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  • The State Construction of 'Japaneseness'

    The Koseki Registration System in Japan

    by Masataka Endo ...
    Series series Japanese Society Series
    For more than 140 years, Japan's koseki registration system has functioned as the official means by which an individual qualifies as 'Japanese'. Information concerning each family is entered into one koseki register record in a system that documents the status relationship information of Japan's population based on the notion of 'bloodline'. Tracing the history of the koseki registration system ... Read more

    $34.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • These Are The Hungry (Yaoi Manga)

    by Sumako Kari ...
    Life doesn’t always go as planned. High school sophomore and star catcher Itoshima devoted every fiber of his being to baseball, only to have the cruel mistress that is fate rip his one love in life away from him, due to an irrecoverable injury. Freshman Saitozaki never dreamt that his beginning days of high school, what should be the prime of his youth, would consist of battling incompetent bus ... Read more

    $7.95 USD

  • Japan’s Household Registration System and Citizenship

    Koseki, Identification and Documentation

    Edited by David Chapman, Karl Jakob Krogness ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Japan’s Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance, social control and the maintenance of social order. It provides identity whilst at the same time imposing identity upon everyone registered, and in turn, the state receives validity and legitimacy from the registration of its ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Birth Of Japan's Postwar Constitution

    by Koseki Shoichi, Ray A Moore ...
    This 1989 Yoshino Sakuzo prize-winning book is essential reading for understanding Japans postwar constitution, political and social history, and foreign policy. In this, the most complete English account of the origins of Japans Constitution, the author presents new interpretations of the behind-the-scenes actors who shaped the Japanese Constitution: the petulant General Douglas MacArthur, ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Cat In The Box (Shounen-ai Manga)

    by Sumako Kari ...
    A cat is crying somewhere.One day, shy high-school boy Kazuo Matsui comes across an old cardboard box with a litter of stray kittens inside. It is there he has a chance encounter with Kitahara, an antisocial elementary school student. Even though he seems unapproachable, Kazuo finds the boy intriguing. He adopts a kitten and hatches a plan to become friends with Kitahara. Soon, Kazuo finds the ... Read more

    $7.95 USD

  • Since I Could Die Tomorrow, Volume 3

    by Sumako Kari ...
    Sawako Honna is 42 years old, single, and gearing up to get the hell out of her high-pressure job at a film promotion company. Dealing with burnout, menopause, and the growing sense of life passing her by, she's ready to start making some changes — and her peers and friends are increasingly finding themselves in the same boat. But between health challenges, romantic tension, personal failures, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Since I Could Die Tomorrow, Volume 1

    by Sumako Kari ...
    Sawako Honna, 42, single; she works hard at a film promotion company. One night, all of a sudden, her heart palpitates, and her body goes cold... Could it be that she's going through menopause!?Not as hard-working as in your 20s. Not as flippant as in your 30s. The mental and physical changes, and the obstacles you face in your 40s. Sudden illness, menopause, fatigue you can't get rid of, changes ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Since I Could Die Tomorrow, Volume 2

    by Sumako Kari ...
    Sawako Honna is 42 years old and single, working a high-pressure job at a film promotion company. One night, she wakes up shivering as her heart squeezes tight in her chest... is she going through menopause?Navigating your forties is hard. You can't work as hard as you did in your twenties, and you're not as flippant as you were in your thirties. There's a grief that comes from being too set in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Since I Could Die Tomorrow, Volume 4

    by Sumako Kari ...
    Sawako Honna is 42 years old and taking life into her own hands by striking out on her own as an independent consultant for film promotion. Working for yourself has its ups and downs, but she's finally making the effort to improve her work-life balance, even through menopause and unexpected health scares. Life is looking up, her romantic relationship with Arioka growing deeper despite the looming ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Gender and the Koseki In Contemporary Japan

    Surname, Power, and Privilege

    by Linda White ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The Japanese koseki system is the legal and social structure keeping record of all Japanese citizens. Determined by the Civil Code and the Koseki Law, for activists challenging it, the koseki is also an ideological structure, which has produced patriarchal control through single-surname households.Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo, this book engages with issues of gender hierarchy and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Truthful Picture (Yaoi Manga)

    by Sumako Kari ...
    High school student Teruaki Kittaka had a secret crush on his classmate, Kenji Yoshino. After a scarring experience in middle school, Teru was sure to keep the secret to himself... Or so he thought. What will happen if Kenji finds out...?! Sumako Kari presents this and a collection of other touching tales of love and affection that will resonate with people of all ages and backgrounds. ... Read more

    $7.95 USD

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  • Transforming Japan

    How Feminism and Diversity Are Making a Difference

    Edited by Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow ...
    A volume of essays by Japan's leading female scholars and activists exploring their country's recent progressive cultural shift.When the feminist movement finally arrived in Japan in the 1990s, no one could have foreseen the wide-ranging changes it would bring to the country. Nearly every aspect of contemporary life has been impacted, from marital status to workplace equality, education, politics, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus