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Romeu, Maria Gabriela. "The Japanese History Textbook Controversy Amid Post-War Sino-Japanese Relations." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/849.

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The relations between China and Japan are strained and continue to foster negative emotions partly because of China’s grievances about Japan’s actions during World War II and the allegedly false historiographical accounts found in Japanese history textbooks. This study will utilize historical analysis of the events leading up to the Nanjing Massacre in December of 1937, examine the Japanese Ministry of Education’s (MEXT) critical and contentious role in the selection of textbooks, used for primary and secondary schools, and will also juxtapose the controversial 2001 Atarashii rekishi kyōkasho with current Japanese history textbooks. The study will also include a syntactical analysis of key terms through my own original translations of multiple Japanese history textbooks, which are currently used in the Japanese school curriculum, to reveal that the textbook publishers, MEXT, and regulation councils are involved in adjusting the content causing the information to reveal various degrees of whitewashing.

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Motohashi, Tatsushi. "Case theory and the history of the Japanese language." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184844.

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This thesis investigates the consequences of historical changes of Japanese case particles, 'accusative' o and 'dative' ni. The change of o is characterized as becoming a structural Case-marker from the inherent Case-marker. The consequences of this change are manifested in; (a) the ni filling the gap of linking to the FROM-function vacated by the particle o, becoming the structural accusative Case-marker; (b) the development of the o causative construction; (c) the inability of topicalizing the o-marked object; (d) the disappearance of the sequence of NP-o-to in the coordinate structure; (e) the development of the double o constraint. The constancy of ni throughout the history of the Japanese language is characterized by its lexical content; the Locative ni has not changed. The development of the ni causative is, then, attributed to the development of the nominative marking triggered by the accusative marking, that is, from the ergative case to the nominative case. This ergative hypothesis of Old Japanese is supported by the distribution of the o-marked and non-overtly marked objects which is determined by the transitivity features proposed by Hopper and Thompson (1980).

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Lande, Aasulv. "Meiji Protestantism in History and Historiography." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Svenska Institutet för Missionsforskning, 1988. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-191814.

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The present study provides an analysis of two different but interrelated historical dimensions. The first dimension, the founding process of Japanese Protestantism, is analysed in its wider historical context on the basis of contemporary scholarship, particuhirly Japanese. A second dimension: the ongoing historiographical interpretation of the founding process, is analysed from the foundation period itse1f up to 1945, against its contemporary historical background. The analytical approach takes account of the forms of history writing as weil as its contents, in an overall comparative perspective applied to the Japanese and the Western material. In the çonclusion the interpretative trends which are identified through the analysis of the second, historiographical dimension, are related to trends in contemporary interpretationof the foundation period. The conclusion thus focus on the relationship between prewar and postwar interpretation of Japanese Protestant beginnings.

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Yamasaki, Junichi. "Essays on development economics and Japanese economic history." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3676/.

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This thesis consists of three independent chapters on development economics and Japanese economic history. The first chapter analyzes the effect of railroad construction in the Meiji period (1868–1912) on technology adoption and modern economic development. By digitizing a novel data set that measures the use of steam engines at the factory level and determining the cost-minimizing path between destinations as an identification strategy, I find that railroad access led to the increased adoption of steam power by factories, which in turn induced structural change and urbanization. My results support the view that railroad network construction was key to modern economic growth in pre-First World War Japan. The second chapter analyzes the effect of time horizon on local public investment in the Edo period (1615–1868). I use a unique event in Japanese history during this period to identify the effect. In 1651, the sudden death of the executive leader of the Tokyo government reduced the transfer risk of local lords, especially for insiders, who supported the Tokyo government during the war of 1600. Using a newly digitized data set and a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that after 1651, regions owned by insiders increased the number of public projects more than regions owned by the other lords. I discuss other possible channels to interpret the effect of tenure risk, but I find no strong support for these alternative channels and conclude that the results support a longer time horizon effect. The third chapter provides more general background and a complete description of the data availability in Japan in the 17th–20th centuries, to discuss future research directions. It would aid reexamination of the history of Japan and other East Asian countries, which have experienced different economic and political paths.

