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The "Pacific War" narrative of Japan's defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific, and culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's capitulation, and its recasting as the western shore of an American ocean. But in the decades leading up to World War II and over the course of the conflict, Japan’s leaders and citizens were as deeply concerned about continental Asia—and the Soviet Union, in particular—as they were about the Pacific theater and the United States. In Imperial Eclipse, Yukiko Koshiro reassesses the role that Eurasia played in Japan’s diplomati...
Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections of East Asian, South Asian, and West Asian art in Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Kraków, Budapest, and Ljubljana, it outlines the transregional connections and networks that gradually developed. Col...
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今世紀最大の社会対立を引き起こしている 移民・難民問題の本質を問う! なぜ移民・難民が出るのか。かつて労働力不足に悩み移民を 歓迎した先進国が今や移民・難民問題に揺れる── 欧州各国で高まるポピュリズムとゼノフォビア(外国人嫌い)の 現状とその要因を考える。そして、避けて通れない多人種・多民族が 共生する現実、マイノリティを包み込んだ生活と現状を検証し、最後に 日本における移民の現実と教育の実態と問題点を抉る多角的な論文集。 移民・難民受け入れが課題となっている日本にとっての問題提起の書である。
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