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  • Edges of the Rainbow

    LGBTQ Japan

    by Michel Delsol, Haruku Shinozaki ...
    An intimate photographic glimpse into the queer world behind the closed doors of modern Japanese societyThe LGBTQ community in Japan has faced its challenges. Even as some religious and warrior orders have a long and recognized tradition of same-sex love, to be considered different, to be "the nail that sticks out," makes coming out difficult.Despite the conservative strain within Japanese society ... Read more

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  • Edges of the Rainbow

    LGBTQ Japan

    by Michel Delsol, Haruku Shinozaki ...
    Series series Diverse Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Photobook Series
    An intimate photographic glimpse into the queer world behind the closed doors of modern Japanese societyThe LGBTQ community in Japan has faced its challenges. Even as some religious and warrior orders have a long and recognized tradition of same-sex love, to be considered different, to be “the nail that sticks out,” makes coming out difficult.Despite the conservative strain within Japanese society ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by The Passenger, Richard Lloyd Parry, Yoshimoto Banana, Ian Buruma ...
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    Explore Japanese society in the lively series that collects the best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from around the world.Visitors from the West look with amazement, and sometimes concern, at Japan's social structures and unique, complex culture industry; the gigantic scale of its tech corporations and the resilience of its traditions; the extraordinary diversity of the subcultures ... Read more

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  • Word Search – 300 Extreme Puzzles

    by PuzzleForge Press ...
    Word Search – 300 Extreme Puzzles is a demanding digital word search book for readers who enjoy classic hidden-word puzzles at a serious level of difficulty. This EPUB edition includes 300 extreme word search puzzles, more than 4500 words to find and all solutions included, making it a strong choice for experienced puzzle fans, deep concentration and challenging digital brain training.The book is ... Read more

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  • Tokyo in Transit

    Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

    by Alisa Freedman ...
    Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Cartographic Japan

    A History in Maps

    Edited by Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Cary Karacas ...
    This "deeply rewarding compilation of maps" offers a gorgeously illustrated tour through the evolution of Japan from the Edo Period to the Digital Age ( Los Angeles Review of Books).Japanese society underwent a cartographic renaissance in the late sixteenth century that would eventually turn maps and mapmaking into a central part of daily life. Since that time, the nation's society and landscape ... Read more

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  • Healing Labor

    Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy

    by Gabriele Koch ...
    Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world's largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy—but whose work remains stigmatized and unmentionable. Based on fieldwork with adult Japanese women in Tokyo's sex ... Read more

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  • War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan

    Edited by Takayoshi Yamamura, Philip Seaton ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Asia
    This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare.It tackles two crucial questions: first, how does war transition from being traumatic to entertaining in the public imagination and works of popular culture; and second, how does ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture

    Edited by Yoshio Sugimoto ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture traces the cultural ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Ripples of the Universe

    Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona

    by Susannah Crockford ...
    Series series Class 200: New Studies in Religion
    Ask a random American what springs to mind about Sedona, Arizona, and they will almost certainly mention New Age spirituality. Nestled among stunning sandstone formations, Sedona has built an identity completely intertwined with that of the permanent residents and throngs of visitors who insist it is home to powerful vortexes—sites of spiraling energy where meditation, clairvoyance, and channeling ... Read more

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  • Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture

    Edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, Okpyo Moon ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, and exploring how this has permeated the perceptions and traditions of Japanese society. It considers the diverse dimensions of modern tourism including appropriation and consumption of history, nostalgia, identity, domesticated foreignness, and the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The New Japanese Woman

    Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan

    by Barbara Sato, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    Presenting a vivid social history of “the new woman” who emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, The New Japanese Woman shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle class, and explosion of consumerism resulting from the postwar economic boom, particularly in the 1920s. Barbara Sato analyzes the icons that came to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD