Dissertations / Theses: 'Masks Japan'

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Yamada, RyuÌ„saku. "'Debate on mass society' in Japan : class, mass, citizen." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251219.

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Abe, Yoko. "Manufacturing security mass media coverage of depleted uranium weapon used in Okinawa, Japan /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2197.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2001.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 230 p. : col. ill., col. maps. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-209).

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Aoyagi, Hiroshi. "Islands of eight million smiles, pop-idol performances and the field of symbolic production." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ46312.pdf.

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Plugh, Michael. "Team Japan: Themes of ‘Japaneseness’ in Mass Media Sports Narratives." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/343328.

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Media & Communication
Ph.D.
This dissertation concerns the reproduction and negotiation of Japanese national identity at the intersection between sports, media, and globalization. The research includes the analysis of newspaper coverage of the most significant sporting events in recent Japanese history, including the 2014 Koshien National High School Baseball Championships, the awarding of the People’s Honor Award, the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup, wrestler Hakuho’s record breaking victories in the sumo ring, and the bidding process for the 2020 Olympic Games. 2054 Japanese language articles were examined by thematic analysis in order to identify the extent to which established themes of “Japaneseness” were reproduced or renegotiated in the coverage. The research contributes to a broader understanding of national identity negotiation by illustrating the manner in which established symbolic boundaries are reproduced in service of the nation, particularly via mass media. Furthermore, the manner in which change is negotiated through processes of assimilation and rejection was considered through the lens of hybridity theory.
Temple University--Theses

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Takata, Yumie. "Mammographic Density, Body Mass Index, and Dietary Habits in Japan and Hawaii." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/6963.

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The topic of this master's thesis is breast cancer risk and its relationships to one's diet and nutrition. There is evidence that lifestyle, family history, dietary habits, reproductive history, and anthropometric characteristics are associated with the risk of breast cancer. The well-established risk factors for breast cancer are age, reproductive behavior, family history of breast cancer, years of education, and anthropometric and dietary factors. However, when it comes to dietary factors, there needs to be further research to clarify the relationship with the disease. Breast cancer incidence rates differ by ethnicity and also by geographic location. Migrant studies have shown that rates among migrants from a low-risk country to a high-risk country were higher than the rates among women in their homelands. This suggests that the increase in rates among the same ethnic group might be caused by changes in the environment, including dietary habits. The objective of this study was to investigate the association of diet with Body Mass Index (BMI) and breast cancer risk, as measured by mammographic density, among Japanese women in Japan and Japanese and Caucasian women in Hawaiʻi. The validated Food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) were used to assess dietary intake as well as descriptive characteristics, which include demographic, anthropometric and reproductive characteristics. Analysis of Variance was used to compare the differences in descriptive characteristics and diet among the three groups of women. To explore the association between diet and the determinants of BMI and mammographic density, multiple regression was applied. Among the three groups of women in the study, anthropometric and mammographic characteristics differed by ethnicity but not by place of residence. Dietary habits differed considerably by ethnicity and place of residence. It appeared that the diet of Japanese women in Hawaiʻi was a combination of foods eaten in Japan and dietary habits of Caucasian women in Hawaiʻi. Intake of ethanol was associated with BMI in both pre- and postmenopausal women, while association with the other dietary factors differed depending on menopausal status. BMI was more strongly associated with dietary variables among premenopausal women than descriptive characteristics, while it was strongly associated with Japanese ethnicity among postmenopausal women. Intakes of fat, cholesterol, carbohydrates, vitamin A, fish, and eggs were associated with mammographic density in the current study. BMI was the strongest predictor of mammographic density. Dietary intake explained little of the variation in mammographic density. It is still questionable whether mammographic density among different ethnic groups is comparable as an indicator for breast cancer risk. Total dense area of the breast maybe a better indicator. For future studies, it is suggested that associations between body fat distributions, as a possible indicator for breast cancer risk, and diet be examined, adjusted for reproductive histories and biochemical measures for hormones.
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Daniels, Inge Maria. "The fame of Miyajima : spirituality, commodification and the tourist trade of souvenirs in Japan." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317570/.

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My thesis questions common assumptions that mass production and distribution diminishes the spiritual power of objects. The rice scoop (shamoji) provides a case study of a material form which functions as a vehicle of spiritual power in Japan. The shamoji is much more than a mere kitchen utensil.It is also a recognised national symbol linked with chancing ideas concerning rice, feminine gender roles and spirituality. Moreover, as an idiom the shamoji has many unrecognised consequences. Seventy percent of all Shamoj in Japan are distributed via Miyajima,a small island located Southwest of Hiroshima in the Japanese Inland Sea. An ethnographic investigation, firstly, explores the ramifications of shamoji for different groups involved in its production, distribution and consymption on the island. Secondly, an analysis of consumption of shamoji among various segments of urban Japanese provides insights into religious and social practices in the domestic and public domains of life. I argue that the commodification of shamoji and their increased distribution to major cities via multiple distribution networks does not diminish their spiritual power. Instead, this process enhances their spirituality, spreading the fame of Miyajima and its shamoji. My work addresses issues such as the impact of commercialisation upon religious form,the way spirituality is embodied in material culture and the link between formal religion and the everyday life of the household. The core contribution of this study is to rethink the embodiment of spirituality in the context of modernity and mass consumption and the role industrially produced and commercially distributed commodities play in the democratic distribution of spiritual power. Unlike previous studies, my thesis presents a more comprehensive example directly entering the world of 'the tourist trade of souvenirs' and 'the arena of women and everyday domestic consumption'. Within these contexts assumptions about the dissipation of spirituality are much more entrenched.

