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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 488–492.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in Phoebe Holdrün and Barbara Holthus's essay on mothers in the Chiyoda-ku Group to Protect Children (Chiyoda-ku kodomo mamoru kai). Although their advocacy for radiation monitoring confirms Kimura's point about postfeminism by not venturing beyond gendered parameters, it does so with keen appreciation...
View articletitled, Co-opted Disasters: Japan's Rightward Shift and a Scholarship of Counter-Engagement - <span class="search-highlight">Radiation</span> Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima and Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan: Political, Religious and Sociocultural Responses
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Radiation and Revolution
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 732–735.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Christine L. Marran Radiation and Revolution . By Sabu Kohso . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020 . xiii, 216 pp. ISBN: 9781 478011002. © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Sabu Kohso's Radiation and Revolution uses crucial concepts in explaining how the knot...
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“Fukushima Hospital Public Lecture Series on Radiation. Lecture: ‘Can't Sle...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 May 2012
Figure 2. “Fukushima Hospital Public Lecture Series on Radiation. Lecture: ‘Can't Sleep Because of Radiation Concerns?' December 4, 2011, Sponsoring organization: Fukushima Breastfeeding Society.” Note at the bottom: “Child care not provided, but children welcome.”
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Japanese Seismicity and the Limits of Prediction
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 333–344.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., but because radiation is involved in the present instance, the stake-holders in debates surrounding the earthquake are much more numerous and spread over a far wider map. In fact seismicity, as opposed to radiation, has receded in most contemporary discussions of the earthquake's aftermath, just as “Sanriku...
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Origin of Japanese Interests in Manchuria
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1943) 2 (3): 259–271.
Published: 01 May 1943
...Charles Nelson Spinks Abstract The origin of Japan's interests in Manchuria may be regarded as the base-point from which during the past half century a variety of economic, political and territorial ambitions has radiated, enveloping today virtually all of Eastern Asia and leading directly to war...
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Everyday Radioactive Goods? Economic Development at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 423–436.
Published: 01 May 2017
... the absence of radiological protection for the workers (like dosimeters), and no monitoring in place for the mined ore before it was sold. Currently, such assessments are made by the IRSE, and show something entirely different. Now, radiation levels are safe and neither the mining area nor the coal itself...
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The Ongoing Disaster
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 345–359.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Figure 2. “Fukushima Hospital Public Lecture Series on Radiation. Lecture: ‘Can't Sleep Because of Radiation Concerns?' December 4, 2011, Sponsoring organization: Fukushima Breastfeeding Society.” Note at the bottom: “Child care not provided, but children welcome.” ...
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Food Safety after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1025–1027.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of risk are informed not only by science but also by social and political circumstances. Sternsdorff-Cisterna approaches these complex topics with precision and balance. He undertook two years of research (2011–13 with a follow-up in 2014), attended more than seventy study sessions on radiation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2025) 84 (1): 277–283.
Published: 01 February 2025
.... ISBN: 9780295751337 . © 2025 Association for Asian Studies 2025 The natural disasters and human failures of the earthquake and tsunami along the northeastern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 (known in shorthand as “3.11”) and the ensuing nuclear plant and radiation crises dealt incalculable...
View articletitled, Reconnecting to Home, Redefining Risks, and Imagining a Future: The Emerging Ethnography of Post-3.11 - Fall-out from Fukushima: Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation and Legal Protection after the Triple Meltdown and Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone and Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape
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for article titled, Reconnecting to Home, Redefining Risks, and Imagining a Future: The Emerging Ethnography of Post-3.11 - Fall-out from Fukushima: Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation and Legal Protection after the Triple Meltdown and Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone and Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape
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Radioactive Rain and the American Umbrella
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 319–331.
Published: 01 May 2012
... incidents of radiation exposure into the past. Fukushima, Kashiwazaki and Tsuruga are all remote areas where the survival of local society depends on this radioactive rain. But now that we have experienced a fourth serious radiation incident, we sense that there is something more dangerous than nuclear...