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Calman, D. A. "The 1873 Seihen and its place in Japanese history." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302871.

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Havers, R. P. W. "Changi : from myth to history." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272826.

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Syms, Colleen. "Japanese-American Internment: How Nationalism Invalidated Citizenship." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/707.

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Munday, M. C. R. "The history of Japanese manufacturing investment in Wales since 1972." Thesis, Swansea University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.638276.

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Since the mid-seventies, Japanese manufacturing companies have come to play an increasingly important role in the economy of Wales. The Japanese companies have won for themselves an image as innovative employers who use new organisational techniques, and as such they are becoming a highly promising industrial segment within Wales. Indeed, Wales has one of the largest concentrations of Japanese foreign direct investment in Europe. This thesis is a history of this Japanese manufacturing investment in Wales. The initial parts of this investigation examine the growth of Japanese foreign direct investment in the post-war period, and its spread to Europe, and the UK. Turning to a consideration of Wales in particular, the thesis then examines the success of Wales in attracting such a concentration of Japanese manufacturers, and investigates how this has been achieved. The core of the work considers aspects of the operational experience of the Japanese in Wales, and further the short term, and long term effects appertaining to the presence of the Japanese. A series of case studies considering the histories of specific Japanese projects in Wales, is used to confirm some of the conclusions reached in earlier parts of the thesis. From this examination it will be possible to show that the Japanese have had a successful experience of Wales, and that beneficial effects have flowed to the region at a time when indigenous investment has been in short supply. Having shown that it will be in the interests of Wales to continue to attract such investment, the final part of the work attempts to forecast whether Wales will be able to attract more such investment in the future. This topic is considered in the light of increasing competition from other regions of the UK and Europe to attract such internationally mobile capital projects.

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Inouye, Karen M. "Changing history : competing notions of Japanese American experience, 1942--2006." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318331.

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Tollefson, Julie Jo. "Japan's Article 9 and Japanese Public Opinion: Implications for Japanese Defense Policy and Security in the Asia Pacific." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1526812071227061.

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Grenon, Jeffrey T. "Offensive history and the Good War, the internment of Japansese Canadians and Japanese Americans in World War II." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ55905.pdf.

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Wilson, Sandra. "Popular Japanese responses to the Manchurian crisis, 1931-33." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385744.

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Cooper, Molly Malloy. "Japanese American wages, 1940-1990." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1064341404.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 132 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Richard H. Steckel, Dept. of Economics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-132).

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Yen, Liang-Ping. "Oriental orientalism : Japanese formulations of East Asian and Taiwanese architectural history." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7959.