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Ngoro, Blackman Rodrick. "Framing the other : representations of Africa in The Japan Times/Online between January and December 2000 : a case study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002931.

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The aim of this study is to find out, against the news genre norms, how representations of particular regions are produced in the structure of newspaper reporting in the foreign news sub-genre. The study focuses on news reports concerning Africa, or African countries, in one Tokyo-based newspaper: The Japan Times/Online. The study is theoretically informed by Cultural Studies – a field of study concerned with the study of ideology and power in discourse – and investigates how Africa and African countries are represented as “other” than developed countries. This is a textual study that focuses on the production moment using Critical Discourse Analysis methods. Critical discourse analysis is interested in the study of ideological forms that have become naturalised over time, so that ideology has become common sense. The first part of the study analyses headlines and reveals evidence of ideological positions adopted by The Japan Times/Online in the representation of, firstly, home or Japanese actors, which is very different to the representation of African actors. The second part of the analysis examines the structures of the texts and the language used therein. The evidence from this analysis shows how Africa is represented as a Third World entity through various crises, including a health epidemic, perceptions of political instability and economic instability, an inadequate business image, as well as market and managerial skills, and wars and conflict. The study concludes with a discussion of the representation of Africa and African countries as a part of the Third World entity. This representation reflects and naturalises social inequality between developed countries and those of the Third World, of which Africa is a part. The representation of Africa as a Third World entity also naturalises the social, health, economic and political conditions said to be characteristic of African countries. It is this process of representation that reveals the power relations between Japan as a First World country and Africa as part of the Third World.

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Greene, Hayley Rose. "The practice of mobile phone advertising in Japan: A grounded theory approach to looking at consumer perceptions." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28354.

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This research examines consumer perceptions towards the practice of mobile phone advertising in Japan. The research follows a grounded theory approach, guided by Strauss and Corbin (1998). The primary research was conducted in Tokyo. It was found that in Japan's technologically advanced society, advertisers desired to reach consumers on their 3B mobile phones. However, use of these devices differed among demographic segmentations and consumers held unfavourable views towards the overload of irrelevant incoming ads. As a result, the recommendations made for the Japanese mobile advertising industry were: (1) for advertisers to use Bayesian Networks to create highly targeted ads; (2) to improve communication between advertisers and mobile phone engineers, and (3) to discontinue lacklustre text only ads and create innovative multimedia ads. This research contributes to the literature on new media advertising by providing insight into an important component of the mobile phone advertising phenomenon: audience research.

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Smith, Martyn David. "Representing nation in postwar Japan : Cold War, consumption and the mass media, 1952-1972." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2014. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/20307/.

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This thesis argues that the development of ideas of nation in the 1950s and 1960s strongly tied questions of Japanese national identity to the changing international environment and to the everyday lives of the people. A growing commercially driven mass media helped broaden representations of nation beyond the overtly political and ideological concepts of the immediate postwar period. During the 1950s, the promotion of consumption became tied to the goal of national economic development. This conflicted with calls for rationalisation and thrift and at the same time brought out the contradictions of Japanese economic development under US hegemony. During the 1950s and 1960s, popular magazines, radio and television were put to use promoting consumption through advertising. The same goal was evident in the burgeoning mass circulation magazines, which grew with and in response to consumer society. Articles in these magazines addressed issues of national identity not simply through the advertising of consumer goods, and magazines aimed at young people such as Shukan Heibon and Heibon Punch and graphic magazines such as the Yomiuri Graph and Mainichi Graph as well as magazines aimed at housewives all created ideals of what Japan represented and what it meant to be Japanese. Through discussion of political and social issues, ideas of nation were flagged in ways which tied those representations to consumption. These ideas of nation reflected the ambiguity and contradictions of the country's relationship with the United States and the changing nature of the Cold War. By examining the ways in which important political issues were presented in these magazines, this thesis argues that ideas of nation became deeply connected to consumer society and popular culture, making a separation between political and cultural ideas of nation much more difficult.

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Horvit, Beverly J. "Putting Okinawa on the agenda : a case study on agenda-setting in U.S. foreign policy /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9962533.

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Hidaka, Katsuyuki. "Consuming the past : Japanese media at the beginning of the twenty-first century." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633669.

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Walsh, Brian P. "The rape of Tokyo| Legends of mass sexual violence and exploitation during the occupation of Japan." Thesis, Princeton University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10120354.

