 1 The governments of prefectures, cities, and towns had a small degree of local determination, which, when compared with similar echelons of government in the United States, is negligible. Some observers have believed that the reorganization of Japanese Government into nine...
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