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In the West architectural historiography, or writing on architectural history, can be considered as a modern practice. Its emergence accompanied with the development of modern nation states. Architecture’s reflection on its historical texts came to find particular expression in the search for the origins of architecture. The formation of oriental architectural history tended to follow this pattern. Oriental architectural historiography was initiated by a Japanese scholar, Chūta Itō. In his formulation, the origins of Japanese architecture were linked not only with Chinese and Indian architecture, but also with Classical Greek architecture. In addition, Itō’s theoretical formulation of architectural history was also followed by other Japanese scholars, and it informed those later scholars who studied Taiwanese architectural history. That is, the formulations and classification systems that Itō set out for Japanese architecture framed subsequent scholarship on the architecture of other parts of East Asia, including Taiwan. The system that Itō established has been widely regarded as being based on modern and scientific academic research. This thesis investigates Itō’s system, its significance for architectural scholarship in other parts of East, as well as its claimed scientific basis. The thesis pays particular attention to the architectural history of Taiwan in the Japanese colonial period. The thesis hypothesises that the historiographical tradition that Itō’s work established was based on an unbalanced colonial relationship of power and uneven structure of authority, It explores how authenticity in East Asian architecture was authorised, and how hidden ideologies and methodologies lie behind these historiographical practices. This is the first ambition of the thesis. The examination of Japanese construction of oriental and Taiwanese architectural history in this thesis pays particular attention to the context of Japanese colonialism. In doing so it draws on a range of contemporary postcolonial theoretical perspectives. In addition, the particular kind of oriental colonialism, as a materialised colonial medium, Japanese writing on oriental and Taiwanese architectural history provides an additional perspective on that current and recent postcolonial criticism expressed through such concepts as Edward Said’s orientalism, Homi Bhabha’s hybridity and Gayatri Spivak’s strategic essentialism. At a theoretical level, the thesis argues that since these concepts emerged from the colonial/anti-colonial operation and negotiation between the west and its colonies, a refined analysis is required for thinking through Japanese colonialism. To this end, the thesis supplements postcolonial theory with the idea of oriental orientalism as developed by Yuko Kikuchi. In so doing, the thesis aims to contribute to an enriched discussion of contemporary postcolonial criticism in general, and as it applies to East Asian in particular. The exploration of architectural history as the subject of a wider colonial operation and the revision of the core conceptual tools of postcolonial criticism in the context of Japanese colonialism in East Asian, and Taiwan, provides further possibilities for the the construction of identity in those formerly colonised subject in places such as Taiwan. A postcolonial reading of Japanese writing on architectural history shows both the limitation of postcolonial criticism, and to question the framework of architectural discourse in the discipline. This project has to be based on an inquiry into the way in which the other’s architecture has been formulated and constructed in the discipline of architecture in the light of postcolonial criticism. Without such an inquiry, we are unable to open the metaphorical ‘space’ to negotiate the self-writing of Taiwanese subjects on their own architecture and architectural history.

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Medema, Kara N. "Chiyo-ni and Yukinobu: History and Recognition of Japanese Women Artists." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3914.

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Fukuda Chiyo-ni and Kiyohara Yukinobu were 17th-18th century (Edo period) Japanese women artists well known during their lifetime but are relatively unknown today. This thesis establishes their contributions and recognition during their lifespans. Further, it examines the precedence for professional women artists’ recognition within Japanese art history. Then, it proceeds to explain the complexities of Meiji-era changes to art history and aesthetics heavily influenced by European and American (Western) traditions. Using aesthetic and art historical analysis of artworks, this thesis establishes a pattern of art canon formation that favored specific styles of art/artists while excluding others in ways sometimes inauthentic to Japanese values. Japan has certainly had periods of female suppression and this research illustrates how European models and traditions of art further shaped the perception of Japanese women artists and the dearth of female representation in galleries and art historical accounts.

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Ellis, Toshiko 1956. "The modernist dilemma in Japanese poetry." Monash University, School of Asian Languages and Studies, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8720.

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Tripp, Caitlin. "The American Impact on the Evolution of the Japanese Women’s Rights Movement." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/449.

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The purpose of this research is to explore the impact of America’s influence on Japanese women’s efforts to obtain equal rights. America’s role in various Japanese women’s rights groups and movements has been the subject of essays and theses in the past, yet the topic is generally centered specifically on the period during the American occupation following World War II in 1945. This paper aims to take a broader look at Japanese Women’s Rights efforts before and after the war to garner a better understanding of the ways in which the American influence aided in the development of the movement. Japanese women have fought for their rights without the aid of American influence, yet the relationship between the two has had benefits for both parties.

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Orbach, Dan. "Culture of Disobedience: Rebellion and Defiance in the Japanese Army, 1860-1931." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467476.

