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Presents a case-based analysis of media panoply in (and out of) Asia. This book demonstrates the multiple links between media, society and culture, and advance the claim that media is the key means through which Asians experience, understand, effect and are affected by the worlds containing them.

Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan.

Examining the imperialist phenomenon from a wide-ranging perspective, this work reveals imperialism as driven by rivalry; and facilitates comparison: imperialism has elements in common, yet differs according to the territory in which it operates. It analyses attempts to re-establish control after the overthrow of imperial regimes in World War II.

Explores the 'Japanessness' of Japanese popular culture by focusing on the intersection of globalization and popular cultural products associated with Japan. This book is useful for for those working in Japanese studies, cultural studies, and international relations.

Gives an overview of contemporary Lao culture and society, whilst linking local and national phenomena to tendencies of globalization and the history of the region. This book introduces a theoretical approach based on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. It examines various aspects of Lao culture and society including economics, politics, and others.

Brings together scholars in the fields of education, sociology, demography, and economics to investigate the evolution of educational access and attainment, educational quality, and the economic consequences of being educated. This book shows that economic advancement is increasingly tied to education in China.

Providing insights into this Southeast Asian city, this book interprets Vientiane's landscape, as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao identity in the contemporary period.

Shedding new light on the manifestations of difference in Japan from a diverse range of authors and perspectives, this extraordinary book is a study of those persons who are very much part of Japanese society today, but whose voices have long been neglected, silenced or oppressed.

Considers the Aland islands settlement in northern Europe as a resolution model for the major Asia-Pacific regional conflicts that derived from the post-World War II disposition of Japan. This study focuses on the territorial dispute between Japan and Russia, the Northern Territories/Southern Kuriles problem.

Presents a study of Okinawan fiction, from it's emergence in the early twentieth-century onwards. This title offers perspectives on subaltern identity, colonialism, and post-colonialism, and the nature of 'regional', 'minority', and 'minor' literatures. It also provides an introduction to the major works of Okinawan literature.