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Much recent writing on the Occupation of Japan has challenged the traditional picture of a well-disciplined American army laying the groundwork for Japan’s transition to democracy by the example of its behavior. Instead it depicts the Occupation, especially its opening phase, as marred by the widespread rape of Japanese women by American servicemen. In addition, many writers claim the United States encouraged, requested or even ordered the Japanese government to establish brothels for its troops. Copious documentation of American behavior from both Japanese and American sources does not support such claims. Rather, it makes very clear that though there were a fair number of reported rapes of Japanese women by American and other Allied servicemen, stories of mass rape during any period of the Occupation, including its opening phase, are simply not credible. In addition the contemporary record suggests that American authorities regarded prostitution not as a benefit for their troops, but as an entrenched social problem which they tolerated reluctantly. This raises the question of how such stories became incorporated into the mainstream. Part of the reason for this was the psychic environment in which these stories were originally created. There is an innate and deep-seated association between rape and war in the human psyche. The Japanese understanding of war in the mid-twentieth century reinforced this association. Rape also served as a metaphor for the American conquest of Japan. GHQ robbed Japanese men of their control of women’s sexuality. Many women then used their sexual autonomy to consort with American soldiers. To many this seemed like a hypocritical seizure of Japanese women, a rape of sorts. Shortly after the Occupation ended a leftist anti-American propaganda campaign and a boom in exploitation literature coincided to produce a great number of works purporting to be true exposes of American cruelties. Though these books are wholly unreliable, and contradict contemporary evidence, many have been incorporated into mainstream history. This is an error. Stories of mass rape and organized sexual exploitation during the Occupation are better understood as metaphoric expressions of the humiliation of defeat, occupation and continuing diplomatic subordination, than as history.

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Wake, Shotaro. "Looking at life through a mask : an autoethnographic journey into the worlds of cancer." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/looking-at-life-through-a-mask-an-autoethnographic-journey-into-the-worlds-of-cancer(a387c604-ead6-4138-b4dc-89247d845691).html.

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This thesis explores the intersection of observational filmmaking with auto-ethnographic writing, a combination not used very often but with great potential for visual anthropologists. I examine how my research and filmmaking over a ten-year period have been shaped both by my cancer experience as well as by my Japanese background. Using the metaphor "journey", I approach my own traumatic cancer experience and turn it into a field of study. My journey begins from the moment of my first cancer diagnosis and treatment in the US, moving through my second diagnosis in Norway, and leading up to my most recent fieldwork with a cancer support community in Japan. My auto-ethnographic journey illustrates how I altered my own relationship to my cancer, moving through critical encounters that transformed me from a silent sufferer to an attentive listener. These experiences have also influenced my metaphorical thinking about "dying well" to "living well" with cancer. My personal journey is closely linked to my professional one, and also affects my approaches to filmmaking. By meeting the anthropologist Paul Stoller, who has also lived in the world of cancer, I learned the importance of coming to terms with one's own cancer mask. This mask can easily evoke a sense of being trapped in a "continuous liminality" (Stoller 2005), a transitional state between health and sickness, hopefulness and hopelessness, past and future, life and death. How am I able, as a researcher and filmmaker, to go on with my life in this in-between state and attend to the lives of others through this cancer mask? In my recent fieldwork, I decided to enter the world of the cancer patients' shadow and met with the families of patients and bereaved families in a support group in Japan. I learned that they too wore a mask, though I struggled to establish friendships with them as my cancer status versus their caregiver status distanced us somewhat. I overcame this challenge by using the technique of collaborative filmmaking to seek mutual fellowship with them, and trying to create a shared space in-between, ma in Japanese, where we could meet and feel with each other (kyokan empathy). For that purpose, and combined with the technique of feedback screening, I used a mobile phone as a filming device to free up my face and to make me available as a listener for the filmed persons. The fieldwork resulted in the film 'To the Last Drop' (2016). By combining the methods of auto-ethnographic writing and observational filmmaking, my personal account served to broaden my understanding of the experiences of those afflicted by cancer in Japan. Together, these methods expand on the space between, where suffering becomes visible and silence becomes audible, in a culturally sensitive way.

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Terry, Patrick Alan 1984. "Space In-Between: Masumura Yasuzo, Japanese New Wave, and Mass Culture Cinema." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11477.

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During the early stage of Japan's High Economic Growth Period (1955-1970), a group of directors and films, labeled the Japanese New Wave, emerged to strong critical acclaim and scholarly pursuit. Over time, Japanese New Wave Cinema has come to occupy a central position within the narrative history of Japanese film studies. This position has helped introduce many significant films while inadvertently ostracizing or ignoring the much broader landscape of film at this time. This thesis seeks to complexify the New Wave's central position through the career of Daiei Studios' director, Masumura Yasuzo. Masumura signifies a "space in-between" the cultural elite represented by the New Wave and the box office focus of mass culture cinema. Utilizing available English language and rare Japanese sources, this thesis will re-examine Masumura's position on the periphery of film studies while highlighting the larger film environment of this dynamic period.
Committee in charge: Prof. Steven Brown, Chair; Dr. Daisuke Miyao, Advisor

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Okuno, Mitsuru. "Accelerator Mass Spectrometric Radiocarbon Chronology during the Last 30,000 Years of the Aira Caldera, Southern Kyushu, Japan." 名古屋大学年代測定資料研究センター天然放射性元素測定小委員会, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/13346.

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Fukue, Natsuko. ""Young, cute and sexy: constructing images ofJapanese women in Hong Kong print media"." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39558885.

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Pisha, Nicolette Lucinda. "Anime in America, Disney in Japan: The Global Exchange of Popular Media Visualized Through Disney's "Stitch"." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626617.

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Nakamura, T., M. Okuno, K. Kimura, T. Mitsutani, H. Moriwaki, Y. Ishizuka, K. H. Kim, et al. "Application Of ¹⁴C Wiggle-Matching To Support Dendrochronological Analysis In Japan." Tree-Ring Society, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622549.