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Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for following their superiors to certain death. Their enemies in the Pacific War perceived their obedience as blind, and derided them as “cattle”. Yet the Japanese Army was arguably one of the most disobedient armies in the world. Officers repeatedly staged coups d’états, violent insurrections and political assassinations, while their associates defied orders given by both the government and high command, launched independent military operations against other countries, and in two notorious cases conspired to assassinate foreign leaders. The purpose of this dissertation is to explain the culture of disobedience in the Japanese armed forces. It was a culture created by a series of seemingly innocent decisions, each reasonable in its own right, which led to a gradual weakening of the Japanese government’s control over its army and navy. The consequences were dire, as the armed forces dragged the government into more and more of China in the 1930s, and finally into the Pacific War. This dissertation sheds light on the underground culture of disobedience that became increasingly dominant in the Japanese armed forces, until it made the Pacific War possible. Using primary sources in five languages, it follows the Army’s culture of disobedience from its inception. By analyzing more than ten important incidents from 1860 to 1931, it shows how some basic “bugs” programmed into the Japanese system in the 1870s, born out of genuine attempts to cope with a chaotic and shifting reality, contributed to the development of military disobedience. The culture of disobedience became increasingly entrenched, making it difficult for the Japanese civilian and military leadership to cope with disobedient officers without paying a significant political price. However, every time the government failed to address the problem, it became more acute. Finally, disobedient military officers were able to significantly influence foreign policy, pushing Japan further towards international aggression, limitless expansion, and conflict with China, Britain and the United States.
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De, Groot Henk W. K. "The Study Of The Dutch Language In Japan During Its Period Of National Isolation (ca. 1641-1868)." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Japanese, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1015.

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From the middle of the seventeenth century until 1853, the Japanese shogunal government virtually isolated Japan from the rest of the world. Only the Chinese and the Dutch were allowed to maintain a trading post in the harbour of Nagasaki. All dealings with the Dutch traders were subject to strict controls, and the interpreters that were trained to liaise with them had to swear a blood oath to secrecy. Nevertheless, information regarding the scientific and technological advances that were made in the West during this period managed to penetrate this barrier, and eventually grew, to some extent with official sanction, into a popular branch of scholarship known as rengeku, literally 'Dutch learning'. Since nearly all of the academic knowledge that reached Japan from the West arrived in written Dutch, the Dutch language became the language of science in Japan during this period, and a necessary subject of study for allrangaku scholars. This thesis is the first study in English that examines the development of the study of the Dutch language in Japan during the period through an analysis of the textbooks and dictionaries that were produced in Japan. The works selected for this study are those considered to be representative of, or significant to, the development of the study of Dutch and attendant increase of awareness of Western linguistic concepts, many of which were imposed, for better or worse, on the Japanese language. Other, less influential documents, are occasionally also discussed, to demonstrate the false trails and misunderstandings that can emerge when a foreign language is presented to students without the benefit of demonstrated current and practical usage. Initially Dutch language study was restricted to the development of skills among the Dutch interpreters in Nagasaki, who compiled word lists for personal use. These lists developed from primitive and limited glossaries into relatively sophisticated Chinesestyle lexicons and finally evolved into the large-scale Haruma dictionaries of the early nineteenth century. Early attempts at understanding the structures of the Dutch language, both by interpreters and academics, failed to provide practical insights. An important i breakthrough was achieved when retired interpreter Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806) began to produce translations of Nederduytsche Spraakkonst('Dutch Grammar') by William Sewel, and applied Western linguistic concepts to the Japanese language. This new understanding gave rise to a consistent structural approach to the study of Dutch, as a result of which language study became more consistent and translations more sophisticated. Although the end of national isolation in the middle of the nineteenth century meant that the study of Dutch was soon abandoned in favour of other European languages, many words in the Japanese language, particularly in relation to science and technology, are of Dutch origin. More importantly, many of the principles and terminology the Japanese use to define the structures of their language stem from the insights into Western linguistics gained during those final decades of the period of national isolation.

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Sewell, William Shaw. "Japanese imperialism and civic construction in Manchuria, Changchun, 1905--1945." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ48709.pdf.

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Schultz, Ryan. "“Because We Were Japanese Soldiers”: The Failure of Japanese Tactics at Changkufeng and Nomonhan and Lessons Left Unlearned." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1304892280.

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Wood, Michael S. "Literary subjects adrift : a cultural history of early modern Japanese castaway narratives, ca. 1780-1880 /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10071.

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Cobbing, Andrew John. "The Japanese experience in Britain, 1862-1876 : Japan's cultural discovery of the Victorian world in the early years of overseas travel." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1997. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28896/.

