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Matsubara, Nao. "The prospect for Okinawa's initiative : towards getting rid of the U.S. Military presence in Okinawa." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armm4344.pdf.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves [56]-[62]) Focusses on issues concerning the U.S. military presence on the island. Elaborates on Okinawa's suffering due to the military bases which have hindered Okinawa's economic development, created serious pollution and encouraged crime
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Ng, Kin-yuen. "Constitutional developments in China and Japan from the mid 19th century to the early 20th century." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1992. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13280181.
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Ng, Kin-yuen, and 吳健源. "Constitutional developments in China and Japan from the mid 19th century to the early 20th century." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950395.
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Willems, Nadine. "The agrarian foundations of early twentieth-century Japanese anarchism : Ishikawa Sanshirō's revolutionary practices of everyday life, 1903-1945." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:25f7fd44-e2c2-4a71-a9f6-b922b0bc3936.
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This dissertation examines the link between anarchism and agrarian thought in modern Japan through the investigation of the life and ideas of radical intellectual Ishikawa Sanshiro (1876-1956). I track its emergence from the time of Ishikawa's involvement in the socialist movement in the early 1900s to its development during his exile years in Europe between 1913 and 1920 and then after his return home through to the end of the Pacific War. I show how concern for the traditions and condition of farming communities informed a certain strand of non-violent anarchism premised on environmental awareness and cooperative principles fostered through the practices of everyday life. By rescuing from near historiographical oblivion a major dissenting figure of modern Japan, this study gives prominence to a distinctive anarchist intellectual contribution. I examine both the theoretical premises and related socio-political applications, highlighting Ishikawa's role for over five decades as a creative force of social change and a bulwark against authoritarianism. Thus, this work puts forward a more nuanced understanding of the movement of popular agrarianism that marked the interwar period, often pigeon-holed by historians as an adjunct of radical nationalism. I also probe the ecological critique embedded in Ishikawa's vision of the man-nature interaction, which remained vital over the decades and has direct relevance to presentday concerns. The tracing of Ishikawa's connections, both transnational and within Japan, provides the main methodological axis of this study. It appraises dissenting politics through the lens of actual praxis rather than categorization of ideological differences. Likewise, transnational connections are given agency as a mutually creative process rather than as a unidirectional transmission of ideas and values from West to East.
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Choi, Hoi-sze Elsie, and 蔡凱詩. "Working women in China and Japan in 20th century history: a comparative analysis." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952975.
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Choi, Hoi-sze Elsie. "Working women in China and Japan in 20th century history : a comparative analysis /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23425556.
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Norvenius, Mats. "Images of an Empire : Chinese Geography Textbooks of the Early 20th Century." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för orientaliska språk, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-75397.
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In 1901 the Qing regime, in power 1644-1911, took wide-ranging measures to reform the Chinese Empire. Fundamental changes were carried out within the field of education, resulting in the completion of China’s first modern educational system in 1904. Modern schools mushroomed across China and modern textbooks introducing non-traditional knowledge became common reading in the classrooms. Modern geography textbooks informed schoolchildren about the circumstances within the Empire and, to some extent, about the conditions in foreign countries. Thus these textbooks gave them an idea of their own nation in relation to the rest of the world. The thesis examines the images of the inhabitants of the multiethnic Qing Empire, as encountered in a wide range of textbooks and other teaching materials, on the school subject of geography, used at various institutions of modern learning during the closing years of the Qing era. The focus is on the Han Chinese majority of China Proper (i.e. the eighteen provinces), although the images of the other major ethnicities of the Qing Empire are also examined, as well as the peoples of neighbouring Korea and Japan. This study highlights the extent to which the late Qing era was influenced by Japanese approaches towards reforms and modernization, especially in the field of education. During the process of introducing modern school geography in China, Chinese textbook compilers largely relied on Japanese sources on geography, thereby facing a Japanese, nationalistic and colonial discourse, which implied that Japan, as the most civilized nation in the East, was also in her right to dominate the region. Although Chinese educationalists hardly accepted Japan’s self-proclaimed position as the rightful leader of Asia, they were nevertheless influenced by Japanese descriptions of the continent and its peoples.
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Price, John. "Labour relations in Japan's postwar coal industry : the 1960 Miike lockout." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26904.
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The essay explores the events and background of the 1960 lockout at the Miike colleries of the Mitsui Mining Co. in Kyushu, Japan. The dispute, one of the longest and most violent in postwar labour history, occurred at the same time as the anti-U.S.-Japan security treaty struggle and the two events capped 15 years of social turbulence after the war. At issue in the Miike case was the designated dismissal of 1200 miners.
