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Montgomery, Janet Elise. "Women contemporary Western-style artists in Japan : Ethnographic case studies /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487862399449621.
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Nishikawa, Teruka. "Four recitals and an essay, women and western music in Japan. 1868 to the present." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ59557.pdf.
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Seya, Anne-Aurélie. "Des Françaises au Japon : les mécanismes de l'exotisme et de l'altérité dans les écrits de voyage (XIXe-XXe siècle)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Lyon, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021LYSE3033.
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La présente étude se veut une analyse du voyage féminin français au Japon après la fin du Sakoku et jusqu’au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La présence des femmes françaises dans l’histoire du voyage et les écrits de voyage restent très peu analysés et tendent à être éclipsés par des pratiques de voyage et d’écriture viatique qui se déclinent principalement au masculin et qui dominent l’historiographie française. Les Françaises bien qu’identifiées pour certaines dans les études anglophones et japonaises sur le voyage occidental féminin au Japon, restent assez peu étudiées, faute de données suffisantes. Qui étaient les femmes françaises qui ont voyagé et vécu au Japon ? Pourquoi et comment ont-elles entrepris ce voyage ? Quelles traces écrites de leur voyage et de leur présence ont-elles laissé ? Mobilisant des investigations sur la présence féminine française au Japon à la fois dans les archives françaises et japonaises mais aussi une recherche des documents produits par les voyageuses identifiées dans différents fonds documentaires, il a été possible de dresser une typologie des Françaises au Japon mais aussi de leurs écrits (publiés et manuscrits) produits entre 1859 et 1949 présentés dans un catalogue raisonné. L’élaboration de ce panorama inédit a été complété par des entretiens avec des descendants et a aussi mobilisé de très nombreuses sources en main privée afin de comprendre les fonctionnements et les mécanismes de l’exotisme et l’imaginaire japonais en français produits par ces voyageuses. Cinq sources remarquables ont été traitées dans la seconde partie de l’étude, prolongeant les analyses des topoi de l’imaginaire japonais et questionnant à la fois l’expérience du voyage et les modalités d’écriture de celui-ci pour différentes périodes. Puisque la pratique du voyage au féminin implique des particularités, les discours des voyageuses en ont été impacté. Ces déclinaisons et variations d’images mentales associées au Japon, soulignées à la fois par le catalogue raisonné et l’étude d’un corpus spécifique, ont mis en exergue une écriture qui ne venaient pas s’opposer à un discours dominant et masculin, mais au contraire enrichir l’exotisme japonais en françaisThis study proposes an analysis of French women’s travels to Japan from the end of the Sakoku to the period just after the WWII. French women’s presence in History of travel and travel writing has been quite undervalued. Those subjects tend to be silenced in French historiography by the fact that main resources are dominated by male travelers. Even English-language and Japanese studies about Western Women’s travels in Japan, may have somehow muted them. Despite being identified for some, they aren’t studied, mostly because an apparent lack of resources. Who were those French women travelling to Japan and for some even settling there? Why and how did they travel? Did they leave their mark by writing about their experience or their settlement?By bringing together investigations in French and Japanese archives about the travelers and their possible writings (published, unpublished and personal handwritten papers) but also interviews with women travelers’ descendants it was possible to elaborate an overview of French women travelling situation in Japan (19th and 20th century) and build a resources database for their travel writings between 1859 and 1949. Because travelling as a women had specificities, how women travelers did write about their experiences has been impacted. Results of crossing the resources database and a corpus of 5 documents showed how women’s travel writings were not opposing to males ones but completing each other by bringing different representations of Japanese exoticism and alterity
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Marshall, Yuko. "Heterogeneous Japan: The cultural distinctions between western and eastern Japan." Connect to online resource, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1453523.
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Tobin, Amanda. "A Solution to “The Woman Question”: Envisioning the Japanese Woman in the Bijin-ga of Japan's Modern Print Designers." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1305769350.
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Igarashi, Yoko. "Japanese Poetry in Western Art Song." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12426.
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Thesis (D.M.A.)--Boston UniversityWestern art songs written on Japanese poems, Tanka, appeared in the early twentieth century as a late manifestation of Japonisme, the Japanese influence on Western art and music. The songs discussed in this dissertation include Japanisches Regenlied (1909) by Joseph Marx, Three Japanese Lyrics (1912-13) by Igor Stravinsky, Petits Poi!mes Japonais (1919) by Francesco Santoliquido, and Romances on Texts by Japanese Poets (1928-32) by Dmitri Shostakovich. Japonisme emerged as a significant movement in late-nineteenth-century Western art when Japanese artworks were first exported to Europe. Under the influence of these works, Western painters soon adopted Japanese techniques especially from traditional wood-block prints (Ukiyo-e). The appreciation of Japanese art and culture eventually emerged in Western music as a part of Orientalism and exoticism, first in opera, then in Debussy's music, and lastly in art songs. The Japanese poems used in Western art songs examined here are most commonly referred to as Tanka (a short poem), a genre that flourished between the third and tenth centuries. Because of the unique characteristics of the Japanese language, translating Japanese poems into European languages requires a certain imagination. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between the original Japanese poems and their translations into European languages, and to discuss their transformation. The introduction provides a brief overview of Japonisme in Western art in the late nineteenth century. Chapter One focuses on the basic elements of Japanese poetry in order to outline the characteristics unique to the Japanese language. Considering Japanese influence within the category of "Orientalism" and "Exoticism" in music, Chapter Two explores the evidence for Oriental and exotic influences on Western music. Chapter Three focuses more specifically on Japanese influences in Western music. A detailed study of poems and translations, and their relationship to music is the core focus of Chapter Four. Chapter Five concludes that Tanka vanished from Western art songs soon after the songs under consideration were composed.
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O'Beirne, Noeleen P. "The (un)becoming woman : the 'docile/useful' body of the older woman /." View thesis, 1998. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030623.111240/index.html.
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Wada, Ryoko. "The concept of multicultural education in western societies and its relevance to Japanese education /." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31146.
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The objectives of this study were (1) to examine the nature and extent of cultural diversity in Japan; (2) to ascertain the meaning of multicultural education in both the North American and Japanese contexts; and (3) to make judgements concerning the relevance of multicultural education to Japanese education.It was determined that Japanese society is indeed a culturally diverse one, that the cultural minorities are relatively small in numbers and that the Japanese government has traditionally followed a policy of the cultural assimilation of minorities.
Using conceptual analysis to investigate the meanings of multicultural education, the study found that the concept as developed in North America includes such elements as intercultural education, multiethnic education, minority education, human rights education, anti-racist education, democratic education, political education, education for social justice and peace education. These supporting meanings were found to have both distinctiveness yet also overlapping value associations.
