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Poetry in an Era of Nuclear Power: Three Poetic Responses to Fukushima
This book chapters explores the writing of three of Japan's most important and active poets--Wagō Ryōichi, Takahashi Mutsuo, and Arai Takako--and the poetry that they wrote in response to the Fukushima meltdown in 2011. "Poetry in an Era of Nuclear Power: Three Poetic Responses to Fukushima," Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disaster, ed. Barbara Geilhorn and Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt (NY: Routledge, 2016) 144-61.
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These Things Here and Now: Poetic Responses to the March 11, 2011 Disasters
Published on the fifth anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima meltdown, this book explores the ways that many of Japan's most important poets have written about and represented the disasters in their work. This book contains a study of the themes, functions, and issues in that literature as well as copious translations of the original poetry. "In a time that for many of us in Tokyo and beyond feels far removed from the events of March 11, 2011, when we are not sure how to retain and respect those moments and their aftermath, this collection does exactly...
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China-Japan-U.S. Relations under the Xi, Abe and Trump Leaderships
Following the opening salvos of U.S. tariffs on solar panels and washing machines, the Trump administration may now also push for a more muscular China policy, to the benefit of Japan’s dealings with China. Make no mistake: while Japan and China relations show signs of a minor détente in the making, this year will witness continued strategic rivalry and the fleshing out of opposing visions of regional, if not global, order. Leaders and their personality have no small role in 21st Century power politics.
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The Spectacle of Global Fascism: The Italian Blackshirt mission to Japan's Asian empire
In the spring of 1938 a mission of the Italian Fascist Party journeyed to the Japanese empire, visiting China, Korea, Manchukuo, and Japan itself. Those were happy days for the Axis and, as such, characterized by a flood of shuttle visits and requests for cooperation between Italy, Japan, and Germany. As we explore the choreography of the visit and accompany the Italian Blackshirts on their two-month-long trip, two processes become clear. On the one hand, the presence of the Blackshirts in Japan helped place the nation's regional war with China in the broader context of worldwide conflicts....
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Documenting Sambalpuri-Kosli: The Case of a Less-resourced Language
Language is one of such components that everybody has a stake in; which encapsulates a consortium of elements such as culture of a community, indigenous knowledge paradigm, social and religious values, folklores and so on. One of the salient objectives of this research is to document and describe the Sambalpuri-Kosli language by way of preparing an online dictionary which could prove to be a stepping stone for the technological advancement and future research into it. The present dictionary is a multilingual, web-based and thematic dictionary of around 600 words collected from three...
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