In analyzing the events at Miike the author challenges current assumptions about the so-called three pillars of Japanese labour-management relations (lifetime employment, enterprise unions, and seniority-based wages). Couterposed are four factors—capitalist rationalism, worker egalitarianism, enterprise corporatism, and liberal democracy—the combination of which lend Japanese labour-management relations their specific character in any given instance.
The essay also explores the particular role of the Japan Federation of Employers Organizations (Nikkeiren) in other labour disputes in the 1950s as well as at Miike. The economic background to the Miike strike is also analyzed, in particular, the political aspects of the rationalization of the coal industry. The final chapter deals with relief measures for unemployed coal miners and coal companies during the 1960s.Arts, Faculty of
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Zhao, Hui. "Rethinking Constitutionalism in Late 19th and Early 20th Century China." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10631.
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In the tenets of Western political science, “limited government” is usually seen as the touchstone of modern constitutionalism. Yet significant issues can arise when one applies this framework to East Asia. By studying the origin of constitutionalism in China and Japan, my dissertation reexamines the idea that “limited government” is the core of modern constitutionalism. I argue that constitutionalism, as it was introduced in Meiji Japan and late Qing China, focused on strengthening the government rather than limiting it. Many might feel this affirms the popular belief in an inherent affinity for authoritarianism in the Chinese mind, but this dissertation disagrees, finding such a conclusion to be unfairly reductive, and dangerous to achieving a true cross-cultural understanding. It argues instead that Chinese constitutionalism’s desire to strengthen the state was not the manifestation of a cultural predisposition toward authoritarianism, but was instead consciously adopted and constructed in response to the chaotic realities of late 19th and early 20th century China. By studying the constitutional thought of Aristotle, Cicero, Machiavelli, Hobbes, the early English constitutionalists, Locke, Montesquieu, the American founding fathers, and others, I shine light on a dilemma that was as critical to late Qing China constitutionalism as it was to Aristotle’s ancient Greece, Machiavelli’s Renaissance Florence, and Lincoln’s splitting 19th century America: to achieve the delicate balance between a strong state and the limiting principles of a Republic. My argument calls for a reevaluation not only of Chinese constitutional thought, but also of current liberal constitutional theory, which tends to define the goal of constitutionalism simply as the limiting of governmental power. My research shows that the essential goal of constitutionalism, whether it takes place in the East or the West, in the present or the past, is not to move closer to one pole of authoritarianism or the other of limited government, but to strike an ideal balance between the two, depending on the specific context of a state’s time and place in history.East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Handa, Atsuko. "Bridging Sōseki and Murakami : the modernity of Japan through modernist and postmodern prose." Monash University, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5230.
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Terakawa, Toru. "History and tradition in modern Japan : translation and commentary upon the texts of Sei'ichi Shirai." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32822.
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This thesis examines the concepts of history and tradition in modern Japan, with an emphasis on the writings of Sei'ichi Shirai (1905--1983). Although Shirai has been considered as one of the most important architects of 20th century Japan, he has also been treated as an obscure figure, no doubt partly because of the enigmatic quality of his writings. A major element that contributed to his obscure status and set him apart from his contemporaries was his understanding of history and tradition.The introductory essay examines the concept of tradition prevalent around Shirai's time: how it was constructed by an a posteriori writing of history and in what ways this is complicated by Shirai's writings. The second portion of the thesis is an annotated translation of two of Shirai's texts demonstrating his attempts to disclose the a priori principles inherent in the unfolding of tradition through history.
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Chen, Shuangli, and 陳霜麗. "Cultivating new ryōsai kenbo : St. Agnes' School in the Meiji period." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/209473.
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This thesis examines the contribution and influence that American Protestant missionary girls’ schools had on Japanese women’s education during the Meiji period. Between 1868 and 1912, over thirty missionary girls’ schools were established. These schools had the primary aim of introducing Christianity to Japanese female students. However, at the same time, they provided young women with opportunities for schooling outside of their families and played a pioneering role in promoting “Western enlightenment” inside and outside the classrooms. Set against the backdrop of Japan’s modernization efforts, this thesis uses as a case study St. Agnes’ School (Heian Jogakkō), one of the oldest missionary girls’ schools in the Kansai region, to consider how it cultivated new middle-class women through its education.
