Japan's new security partnerships

久しぶりのアカデミアです！日本の安全保障がアメリカ唯一ではなく、多様に展開しているのですね。

Native American Sculptor Allan Houser and Languageの論稿も興味深そうです。アメリカインディアンの文化と言語についてですね。沖縄も関係しますね。

TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED     Gerald Groemer University of Yamanashi, Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Faculty Member The Land we Saw, The Times We Knew see https://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/the-land-we-saw-the-times-we-knew-an-anthology-of-zuihitsu-writing-from-early-modern-japan/ DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK     Wilhelm M Vosse International Christian University, Politics and International Relations, Faculty Member Japan's new security partnerships After decades of solely relying on the United States for its national security needs, over the last decade, Japan has begun to actively develop and deepen its security ties with a growing number of countries and actors in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, a development that has further intensified under the Shinzo Abe administration. This is the first book that provides a comprehensive analysis of the motives and objectives from both the Japanese and the partner-countries' perspectives and asks what this might mean for the security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, and what... DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK     Lyn Wright (Fogle) University of Memphis, English, Faculty Member Native American Sculptor Allan Houser and Language This is a short paper I wrote after a visit to the National Museum of the American Indian in 2005 for a class on Endangered Languages taught by Suzanne Romaine. I am posting it now because I am scheduled to give a talk on the artwork of Jaume Plensa at the Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis in October 2018 and remembered this discussion of art and language that I wrote as a student. DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK     Paul O'Shea Lund University, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Faculty Member The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Import Dependency, and the Future of Food Security in Japan Japanese agriculture is in a bad way. Massive government subsidies and high import tariffs have failed to stem the inexorable tide of declining productivity, increasing import dependence, and falling area of land under cultivation. Against this backdrop, those calling for the liberalization of the agricultural sector have gained ground in recent years. Yet agricultural policy, be it in Japan or elsewhere, is determined by much more than efficiency and comparative advantage. Indeed, the patterns of production, distribution, and consumption of food in Japan are subject to a variety of factors,... DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK     Alex Mustatea Toyo University, Faculty of Letters, Adjunct The Politics of Confucianism in Contemporary Japan The paper discusses the so-called taboo-isation of Confucianism in post-WW2 Japan and its apparent lack of meaningful contribution to contemporary society and intellectual life - a theory proposed explicitly by Paramore in his 2016 ‘Japanese Confucianism - a cultural history’ but implicitly accepted by a significant number of other Japanologists. In this paper, I address the arguments Paramore brings in support of his view and suggest that this perceived ‘taboo-isation’ of Confucianism in contemporary Japan needs to be addressed from a different perspective. DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK