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In this book social scientists scrutinize the middle decades of the nineteenth century in Japan. That scrutiny is import
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The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko is the story of a self-described "base-born nobody" who tried to chang
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This book examines Meiji Japan (1868–1912) to demonstrate the complex interplay between Japanese nation-building and the
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Death came early and often to the people of Tokugawa Japan, as it did to the rest of the pre-modern world. Yet the Japan
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Patricia Wetzel offers in this volume a comprehensive examination of a frequently discussed yet much misunderstood aspec
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This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan’s rapid modernization. Orig
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In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of the knowledge and us
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This new edition brings together selected chapters from Volume 5 of The Cambridge History of Japan. Japan underwent mome
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Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of moder
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