Under the slogan of ryōsai kenbo (good wife, wise mother), the Japanese government introduced primary school education for girls as a part of its initiative to build a modern nation. The government considered the home women’s proper sphere and showed little interest in developing women’s secondary and higher education in the first two decades. Therefore it was private schools including missionary girls’ schools like St. Agnes’ that stepped in and filled the void for secondary education. Furthermore, the school introduced advanced courses such as bungaku bu (Arts Division) and kasei bu (Home Economics Division) in 1895. The aim of bungaku bu was to cultivate women who could engage in work for the public benefit.
St. Agnes’ School was established by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America in 1875 in Osaka and later moved to Kyoto in 1895. The thesis explores the academics and practical skills St. Agnes’ taught in its classrooms, chapel, and dormitory. These included English language, Bible classes, science, physical training, and domestic science, including skills such as needlework and the concept of hygiene, which were considered important for American middle-class women. In addition, the school presented regulations on girl students’ decorum, provided a mentoring relationship between missionaries and students, and encouraged girl students to participate in charity and volunteer work such as raising funds for the poor, orphans, and disaster victims.
By using historical documents, including the letters of American Episcopal missionaries and students’ letters and essays in from the archives of St. Agnes’ School, the thesis argues that missionary girls’ schools like St. Agnes’ School cultivated new ryōsai kenbo and ultimately new middle-class womanhood. It presents a case study of its two star graduates: Ukita Fuku, a scholarship recipient who later became a teacher at her alma mater; and Izumi Sonoko, who successfully developed American cookie-baking skills into a family business and became one of the most successful businesswomen and philanthropists of her time. Through their missionary school education, they acted as new middle-class women who engaged in “socially sanctioned activities” such as teaching and charity services in the social sphere. The education helped to construct new norms for middle-class women who worked in both domestic and social spheres in modern Japan.published_or_final_version
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Murayama-Cain, Yumi. "The Bible in imperial Japan, 1850-1950." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1717.
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This thesis undertakes to apply some of the insights from postcolonial criticism to understand the history of Christianity in Japan, focusing on key Christian thinkers in the period since Japan’s national isolation ended in the mid 19th century. It studies these theologians' interaction with the the Bible as a “canonical”text in the Western civilisation, arguing for a two-way connection between Japan’s reception of Christianity and reaction to the West. In particular, it considers the process through which Christianity was employed to support or criticise Japan’s colonial discourse against neighbouring Asian countries. In this process, I argue that interpretation of the Bible was a political act, informed not simply by the text itself, but also by the interpreter’s positionality in the society. The thesis starts by reviewing the history of Christianity in Japan. The core of the thesis consists of three chapters, each of which considers the thought of two contemporaries. Ebina Danjo (1866-1937) and Uchimura Kanzo (1861-1930) were two first-generation Christians who converted to Christianity through missionaries from the United States, and responded to Japan’s westernisation and military expansion from opposite perspectives. Kagawa Toyohiko (1888-1960) and Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961) spoke about the country’s situation in the years preceding the Asia-Pacific War (1941-1945), and again reached two different conclusions. Nagai Takashi (1908-1951) and Kitamori Kazo (1916-1998) were Christian voices immediately after the war, and both dealt with the issue of suffering. Each chapter explores how the formation of their thoughts was driven by their particular historical, economic, and social backgrounds. The concluding chapter outlines Christian thought in Japan today and deals with the major issue facing Japanese theology: cultural essentialism.
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Mackie, Vera C. "Creating socialist women in Japan, 1900-1937 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm1575.pdf.
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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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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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Shimazu, Naoko. "The racial equality proposal at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference : Japanese motivations and Anglo-American responses." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8fd0f80b-a0be-42df-a1a0-7441fb27616b.
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This thesis is a study of the racial equality proposal at the Paris Peace Conference. It explores Japanese motivations for submitting the proposal, and the responses of the British and American governments which eventually defeated it. The thesis uses an analytical framework based on five categories of possible explanations for the proposal: immigration, universal principle, great power status, peace conference politics and bargaining, and domestic politics. The thrust of the analysis contained in the thesis is as follows. For Japan, the proposal meant three things: a means of reaffirming its great power status by securing racial equality with the western great powers in the League of Nations; a justification for Prime Minister Hara whose pro- League position was maintained by a fragile domestic consensus against sceptics in the government and the wider public; and a means of resolving Japanese immigration problems in the United States and British Dominions. But for Japan the proposal was not originally intended as a demand for universal racial equality. For Britain, the proposal was unacceptable because it meant "free immigration" of non-white immigrants into the Dominions. In particular, Australia adamantly opposed it also because of its political significance for Australian public opinion. For the United States, Wilson's determination to create the League of Nations at almost any cost led him to impose a unanimity ruling at the crucial vote on llth April 1919. Other explanations worked in the background. The proposal highlighted the importance of the link between race and great power status for Japan, Japan's insecurity concerning the League of Nations and the West, and Japan's different approach to international relations. Moreover, the failure of the proposal revealed the limits of Wilsonian idealism in that neither Britain nor the United States at that time seriously considered the possibility of universal racial equality.