The study reached the conclusion that a qualified concept of multicultural education has relevance to Japanese society, but that the degree of relevance depends upon the extent to which the government follows policies that strengthen or moderate traditional cultural values, recognizes and supports the development of minority cultural communities and encourages openness in its immigration and refugee policies.
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Heath, Douglas R. "Long-Term Western Residents in Japan: Hidden Barriers to Acculturation." Scholarly Commons, 2017. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/234.
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This study explores the acculturation experiences of long-term Western residents in Japan using a broad intercultural studies approach. First, the historical context of Westerners coming to Japan is discussed. Next, literature from the field of intercultural studies is considered. This literature is used to provide a framework for analyzing Western sojourners’ acculturation experiences in Japan, as well as for choosing the research methods for conducting a qualitative analysis. The research involved interviewing 12 expatriates from English-speaking countries who have been in Japan for at least 10 years. Their acculturation experiences were analyzed, with a particular focus on finding hidden barriers to acculturation. The study concludes that numerous barriers to acculturation do exist. Commonly observable barriers included lack of employment security for some sojourners, and a poor fit between an individual’s personality and the host culture. These issues are applicable to anyone adapting to life in a different culture. However, this research also exposed a number of hidden barriers arguably unique to the Western sojourner’s acculturation experience in Japan. These barriers include the challenge of developing satisfying relationships with Japanese, due primarily to different expectations for psychological closeness and self-disclosure in Japan and the West. Another is the social effect of Othering, the centuries-old process where Japanese society divides things into those which are Japanese and those which are not, and the consequent empathy deficit that Japanese experience toward outsiders. The thesis concludes by offering recommendations for how long-term Western residents in Japan can improve their adaptation and acculturation experience. These include the obvious advantages of learning the Japanese language, and the less obvious benefits of learning and practicing mindful intercultural communication.
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McAulay, Alexander. "The western screenwriter in Japan : screenwriting considerations in transnational cinema." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2018. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30896/.
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This PhD investigates the writing of a feature film screenplay for mainstream Japanese-language cinema by a British screenwriter. As a long-term resident of Japan with production credits in Japanese cinema, I have for many years been interested in how to write stories set in Japan that will appeal to domestic and international audiences. The study examines the challenges I face as a Western screenwriter writing a screenplay for Japanese cinema, and how those challenges inform my creative practice, bringing into being a screenplay that is intended to enhance screenwriting craft in mainstream Japanese cinema and provide new knowledge to transnational cinema and screenwriting research. The critical commentary that accompanies the screenplay takes a dialogic approach in practice-led research to explore how various issues emerge for the Western screenwriter in Japanese cinema. These problems are examined with regard to relevant theory, and contextualised in considerations of various films in Japanese-language cinema written by non-Japanese screenwriters. One salient issue is the application of the Hollywood ‘universal’ model of screenwriting to stories about Japan. I also explore the role of agency in screenplay authorship, in particular with regard to notions of ‘Japaneseness.’ I suggest notions of ‘Japaneseness’ are a particular challenge for my creative practice, and examine them in the context of national-transnational tensions in cinema. I draw on theories of transnational cinema to argue that the screenplay written for this PhD, Welcome to Prime-time, is an ‘accented Japanese screenplay.’ I go on to outline how accented Japanese screenplays might be positioned in relation to Japanese national cinema and transnational cinema discourses. I then discuss ‘Japaneseness’ in terms of a related issue: Orientalism. I show how Orientalism remains a trenchant concern for non-Japanese screenwriters representing Japan. This leads to a discussion of how a process of reflective authenticity might equip such screenwriters to depict ‘the Other’ in ways that circumvent Orientalist tropes in order to synthesise both local and global concerns. The process of critical reflection is threaded throughout the PhD, and concludes with a consideration of the notion of ‘becoming Japanese’ as it is depicted in my screenplay, and in my own journey within practice-led research. I posit that this PhD adds to our understanding of transnational screenplays and the contexts transnational screenwriters work within. Furthermore, I suggest the screenplay exhibits a new approach to achieving an ‘authentic’ representation of Japan and the Japanese by Western screenwriters. Note: It is recommended that the reader start with Chapters 1-4 of the critical exegesis. Ideally, the screenplay should be read after Chapter 4 and before Chapter 5. This is indicated in the text.
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Dawes, Walter J. C. "A history of Australia-Japan trade: A Western Australian perspective." Thesis, Dawes, Walter J. C. (1997) A history of Australia-Japan trade: A Western Australian perspective. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 1997. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51492/.
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This thesis is an intellectual and personal journey, written not so much to prove a particular point about the relationship between Australia and Japan, but so that I might understand changes which have taken place in my lifetime.
As a schoolboy voluntary worker at a military hospital, my earliest impressions of Japan were coloured by meeting victims of the Japanese invasions of Indonesia and New Guinea and the bombing of Darwin. My heroes included members of Sparrow Force, which fought on behind the Japanese lines in Timor, and Julius Tahija, winner of the Orange Cross for a valiant rearguard action in which hundreds of Japanese were killed. By the time I graduated from university my hatred of Japan, like that of most of my generation, had softened as memories of the war faded and Australia entered a period of full employment and rapid growth. Then, while working with a trading house in Indonesia in the late 1950s, I started to relate to Japanese as fellow human beings, as business competitors - and as members of the same golf club. It was not until the 1960s, working in a variety of industries as a management consultant, that I became aware of how much Japan could influence Australia's future: on the one hand as the dominant customer for our wool; and on the other as the maker of such things as synthetic rope which would put Australian rope and twine makers out of business. Upon joining the mining industry, the profitability of my company and my own income were inextricably linked with the success of Japanese industry.
And yet my colleagues and I knew little about the country and the people upon whom we were so dependent. The desire to learn more about the strange symbiotic relationship between Japan and Australia was the genesis of this thesis. Its objective is very simple: to trace the history of Australia's relationship with Japan and to identify the role played by governments, the bureaucracy and private individuals as Australia responded to changes in the Japanese economy. It will show that the complementary relationship is dynamic, calling for constant change and adaptation…
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Castellini, Alessandro. "Translating maternal violence : the discursive construction of maternal filicide in 1970s Japan." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/978/.