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The overseas investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by early Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 1870s have left a unique record of life in the West as seen by visitors whose understanding of developments in the world outside had been limited by centuries of cultural isolation. Fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, they paid particularly close attention to the Victorian world, and London became the base of the largest group of Japanese students to emerge overseas. This thesis examines the nature of these travellers' experiences and their perceptions of Victorian Britain. The period addressed covers the unprecedented boom in overseas travel from its inception during the last years of bakufu rule, and through the first years of the Meiji regime until 1876, when new government regulations were already beginning to curb the numbers of Japanese students abroad. The study presents an analysis of the diaries in which many early travellers recorded their observations of life outside Japan. It also examines a selection of particularly significant published works that some wrote following their return, which gave readers in Japan their first detailed introduction to civilization in Britain. In addition to well-known figures such as Fukuzawa Yukichi. this features long-overlooked writers like Nomura Fumio and Nakai Hiroshi whose works were also influential in the early Meiji years. The experiences of early overseas travellers in the 1860s and 1870s led to rapid advances in Japanese understanding of the world outside. By examining in detail how first-hand observations enabled travellers to develop increasingly sophisticated views of the Victorian world, this study clarifies the underlying forces at work in shaping perceptions of the West as a whole during this most formative stage in the modern history of Japan.

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Bensky, Xavier Benjamin. "Manzai : metamorphoses of a Japanese comic performance genre." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0023/MQ41089.pdf.

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Parillo, Mark Philip. "The Japanese merchant marine in World War II /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487329662144951.

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Dutridge-Corp, Elizabeth Anne. "Reconciling the Past: H.R. 121 and the Japanese Textbook Controversy." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1250099908.

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Hayashi, Ann Koto. "Face of the enemy, heart of a patriot : Japanese-American internment narratives /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1248981262.

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Shimabukuro, Moriyo. "A reconstruction of the accentual history of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/3039.

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This dissertation reconstructs the accentual history of the Japonic languages (i.e., the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages). Applying the comparative method, the reconstruction of Proto Japonic (PI) accent is based on modern dialects of Japanese and Ryukyuan and also on the dialect of the Ruiju Myogi-sho (a text written in the 11th century). The author looks into 'natural' accentual changes in the Japonic languages and formalizes them. Using these changes or rules, he accounts for the developments of the accent systems of descendant dialects or languages from PJ. Furthermore, he takes typology of accent (i.e., locus and register) into account and explains how typologically different accent systems develop. The dissertation has revealed that Hattori Shiro's accentual subcategories for disyllables are seen not only in Amami and Okinawa Ryukyuan, as he claims, but also seen in Yaeyama and Miyako Ryukyuan. Based on this, the author argues that Proto Ryukyuan (PR) and PJ must have had these distinctions, although Hattori did not reconstruct them. Therefore, there are in total eight accent categories for PJ disyllables - it had been thought that there were only five distinctions. Kyoto dialect has been thought to have evolved directly from the dialect of the Ruiju Myogi-sho. Because of this, it was difficult to account for the development of Kyoto dialect. However, based on accentual correspondences, the author contends that Kyoto dialect is not a direct descendant of the dialect of the Ruiju Myogi-sho, and that the development of the Kyoto dialect is explained by the aforementioned natural changes. The correlation between a long vowel in the initial syllable and word-initial register has been suggested by Samuel E. Martin and Hattori. However, the register in relation to the length has not been reconstructed. This dissertation gives more evidence to support the register hypothesis, and reconstructs a register system in PR and PJ.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 389-397).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Also available by subscription via World Wide Web
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Gustafsson, Karl. "Narratives and Bilateral Relations : Rethinking the "History Issue" in Sino-Japanese Relations." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-57197.