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¹⁴C wiggle-matching was applied to two wood samples closely related to geological and archaeological events with associated dendrochronological dates, to demonstrate the accuracy of ¹⁴C dating with accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Wiggle-matching on charred wood with bark, excavated from a pyroclastic mud-flow deposited by the huge 10th Century eruption of the Baitoushan Volcano, revealed the eruption age as cal A.D. 935 +8/-5 with 95% confidence. This date is consistent with the eruption age of A.D. 912 to A.D. 972 estimated by dendrochronology on two wooden boards that had clear stratigraphical connections to the B-Tm tephra deposit in Japan, an ash fall layer formed by the eruption of the Baitoushan Volcano. The date is also consistent with an A.D. 937–938 date estimated by the analysis of varved sediments from Lake Ogawarako in Aomori prefecture. The other wooden board collected from the Mawaki archaeological site in Ishikawa prefecture was wiggle-matched as 783 +13/-11 cal B.C. with 95% confidence, which is consistent with the dates of 830 cal B.C. to 759 cal B.C. obtained for seven wooden poles from the same wooden structures as the wooden board. These results are highly encouraging for obtaining accurate dates on wood when dendrochronology cannot be used.

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Winters, Nathan S. "Schoolgirls with Katanas: Appropriating Japaneseness and the Postmodern Cool in Sucker Punch." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1335535261.

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Dowdle, Daniel Mark. "The internet as an anchor : a grounded theory model of internet advocacy and web site production in Japan and the issue of history textbook reform /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1114.pdf.

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Ogawa, Sho. "Conflicting views of homosexuality among the mainstream films and gay "pink" films of Japan." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1217700754.

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von, Loë Stefano. "\(Nakano Seig\bar{o}\) and the Politics of Democracy, Empire and Fascism in Prewar and Wartime Japan." Thesis, Harvard University, 2011. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10010.

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The subject of this dissertation is the life and career of \(Nakano Seig\bar{o}\), a Japanese journalist and politician born in Fukuoka-city on the southwestern island of \(Ky\bar{u}sh\bar{u}\) in 1886. Initially a liberal and a democrat, Nakano became enamored with European-style fascist movements in the 1930s and tried to start a similar political mass movement in Japan. Advocating a hard-line \(vis-\grave{a}-vis\) America and England, Nakano supported Japan’s entry into WW2. As early as mid-1942, however, he understood that Japan could not win the war and demanded that the government sue for peace – a position that put him into direct opposition with Japan’s military. After being imprisoned briefly for his attempt to bring down the \(T\bar{o}j\bar{o}\) cabinet in the summer of 1943, Nakano committed ritual suicide in October of the same year. The dissertation focuses on Nakano’s enchantment with European fascist movements – Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in particular - and his attempts to launch a similar movement in Japan. Nakano’s attraction to fascism was, in part, a reaction to the international economic and political trends following the Great Depression but also reflected his life-long admiration for charismatic political leaders. His fascist leanings were also the result of a complex political calculation that aimed to exploit the appearance of the masses on Japan’s political stage. The thesis argues that Nakano’s attempt to launch a popular mass movement modeled on the European fascist movements failed both because Nakano’s parties (first the \(Kokumin D\bar{o}mei\), 1931-6 and then the \(T\bar{o}h\bar{o}kai\), 1937 – 1943) lacked ideological cohesion as well as truly totalitarian scope and because Nakano refused to resort to political violence as a means to achieve his political ends.
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Dowdle, Daniel Mark. "The Internet as an Anchor: A Comparative Analysis Model of Internet Advocacy and Web Site Production in Japan and the Issue of History Textbook Reform." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2005. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/334.

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This master's thesis is a grounded theory study of the development of the Internet as a tool for political action in Japan by groups and individuals producing web pages on the issue of history textbook reform. Through the analysis of 14 in-depth interviews, a framework is developed for understanding the role the Internet has taken in political action in Japan. As activists utilize the Internet in political activism, the Internet appears to be developing into an anchor for continuing political activism. For activists, the Internet is a central point of reference for both mass communication and interpersonal communication activities. The model indicates that the political alignment of an activist is an important factor in determining his or her preference for either interpersonal or mass communication on the Internet. Activists on the left tend to use the Internet as a tool for interpersonal communication and coordination, while activists on the right tend to view the Internet as a tool for mass persuasion. The model of Internet activism developed in the thesis is also compared with models of communication derived from theories of technological determinism and social shaping of technologies. Consistent with technological determinist ideas, the Japanese case demonstrates that as activists rely on the Internet, other media show signs of becoming content for the new medium. However, the Japanese case also shows that pre-existing needs and the political framework of an activist have a strong shaping effect on Internet use, indicating the importance of a social shaping of technologies approach.

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Veillon, Charlène. "Mythes personnels et mythes pluriels dans l'oeuvre de Kimiko Yoshida : une esthétique de l'entre-deux, 1995-2012." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010510.