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The present dissertation takes late postwar Japan as its case study and investigates the ways in which ambivalence to/in motherhood’ emerges at the very site where maternal violence and, more specifically, maternal filicide disrupts social norms of acceptable maternal behaviour. In 1970s Japan the number of cases of mothers who killed their own children saw a dramatic increase to the point of reaching, within media representations in particular, the dimension of a social phenomenon. Within the framework of idealizations of maternal identity, formulated in terms of continuous love, self-sacrifice and domesticity, filicidal mothers came to be labelled as either "bad" (cruel, monstrous) or "mad" (mentally unstable, neurotic). The apparent proliferation of maternal child-killing and what was perceived as the unjust treatment meted out to these criminalized mothers became a major concern for a new women’s liberation movement emerging in Japan between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, known as ūman ribu (woman lib). Ribu contested the widespread characterization of mothers who kill as either devilish or mentally ill, and drew on the numerical increase of cases of maternal filicide as evidence of a symptomatic malfunctioning of the dominant gender ideology in modern Japanese society. Postwar Japan also witnessed a boom in women’s literature whose focus on the grotesque, on worlds of dreams and madness and on the morbid portrayal of female antisocial behaviours constituted fertile terrain for the proliferation of disquieting images of motherhood and maternal violence. This thesis focuses on the work by Japanese writer Takahashi Takako as a specific case study to address the discursive construction of filicidal mothers in women’s literature. This study acknowledges motherhood as a heated site of contested meanings and focuses on a close textual reading of media coverage, the rhetoric of ribu and women’s literature in order to explore the discursive constructions of mothers who kill which characterised early 1970s Japan. It sheds light on the problematic interactions between the different discourses under consideration and identifies the relationship between motherhood and violence as a hot-spot where clashing discourses produce a constant re-articulation of maternal and female identity.
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Tonsiengsom, Surangsri. "Western knowledge and intellectual groups in Japan and Thailand in the nineteenth century : the Meirokusha and Young Siam /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10368.
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Gedalof, Irene. "Against purity : identity, western feminisms and Indian complications." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3851/.
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This thesis argues that Western feminist theoretical models of identity can be productively complicated by the insights of postcolonial feminisms. In particular, it explores ways that Western feminist theory might more adequately sustain a focus on 'women' while keeping open a space for differences such as race and nation. Part One identifies a number of themes that emerge from recent Indian feminist scholarship on the intersections of sex, gender, race, nation and community identities. Part Two uses these insights to look critically at the work of four Western theorists, Rosi Braidotti, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway and Luce Irigaray. I argue that strategies which privilege sexual difference as primary cannot deal adequately with differences such as race and nation. But I also argue that strategies which privilege destabilizing identity can be equally constrained by the logic of dualisms which has made it so difficult for feminists to sustain a focus on women and their differences. Part Three discusses how the insights to be drawn from Indian ferninisms might be taken on board by Western ferninisms in order to develop more complex models of power, identity and the self. Throughout the thesis I draw on a Foucauldian understanding of power as productive, and on Foucault's insight that subjects and identities emerge, not through the imperatives of a single symbolic system, but through the intersection of multiple networks of discourses, material practices and institutions. I argue that, by attending to women's complex location within intersecting landscapes of gender, nation, race and other community identities, feminist models of identity can dispense with a logic of dualisms in order to redefine, and not only destabilize 'women' as the subject of/for feminism. This requires working against purity on three levels. First, it requires a model of power that gives up on the search for pure, power-free zones and works instead with the instabilities power produces as it both enables and constrains women. Second, it requires seeing 'women' as a complex, impure category that bleeds across the apparently coherent borders of identity categories such as gender, race and nation, and contesting discursive constructs of 'Woman' as the pure space of origin upon which these apparently discrete categories stand. Third, it requires the development of alternative models of the self that take these complex, impure spaces as a valid and valorised position from which to act and to speak.
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Sanders, Erin. "One night in Bangkok : Western women's interactions with sexualized spaces in Thailand." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12018/.
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Key words: Thailand, sex tourism, sex industry, authenticity, voyeurism, tourist experience Research on sex tourism in Thailand has often focused on western men’s sexual interactions with local women (Cohen, 1982; Enloe, 1989; Brown, 2001), and the sexualized entertainment on offer in eroticized tourist spaces/places is assumed to be aimed at western male tourists (Manderson, 1992; Bowes, 2004). While a number of academics have studied sexualized spaces and venues, little has been written on how and to what extent western women engage with this type of touristic entertainment in the Thai (sex tourism) context (Odzer, 1994; Manderson, 1995; Sikes, 2006). This is despite the fact that the number of female tourists visiting Thailand has increased over the past decade (TAT, 2007), and some evidence suggests that the sex industry in Thailand caters for female tourists (Vorakitphokatorn et al, 1994; Williams et al, 2007). This thesis will argue that western women are curious about the nature of the Thai sex industry, and that some tourist women seek to visually explore sexualized tourist areas as part of their ‘tourist experience’ in Thailand. Sex tourism is a contentious subject area, and investigating the extent to which western women might engage with the sex industry as part of their tourist experience necessitates a critical engagement with theoretical understandings of female sex tourism. The findings suggest that western women’s desire for an authentic tourist experience in Thailand facilitates their entry into sexualized zones. While the history of the sex industry in Thailand has helped to popularize its notoriety, discourses on tourist-oriented sexual spaces suggest that visiting a sexual show is something that is ‘ok’, and further is part of ‘real Thailand’. However, women’s visual engagement with the Others who inhabit these spaces reveals a darker side,and perhaps a voyeuristic desire to visit these venues. While part of their motivation to consume the sex industry stems from their understanding of the sex industry as authentically Thai, their contradictory interpretations of Thai sex workers reveals a darker, more complicated picture. This thesis will examine the lines that divide tourism from sex tourism practices to suggest that consuming difference and the desire to engage with exotic (and erotic) Others underpins all touristic engagements, including tourist interactions with the sex industry. Visual sex tourism practices will be outlined here, and current definitions of sex tourism will be deconstructed to reveal a more complicated picture of tourism/sex tourism practices, which calls for a closer examination of gendered tourism behaviors.
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Sun, Wanning. "Reading the other : narrative constructions of Japan in the Australian and Chinese press /." View thesis, 1996. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030814.112829/index.html.
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Flower, Jane. "Divining woman : the waterpourer's lineage." Thesis, View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/618.
