Japan and Korea – June 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 21, 2013|Japan, Korea|0 comments

朝鮮通信使の足跡 : 日朝関係史論 / 仲尾宏著. Women of the Yi dynasty / [edited by Park Young-hai ; translated by Choi Jin-young et al.]. 평화 를 사랑 하는 세계인 으로 / 문 선명. Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan under the single non-transferable vote : the comparative study of an embedded institution / edited by Bernard Grofman … [et al.]. A slow walk through Jeong-dong / written by Michael Gib, illustrated by

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Korea – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 6, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Divided nations and transitional justice : what Germany, Japan and South Korea can teach the world / edited by Sang Jin-Han : with contributions from Kim Dae-jung and Richard von Weizsäcker Social forces and states : poverty and distributional outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico Political systems of East Asia : China, Korea, and Japan / Louis D. Hayes Trilateralism and beyond : great power politics and the Korean

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Japan – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 6, 2012|Japan|0 comments

Public opinion, propaganda, ideology : theories on the press and its social function in interwar Japan, 1918-1937 / by Fabian Schäfer Japanese religions / edited by Lucia Dolce Celebrity gods : new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan / Benjamin Dorman Pop culture and the everyday in Japan : sociological perspectives / edited by Katsuya Minamida and Izumi Tsuji translated by Leonie R. Stickland Understanding Japanese society / Joy

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Japan – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 6, 2012|Japan|0 comments

Buddhist fire ritual in Japan / Madhavi Kolhatkar, Musashi Tachikawa. Housewives of Japan : an ethnography of real lives and consumerized domesticity / Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni. Why economic slumps following economic crises turn out to be long and arduous : Japan’s experience of the lost decades / Tetsurō Sugiura. Hedge fund activism in Japan : the limits of shareholder primacy / John Buchanan, Dominic Heesang Chai, Simon Deakin. Continuous improvement strategies

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Korea – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 7, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Media and democratic transition in South Korea / Ki-Sung Kwak. The languages of Japan and Korea / edited by Nicolas Tranter. 예쁜여자만들기 : 미인강박의문화사, 한국에서미인은어떻게만들어졌는가 / 이영아지음 한국민주주의의제도화 / 정상호지음 한국의보수와수구 : 이념의역사 / 이나미 한국 민족주의 와 변혁적 이념 체계 / 금 인숙, 문 상석, 전 상숙 통일한국브랜딩 : 마케팅의눈으로본한반도브랜딩전략서 / 전병길, 박일수 근현대 한일 관계 의 제 문제 / 동북아 역사 재단 편 청년층노동시장진입및정착방안연구 / 남재량 그들이아닌우리를위한복지 :

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Japan – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 2, 2012|Japan|0 comments

Japan’s local newspapers : Chihoshi and revitalization journalism / Anthony S. Rausch. Scream from the shadows : the women’s liberation movement in Japan / Setsu Shigematsu. Urban spaces in Japan / edited by Christoph Brumann and Evelyn Schulz. The evolution of Japan’s party system : politics and policy in an era of institutional change / edited by Leonard J. Schoppa. Japan’s transnational environmental policies : the case of environmental technology

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Korea – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Women and Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea : new perspectives / edited by Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid. IT development in Korea : a broadband nirvana? / Kwang-Suk Lee. The quest for statehood : Korean immigrant nationalism and U.S. sovereignty, 1905-1945 / Richard S. Kim. Militants or partisans : labor unions and democratic politics in Korea and Taiwan / Yoonkyung Lee. Korean unification and the positions and roles of the

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