This book presents a counter-argument to the widely held view that the Japanese have believed tha...

Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant ...

In 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake left more than 20,000 people dead or missing. On 11 Marc...

Right-wing social movements have been increasingly active in Japan since around 2000. Female memb...

This award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall...

Do foreigners really have ' human rights' in Japan? This book sheds light on the way Japan views ...

The !Xun are a San people living in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, Botswana, and in Angola. In t...

This is written by a sociologist and Japan's 'most famous feminist', Chizuko Ueno. A discursive b...

With a focus on Brazilian migrant workers in Japan, this study - now available in paperback - pro...

Japan's post-World War II 'economic miracle' is well-known and much discussed, as is the collapse...

Japan's radical development following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, drew the attention of the wo...

Traditionally the Japanese have shunned those not fitting the majority heterosexual mould. Those ...