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This thesis engages with the feminist argument that women need to create a culture of the female and rediscover female genealogy. The misogynistic, theological and philosophical narratives on Woman are deconstructed. Using the metaphor of divining as a tool for searching for a source the author seeks to discover the source of Woman, one not bound by male definition and control. In removing the stigma of Woman as 'misbegotten male' and cause of 'original sin' Woman's sexuality and spirituality are recognised. Female sex is acknowledged and the difference reframed so that male sex no longer holds the dominant position. Woman becomes Divine, and it is a divinity that signifies her earthly interactions in her spiritual, social and personal life. After the divining a female genealogy is created and the divine is drawn out in woman. The writing and analyses of Virginia Woolf and Luce Irigaray are drawn on to establish the basis of the research methodology. Creativity, myths, story, poetry, fiction and feminist analysis are used to find the woman hidden in traditional patriarchal rendering of history. This thesis is both a historical and autobiographical research taken within the context of the author's cultural influences. It is a transdisciplinary research within a set framework, concentrating on women's sexual and spiritual specificity. Greek and Celtic history, Wicca, Christianity and Buddhism are included, with an inclusive but not in-depth analysis of these traditions. The underlying theme of this thesis is women's disconnection from each other. In the author's personal story it concerns her mother, sister and herself. In the collective story it is about women's loss of their female genealogy and connection to their women's history.
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OHBA, Hotaka. "Mesozoic radiolarians from the western part of the Atsumi Peninsula, Southwest Japan." Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Nagoya University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/2836.
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Hayakawa, Kunihiko Ken. "Made in our image: Japanese and Western views of robots and their creators." Thesis, Boston University, 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27669.
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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Bube, June Johnson. ""No true woman" : conflicted female subjectivities in women's popular 19th-century western adventure tales /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9508.
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Bradfield, Zoe. "Western Australian Midwives’ Perceptions and Experiences of Being ‘With Woman’ During Labour and Birth." Thesis, Curtin University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75843.
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Being ‘with woman’ is an important construct of the midwifery profession and is included in philosophy statements of leading midwifery organisations globally. Despite its centrality, little research has been conducted to offer evidence around this phenomenon. A phenomenological approach was undertaken to explore Western Australian midwives’ perceptions and experiences of being ‘with woman’ in a variety of models. Findings revealed that while midwives perceived the phenomenon similarly, experiences were distinct to the model worked in.
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Takahashi, Aya. "Western influences on the development of the nursing profession in Japan, 1868-1938." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410831.
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Friedman, Lindsey Gayle. "What is Yayoi? : isotopic investigations into the Jomon-Yayoi transition in western Japan." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610818.
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Khou, Carrie [Verfasser], and Ulfried [Akademischer Betreuer] Reichardt. "Trajectories of Change : Modernity - the Woman Question - New Woman Fiction, Progressive America (1890-1920) and Meiji Japan (1868-1912) [[Elektronische Ressource]] / Carrie Khou. Betreuer: Ulfried Reichardt." Mannheim : Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1078852316/34.
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Tamari, Tomoko. "Women and consumption : the rise of the department store and the #new woman' in Japan 1900-1930." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250447.
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The aim of this research is to seek to situate women in the development of consumer culture in Japan in the period 1900-1930. This period saw the beginnings of mass consumption and the rise of what was to become one of its central institutions, the department store. One of the most important department stores to emerge was Mitsukoshi, which provided a site in which the new tastes and lifestyles of consumer culture and western modernity could be looked at, sampled and practiced. In effect the store could be seen as providing a new form of 'intimate public sphere' for women. Mitsukoshi also provided images and information on the new consumer culture classifications and learning processes through its house magazines. Other magazines, especially women's magazines, whose readership rapidly expanded in this period, reinforced this message. The extent to which women were seen as the central operators of the emerging consumer culture is a central focus of the thesis. The department stores were not only spaces for women to consume, but also to work. The emergence of saleswomen as a new category of working woman is also discussed. The ways in which an image of a new women emerged as they became employed in greater numbers in the new service occupations and became more visible in the city centre streets and consumption and entertainment sites, is also considered. One variant here was the 'modem girl,' whose image was both discussed and constructed in the media by intellectuals, writers and cultural intermediaries. One of the aims of this work is to sketch out the parameters of this process in Japan and ask how far the stores and other new urban spaces, along with the mediated sources such as magazines, newspapers and the cinema, helped to further some shift (however limited and temporary) in the balance of power between the sexes towards women, along with a concomitant redefinition of what it meant to be a women. The new woman, then, occupied a contested space which a number of parties sought to define: the consumer culture industries such as the department stores, press and cinema; the government with its various thrift and everyday life reform campaigns designed to keep women in the home, albeit as skilled housewives; the various movements for greater women's rights and reform, both in the middle class and the working class militant women workers; the intellectuals and cultural intermediaries, some of whom saw the 'modem girl,' as a new exciting phenomenon of urban modernity; and, of course, the women themselves, who not only reacted to these forces, but gained in their capacity and desire to have a greater say in the process and control over their own lives
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Steele, Judith A. "Researching the lived experience an expatriate English speaker in Japan : an Australian in outback Western Australia : Gaijin and Balanda /." View thesis, 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/43335.
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Thesis (M.Sc. (Hons.))-University of Western Sydney, 2007.A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Education, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (Honours). Includes bibliographical references.
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Baldridge, Seth Robert. "Gold powder and gunpowder| The appropriation of western firearms into Japan through high culture." Thesis, The University of Utah, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10006268.
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When an object is introduced to a new culture for the first time, how does it transition from the status of a foreign import to a fully integrated object of that culture? Does it ever truly reach this status, or are its foreign origins a part of its identity that are impossible to overlook? What role could the arts of that culture play in adapting a foreign object into part of the culture? I propose to address these questions in specific regard to early modern Japan (1550–1850) through a black lacquered ōtsuzumi drum decorated with a gold powder motif of intersecting arquebuses and powder horns. While it may seem unlikely that a single piece of lacquerware can comment on the larger issues of cultural accommodation and appropriation, careful analysis reveals the way in which adopted firearms, introduced by Portuguese sailors in 1543, shed light on this issue.
While the arquebus’s militaristic and economic influence on Japan has been firmly established, this thesis investigates how the Kobe Museum’s ōtsuzumi is a manifestation of the change that firearms underwent from European imports of pure military value to Japanese items of not just military, but also artistic worth. It resulted from an intermingling of Japanese-Portuguese trade, aesthetics of the noble military class, and cultural accommodation between Europeans and Japanese that complicates our understandings of influence and appropriation. To analyze this process of appropriation and accommodation, the first section begins with a historical overview of lacquer in Japan, focusing on the Momoyama period, and the introduction of firearms. The second section will go into the aesthetics of lacquerware, including the importance of narrative symbolism and use in the performing arts with a particular emphasis on the aural and visual aesthetics of the drum. Finally, I will discuss this drum in the global contexts of the early modern era, which takes into account the tension between the decline in popularity of firearms as well as the survival of the drum. Pieced together, these various aspects will help to construct a better understanding of this unique piece’s place in the Japanese Christian material culture of early modern Japan.