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The overarching aim of the thesis is to present a framework that makes possible an understanding of bilateral relations that challenges mainstream International Relations (IR) approaches through a study of the “history issue” in Sino-Japanese relations. A secondary aim is to provide an alternative understanding of this issue. Discussions of the issue are often highly influenced by the objectivism, rationalism, state-centrism and agent-centrism common in mainstream IR theory. This has several consequences, primarily that the focus is chiefly on behaviour and that equal emphasis is rarely put on both contexts. In order to address these consequences, the question of what kinds of narrative, as expressed in museum exhibitions about war in both countries, can be found and which ones dominate is addressed using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The narratives, which contain the stories “we” tell about “our” past, are important components in and instantiate the abstract images that are identities, through which people make sense of the world. The context-sensitive analysis confirms the constructivist assumption that narratives matter by demonstrating that political actors strongly believe narratives shape people’s minds and act accordingly. It also shows that different narratives are present in both countries. It is suggested that the narratives are closely linked to domestic identity politics. Nonetheless, the depiction of self and other in these has consequences for bilateral relations. This has several implications, for example, that changes in the behaviour of leaders, while they may have a positive impact on relations, are insufficient as solutions to the problems. This has consequences for approaches preoccupied with behaviour. The study contributes to constructivist IR through a close textual analysis of narrative structure that illustrates the significance of labelling and categorizing in identity construction that is easily missed by less fine-grained analyses.

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Shirahase, Sawako. "Women in the labour market : mobility and work history of Japanese women." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385677.

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Pham, Elizabeth. "The role of the "history issue" in Sino-Japanese relations (1972–2016)." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/53033.

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Relations between China and Japan suffer under the "history issue", an inability to reconcile these nations' relative perspectives on past wartime events. With emphasis on China's construction of the history issue, this thesis analyzes when and why China calls particular attention to Japan's past aggression and the degree to which China's actions have impacted bilateral relations from 1972 to 2016. Using elements from collective memory, national identity, and balance of power theories, this thesis makes four main arguments. First, provocative Japanese behavior revives the collective memories of past trauma and provokes criticism of Japanese politics. Second, when China perceives threats from Japan, it highlights Japan's past atrocities and lack of contrition to contain Japan's ambitions or gain relative power. Third, when collective memory is the main driver in shaping relations, balance of power plays a more supporting role and vice versa. Last, the public's collective memory and the volatile activation of the public's genuine anti-Japanese sentiments were the strongest factors in explaining the downturn of relations. As the United States implements its security strategy in East Asia, understanding historical disputes and their implications on the security status of the region is crucial, as they will affect agreements with our allies.
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Ishii, Noriyuki. "Japan be Number One Internationalism and History of Japanese Diplomacy, 1853-2006." Thesis, Department of History, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8826.

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This thesis engages with two bodies of scholarship: Japanese diplomacy and internationalism. Japan’s interaction with the international community and how it started and developed in the course of history is analysed. It is argued that Japanese leaders had strived to grant Japan a just place in the world. Their path, however, was not a straightforward one. The problems caused by identity issues, a West-centric world order, and the concept of ‘honour’ muddled the Japanese attempt. The words and practices of key figures were examined to illustrate the comprehensive development of Japanese diplomacy and internationalism between 1853 and 2006.

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Burton, Susan Karen. "Japanese women residents in England : a methodological and cultural study." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270506.

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The thesis is a qualitative research project examining the lives of Japanese women who have lived in England long-term (defined as two or more years). It is based on oral history interviews with 16 Japanese women ranging in age from 26 to 51, and categorised into four groups: students, career women, women married to or divorced from British men, and company wives (women who accompany their Japanese husbands on company postings). The methodological section is an exploration of the cultural and linguistic issues involved in carrying out a cross-cultural oral history project. Cultural factors examined include uchi/soto (inside/outside), tatemae/honne (public truth/private truth), and omote/ura (front/back knowledge). Linguistic issues covered include the advantages and disadvantages of interviewing in Japanese and in English, dialogue, mood, non-verbal communication, transcription and presentation. This section is an examination of what can be gained or lost through crosscultural interviewing, and a consideration of how far Western methodologies can be applied to historical research with interviewees who are of Eastern origin. The research findings section begins with profiles of the interviewees, examination of their socio-economic backgrounds, and analysis of their reasons for going abroad and for their choice of England as their destination. Subsequent chapters examine the views and experiences of the women in four areas: education, work, relationships, and the lives of the company wives in the expatriate community. The final two chapters analyse common themes: adaptation and alienation, discrimination, segregation, migration identities, status and internationalism. This is an interdisciplinary study dealing with aspects of gender, migration, oral history, and Japanese society

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Coogan, Anthony. "Northeast China and the development of the anti-Japanese united front." Thesis, University of Westminster, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302811.