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L'œuvre principalement photographique de Kimiko Yoshida (née le 23 juin 1963 au Japon et installée en France depuis 1995) se fonde sur la création de « mythes» à travers ses autoportraits. Les « mythes du Photographe» à l'origine des « fonctions» de son œuvre - visant entre autres à « informer, représenter, surprendre, faire signifier, donner envie» selon Roland Barthes dans La chambre claire - trouvent leurs sources dans la société, la culture, l'époque auxquelles l'artiste appartient et par conséquent également dans ce qui touche à la singularité de la personnalité, du vécu, de l'histoire à l'échelle intime de celui-ci. De fait, le titre général de cette étude énonce une quête des « mythes personnels et pluriels dans l'œuvre de Kimiko Yoshida », dont le thème de « rentre-deux» constitue la posture esthétique majeure, l'artiste et son œuvre se trouvant entre Japon et Occident, entre figuration et abstraction, entre réalité et fiction, entre citation et transgression. Ce discours fictionnel par l'image et dans l'image subit différentes métamorphoses qui forment les quatre axes fondateurs de la thèse, à savoir l'entre-deux particulier du « personnage conceptuel» défini par Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari dans Qu'est-ce que la philosophie / appliqué à la « signature» Kimiko Yoshida : l'étude d'un entre-deux géographique et culturel définissant un « syncrétisme» artistique singulier: les illustrations des différentes dimensions spatio-temporelles perceptibles dans l ' œuvre de Kimiko Yoshida, notamment à travers les (enjeux des couleurs des images : et l'interrogation concernant la place du sujet à l'image, entre trace et absence
The work of Kimiko Yoshida (born on June 23rd, 1963, in Japan and living in France since 1995), mainly based on photography, is founded on the creation of « myths ». This study is about searching, defining and analysing the « functions » of Kimiko Yoshida's self-portraits. The « myths of the Photographer », at the origins of her work's functions - aiming. amongst others, to « inform, represent, surprise, signify, create desire» according to Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida - are rooted in the society, the culture and the time the artist belongs to, and as a consequence also in the singularity of his/her personality, experience, and intimate story. Thus, the general title of this study brings forwards a research of « personal and plural myths in Kimiko Yoshida's work of art», whose topic of the « in-between » is the main aesthetic position, the artist and her work situated between Japan and the West between representation and abstraction, between reality and fiction, between quotation and transgression. The fictional speech through and in the image undergoes several transformations which make up the four founding lines of this thesis, that is to say the distinctive in-between of the « conceptual character » defined by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Whut is Philosophy ) applied to Kirniko Yoshida's name : the study of a geographical and cultural in-between defining a singular artistic « syncretism » : the illustrations of the several perceptible space-time dimensions in Kimiko Yoshida's work, notably through the games/aims of the images' colours : and the questioning about the subject in the image, between trace and absence

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Cherok, Jessica A. "Explaining Education: Case Studies on the Development of Public Education Institutions." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1275426868.

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Moore, Zachary T. "ASSESSING THE RELATIVE MOBILITY OF SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES FROM DEPOSIT MORPHOLOGY AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES: AN EXAMPLE FROM KUMANO BASIN, NANKAI TROUGH, OFFSHORE JAPAN." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/ees_etds/27.

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A prominent landslide deposit in the Slope Basin seaward of the Megasplay Fault in the Nankai Trough was emplaced by a high-mobility landslide based on analysis of physical properties and seismic geomorphology. Slide acceleration is a critical variable that determines amplitude of slide-generated tsunami but is many times a variable with large uncertainty. In recent controlled laboratory experiments, the ratio of the shear stress to yield strength (defined as the Flow Factor) controls a wide spectrum of mass movement styles from slow, retrogressive failure to rapid, liquefied flows. Here, we apply this laboratory Flow Factor approach to a natural landslide in the Nankai Trough by constraining pre-failure particle size analysis and porosity. Several mass transport deposits (MTDs), were drilled and cored at Site C0021 in the Nankai Trough during International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 338. The largest, MTD B, occurs at 133-176 meters below seafloor and occurred approximately 0.87 Mya. Slide volume is 2 km3, transport distance is 5 km, and average deposit thickness is 50 m (maximum 180 m). Pre-failure water content was estimated from shallow sediments at Site C0018 (82%). The average grain size distribution is 37% clay-sized, 60% silt-sized, and 3% sand-size particles as determined by hydrometer analyses of the MTD. Together, the water content and clay fraction predict a Flow Factor of 3.5, which predicts a relatively high mobility slide. We interpret that the landslide that created MTD B was a single event that transported the slide mass relatively rapidly as opposed to a slow, episodic landslide event. This is supported by the observation of a completely evacuated source area with no remnant blocks or retrogressive headscarp and an internally chaotic seismic facies with large entrained blocks. This approach can be extended to other field settings characterized by fine-grained siliciclastics and where water content and clay percentages are known.

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Yipu, Zen. "Selling props, playing stars virtualising the self in the Japanese mediascape /." View Thesis, 2005. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20060210.104650/index.html.

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Batyko, Richard J. "The Impact of Japanese Corporate and Country Culture on Crisis Communications: A Case Study Examining Tokyo Electric Power Company." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1352852227.

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Capel, Mathieu. "Dans les coupures du monde – Cinéastes japonais face à la Haute croissance 1956-1973." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030087.