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Hayashi, Mari. "Images de femmes dans la littérature japonaise contemporaine, 1935-1975: cas des nouvelles couronnées par le prix Akutagawa." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210557.
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The images of Japanese women in the Japanese contemporary literature (1935-1975) — Short-stories crowned with the Akutagawa Prize\
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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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viii, 111 p. : ill. (some col.)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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Farish, Matthew James. "Strategic environments : militarism and the contours of Cold War America." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15138.
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This thesis traces the relationship between militarism and geographical thought in
the United States during the early Cold War. It does so by traveling across certain
spaces, or environments, which preoccupied American geopolitics and American science
during the 1940s and 1950s. Indeed, geopolitics and science, understood during the
Second World War as markedly distinct terms, came together uniquely to wage the Cold
War from the position of strategy. The most intriguing and influential conjunctions were
made possible by militarism, not in the deterministic sense of conditioning technologies
or funding lines, but as a result of antagonistic, violent practices pervading American life.
These practices reaffirmed America's status as distinctly, powerfully modern, while
shoring up the burden of global responsibility that appeared to accompany this
preeminence. Through militarist reasoning, the American world was turned into an
object that needed securing - resulting in a profoundly insecure proliferation of danger
that demanded an equal measure of global action and retreat behind new lines of defence.
And in these American spaces, whether expanded or compressed, the identity of America
itself was defined.
From the global horizons of air power and the regional divisions of area studies
to the laboratories of continental and civil defence research, the spaces of the American
Cold War were material, in the sense that militarism's reach was clearly felt on
innumerable human and natural landscapes, not least within the United States. Equally,
however, these environments were the product of imaginative geographies, perceptual
and representational techniques that inscribed borders, defined hierarchies, and framed
populations governmentally. Such conceptions of space were similarly militarist, not least because they drew from the innovations of Second World War social science to
reframe the outlines of a Cold War world. Militarism's methods redefined geographical
thought and its spaces, prioritizing certain locations and conventions while marginalizing
others.
Strategic studies formed a key component of the social sciences emboldened by
the successes and excesses of wartime science. As social scientists grappled with the
contradictions of mid-century modernity, most retreated behind the formidable theories
of their more accomplished academic relatives, and many moved into the laboratories
previously associated with these same intellectual stalwarts. The result was that at every
scale, geography was increasingly simulated, a habit that paralleled the abstractions
concurrently promoted in the name of political decisiveness. But simulation also meant
that Cold War spaces were more than the product of intangible musings; they were
constructed, and in the process acquired solidity but also simplicity. It was in the
fashioning of artificial environments that the fragility of strategy was revealed most fully,
but also where militarism's power could be most clearly expressed. The term associated
with this paradoxical condition was 'frontier', a zone of fragile, transformational activity.
Enthusiastic Cold Warriors were fond of transferring this word from a geopolitical past to
a scientific future. But in their present, frontiers possessed the characteristics of both.
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Culy, Anna M. "Clothing their identities : competing ideas of masculinity and identity in Meiji Japanese culture." 2013. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1721294.
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This is an in-depth analysis of competing cultural ideas at a pivotal time in Japanese history through study of masculinity and identity. Through diaries, newspaper articles, and illustrations found in popular periodicals of the Meiji period, it is evident that there were two major groups who espoused very different sets of ideals competing for the favor of the masses and the control of Japanese progress in the modern world. Manner of dress, comportment, hygiene, and various other parts of outward appearance signified the mentality and ideology of the person in question. One group espoused traditional Japanese ideas of masculinity and dress while another advocated embracing Western dress and culture. This, in turn, explained their opinions on the direction they believed Japan should take. Throughout the Meiji period (1868-1912), the two ideas grew and competed for supremacy until the late Meiji period when they merged to form a traditional-minded modernity.Department of History
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Price, John. "Postwar industrial relations and the origins of lean production in Japan (1945-1973)." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7023.