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Asia Treads the Nuclear Path, Unaware That Self-Assured Destruction Would Result from Nuclear War
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 437–456.
Published: 01 May 2017
...-Zweers , Reinout Boers , and Olaf N. E. Tuinder . 2012 . “ A Solar Escalator: Observational Evidence of the Self-Lofting of Smoke and Aerosols by Adsorption of Solar Radiation in the February 2009 Australian Black Saturday Plume .” Journal...
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An Atomic Age Unleashed: Emancipation and Erasure in Early Korean Accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 144–162.
Published: 01 May 2023
... personal. Citing scientific research allowed the author to broach the techno fetishism that framed writing on the subject without fully assuming the same scientistic assumptions. This was central to the author, given that, for Student Y, writing about radiation was writing about the physical self...
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Theorizing Post-disaster Literature in Japan: Revisiting the Literary and Cultural Landscape after the Triple Disasters
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Journal of Asian Studies (2025) 84 (2): 564–566.
Published: 01 May 2025
...-immigrant sentiment of the time in her novel Hangenki wo iwatte ( Commemorating the Half-Life) . In chapter 2, Kimura explores radiation and “the problem of ‘Fukushima.’” She questions arbitrary borders, such as those between victim and nonvictim. Kimura argues that the impossibility of knowing...
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Commentary: Science, Politics, and Risk: Catastrophic Asia from the Perspective of a Brazilianist Anthropologist
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 481–497.
Published: 01 May 2017
... and Yuri E. Dubrova: Cold War Debates and the Genetic Effects of Low-Dose Radiation .” Journal of the History of Biology 48 ( 1 ): 67 – 98 . Hanna Bridget . 2014 . “Toxic Relief: Science, Uncertainty, and Medicine...
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Editorial Foreword
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 121–123.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., the triumphal developmentalism of this narrative during the early period of the Cold War further marginalized histories of the devastation caused by the bombing, even as marginalized voices spoke to the embodiment of suffering manifest in the extended experience of radiation disease. Challenging us to think...
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Kyoto in the Momoyama Period
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 640–641.
Published: 01 May 1968
...: Chapter to be "devoted to cities which have exercised 5, "Matsuri, Kabuki, and Other Pleasures." a radiating influence upon the civilizations in It covers twenty pages. The first five have to which they have flourished." Even given the do mostly with festivities which did not orig- broadest of definitions...
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The Five Sacred Festivals of Ancient Japan: Their Symbolism and Historical Development
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 639–640.
Published: 01 May 1968
... in a series that proclaims itself to grips with his announced subject: Chapter to be "devoted to cities which have exercised 5, "Matsuri, Kabuki, and Other Pleasures." a radiating influence upon the civilizations in It covers twenty pages. The first five have to which they have flourished." Even given the do...
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Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple Disaster
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 213–216.
Published: 01 February 2022
... The government's warnings about foods to avoid determines her shopping list. The baby's lack of any visible sign of harm confronts the issue of internal exposure to radiation that atomic bomb victims unsuccessfully fought the government to recognize. DiNitto explains that Satō's story forces readers to question...
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The Web of Tibetan Monasticism
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (2): 197–203.
Published: 01 February 1961
... it established itself in the central provinces. Then, as a result both of the political pressures, sometimes accompanied by pillage and repression of the defeated sects, and of the proselytizing spirit characteristic of Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism constantly radiated out from central Tibet to the peripheral areas...
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Commentary: On the Possibilities of Transdisciplinary Asian Studies
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 499–503.
Published: 01 May 2017
... unthinkably long epochs of time meaningful to humans today. Where Owen B. Toon et al. hope to shock policymakers into action to avert the unimaginable death of most of the world's population from nuclear radiation, Magdalena Stawkowski dwells in the everyday, meaning-making activities of those who live...
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