Tokyo is home to a creative and daring street-style scene, rich with subcultures and shaped by constant motion. In Tokyo Street Style, fashion writer Yoko Yagi explores influential trends, covering an eclectic range of styles from kawaii cute to genderless looks, while designers, editors, models, stylists, and other important personalities in the Tokyo fashion scene share their individual approaches to style in interviews. Moving from a glimpse of the outrageous fashion f...

This book explores environmental victims’ movements and how they have shaped the history of East Asia. The book focuses on the impact of these movements and whether the ideas of environmental justice in this region align with Western concepts or whether they take a different approach. Bringing together leading researchers in the field and using in-depth case studies from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China, the chapters trace the evolution of victims’ movements, uncover their distinctive...

Employing a postmodernist literary approach, this book identifies C. S. Lewis both as an antimodernist and as a Christian postmodernist who tells the story of the gospel to twentieth- and twenty-first-century readers. Lewis is popularly known as an able Christian apologetic writer, talented in explaining Christian beliefs in simple, logical terms. But his fictional works feature expressions that erect ambiguous borders between nonfiction and fiction, an approach equivalent to those typical...

My sister has always been nice, will drop everything to help, but not just me, anyone who asks her. My friends even asked her, "Hey, will you let us have our way with you?" And I couldn't believe her reply! Will she do anything you ask her?

My sister has always been nice, will drop everything to help, but not just me, anyone who asks her. My friends even asked her, "Hey, will you let us have our way with you?" And I couldn't believe her reply! Will she do anything you ask her?

Is Japan abandoning its pacifism? The Japanese government has claimed it is doubling its defense spending and has announced a plan to equip itself with the capability to “counterattack” enemy bases overseas, a departure from the nation’s postwar consensus. Shedding new light on Japan’s pacifism and Hiroshima’s role in it, Yuasa investigates the events of postwar Japan and how it catalyzed a range of challenges to public sentiment.Japan’s Constitution stipulates the renunciation of ...

My sister has always been nice, will drop everything to help, but not just me, anyone who asks her. My friends even asked her, "Hey, will you let us have our way with you?" And I couldn't believe her reply! Will she do anything you ask her?

My sister has always been nice, will drop everything to help, but not just me, anyone who asks her. My friends even asked her, "Hey, will you let us have our way with you?" And I couldn't believe her reply! Will she do anything you ask her?

My sister has always been nice, will drop everything to help, but not just me, anyone who asks her. My friends even asked her, "Hey, will you let us have our way with you?" And I couldn't believe her reply! Will she do anything you ask her?

This thesis presents a study of the origin of an apparently extended X-ray emission associated with the Galactic ridge. The study was carried out with broadband spectra obtained from mapping observations in the Galactic bulge region conducted in 2005–2010 by the Suzaku space X-ray observatory. The spectra were analyzed with a newly constructed X-ray spectral model of an accreting white dwarf binary that is one of the proposed candidate stars for the origin of the Galactic ridge em...

This volume makes available for the first time in English two of the most important novels of Japanese colonialism: Yuasa Katsuei’s Kannani and Document of Flames. Born in Japan in 1910 and raised in Korea, Yuasa was an eyewitness to the ravages of the Japanese occupation. In both of the novels presented here, he is clearly critical of Japanese imperialism. Kannani (1934) stands alone within Japanese literature in its graphic depictions of the racism and poverty ...

Developments in Lisp technology have been accelerated by a number of factors, including the increased interest in Artificial Intelligence and the emergence of Common Lisp. Advanced Lisp Technology, the fourth volume in the Advanced Information Processing Technology series, brings together various Japanese researchers working in the field of Lisp te