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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 952–954.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Nick Kapur Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan . By Eiko Maruko Siniawer . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2018 . xxii, 398 pp. ISBN: 9781501725845 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 2019 One of the great paradoxes of recent times...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 273–275.
Published: 01 February 2010
...M. William Steele Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960 . By Eiko Maruko Siniawer . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2008 . xi , 270 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 165–186.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Eiko Maruko Siniawer Abstract In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Japan experienced a surge in the evocation of the word “ mottainai ,” most simply translated as “wasteful.” Children's literature, mass-market nonfiction, magazines, newspapers, songs, government ministries, corporations...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 635–637.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Eiko Maruko Siniawer The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan . By Kyu Hyun Kim . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . xviii , 520 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 February 2014
... people's approaches to conservation and wastefulness in Edo and contemporary Tokyo. 1 In this figure, the two children featured in the book go back in time. As Siniawer points out in her article, “On one page, the two children were on the dirty streets of Tokyo pointing out the garbage in the river...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 475–493.
Published: 01 May 2018
... to food.” Mottainai has come to evoke a uniquely Japanese wisdom that precedes modern ecological thought and is something of which Japanese can be proud (Siniawer 2014 ). This invocation of mottainai as a national cultural heritage also underpins the idea of mottainai in food waste...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 805–812.
Published: 01 August 2018
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Eiko Maruko Siniawer
, Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960 ( Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2008 ), 56 . 5 Among such work, which makes a particularly important contribution to Japanese military...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 403–427.
Published: 01 May 2020
... as war criminals, while others received jail terms and were excluded from public office. Some far-right activists retired to the countryside, while others joined the criminal underworld (Siniawer 2008 ). The picture, however, is not complete. It is still not clear how a younger generation, born...