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Asami, Takuji. "Phenotypic Association Between Lactose and Other Milk Components in Western US Dairy Herds and Japan." DigitalCommons@USU, 2018. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7135.
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Lactose in milk has relatively low variation regardless of season, breed, or country. The study of lactose concentration and correlation among other milk components is limited. Furthermore, dairy farmers have limited access to the lactose data and are not familiar with it. This study was conducted to: 1) investigate the phenotypic correlation between lactose and other milk components; and 2) determine the importance of lactose for dairy herds.
Monthly DHIA records from Utah (DHIA), Dairy Herd Performance Test (DHTP) records from Ibaraki, Japan, and California herd average data (CHAD) covering 27 states were used to analyze the relationships between milk lactose concentrations and parameters related to milk production. Record spans for each data sets for DHIA, DHTP and CHAD were 7 consecutive years ending August 2017, 12 consecutive years ending August 2017, and 9 consecutive years ending August 2017 respectively.
Means for the DHIA records were 187.9 days in milk, 34.6 kg/d milk yield, 4.08% lactose, 3.88% fat, 3.15% protein, 8.86% SNF, 14.4 mg/dl MUN, 256,000 SCC, and 2.4 parity. A negative correlation was observed between lactose concentration and parity (r = -0.27). Positive phenotypic correlations between lactose percentage and milk yield (r = 0.28), and negative correlations with fat (r = -0.17), protein (r = -0.21) and SCC (r = -0.30) were observed. No seasonal fluctuations of milk lactose concentrations were observed.
Mean for the DHTP records were 4.55% lactose, 3.95% fat, 3.29% protein, 8.74% SNF, 283 mOsm/kg osmotic pressure, 19,600 bacteria count, and 222,000 SCC. A seasonality in the lactose concentrations were observed, with the lowest concentrations of lactose observed in late summer and fall. There were no phenotypic correlations between lactose concentrations and protein, but a negative correlation with fat (r = -0.12) was observed. A significant negative correlation with SCC (r = -0.28) was also observed.
Based on the CHAD records, cows with lower lactose concentrations showed a higher culling rate, which indicates that the milk lactose concentration could be a potential indicator of problems in a dairy herd. This study suggest that lactose level could be an indicator for managing dairy farms. Dairy farmers should be able to access lactose data, and these data should be provided by DHIA.
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Pitkethly, Robert Hamilton. "The use of intellectual property in high technology Japanese and Western companies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:652b8b44-ad5c-468b-8a5e-2907b8eb361b.
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This research comprises a comparative study of Japanese and UK Intellectual Property (IP) management and an extension, informed by the study, of existing IP strategy frameworks. The research was prompted by observing that little has been written about IP management and that Japanese IP management might differ from that in the West due to differing economic, legal and technological circumstances. A literature review found IP related economics literature but little in English regarding IP management. The most relevant work was that by Teece concerning the combined role of complementary assets and intellectual property rights (IPRs). The present research's contribution is thus threefold. A detailed description of the development and nature of Japanese IP management. A comparison with UK IP management, putting Japanese IP management into an international context. Finally, a development of existing general IP Strategy frameworks informed by the results of the international comparison. In studying IP management in Japan a wide range of specialist literature in Japanese was studied. Interviews were held, those with Japanese IP managers, lawyers, government and NGO officials being in Japanese. The first comparative survey of UK and Japanese IP management formed a key source of the data collected. A response rate of 44% in Japan (211 replies) and 33% in the UK (259 replies) enabled comparisons by both size and sector. Many similarities were found between Japanese and UK attitudes to and practice of IP management, reflecting the similarity of the underlying issues in both countries. There were also significant differences between Japanese and UK companies especially in the extent and organisation of resources devoted to IP management, in attitudes to IP strategy, licensing, litigation, the filing of patent applications and in the use and management of patent information. The study provided the basis for developing a view of IP strategy as a dynamic management strategy process. This process occurs in a framework involving time and the control of technological scope and progress using IPRs and complementary assets. Other considerations involved comprise the ability to use resources to exploit markets fully and learning opportunities. The study of Japan's IP management and its development from a position of technological followership to that of still learning leadership thus provides a basis for a view of IP strategy as taking place in an integrated dynamic management framework.
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Geiger, Andrea A. E. "Cross-Pacific dimensions of race, caste and class : Meiji-era Japanese immmigrants in the North American West, 1885-1928 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10496.
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Rohn, Ulrike. "Cultural barriers to the success of foreign media content western media in China, India and Japan." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/997279354/04.
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Steele, Judith A. "Researching the lived experience : an expatriate English speaker in Japan : an Australian in outback Western Australia : Gaijin and Balanda." Thesis, View thesis, 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/43335.
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This project deals with the Anglo-Celtic diaspora in Japan. The globalisation of the workforce is an ongoing reality. The Senate Report tabled March 8th 2005, estimates at least three quarters of a million Australians currently live overseas. With one in five jobs within Australia dependent on export, (Austrade 2006) and Japan being our biggest single trading partner, it is expedient to examine the circumstances of the overseas assignment in that country. The welfare of the assignee and his/her family is critical for the individual and as a flow on, configures the success of the trade relationships. The image presented by well adjusted expatriates enjoying and participating in the society of the host country enhances the overall profile of their nation, facilitating long term benefits in trade, foreign affairs and general good neighbourliness. On repatriation, the assignee, having acquired additional ways of knowing, intercultural competence and a global perspective, has the potential to act as a change agent within the particular base organisation, and holistically, their home society. The thesis is constructed from a bicultural viewpoint whereby members of the Anglo-Celtic tribe are the outsider in Japan, with its old and powerful culture. The methodology uses an applied sociology perspective, with social practice drawn from sociological heritage to configure depth and dimension to both cultures. The research position is one of post-modern ethnography expressed in the form of iconic visual anthropology in a metaphoric, evocative process in order to bypass the culture gap and convey meaning by informing the unconscious as well as the conscious. Input into the thesis came from participants, colleagues and repatriates; my own heuristic of living in Japan for six years; cultural studies in the Centre for Japanese Language, Waseda University, Tokyo; a broad literature review; my profession as interculturalist; and work in both adult immigrant education programs and Aboriginal education in Australia. Findings indicate that the optimum position for a company is to adopt strategic planning as a way to maximise return on investment (ROI) placing emphasis on intercultural awareness and competence as core competencies for all employees. As a result of these findings a model of strategic planning for the global learning organisation has been configured, which maximises support for the assignee and can be extrapolated to have universal applications.
