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Seventeen prescient tales of the near future: from global chaos to our obsession with celebrities, from virtual reality to the final flooding of Calcutta, from genetic engineering to the future of the Internet. A man with a truly perceptive mind sized it all up decades before most people realized what was going down.
This book explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence as an economic giant. Areas examined include Japanese multinational corporations, popular music and perceptions of Japan in France and Korea.
We, in-utero Hibakusha and our families, published a book about our experiences with the shocking title, “We are Hibakusha since I was born”. It must have been about four years ago when Prof. Koichi Kimoto visited Kure Mitsuda High School before completing the memoir, and I asked him if I could translate this book into English. However, things have developed dramatically, and Ms. Shizuku Sadaiwa, a third-year student at Kwansei Gakuin University and a third-generation atomic bomb survivor, contacted her friends using free communication apps. The movement spread like wildfire, and about 50 students from 10 universities, including her University, International Christian University, Hokkaid...
"Deryck Scarr examines the Pacific Islands' indigenous social, economic and political systems and then places in context the post-sixteenth-century European 'discovery' of the Pacific. Cultural, political, trading, social and personal exchanges in Island worlds are described and analysed, from 1767 to the year 2000. Throughout the book, the Island world and its people on land and on the sea are held firmly in the foreground." -- from the dust jacket.