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Tag Archives: society
Call for Papers: Hate Speech in Korea, Japan, and France: A Comparative Approach
Call-For-Papers International Workshop HATE SPEECH IN KOREA, JAPAN AND FRANCE: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH Jan. 17(Wed) – 18(Thu), 2018 Ritsumeikan University, Japan ORGANIZERS: Asia Center, Seoul National University, Korea Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France Institute of International … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: History of Japanese Psychology
The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875–1950 by Brian J. McVeigh, Bloomsbury Press, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-1474283083 // ISBN-10: 147428308X During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries the individual became the basic, self-contained unit of society whose interior life was increasingly … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Return Migration Decisions: A Study on Highly Skilled Chinese in Japan
Return Migration Decisions: A Study on Highly Skilled Chinese in Japan by Ruth Achenbach Wiesbaden: Springer VS. http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658160265 Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in return … Continue reading
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Fun Link Friday: Amazon Priest Delivery?
A quickie fun link this week! The modern world poses a lot of challenges for what many consider older, more traditional ways of life. A recent New York Times article talked about one of these questions of becoming obsolete or … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia: Debating Democracy in Japan
The Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia will be held at the University of Wollongong from 26 to 30 June 2017. The Call for Papers is now open. The conference takes place seventy years since the revised … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan
Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan Kumiko Nemoto ILR Press Product Details The number of women in positions of power and authority in Japanese companies has remained small despite the increase in the number of … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education
Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education Peter Cave Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than … Continue reading
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Call for Papers: Animals and Human Society in Asia
The Asian Sphere: Trans-Cultural Flows An Inter-University Graduate Program of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Haifa Call for Papers for an International Conference on Animals and Human Society in Asia The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan
Japan’s suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded in the debate on suicide have remained unaddressed in the existing literature, including the assumption that Japan is a “Suicide Nation”. This tendency causes … Continue reading
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Call for Papers: Children, Family and Migration in East Asia
This international conference is jointly organized by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and the Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Under conditions of economic globalization, migration across borders – whether international or internal – … Continue reading
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 