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Shima, Satomi. "Part-time employment in Britain and Japan : a comparative study of legal discourse." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/73321/.
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This study analyses the discursive construction of part-time employment and the workers in it in the employmentand legal contexts in Britain and Japan, applying an analytical framework of the law developed from a post-structuralist feminist viewpoint. In doing this, this study contributes to knowledge in the field of legal studies by providing an account of the active role of the law in the area of employment,through the operation of discourse, in shaping and reshaping structural inequality which part-time women employees face in contemporary British and Japanese society. Evidence for this study is collected from statistical data, questionnaires and interviews with managers, interviews with a group of ex-part-time women workers pursuing a legal case and the close reading of legal materials in the two countries. From the examination of these data, two discourses are identified,which circulate in employment and legal institutions in both countries and which help to produce the differentiation between full-time and part-time employees. One discourse emphasises differencesin labour-related factors, such as working hours, job content and commitment, while the other emphasises differences in the gendered characteristics and domestic positions of men and women. I show that the two discourses operate within and across these institutions, constructing part-time employment as different from and inferior to full-time employment on both labour related and gender-related grounds, and legitimisingthe disadvantaged position of part-time employees. This discursive construction has brought about a gendered hierarchy within the law in which the inferior working pattern of part-time employment is gendered as women's, while the superior pattern of full-time employmentis gendered as men's. On the basis of this analysis, I argue that the law is one of the most influential discursive mechanisms which bring about and help to sustain the hierarchical gendering of society, contributing to the production and reproduction of unequal power relations between the sexes and between employers and part-time women employees.
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Flower, Jane. "Divining woman : the waterpourer's lineage : establishing woman's spiritual genealogy through the emergence of her sexual and spiritual specificity after deconstruction of the grand narrative on woman as 'misbegotten male' and cause of 'original sin' /." View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030409.103053/index.html.
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Kennedy, Olivia. "A Window into Contemporary Japanese Society From a Woman’s Perspective: Taigan no Kanojo (Woman on the Other Bank, 2004) By Kakuta Mitsuyo." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2681.
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This thesis is an exploration of the novel Taigan no Kanojo (Woman on the Other Bank, 2004) by Japanese writer Kakuta Mitsuyo (1967- ). A biography of the author is presented first, covering Kakuta’s writing to date and the personal circumstances that have influenced her body of work. To my knowledge this is the first in-depth biography prepared, in English or Japanese, of Kakuta Mitsuyo.
The next section of this thesis is a discussion of the text. Kakuta is deeply critical of the status of women in Japanese society, and uses Taigan no Kanojo as a platform to make her readers aware of her views. She probes employment conventions that limit women’s choices and the difficulties that women face when they try to combine motherhood with work outside the home. She asks her reader to reconsider what should define ‘success’ or ‘failure’ in terms of women’s lives. This section, therefore, explores these themes, and places the novel firmly within its social background.
Lastly, in order to make the novel that forms the focus of this thesis accessible to a non-Japanese readership, translations of Chapters One and 15, and synopses of Chapters Two through 14 are then provided.
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Emanuel, Elizabeth Frances. "Writing the oriental woman : an examination of the representation of Japanese women in contemporary Australian crime fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/64475/1/Elizabeth_Emanuel_Exegesis.pdf.
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This study considers the challenges in representing women from other cultures in the crime fiction genre. The study is presented in two parts; an exegesis and a creative practice component consisting of a full length crime fiction novel, Batafurai. The exegesis examines the historical period of a section of the novel—post-war Japan—and how the area of research known as Occupation Studies provides an insight into the conditions of women during this period. The exegesis also examines selected postcolonial theory and its exposition of representations of the 'other' as a western construct designed to serve Eurocentric ends. The genre of crime fiction is reviewed, also, to determine how characters purportedly representing Oriental cultures are constricted by established stereotypes. Two case studies are examined to investigate whether these stereotypes are still apparent in contemporary Australian crime fiction. Finally, I discuss my own novel, Batafurai, to review how I represented people of Asian background, and whether my attempts to resist stereotype were successful.
My conclusion illustrates how novels written in the crime fiction genre are reliant on strategies that are action-focused, rather than character-based, and thus often use easily recognizable types to quickly establish frameworks for their stories. As a sub-set of popular fiction, crime fiction has a tendency to replicate rather than challenge established stereotypes. Where it does challenge stereotypes, it reflects a territory that popular culture has already visited, such as the 'female', 'black' or 'gay' detective. Crime fiction also has, as one of its central concerns, an interest in examining and reinforcing the notion of societal order. It repeatedly demonstrates that crime either does not pay or should not pay. One of the ways it does this is to contrast what is 'good', known and understood with what is 'bad', unknown, foreign or beyond our normal comprehension. In western culture, the east has traditionally been employed as the site of difference, and has been constantly used as a setting of contrast, excitement or fear. Crime fiction conforms to this pattern, using the east to add a richness and depth to what otherwise might become a 'dry' tale. However, when used in such a way, what is variously eastern, 'other' or Oriental can never be paramount, always falling to secondary side of the binary opposites (good/evil, known/unknown, redeemed/doomed) at work.
In an age of globalisation, the challenge for contemporary writers of popular fiction is to be responsive to an audience that demands respect for all cultures. Writers must demonstrate that they are sensitive to such concerns and can skillfully manage the tensions caused by the need to deliver work that operates within the parameters of the genre, and the desire to avoid offence to any cultural or ethnic group. In my work, my strategy to manage these tensions has been to create a back-story for my characters of Asian background, developing them above mere genre types, and to situate them with credibility in time and place through appropriate historical research.
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Newman-Valentine, Douglas David-John. "Transexual woman on the journey of sexual re-alignment in a hetero-normative healthcare system in the Western Cape." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16659.
