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Book Announcement: Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan

Posted on April 21, 2019 by

Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan Max M. Ward In Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state’s efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an antiradical law called the … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Structure and Subordination: Law, Science, and Religion in East Asia

Posted on January 7, 2017 by

April 22nd, 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania  The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania presents its first annual graduate student conference: Structure and Subordination: Law, Science, and Religion in East Asia. This one-day conference provides a forum … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945

Posted on August 30, 2015 by

Via University of Washington Press. Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945 The Reception of Western Law TAY-SHENG WANG $40.00S PAPERBACK (9780295994475) ADD TO CART $75.00X HARDCOVER (9780295978277) ADD TO CART PUBLISHED: December 2014 SUBJECT LISTING: Asian Studies … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Going to Court to Change Japan: Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan

Posted on March 1, 2015 by

Going to Court to Change Japan: Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan Edited by Patricia G. Steinhoff Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 77 2014, viii + 187 pages, ISBN 978-1-929280-83-4. Paper only. $20.00 https://www.cjspubs.lsa.umich.edu/books/list/mono77.php Published by the … Continue reading →

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Japanese Studies: 5-10-20 – Eight Years Out, Where Am I Now?

Posted on May 7, 2014 by

For the second article in our Japanese Studies: 5-10-20, today we have a unique perspective from Reid Monroe-Sheridan, the CEO and Representative Director of Tokyo Nexus Limited and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Tokyo Law School. Anyone interested … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States

Posted on May 4, 2014 by

Via University of Washington Press. A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States Gordon K. Hirabashi, with James A. Hirabashi and Lane Ryo Hirabashi. paperback not available $29.95 HARDCOVER (9780295992709) PUBLISHED: April 2013 SUBJECT LISTING: Asian American Studies, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan

Posted on September 29, 2013 by

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415520782/ ed. Rachael Hutchinson, Routledge Contemporary Japan Series no. 45 Censorship in Japan has seen many changes over the last 150 years, with each successive system of rule possessing its own censorship laws, regulations, and methods of enforcement. Yet what … Continue reading →

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Resource: Tools for Banking, Finance, and Law

Posted on July 10, 2013 by

Lately we’ve been fortunate to have a number of guest writers contributing articles related to translation and non-academic careers that use Japanese (and we have more to come in the near future!), but we’ve been a bit lax on updating … Continue reading →

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General Fellowship Award Announcement: School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

2013-2014 Fellowship Award Announcement Location: Princeton, NJ Each year, the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, invites about twenty scholars to be in residence for the full academic year to pursue their own … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan

Posted on January 1, 2012 by

Author: Pär Cassel ISBN-10: 0199792054 ISBN-13: 9780199792054 Published: Oxford University Press, USA Pages: 272 Language: English Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the nineteenth century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a … Continue reading →

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