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Inoue, Megumi. "Oshichi, the greengrocer's daughter : a cultural history of sewamono, 1686-1821 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11146.

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Hartman, Laurel. "The shojo within the work of Aida Makoto| Japanese identity since the 1980s." Thesis, San Jose State University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10169581.

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The work of Japanese contemporary artist Aida Makoto (1965-) has been shown internationally in major art institutions, yet there is little English-language art historical scholarship on him. While a contemporary of internationally-acclaimed Japanese artists Murakami Takashi and Nara Yoshitomo, Aida has neither gained their level of international recognition or respect. To date, Aida?s work has been consistently labeled as otaku or subcultural art, and this label fosters exotic and juvenile notions about the artist?s heavy engagement with Japanese animation, film and manga (Japanese comic book) culture. In addition to this critical devaluation, Aida?s explicit and deliberately shocking compositions seemingly serve to further disqualify him from scholarly consideration. This thesis will argue that Aida Makoto is instead a serious and socially responsible artist. Aida graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts from Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music in 1991 and came of age as an artist in the late 1980s during the start of Japan?s economic recession. Since then Aida has tirelessly created artwork embodying an ever-changing contemporary Japanese identity. Much of his twenty-three-year oeuvre explores the culturally significant social sign of the shojo or pre-pubescent Japanese schoolgirl. This thesis will discuss these compositions as Aida?s deliberate and exacting social critiques of Japan?s first and second ?lost decades,? which began in 1991 and continue into the present.

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Rivera, Carlos R. "Big stick and short sword : the American and Japanese navies as hypothetical enemies /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487864986608568.

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Schultz, Ryan M. "Mutual Defense: Japanese Officers and National Soldiers in the Manchukuo Army, 1932-1945." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557183661528936.

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Conklin, David P. "The traditional and the modern : the history of Japanese food culture in Oregon and how it did and did not integrate with American food culture." PDXScholar, 2009. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3786.

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The study of food and foodways is a field that has until quite recently mostly been neglected as a field of history despite the importance that food plays in culture and as a necessity for life. The study of immigrant foodways and the mixing of and hybridization of foods and foodways that result has been studied even less, although one person has done extensive research on Western influences on the foodways of Japan since 1853. This paper is an attempt to study the how and in what forms the foodways of America-and in particular of Oregon-changed with the arrival of Japanese immigrants beginning in the late-nineteenth century, and how the foodways of the first generation immigrant Japanese-the Issei-did and did not change after their arrival. In a broad sense, this is a study of globalization during an era when globalization was still a slow and uneven process and there were still significant differences between the foodways of America and Japan.

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Buckenmeyer, Eric Buckenmeyer. "An Assessment of Japanese Veterans' Recent Reflections on the Second World War's Darker Episodes." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1461579164.

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Krumrey, Brett Alan 1968. "Japanese written language reforms during the Allied Occupation (1945-1952): SCAP and romanization." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278364.

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This paper discusses the Romaji Movement and its role in the reform of the Japanese written language during the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952). Past analyses concerning the Romaji Movement have suggested that romanization failed due to conspiracies against it and have neglected to consider other alternatives being pursued by the Japanese government. This paper will take a closer look at the Americans who supported romanization, their motivations for doing so, and the development of SCAP policy towards language reform. Since simplification, not romanization, was the preferred objective of both the American and the Japanese governments, this paper goes on to examine alternative methods to simplification which, in the end, proved to be highly successful.

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Spell, Sabine. "Japanese automobile lobbying in Brussels : the role of the Japanese motor car industry in EU policy networks." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2390.