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Includes bibliographical referencesThe purpose of this study was to understand the life-world of transsexual women in relation to their awareness of their unique health needs as a direct result of sexual realignment treatment, and their health-seeking behaviours, practices and experiences of responses in negotiating health care for their transgender-related health needs in the healthcare system. The overarching question asked in this research was: What are the lived experiences, and meaning of these experiences, for transsexual women during the sexual-realignment process when negotiating health care for their transgender-related healthcare needs in the healthcare system? Participants in this study were selected through purposive and snowball sampling. In-depth interviews were conducted with ten participants selected from urban, peri-urban, and rural areas of the Western Cape. Theoretical saturation was reached with the tenth participant, and further selection of participants was ceased. The data was viewed through a trans-inclusive feminist lens with a concurrent collection and analysis process as guided by the steps of analysis of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), as developed by Smith (2010). IPA is a modern qualitative approach to research inquiry which harnesses the strengths of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and ideography. The analysed data were illustrated in a master theme graphic which contained one superordinate theme, two subordinate themes and various categories. The superordinate theme of this study was named "Towards organic Womanhood", while the two subordinate themes were coined "Embracing Womanhood", and "Facing the Giant in order to Become". The subordinate theme Embracing Womanhood gives insight into aspects of transsexual women's journey of moving towards a state of organic womanhood, whereas the subordinate theme Facing the Giant in order to Become maps out powers in the healthcare system which prevent transsexual women from having a smooth transition journey. This study illustrates that transsexual women have a need to align their bodies with their gender identities, but even though South Africa has legislation which protects the health and rights of transsexual women, transsexual women find it challenging to make the transition. Health practitioners are ill-equipped to manage transsexual women, the care which they receive in the government-funded healthcare system is of a poor standard, and they are4subjected to extremely long waiting periods to have access to surgical sexual realignment services. Recommendations are made for the healthcare system, policy makers and educational institutions in order to stimulate the South African healthcare system to become inclusive and affirming to the needs of transsexual women. Furthermore, recommendations for researchers are made to stimulate the debate around transsexual health care in the scientific literature.
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Fletcher, Debra A. "The woman in the dock is a monster: An investigation of female criminality in the hearings of the Perth Supreme Court, 1890-1914." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1995. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1194.
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Published scholarly works on female criminal activity are limited both by their meagreness and lack of supporting empirical basis, being grounded in stereotypes and assumptions. Accurate studies based on the collection and analysis of data are required to address this paucity and to provide an historical for contemporary studies. It is, however, an accepted fact that historically women commit significantly less crimes than men and their criminal activity is generally of a far less violent nature. However, when women do physically harm others, the act most often involves family members and utilises domestic tools in the commission of the crimes. It has been mooted that women were controlled by their domestic roles along with the constraints placed upon them by society in the past, and as these constraints loosened, criminal activity by women would approach that of men. An examination of Perth Supreme Court records between 1890 and 1914; and media reports of the crimes, is expected to elicit information which should illuminate judicial and patriarchal attitudes towards women in the period and address the issues of why women committed crimes, what types of crimes they committed and how they were judged and punished. The examination of these crimes will be based on an attempt to determine whether women were treated harshly or leniently by the judicial system, in order to provide empirical support for the basis of criminological theories.
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Meliane, Rym E. "North American M-Commerce adoption Impact of the technological environment: A comparative analysis to Western Europe and Japan." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26981.
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This work focuses on the technological environment of M-Commerce, and highlights some technological reasons slowing the penetration of this technology in North America1. The purpose is to provide some closure and present a potential solution that would improve the North American M-Commerce adoption level.
The determined research hypotheses are: (1) Lack of adequate government regulations; (2) Lack of adequate spectrum; (3) Lack of adequate technologies; (4) Lack of adequate standardization process.
An analysis and a comparison of these variables in the respective poles---Western Europe, Japan, North America---using their respective technology---GSM, I-Mode, CDMA is conducted.
More specifically this in-depth comparative analysis helps determine if and how these variables impact the QoS2 and therefore the M-Commerce adoption outcome. The lack of adequate spectrum and the lack of adequate standardization process, in North America show to be the primary reasons for the slow adoption of M-Commerce. Hence, the conclusion of this work proposes an alternative solution. This proposal provides a new revised model of the North American M-Commerce value chain.
This model would eliminate the identified issues and increase the Quality of Service, as well as the customer's satisfaction, resulting in higher adoption level. Furthermore, this potential new strategy gives North America the opportunity to reposition itself.
1North America: We define North America by Canada and The United States. However throughout this work we often used cases and examples related to the United States. The reason being, that the United States is leading the wireless telecommunication in North America. 2QoS: Quality of Service
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Cole, Heather. "The Woman Behind the Witch's Mask: The Evolution of the Female Villain in Western Literature From Shakespeare to the Present." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1111688376.
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Tai, Eiko. "Modification of the western approach to intercultural communication for the Japanese context." PDXScholar, 1986. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3684.
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The field of intercultural communication has recently been introduced to Japan from the United States. The theories and concepts of this field have been developed based on Western social sciences, and they are likely to be culture-bound. This thesis investigates the possibility that modifying Western ideas in the field of intercultural communication would make the study of this subject more effective for Japanese learners.
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Desjardins, Kelly. "Fence, Flavor, and Phantasm: Balancing Japanese Musical Elements and Western Influence within an Historical and Cultural Context." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157602/.
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Given the diversity found in today's Japanese culture and the size of the country's population, it is easy to see why the understanding of Japanese wind band repertoire must be multi-faceted. Alongside Western elements, many Japanese composers have intentionally sought to maintain their cultural identity through the addition of Japanese musical elements or concepts. These added elements provide a historical and cultural context from which to frame a composition or, in some cases, a composer's compositional output. The employment of these elements serve as a means to categorize the Japanese wind band repertoire. In his studies on cultural identities found in Japanese music, Gordon Matthews suggests there are three genres found within Japanese culture. He explains these as "senses of 'Japaneseness' among Japanese musicians." They include Fence, Flavor, and Phantasm. Bringing a new perspective to the idea of Japanese influence, I trace the implementation of these facets of Japanese music through the wind band music of Japanese composers. I demonstrate that Japanese wind band genres are the result of a combination of Japanese musical elements and Western influence and argue that the varying levels of this combination, balanced with historical and cultural context, create three distinct genres within the Japanese wind band repertoire.
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TOKIWA, Tetsuya, Hirohito UEHARA, Kyaw Soe WIN, and Makoto TAKEUCHI. "Lithology and radiolarian age of the Hidakagawa Sub-belt of the Shimanto Belt in the western Kii Peninsula, southwest-Japan." Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Nagoya University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/9420.
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Yarime, Masaru. "From end-of-pipe technology to clean technology effects of environmental regulation on technological change in the chlor-alkali industry in Japan and Western Europe /." Maastricht : Maastricht : Universiteit Maastricht ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 2003. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=6566.
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Shen, Jian-Wei. "Effects of differing tectono-stratigraphic settings on late Devonian and early carboniferous reefs, Western Australia, Eastern Australia, South China, and Japan /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17417.pdf.
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Matsumoto, Toyoko. "The convergence of Western and Chinese traditions in the New Guohua painting of China: The impact of study abroad in Japan /." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest LLC, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1937733941&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=23658&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Patel, Reena. "Labour and land rights of women in rural India : with particular reference to Western Orissa." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4010/.