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This thesis examines the evolution of postwar industrial relations in postwar
Japan from 1945 to 1973. It analyzes the impact of postwar industrial relations
institutions on the origins and development of “lean production” or, as it is otherwise
known, the Toyota production system. It uses three case studies, Mitsui Coal’s Miike
mine in Kyushu, Suzuki Motors in Hamamatsu, and Moriguchi City Hall as an
empirical basis for analysis and constructs a schema of industrial relations institutions
that challenges the conventional “three pillars” interpretation (lifetime employment,
seniority-based wages, and enterprise unions).
From a historical perspective there were three distinct stages in the evolution
of industrial relations. The first, from 1945-1947 was a labour-dominated period
during which unions began to develop a distinct factory regime in which they were
equal partners with management and could veto layoffs. Employers rejected this
regime, however, and led an offensive against the independent union movement. This
offensive was relatively successful in weakening labour and overturning the new
institutions, but it engendered further antagonism. Thus the 1950s were characterized
by instability in labour relations and new institutions had to evolve out of the
workplace. A stable Fordist regime consolidated in the 1960-1973 period.
From a comparative perspective and in the context of the development of lean
production, the author stresses four institutions: tacit and limited job tenure; a
performance-based wage system controlled by management; unions with an enterprise
(i.e. market) orientation; and joint consultation. These institutions gave Japanese
industrial relations their distinctiveness and also help to explain why lean production
developed in Japan.
Under the traditional Fordist model, work was broken down into short,
repetitive cycles and organized along an assembly line. Employers exerted control by
keeping conceptual activities as their mandate and workers were to simply follow
instructions. This study found that work itself did not change substantively under lean
production but workers participated more in conceptual activities. One of the key
reasons for this was that employers in Japan were able to exercise control not only
through the division of labour but through the wage system and enterprise unions as
well. These mechanisms put discrete limits on the scope of worker innovations.
They also limited the benefits workers could expect from the system. Lean production represented a new stage in production, identified as lean, intensified Fordism.
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Forest, Timothy Steven 1976. "Kith but not kin : the Highland Scots, imperial resettlement, and the negotiating of identity on the frontiers of the British Empire in the interwar years." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18355.
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Based on archival work in England, Scotland, the United States, Canada and Australia, my dissertation expands the traditional purview of diplomatic history into the international dimensions of the social and cultural realms. My study treats doomed attempts to reconstruct previously-held notions of hierarchy and deference as encapsulated in the Empire Settlement Act (ESA) in the wake of the dramatic changes to the world order resulting from World War I. To counter the emergence of Japan as a world power, under the auspices of the ESA, British Columbia and Western Australia, the two most distant outposts of the “white” British Empire in the Pacific, imported poor Celtic farmers and militiamen from northern Scotland in an attempt to retain their “British” identity, which they felt was threatened by Japan on the one hand, the Japanese in their midst on another, and local “nationalisms” on a third. This dissertation argues that such schemes were undermined by the conflicting priorities of Britain and the Dominions, the tensions between laissez-faire and excessive centralized control, the disconnect between government, capital and labor, the valuations of self-help within highly circumscribed situations, the conflict between the themes of rejuvenation and permanent regression, the fight between an idiosyncratic rural ideal and the reality of the urbanized and industrialized world of the twentieth century, and the inconsistent application of supposedly inviolable Social Darwinist ideals. The birth and death of plans to recruit Hebridean crofters to British Columbia and Western Australia in the 1920s reveals a great deal about the fluidity surrounding concepts of identity and security in a very unstable time. The debates surrounding the status of the Hebridean Scots, especially vis-à-vis their British compatriots and the Japanese, are an extreme window through which the much wider dialogues taking place regarding the status of the British Empire both internally and on the global stage, on the changing role of race as the final determinant of one’s identity and status, and the clashes between the Victorian and the modern ways of defining and conceiving of Empire, can be viewed and debated.text
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Ishihara, Tsuyoshi. "Mark Twain in Japan: Mark Twain's literature and 20th century Japanese juvenile literature and popular culture." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/669.
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"A study of Miyake, Kawakubo and Yamamoto : identifying their success factors as revolutionary and innovative designers since the 1980s." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8806.
