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Japanese Society Since Wwii, Seiji Shirane Nov 2022

Japanese Society Since Wwii, Seiji Shirane

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This course examines Japanese society in the aftermath of World War II. How did postwar Japan's changing relations with the US and its Asian neighbors impact Japanese society? Topics include the US Occupation, Japan's Cold War alliances, high economic growth, the 1960s student protests, postwar pacifism and the Self-Defense Force, women and US military bases, discrimination against Korean minorities, the rise of "Cool Japan," and the "people's emperor."


Varieties Of Transnational Life: Brazilian Nikkeis’ Changing Cross-Border Ties With Two Homelands, Hiroyuki Shibata Feb 2021

Varieties Of Transnational Life: Brazilian Nikkeis’ Changing Cross-Border Ties With Two Homelands, Hiroyuki Shibata

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This dissertation explores the varieties of Brazilian Nikkei’s – Japanese emigrants to Brazil and their descendants – transnational lives throughout a century of their migration history. I propose an interactive process approach to migrant transnationalism to understand the divergence of Brazilian Nikkeis’ transnational lives between their two homelands, Japan and Brazil. First, I focus on the four macro-institutional contexts: 1) positions and development patterns of sending and receiving states within the international state system; the infrastructural power of states, more concretely 2) the diasporic bureaucracy of sending states and 3) the incorporative power of receiving states; and 4) the mobilizing …


Japanese Women's Fight For Equal Rights: Feminism And The Us Occupation Of Japan, 1945 - 1952, Jessica Pena Jan 2016

Japanese Women's Fight For Equal Rights: Feminism And The Us Occupation Of Japan, 1945 - 1952, Jessica Pena

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The Indian Aesthetic In Ninth-Century Japan; A Study Of Foreignness In Early Japanese Esoteric Buddhist Art, Alison Badassano Jan 2014

The Indian Aesthetic In Ninth-Century Japan; A Study Of Foreignness In Early Japanese Esoteric Buddhist Art, Alison Badassano

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Japan's Changing Security Policy, Shalni Ramchandani Jan 2013

Japan's Changing Security Policy, Shalni Ramchandani

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