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Hindu women's right to independent ownership of property has been established in India since 1956. Given that legal rights have not brought about a significant increase in women's ownership of land, this thesis explores the factors that affect women's effective claim to land ownership. Taking the particular case of Hindu peasant women in small farming households in Western Orissa, it analyses their ability to claim land ownership as the outcome of bargaining. The bargaining approach, as developed by economists, and by Amartya Sen and Bina Agarwal in particular, is adopted to analyse women's access to land as an effect of women's perceptions of self-interest and perceptions of women's contribution. The thesis evaluates the legal framework as it incorporates and reflects these perceptions. It argues that law constructs women's claim to land as a right addressed to 'Hindu' women, located within the family (through succession) and informed by religious ideology. It further argues that recognising women's interests as a basis of their claim to land ownership, as 'peasant' women, located within the household and affected by their work and role within agricultural production, would widen the scope of legal analysis. This would be a starting point towards a deeper understanding of the ways in which law impacts upon women's access to land.
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Blokker, Chantal, and Florent Schmidt. "Censorship as Part of Localization : Practice and Perception of Regional Changes in Japanese and Western Video Games." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för speldesign, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413713.
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Regular online outrage about changed content in regional editions of video games has brought our attention to the concepts of censorship and localization. Game Rating Systems have their fair share of critics among those debating the details of localized content and prove to be in a peculiar position between developers and the end-user. The current state of the industry shows that alterations are made to regional versions of a game, especially with regards to sensitive topics such as violence, nudity, and sexualization. A survey to gauge end-users’ perception on these topics has been spread amongst residents of Japan and Western regions. Japanese respondents show to be more accepting of legislation surrounding video games whereas Western respondents tend to display a severe dislike for any sort of legislation, and often see not only censorship, but also localization in a negative context. Censorship, self-censorship, and localization are complicated and nuanced topics that turn out to be complexly intertwined with the practice of game production.
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Sun, Wanning. "Reading the other: narrative constructions of Japan in the Australian and Chinese press." Thesis, View thesis, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/115.
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This study is concerned with the way in which discourses of the Other are deployed in the media's narrative constructions of national imaginary. Operating on the assumption that news provides techniques and devices which enable the nation and its Other to be narrated and imagined, the analysis focuses on the structures and processes by which Japan is constructed in the news stories in some Australian and Chinese printed media. The analysis finds that othering is a dynamic and complex process engaged in by both the East and the West, for purposes of both cultural domination and cultural negotiation, and to serve both external and domestic political ends. The study shows that what seems to be an essential distinction between the Orient, or the East, and the Occident, or the West, in the discourses of the Other is constantly shifting, fluid and context-specific. The investigation points to the need of forsaking a framework of understanding media and identity which is based on a truth vs propaganda, or information vs entertainment dichotomy, and adopting an approach that takes into account the particularities of the cultural practices of each media system
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Anchieta, Isabelle de Melo. "Imagens da mulher no ocidente moderno." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-19032015-190839/.
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Remontar a gênese social da individualização e humanização no Ocidente moderno através das imagens da mulher (xilogravuras, artes plásticas, fotografias e cinema). Esse foi o meu desafio ao longo de oito anos realizando pesquisas de campo no exterior, passando pelos arquivos de bibliotecas da Alemanha, Suíça, museus da Europa até os Estúdios de Hollywood. Pinturas, esculturas, panfletos noticiosos e filmes foram a matéria prima para remontar as relações sociais e compreender como essas visualidades também criam interações sem precedentes. Elegi as imagens da mulher por ser ambíguas personagens que atraem, em torno de si, os mais contraditórios sentimentos sociais. Mulheres que nem sempre foram vítimas de suas representações. Conformadas em temíveis e atrativas imagens elas também souberam fazer uso e proveito do fascínio que provocaram, invertendo os jogos de poder. Para entender esse processo realizo uma sociogênese dos estereótipos femininos no Ocidente Moderno. Bruxas; Tupinambás canibais; Maria; Marias Negras na América, Maria Madalena, Cortesãs e Stars Hollywoodianas. Irei seriá-las. Aproximá-las. Contrapô-las. Pois, se, de fato, as imagens de que trato são amplamente conhecidas, falta pensá-las em conjunto, na longa série que as relaciona e tensiona dentro do processo social em que são formadas _ e que elas em grande medida conformam. Um corpo a corpo entre as imagens que traz surpreendentes elucidações sociológicas. Constato: em uma imagem, sobrevivem várias imagens. Polimagens. Apresento as continuidades, citações e parciais rupturas entre elas. Momento em que se observa a transição de uma mulher em abstrato, para uma em particular. Imagens motivadas, sobretudo, pela demanda por fazer-se ver. As pessoas passam a querer ter um retrato público. Uma imagem de si em busca de um desejo social inalterável: o olhar alheio, a estima e o reconhecimento. E são as imagens as armas simbólicas privilegiadas dessa dinâmica, acionando uma espiral de disputas por reconhecimento que conduz a uma crescente individualização e humanização das imagens. Visualidades que testemunham e instauram novas formas de organização e integração social. O que denominei de individumanizaçãoReassembling the social genesis of individualization and humanization in the Modern West through the Women Images (woodcuts, plastic arts, photography and cinema). That was my challenge over eight years doing field research abroad, through the files of Libraries of Germany, Switzerland, Museums of Europe to the Hollywood Studios. Paintings, sculptures, films and news pamphlets were the raw material to remount the social relationships and understand how these interactions create visualities also unprecedented. I choose the images of women by being ambiguous characters which attract, in around themselves, the more contradictory social feelings. Women were not always victims of their representations. Formed into fearsome and attractive images they knew also make use of the advantage and fascination provoked by reversing the games of power. To understand this process I perform a sociogenesis of female stereotypes in the Modern West. Witches; Tupinambás cannibals; Mary; Black Marys in America, Mary Magdalene, Courtesans and Hollywood Star. Will I serialized them. Bring them together. Contrast them. For if, indeed, the images that I work with are widely known, shortness to think of them together, in the long series that relates to and tensions them within the social process in which they are formed _ and they largely conform. A melee between images that brings amazing sociological elucidation. Verify: in an image, multiple images survive. Polimagens. I present continuities, quotations and partial ruptures between them. Moment when I observe the transition from a woman into an abstract, for one in particular. Images motivated primarily by demand for to be seen. People start to want to have a public picture. An image of themselves in pursuit of an unchanging social desire: the alien look, the esteem and the recognition. And the pictures are the privileged symbolic weapons of this dynamic, triggering a spiral of recognition disputes for leading to an increasing individualization and humanization of images. Visualities who witness and establish new forms of organization and social integration. What I have called the individumanization