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La décennie 1960 figure comme une période d’intenses bouleversements dans l’histoire du cinéma japonais. Une nouvelle génération de cinéastes s’impose et se démarque des "grands maîtres" des années 1930 et 1950, tandis que se diversifient les plateformes de production et que les grands studios voient s’effriter leur monopole sur l’industrie des loisirs. L’heure est à la libération sexuelle, à la contestation politique, aux mouvements citoyens contre la pollution industrielle : un climat libertaire propice aux irrévérences, dont le monde cinématographique se fait comptable à travers une série de "scandales". Pourtant cette nouvelle et turbulente jeunesse du cinéma ne saurait s’envisager comme un simple phénomène démographique, malgré ce que certains cinéastes, Nakahira Kô et les tenants d’un éphémère "Taiyôzoku", voudraient faire croire à la fin des années 1950. Pour d’autres, Oshima Nagisa, Yoshida Kijû ou Matsumoto Toshio, le renouvellement passe au contraire par une redéfinition du rôle du cinéaste et de la façon dont il "agit" le monde : aussi est-il plutôt question de "vision du monde". Cette transition se constate d’autant mieux qu’on la rapporte au cinéma d’après-guerre, dont Imai, Naruse, Kurosawa développent des options esthétiques spécifiques, pour bâtir un espace-temps entropique, miné par l’angoisse. Mais l’accès du pays à la prospérité au tournant des années 1960, célébrée en grande pompe par les Jeux Olympiques de Tokyo de 1964, semble dissiper cette angoisse, entraînant les cinéastes de la nouvelle génération vers d’autres modèles théoriques et esthétiques, aptes à rendre compte de la nouvelle société de consommation et de communication de masse
The years 1960s stand as a time of upheaval in the history of Japanese cinema. A new generation of filmmakers arises, marking its difference from the so-called “great masters” of the 1930s and 1950s. The platforms of movie production diversify, while the great studios lose their domination upon the leisure industry. It is time for sexual freedom, political protests, civil movements against industrial pollution: a climate suitable for audacity and bold behaviors one can notice thoughout the cinematographic world, thanks to various "scandals". Yet that new and boisterous youth shall not be considered as a mere demographic change, whatever may pretend filmmakers such as Nakahira Kô and other upholders of the so-called "Taiyôzoku" at the end of the 1950s. Indeed, for the likes of Oshima Nagisa, Yoshida Kijû and Matsumoto Toshio, that renewal relies on the contrary on a new definition of filmmaking as a way to "enact" the world: thus would it rather be a matter of weltanschauung. Such a transition is obvious when compared to postwar films: for instance, Imai, Naruse or Kurosawa develop specific aesthetic patterns what draw a world of entropy, undermined by anguish. Yet the access to prosperity at the turn of the 1960s, as celebrated by 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, seems to dissipate such feelings, leading the young generation of filmmakers toward other aesthetic options, able to give account of the new society of mass consumption

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Chu, Van, and 朱尹帆. "Japan Communist Party with the mass movement(from1945~1953, on labor movement)." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40158562775099796219.

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SAKATA, FUMI. "A CRITIQUE OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE ‘MR. GAIJIN’ MASK." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7387.

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The thesis suggests the toy-like mask of a white man, ‘Hello, Mr. Gaijin,’ as a site of analysis where the culture of racisms is (re)produced in the specific context of contemporary Japan. Sold as a gig gift in Japan, the mask, consisting of two stickers for blue-eyes and a prominent plastic nose, embodies the popularized image of whiteness in Japan, and presents it as a source of fascination as well as ridicule and mockery. Approaching this mask as an analytical text, I ask: How is race manifested in the Japanese culture? C. W. Mills (1997) suggests that there exists a global system that privileges whites and normalizes their beneficial racial position. This trend is certainly omnipresent in contemporary Japan, where one observes the sense of superiority being affixed to the white body in the frequent use of white models in the media (Creighton, 1997). Yet, how is this theory of white supremacy significantly complicated by the particular representations of whiteness seen in the ‘Hello, Mr. Gaijin’ mask? Through mimicry, the power of whiteness is mocked and commodified into a sleazy toy mask. Critically engaging with these primary questions, the thesis situates the analysis of the ‘Hello, Mr. Gaijin’ mask within the particular history of racialization developed in Japan where the culture of whiteness holds its unique complexity and significance in the society. Drawing largely on the idea of ‘the culture of racisms’ that Goldberg (1993) suggests, the thesis argues that the seemingly contradictory sentiment towards whiteness embodied in the mask presents the key to the holistic understanding of Japan’s particular culture of racisms. Specifically, it analyzes three levels of transformation that the mask presents in embodying the particular culture of racisms: the discursive transformation of whites into gaijin; the temporal physical transformation of the user into Mr. Gaijin; the visual and material transformation of whites into the toy-mask.
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Horisaki-Christens, Andrea Janine. "VIDEO HIROBA: Contingent Publics and Video Communication in Japan, 1966-1981." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-1c1a-pg42.

