Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
Series Editor:
Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes University
Editorial Board:
Pamela Asquith, University of Alberta
Eyal Ben Ari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hirochika Nakamaki, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
Kirsten Refsing, University of Copenhagen
Wendy Smith, Monash University
Founder Member of the Editorial Board:
Jan van Bremen, University of Leiden
A Japanese View of Nature
The world of living things by Kinji Imanishi
Translated by Pamela J Asquith, Heita Kawakatsu, Shusuke Yagi and Hiroyuki Takasaki
Edited and introduced by Pamela J Asquith
Japanâs Changing Generations
Are young people creating a new society?
Edited by Gordon Mathews and Bruce White
The Care of the Elderly in Japan
Yongmei Wu
Community Volunteers in Japan
Everyday stories of social change
Lynne Y. Nakano
Nature, Ritual and Society in Japanâs Ryukyu Islands
Arne Røkkum
Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan
The japanese introspection practice of naikan
Chikako Ozawa-de Silva
Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy
Essays in honour of jan van bremen
Edited by Joy Hendry and Heung Wah Wong
Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan
Edited by Maria Rodriguez del Alisal, Peter Ackermann and Dolores Martinez
The Culture of Copying in Japan
Critical and historical perspectives
Edited by Rupert Cox
Primary School in Japan
Self, individuality and learning in elementary education
Peter Cave
Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture
An ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France
Mitchell W. Sedgwick
Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture
Edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis and Okpyo Moon
Making Japanese Heritage
Edited by Christoph Brumann and Robert A. Cox
Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony
The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan
Kaeko Chiba
Home and Family in Japan
Continuity and transformation
Edited by Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy
Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria:
The lives of war orphans and wives in two countries
Yeeshan Chan
Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto
Claiming a right to the past
Christoph Brumann
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan
Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen
Language, Education and Citizenship in Japan
Genaro Castro-Vázquez
Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan
Hikaru Suzuki
Disability in Japan
Carolyn S. Stevens
Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion
Tullio Federico Lobetti
Japanese Tree Burial
Ecology, kinship and the culture of death
Sébastien Penmellen Boret
Japanâs Ainu Minority in Tokyo
Diasporic indigeneity and urban politics
Mark K. Watson
The First European Description of Japan, 1585
A critical English-Language edition of striking contrasts in the customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J .
Translated, edited and annotated by Richard K. Danford, Robin D. Gill , and Daniel T. Reff .
The First European Description of Japan, 1585
A critical English-language edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J.
Translated from the Portuguese original and edited and annotated by
Richard K. Danford, Robin D. Gill, and Daniel T. Reff
With a critical introduction by
Daniel T. Reff
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