Browsing by Subject "Japan"
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(Cos)playing Culture: Reimagining the Kimono in Modern-Day Kyoto
(2012-05-10)“The kimono is said to be dying,” reported American anthropologist Liza Dalby in the opening of her book Kimono: fashioning culture, “to be utterly too cumbersome for modern life, to be as elegantly anachronistic as the ... -
Decolonizing English: Reimagining English Language Learning and Teaching through Critical Pedagogies
(2013-12-16)At the turn of the century, nearly a quarter of the world’s population (1.5 billion people) was estimated to speak English with some fluency. English has gained an official or special status in at least seventy-five countries ... -
From Ichiko to Ma-Kun: The Politics of Baseball in the US-Japan Bilateral Relationship
(2015-06-02)At first glance, baseball, current controversies in the US-Japan bilateral relationship, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s recent increase in international diplomatic visits may appear to have little connection. ... -
JAPANESE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: SPACE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH TALK AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN’S COLLEGES
(2023-07-06)This project examines Japanese college students’ experiences with reproductive health care and information access in Japan. I engage with participants’ stories to understand the complexity of the issues around sexual and ... -
The Kamikaze Pilots of World War II and their Image in American Media
(2011-02-16)In October of 1944, during the late stages of World War II, Admiral Ōnishi Takijiro of the Japanese Navy proposed one final solution to Japan s situation: to organize suicide attack units composed of Zero fighters armed ...