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"VIDEO HIROBA: Contingent Publics and Video Communication in Japan, 1966-1981" is the first major study in English or Japanese of the seminal 1970s video collective Video Hiroba (Video Plaza). Formed in the aftermath of both Expo ’70 and the late 1960s season of protest, Video Hiroba’s founding in 1972 coincided with a moment of crisis in public space. The combination of high economic growth, rapid industrialization and urbanization, and expansion of mass media in the 1960s also sparked a series of cultural debates around the effects of eizō (technological images) and media (both mass media systems and media technologies) under the highly-managed conditions of the information age, encompassed in the term kanri shakai (the managed or controlled society). Through encounters with North American video practitioners and engagements with these Japanese debates, the members of Video Hiroba developed video as an applied discourse centered on the idea of “video communication,” where video, counter to television but also to industrial capitalism, was positioned as process not product. Through individual and collective experiments with the possibilities of video, the members of Video Hiroba imagined contingent forms of community and experiences of urban space as alternative solutions to the failures of direct confrontation with authorities. Taking a cue from Video Hiroba’s concern with “video communication” over “video art,” this art historical study takes the framework of critical translation to investigate and articulate the forms of collectivity, the processes of mediation, and the systems of circulation with which Video Hiroba members experimented. After laying out the problems of visual culture and subjectivity in the arts from Japanese Surrealism through Expo ‘70, this dissertation devotes four chapters to examining Video Hiroba as a collective, charting their visions for video through their collective exhibitions, the circulation of their work domestically and internationally, the collective’s engagement with institutions, and their community-based work. Through these perspectives, it uncovers both a unique vision of video formed from the local context of 1970s Tokyo but with transnational aspirations, and an alternative lineage for contemporary Japanese socially-engaged art. The final two chapters look at the practices of individual members through a thematic lens to reveal different models of contingency in both urban space, and the discursive public space of media and culture. While these experiments chart possibilities for alternative ways of visualizing collectivity, in their attempts to make systems of media exchange both open and visible, they displace human authors. Combined with their aspirations to engage international art and video circles, in which Video Hiroba was seen as representative of “Japan” and “Asia,” this effect inadvertently played into a burgeoning techno-orientalist image for Japanese video in the early 1980s. This project thus charts competing possibilities for early video in Japan, as both a medium around which alternative modes of human-centered community could be formed, and a medium through which Japan could become, yet again, an empty image of reflection.

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Advincula, Anthony Dellosa. "The effects of media in contract renewal, and knowledge, attitude, and perception of Filipina entertainers to Japan." 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/68707847.html.

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延原, 尊美, and TAKAMI NOBUHARA. "Plio-Pleistocene molluscan assemblages and water mass conditions in the Kakegawa area, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/17042.

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Hirano, Chalinee. "Political information contests and the media's role in politics : a comparative analysis of the Thai and Japanese media." Phd thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146044.

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奥野, 充., and Mitsuru OKUNO. "Accelerator Mass Spectrometric Radiocarbon Chronology during the Last 30,000 Years of the Aira Caldera, Southern Kyushu, Japan." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/15713.

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Croft, Adam. "Tatsukawa: Orality, Ethics, & Regional Renaissance in Industrial Japan." Phd thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/104303.

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Drawing on various aspects of media history, oral tradition, and pedagogical studies, my PhD research thesis — 'Tatsukawa: Orality, Ethics, & Regional Renaissance in Industrial Japan' (2015) — examines the effects of oral tradition on ethics in Japanese mass media. The Tatsukawa bunko (c.1910-25) published by Bunmeidô makes liberal use of gokiroku mono (feudal annals), stock characters like kyôkaku mono (‘men of honour’), sewa mono (poignant episodes of daily life), and shinkôki (stories of saints), all of which were integrated with kôdan (classical narratives) some time around the Muromachi era (c.1333-1573). During the late nineteenth century, these epic poems were frequently adapted for the commercial publishing market in the form of sokkibon (stenographical novels). Embedded in these works are the vocal rhythms of the kôdanshi (classical narrators) who performed them. Their popularity contributed much to the success of contemporary publishers in Japan like Kodansha, Iwanami Shoten, and many others still operating today. As a genre of literature rooted in an oral tradition, kôdan recognised the sanctity of the imperial institution. However, it also celebrated ethics associated with the samurai. Both aspects appealed to bureaucrats working in the Monbushô (Ministry of Education) tasked with creating a new state system of schooling after the imperial Restoration of 1868. Congruence between the Tatsukawa Bunko and educational texts published by the Monbushô demonstrate that oral tradition was alive and well during the early twentieth century in Japan. I argue that the interplay between oral and printed forms of kôdan provided an effective platform of learning for the working class, many of whom were cultural polyglots, able to easily shift their attentions between both forms. A significant part of my thesis examines the ideological messages embedded in both sets of literature.

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Matsuo, Miyuki. "As zainichi or politician : how Yomiuri witnessed the tracks of Arai's political history." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11517.

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Dorman, Benjamin. "Covering the "rush hour of the gods" : the print media, the authorities and two Japanese new religions." Phd thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150022.

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Кодинцева, А. С., and A. S. Kodintseva. "Образ Японии в массовой культуре Южной Кореи : магистерская диссертация." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/43093.

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Работа посвящена анализу образа Японии в массовой культуре Южной Кореи. Был охарактеризован образ Японии в корейских телесериалах, художественных фильмах. Также были проанализированы комментарии корейских пользователей в социальных сетях, которые позволили охарактеризовать образ Японии в сознании корейцев. Благодаря проведенному опросу, был соотнесен образ Японии в массовой культуре и образ Японии в сознании корейцев.
The paper is dedicated to the analysis of Japanese image in South Korean mass culture. The image of Japan is characterized on the basis of Korean dramas and feature films. In addition, the paper analyzes Korean social nets users' comments which reflect the attitude of Koreans towards their neighboring country. The correlation of Japanese image in Mass culture and in Korean public conscience has been revealed through the public opinion poll carried out in the paper.

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Kovácsová, Petra. "Role masmédií při formovaní kolektivní paměti v současném Japonsku." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-266328.

