Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan. Transformation and the Regulatory State, Paperback - Masahiro Mogaki

This book explores the transformation of Japan's state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on the case studies of ICT regulatio...

Tucker presents guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good.

In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision--the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two peo...

Reducere. The first cocktail book from the award-winning mixologist Masahiro Urushido of Katana Kitten in New York City, on the craft of Japanese cocktail ma...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Masahiro KasaharaIllustration(s): 65 recipes; 145 color photosNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimen...

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This t...

Reducere. The deity Inari has been worshipped in Japan since at least the early eighth century and today is a revered presence in such varied venues as Shint...

This new and fully updated second edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdiscip...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Chikako Ozawa-de SilvaIllustration(s): 8 b-w illustrations, 1 tableNumber of pages: 286Collecti...

An essential exploration of the DRC's hybrid forms of governance and the challenges posed in delivering vital public services.

This book critically examines the role of cinema and television in shaping and spreading narratives of memory politics in contemporary Russia to pr...

DescriptionHome to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighborhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants ...

Using analytical tools from a wide spectrum of disciplines, this edited collection analyzes the role of the body in contemporary Japanese society, ...

Since 1945, Japan has successfully reinvented itself, rising from the ashes of defeat to become a peaceful and prosperous nation. It is seen as an ...

Reducere. It is no secret that Christianity has been widely rejected in Japan with less than two percent of the population identifying as Christian. The domi...

Examines efforts to improve the governance of Africa's abundant natural resources, emphasising the need to strengthen natural resource governance i...

Reducere. By 2030, over 30% of the Japanese population will be 65 or older, foreshadowing the demographic changes occurring elsewhere in Asia and around the ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 6 bw illusNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 22Cover type: Pape...

Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: is the sta...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): James R. MooreNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 232 x 22Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. Are the works of contemporary Japanese novelists, as Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo has observed, mere reflections of the vast consumer culture of...

DescriptionShinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's environmental turn. The book traces the deve...

Reducere. Award NameIndependent Publisher Book AwardsAward categoryFine ArtThrough his artwork, Arthur Amiotte offers insight into the early reservation peri...

Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts makes a timely and urgent contribution to debates about the place of arts and culture in contempo...

An evolutionary framework is used to examine how the Chinese state relates with non-state actors across several fields of governance. This approach...

Do you want a solid foundation to your Japanese studies?If you are looking for a solid foundation to your language studies for school, work or trav...

Using comparative perspectives, this book explores how companies should be conceptualized and regulated in the future. It will appeal to academics ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 13 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Tables, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinem...

For nation-states, the contexts for developing and implementing policy have become more complex and demanding. Yet policy studies have not fully re...

Property rights are important for economic exchange, but many governments don't protect them. Private market organizations can fill this gap by pro...

This volume will expand the inquiry of tourism mobilities comprehensively and clearly in the fields of the humanities and social sciences.Publisher...

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