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This study examines the lobbying by the Japanese automobile industry in the European Union. It investigates how the Japanese automobile industry interacts with the decision-making authorities in Brussels in its attempts to influence the policy process of the European Union. In the post-war period the Japanese automobile industry has expanded into all major world markets and plays an important economic and political role in these. However, until the 1990s, the Japanese automobile industry enjoyed hardly any interaction with the policy making institutions of the European Union. This has changed dramatically in the last decade but, thus far, the process has not been subject to any empirical investigation. This study, which is largely based upon interviews with the major actors in the process of interaction between the governing institutions and the automobile industry in the EU, aims to correct this deficiency. This thesis employed the policy network concept as a framework to develop an understanding of this particular case of government-interest group interaction. The thesis investigated whether the Western concept of policy networks could successfully be applied to the Japanese automobile industry as a non-western actor in the unique system of governance of the EU. By doing so, the thesis has demonstrated that the policy network concept is not a purely Western construct, but can be applied with equal validity to the case of Japan. Therefore, this thesis has taken an importani. a step towards proving the universal applicability of the policy network concept.

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Corbett, Rebecca. "Rediscovering women in the history of Japanese tea culture, form Edo to Meiji." Thesis, Department of Japanese Studies, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8982.

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Majolo, Bonaventura. "Conflict management in wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata Yakui)." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2003. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5628/.

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Stevenson, Luna. "Assimilation and Discrimination: The Contradictions of Japanese Colonial Education in Taiwan, 1895-1945." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1274559363.

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Suzuki, Shigeru. "Male life history and social structure of wild Japanese macaques in Yakushima, Japan." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/202456.

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Kim, Song Whan. "The rise in public sector banking : the Japanese banks in Korea, 1878-1938." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307198.

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Birdwhistell, Benjamin P. "Manipulated Museum History and Silenced Memories of Aggression: Historical Revisionism and Japanese Government Censorship of Peace Museums." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2312.

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The Japanese government has a vested interest in either avoiding discussion of its war-torn past or arguing for a revisionist take. The need to play up Japanese victimization over Japanese aggression during World War II has led to many museums having their exhibits censored or revised to fit this narrative goal. During the 1990’s, Japan’s national discourse was more open to discussions of war crimes and the damage caused by their aggression. This in turn led to the creation of many “peace museums” that are intended to discuss and confront this history as frankly as possible. At the beginning of the 21st century, public discourse turned against these museums and only private museums have avoided censorship. Some museums, like the Osaka International Peace Center, have been devastated by the censorship. This museum and other museums with similar narrative issues raise questions about appropriate narrative on display. What is appropriate to censor for the sake of respect for the dead? What must be included for the sake of historical accuracy and honesty about the past? These questions are investigated at four different peace museums throughout Japan.

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Yang, Manuel. "Yoshimoto Taka’aki, Communal Illusion, and the Japanese New Left." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1122656731.

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Xiong, Ying. "Representing empire: Japanese colonial literature in Taiwan and Manchuria." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28923.

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Japan's imperialist expansion in late 19th and early 20th Asia was marked by its official colonisation of Taiwan in 1895, of Korea in 1905, and by its subsequent occupation of Northern China in 1931, prior to heading further to the South in the late 19305. Living as they did in the heyday of imperialism and nationalism, two significant historical phenomena of the 20th century, Japanese colonial writers who travelled to the colonial territories left behind them abundant stores of writing and records that deserve scholarly attention. The dual historical processes of nationalisation and imperialisation put these colonial writers under no little strain and, at the same time, affected their national identification, which is the focus of this study. Any study of Japanese national identification, and the tension between Japan’s nationalism and imperialism reflected in colonial writings, cannot be undertaken from a purely national perspective; rather, it demands a transnational vision that takes into account colonial factors, which in this study includes Japan’s interaction with China and Chinese literature. Drawing upon the examples of Nishikawa Mitsuru and Ouchi Takao, my thesis aims to scrutinise Japanese colonial literature and cultural production in Taiwan and Manchuria, and to identify the similarities and divergence in colonial identities that would otherwise be neglected in a more narrow treatment. This thesis argues that both Japanese state and imperialism were understood by the Japanese people living in Taiwan and Manchuria in an ambiguous way. There was inconsistency in their understanding of the relations between state, nation and empire. In both Taiwan and Manchuria, space could be found for individual deviation from imperialist power.

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