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The thesis is focused on Japanese media and especially on their role in the Japanese society. Their impact is noticeable in the way of shaping the national collective memory. One of the unsolved issues of Japan's past, which still resonates in the Japanese society, is the issue of the former comfort women. From the beginning of the 1990s the thus far neglected issue has been given more media attention, which makes it an ideal study case for the influence of media on shaping the collective memory of a nation. With the help of one media that has been following the plight of the former comfort women incessantly till now, the Asahi Shinbun, the thesis documents the method, by which the issue has been dealt with, and the response of the public to the articles of this daily newspaper, which it has created. As the topic has been being discussed for over thirty years, the analysis of the articles is concentrated on two key periods: 1991-1997 and 2010-2014. Using Susan Pharr's model of the types of roles of mass media, the thesis seeks to learn what role the Asahi Shinbun plays in this issue and whether anything has changed in the last thirty years. Key words: role of mass media, comfort women, collective memory, public opinion, Asahi Shinbun

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Li, Ying-Tzu, and 李英慈. "Knowledge and Preparedness of Hospital Nurses on Mass Casualty Incident and the Policy Implications -- Comparison between Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital in Taiwan and Southern Tohoku General Hospital in Japan." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48uzdn.

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Emergency medical systems for mass casualty incidents (EMS-MCIs) is a global issue; however, there is a severe lack of international research, which leads to different countries not being able to meet the requirements of rapid decision-support systems. When a mass casualty incident (MCI) occurs, hospitals must shift from providing routine healthcare to providing high-quality care to a sudden influx of a significant number of victims. This is accomplished by activating an established Hospital Incident Command System (HICS), which all staff members should be familiar with through prior training. This study aims to gain an understanding of MCI knowledge, attitude and preparedness of hospital nurses in Taiwan and Japan, which would assist in formulating MCI policy. The researcher hopes to improve MCI rescue efficiency in both countries and to provide them with a possible method of continuing education and some suggestions of policy planning.

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Craig, O. E., H. Saul, A. J. A. Lucquin, Y. Nishida, K. Tache, Leon J. Clarke, A. Thompson, et al. "Earliest evidence for the use of pottery." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5947.

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Pottery was a hunter-gatherer innovation that first emerged in East Asia between 20,000 and 12,000 calibrated years before present (cal bp), towards the end of the Late Pleistocene epoch, a period of time when humans were adjusting to changing climates and new environments. Ceramic container technologies were one of a range of late glacial adaptations that were pivotal to structuring subsequent cultural trajectories in different regions of the world, but the reasons for their emergence and widespread uptake are poorly understood. The first ceramic containers must have provided prehistoric hunter-gatherers with attractive new strategies for processing and consuming foodstuffs, but virtually nothing is known of how early pots were used. Here we report the chemical analysis of food residues associated with Late Pleistocene pottery, focusing on one of the best-studied prehistoric ceramic sequences in the world, the Japanese Jomon. We demonstrate that lipids can be recovered reliably from charred surface deposits adhering to pottery dating from about 15,000 to 11,800 cal bp (the Incipient Jomon period), the oldest pottery so far investigated, and that in most cases these organic compounds are unequivocally derived from processing freshwater and marine organisms. Stable isotope data support the lipid evidence and suggest that most of the 101 charred deposits analysed, from across the major islands of Japan, were derived from high-trophic-level aquatic food. Productive aquatic ecotones were heavily exploited by late glacial foragers, perhaps providing an initial impetus for investment in ceramic container technology, and paving the way for further intensification of pottery use by hunter-gatherers in the early Holocene epoch. Now that we have shown that it is possible to analyse organic residues from some of the world's earliest ceramic vessels, the subsequent development of this critical technology can be clarified through further widespread testing of hunter-gatherer pottery from later periods.

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Lee, Seung Hyok. "Missiles, Abductions, and Sanctions: Societal Influences on Japanese Policy Toward North Korea, 1998-2006." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/29657.

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North Korea twice conducted ballistic missile tests close to Japan in 1998 and 2006. While Japan responded with non-coercive condemnations to demonstrate its disapproval in 1998, it imposed unilateral economic sanctions in 2006, marking the first instance in post-World War II of applying a substantial coercion to punish a neighbouring state. The research asks why Japanese policy toward the North shifted for a seemingly identical type of provocation. The dissertation seeks contextual explanations by using inductive process-tracing, a type of ‘middle approach’ between historical narratives and parsimonious theories. It is applied to highlight the underlying mechanism through which public discursive changes concerning national security and North Korea during this eight-year period influenced the subsequent policy shift in 2006. The dissertation concludes that the unilateral sanctions were not necessarily a calculated strategic response to punish the missile launch (or North Korean nuclear programs) per se, but were a direct consequence of a deeper shift in societal discourse taking place beforehand. During the eight-year period, there had been other visible provocations and shocks originating from the North, especially the sensational revelation in 2002 of past North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens. These highly-publicized incidents facilitated the Japanese public to be increasingly conscious about Japan’s security weaknesses and re-evaluate its historical relations with its neighbour, leading to a hardened domestic environment in which the new idea of pressuring the North became a feasible option even before 2006. These North Korean provocations and the resulting societal security discourse, along with concurrent structural changes in the Japanese government and mass media which made them both highly susceptible to discursive currents among citizens, mutually interacted to produce the policy result when the opportunity arose. The research, however, also challenges the popular view that the sanctions are the first example of the wholesale transformation of Japan’s post-war ‘pacifist’ security principles. It argues that the confined means (economic) by which the sanctions were imposed reflects the highly nuanced discourse, which endorses Japan’s legitimate right to specifically punish the North for the harms done, but that the societal momentum is not equally supportive of the more controversial areas concerning military usage and the current constitution.

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