This book presents a counter-argument to the widely held view that the Japanese have believed tha...

Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant ...

This award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall...

This is written by a sociologist and Japan's 'most famous feminist', Chizuko Ueno. A discursive b...

The !Xun are a San people living in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, Botswana, and in Angola. In t...

With a focus on Brazilian migrant workers in Japan, this study - now available in paperback - pro...

Japan's post-World War II 'economic miracle' is well-known and much discussed, as is the collapse...

Traditionally the Japanese have shunned those not fitting the majority heterosexual mould. Those ...

Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has evolved ...

This book takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of a region from the pers...

As the plight of refugees around the world looms large as one of the central problems facing the ...

Susumu Shimazono, one of Japan's foremost sociologists of religion, deals with the development of...