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    This Companion is a comprehensive examination of the varied ways in which gender issues manifest throughout culture in Japan, using a range of international perspectives to examine private and public constructions of identity, as well as gender- and sexuality-inflected cultural production.The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture features both new work and updated accounts of classic ... Read more

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    Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of the imagination—novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and films. Written by scholars of Japanese studies based in England, Germany, Japan, and the United States, the book focuses on texts produced in Japan since the 1980s. The closing years of the ... Read more

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  • Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913

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    In "Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913," Harris Newmark offers a compelling and meticulously detailed chronicle of the burgeoning Southern California landscape during a transformative period. Through a combination of personal memoir, historical narration, and reflective commentary, Newmark captures the essence of the region's development, social dynamics, and economic growth. His ... Read more

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