Böcker utgivna av University of Hawai'i Press

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Social and political conflict in postwar Japan is the subject of this volume, which draws together a series of field-based studies by North American and Japanese sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists. It focuses attention on the sources of conflict and the ways in which conflict is expressed and managed. This book challenges the widely held theories stressing the harmony and vertical structure of social relations in Japan, which imply that conflict is only of minimal importance. Not only does the research presented here force recognition of the existence and complexity of conflict patterns in Japan, its approach to conflict provides a dynamic, empirical, and interdisciplinary focus on social and political processes in the postwar period. The editors' theoretical introduction is followed by a general conceptual piece by one of Japan's foremost sociologists. Ten empirical studies, each offering both new data and new insights on known data about Japanese social and political systems, analyze conflict and conflict resolution in interpersonal relations, industrial relations, education, rural villages, government bureaucracy, parliament, political parties, and interest groups, including how they are manifested in women's and student protest movements and portrayed in the mass media. Western social science conflict theories are applied to enhance our understanding of both the universal and the unique elements in Japanese social and political institutions.

Ancient geologic events come to life through clear description and artistic vision from Maui's fiery beginnings to its present-day attractions.

What are the basic, unique characteristics of the Chinese mind, of the Chinese philosophical tradition, and of the Chinese culture based upon that tradition? Here, in a series of essays by men of exceptional competence and insight, is an interdisciplinary approach to the essentials of Chinese philosophy and culture.

"Jan Ken Po, Ai Kono Sho">These words to a simple child's game brought from Japan and made local, the property of all of Hawaii's people, symbolize the cultural transformation experienced by Hawaii's Japanese. It is the story of this experience that Dennis Ogawa tells so well here.

This work takes as its fundamental assumption the notion that contemporary China can only be understood as a complex, decentralized place, where the view from above (Beijing) and from tourist buses is a skewed one. It avoids generalizing about China.

This comprehensive text analyses the synergy between thought and culture. It increases our understanding of cultural difference and guides us in developing strategies for dealing with orientations different from our own.

This is a guide for taking control of your life and imbuing it with greater meaning and productivity. It is an action-based way of looking at the world that combines good, old-fashioned straight talk and the celebrated Japanese psychotherapies Morita and Naikan.

Explores female sexual entertainment (songs and smiles) during Japan's Heian and Kamakura periods, examining the gradual construction of a transgressive identity (prostitute) for women engaged in the sex trade. This study unravels social attitudes toward female sexual entertainers.

Offers a study and translation of The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugraparipccha), one of the most influential Mahayana sutras on the bodhisattva path, but also one of the most neglected texts in Western treatments of Buddhism.

Provides an extended treatment of state formation in Southeast Asia from early to contemporary times. The text includes critical assessments of the work of major scholars who have written on early, colonial and modern Southeastern Asian history and culture.

A view of Chinese religion from the Taoist perspective, which is based on the hypothesis that all Chinese rites of passage are structured by Yin-Yang cosmology. The rituals of marriage, birthing, initiation and burial and all major annual festivals are described.

Investigates how frontiers worked before the modern nation-state was invented. This work offers ways of thinking about borders, loyalty, and identity in premodern China. It takes as a starting point the recognition that ""China"" did not exist as a coherent entity, neither politically nor geographically, neither ethnically nor ideologically.

Few outside Japan are familiar with haiku's precursor, haikai (comic linked verse). Fewer still are aware of the role of Chinese Daoist classics in turning haikai into a literary art. This book examines the haikai poets' adaptation of Daoist classics, particularly the Zhuangzi, in the 17th century and the transformation of haikai into high poetry.

In 1643, ten crew members of the Dutch yacht ""Breskens"" were lured ashore at Nambu in northern Japan. Once out of view of their ship, the men were bound and taken to the shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu. This book provides a narrative of this relatively obscure incident.

This work combines archival research and oral history to offer a comparative history of World War II in Micronesia. It seeks to develop Islander perspectives on a topic still dominated by military histories that all but ignore the effects of wartime operations on indigenous populations.

Micronesians often liken the Pacific War to a typhoon, one that swept away their former lives and brought dramatic changes to their understandings of the world and their places in it. This book presents the missing voices of Micronesians and views those years from their perspectives.

Chad Rowan left his home in rural Hawaii for Tokyo with visions of becoming a star athlete in Japan's national sport, sumo. Five years later, he became the first gaijin to advance to sumo's top rank, yokozuna. This book chronicles the events leading to that improbable scene, tracing his life from his Hawaii upbringing to his retirement ceremony.

This study of Tsung-mi is part of the Studies in East Asian Buddhism series. Author Peter Gregory makes extensive use of Japanese secondary sources, which complements his work on the complex Chinese materials that form the basis of the study.

This collection of essays, based on international collaboration by scholars in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States, is a systematic attempt to address the social, political, and spiritual significance of the modern arts both in Japan and its empire between 1920 and 1960.

An anthology of Okinawan literature in English translation. Both Matayoshi Eiki and Medoruma Shun are represented in the volume, which includes a wide range of fiction and a sampling of poetry from the 1920s to the present day.

Winner of the 1990 American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize. A great book for anyone interested in the Heian period of Japan.

This is an ethnographic investigation of the power of the landscape in eastern Indonesia and its implications for human needs, behavior, and emotions. The book describes the intense, personal connections between Manggarai individuals and certain places a

In a village community in the highlands of Cambodias Southwest, people struggle to rebuild their lives after nearly thirty years of war and genocide. Through the themes of memory, morality, and relatedness, Eve Zucker tracks the tenuous process of how a