Women's History and Local Community in Postwar Japan 113523843X, 9781135238438

This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War I

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Women's History and Local Community in Postwar Japan
113523843X, 9781135238438

Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the

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Memories can be shared—or contested. Japan and Korea, just one case in point, share centuries of intertwined history, th

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His novel approach highlights the importance of the Paralympics and the impact that disability sports have had on Japane

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Japan’s first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku

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Ordinary women helped restart Japan's postwar recovery by selling sex to Allied servicemen, but they were sacrifice

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How does a small provincial city in southern Japan become the site of a world-famous wheelchair marathon that has been a

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