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in Building Bombs, Building a Nation: The State, Chaebŏl , and the Militarized Industrialization of South Korea, 1973–1979
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2020
Figure 2. Safety signs on factory equipment in the 1970s (Min 2011 , 160, photo no. 862).
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in Building Bombs, Building a Nation: The State, Chaebŏl , and the Militarized Industrialization of South Korea, 1973–1979
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2020
Figure 3. Inch’ŏn factory safety guards ( anjŏn yowŏn ) in the 1970s (Min 2011 , 331, photo no. 2021).
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in Building Bombs, Building a Nation: The State, Chaebŏl , and the Militarized Industrialization of South Korea, 1973–1979
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2020
Figure 4. “Safety medal” ceremony at Inch’ŏn factory, 1977 (Min 2011 , 330, photo no. 2019 [photo a] and photo no. 2020 [photo b]).
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1025–1027.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Amy B. Borovoy Food Safety after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk . By Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna . University of Hawai‘i Press , 2018 . 190 pp. ISBN: 9780824872137 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 On March 11...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 705–729.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Yunxiang Yan Abstract Food-safety problems constitute a new, urgent, and multifaceted challenge to Chinese people, society, and the state, involving a number of social, political, and ethical issues beyond those of food safety, nutrition, and health. In light of Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 171–192.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Joshua Hotaka Roth Abstract This paper explores the contradictory discourses on manners, safety and emotion that arose with mass motorization in Japan in the 1960s and which continue through the present. It documents the way in which multiple government entities end up working at cross-purposes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (2): 195–207.
Published: 01 February 1964
... and the lesser rebels from all over China escape to safety. But the gate proved too much of a burden even for such a hero, and he was crushed to death. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 16 LH, Vol. VI, 501–502. 15 The scripts of the episodes Wu-ch'ang and Nü-tiao from...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (2): 127–134.
Published: 01 February 1945
... confiscated without hypocrisy the working power of his victims as well as their property, today world opinion forces him to use circumlocution, to pretend to purposes other than those of greed. Thus, labor in the Philippines has been recruited for compulsory services “in the interest of public safety...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 33–56.
Published: 01 February 2010
... departments have done this in Japan. Their transformation from centralized war instruments of an authoritarian regime to local community safety organizations of a full-fledged democracy did not happen overnight. A slow process of demographic and value changes helped the organizations adjust to more democratic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 475–493.
Published: 01 May 2018
... masking the fact that food insecurity is in part a result of the failure of public safety nets. List of References Allison Anne . 2012 . “ Ordinary Refugees: Social Precarity and Soul in 21st Century Japan .” Anthropological Quarterly 85 ( 2 ): 345 –70. Allison Anne . 2015...
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Published: 01 November 2012
Figure 1. State-farm worker Wang Zheng playing a peasant heroine in the 1974 film A Safety Belt (一副保险带), a film that exemplified the practice of “workers/peasants/soldiers playing workers/peasants/soldiers.” She now teaches women's and gender studies at the University of Michigan. Photograph
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (4): 769–789.
Published: 01 August 1983
... , no. 1 : 21 – 36 . Krueger Anne O. 1974 . “ The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society .” American Economic Review 64 , no. 3 : 291 – 303 . Kunreuther Howard , and Gavin Wright . 1979 . “Safety-First, Gambling, and the Subsistence Farmer.” In Risk, Uncertainty...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 131–144.
Published: 01 February 2022
... industry and the precarious employment of crew members without providing safety training (Minbyŏn 2014 ). 1 All requests to join the rescue effort from civilian ships, fishermen, the South Korean army, and US military forces were turned down, and the rescue operation was assigned to a company...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 313–318.
Published: 01 May 2012
... First to Shed Food-Safety Complacency .” Japan Times , January 4. Beck Ulrich . 2011a . “Kono kikai ni—Fukushima, aruiwa sekai risuku shakai ni okeru Nihon no mirai” [Taking This Opportunity: Fukushima and Japan's Future in the Global Risk Society] trans. Munenori Suzuki . In Risukuka suru...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 51–75.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Figure 2. Safety signs on factory equipment in the 1970s (Min 2011 , 160, photo no. 862). ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 488–492.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., the citizen scientists who rallied to set up food-monitoring stations and challenge the government's safety assurances met their match in the form of two powerful foes: neoliberalism, which welcomed their efforts as self-care that could mitigate worries without challenging policy, and postfeminism, which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 423–436.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of what you find in Kazakhstan. When it comes to the Polygon, the Ministry of Health Protection said that the local akimat [ mayorat ] was responsible for public health and safety. The akimat said the Ministry of Emergency Situations was responsible. They, on the other hand, said it was the National...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 786–788.
Published: 01 August 2018
... commodified market economy. A few members of the older generations still vividly remember that they were paid in kind for their work as tenant farmers during the Republican era, while the younger generations prefer locally grown foodstuffs because of their concerns over food safety. Villagers describe what...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 705–706.
Published: 01 August 2019
... that bestows livelihood but also entraps Dalits—the lowest caste, who typically perform waste work—in dirty and dangerous occupations. Sewer divers often steel themselves with alcohol before descending into an unmapped and haphazard system of underground pipes without safety equipment. Dalit waste handlers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 822–824.
Published: 01 August 2014
... for the poor in South Korea has failed to provide a safety net for them. While welfare programs were introduced right after the financial crisis, they have not properly functioned as a safety net for those who were unemployed and retired. The low coverage and the low level of benefits have failed to halt...
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