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M.Tech. (Fashion)This study is an investigation of Japanese designers, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo, who are widely regarded as leading innovators in the fashion world (Kawamura 2004:36; Niessen 2003:216; Sudilc 1990:84). Collectively they have been described as avant-garde designers (Sudjic 1990:13; Breward and Gilbert 2006:58), creators of the Japanese fashion revolution in Paris (Kawamura 2005:96), and exponents of anti-fashion design (Kondo 1997:118). These designers defied the prevailing fashion norms and produced clothes referred to as "wearable art" through the use of advanced technology (Leventon 2005:25). While there are volumes of articles crediting them as revolutionary designers over the years, there is limited literature material that clearly articulates what these designers did differently. Various scholars have tried to uncover what it was that Japanese designers brought to international fashion (Koren 1984; Koda 1987; Coleridge 1989; Evans and Thornton 1989), yet none have been conclusive enough to provide the "recipe for success" that Miyake, Kawakubo and Yamamoto have achieved…
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"Reflections on the life and thought of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961)." 2000. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890396.
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Lam Yan-wing.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves [101]-[106]).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Abstract in English PP --- p.i-ii
Abstract in Chinese pp --- p.iv-v
Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction pp --- p.1-10
Chapter Chapter Two --- Early Life of Yanaihara Tadao and Influences on his Ideological Development pp --- p.11-26
Chapter Chapter Three --- Ideas of Yanaihara Tadao in Prewar and Postwar Period pp --- p.27-77
Chapter - --- Christianity and Socialist Ideas: Which was the Right Way to achieve the Utopian Society?
Chapter - --- "Colonial Policies, Racial Equality and Foreign Relations"
Chapter - --- War and Pacifism
Chapter - --- Christianity and Japanese Tradition
Chapter Chapter Four --- Yanaihara Tadao's Ideology and the Contemporary Situation pp --- p.78-94
Chapter Chapter Five --- Conclusion pp --- p.95-100
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Conner, Nancy Nakano. "Forming a Japanese American Community in Indiana, 1941-1990." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4972.
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"Venereal disease control in colonial Taiwan." 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896597.
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Wong, Ying Suet.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-131).
In English with some Chinese and Japanese; abstract also in Chinese.
Chapter Chapter One: --- Introduction --- p.3
Literature Review --- p.7
Structure --- p.10
Notes on Sources --- p.13
Chapter Chapter Two: --- Venereal Disease Policies in the Metropole and Their Colonies --- p.15
The Case of Britain --- p.16
VD Policy in the Metropole: The case of Britain --- p.16
VD Policy in the Colonies: The Case of Colonies under Britain --- p.23
The Case of Japan with Reference of Britain as the Pioneer Policy Maker --- p.28
Chapter Chapter Three: --- Venereal Disease control in the Metropole --- p.31
Legislation --- p.32
Institutions --- p.44
Education and Social Discussion --- p.49
Resistance --- p.55
VD control in the Japanese Military Force --- p.60
Summary --- p.67
Chapter Chapter Four: --- Venereal Disease Control in Colonial Taiwan --- p.70
Legislation --- p.72
Licensed prostitution system --- p.72
The VD Prevention Law --- p.79
Education and Social Discussion --- p.84
Before the VD Prevention Law in Japan in 1927 --- p.84
Education and Public Discussion of VD after the promulgation of the VD Prevention Law in 1927 --- p.90
The Changing Discourse of VD --- p.95
Summary --- p.100
Chapter Chapter Five: --- "Sex, Gender, Class, Race and Colonialism" --- p.101
Taiwanese Women´ةs image: Scapegoating --- p.101
Medical Development: State Medicine and Local Elites --- p.106
VD Control in the Military in Taiwan --- p.109
Summary --- p.111
Chapter Chapter Six: --- Conclusion --- p.114
Bibliography --- p.120
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Hojda, Ondřej. "JAPONSKO A MODERNÍ ARCHITEKTURA 1945-1970. Diskurs v Evropě poloviny 20. století." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-389638.
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The dissertation deals with ideas about Japanese architecture in the Western, namely European discourse between 1945 and 1970. Architects and critics identified striking similarities between the Modernist architectural principles and the Japanese tradition from the 1920s; after the World War II, these similarities sparked a wide interest among the architectural public, which led to numerous publications on Japan unprecedented in scope and depth when compared with any other non-Western culture. The goal of this work is to map the discourse that occurred this way, identify the main themes connected to Japan, and show their significance. The sources for the study are prevalently printed media: architectural magazines and books. The notion of 'image' of Japan proves useful since we study interpretations of a different culture; history of ideas as well as visual representation in photography. At the same time, work also follows the of general issues of understanding the 'other'. An analysis of these various representations of Japan in the printed architectural media makes up the main part of the research presented here. To examine the origins of these ideas we go back to the 1930 with architects-writers Tetsurō Yoshida and Bruno Taut, and subsequently look into of writings about Japan by architects who...