Category: Journal

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• Merits and demerits in the study of ukiyo-e: Issues stemming from how ukiyo-e is regarded in modern Japan
• The Literature of Migrant Women in the Postcolonial Period: On the Writings of First-Generation Korean Women in Japan
• Effects of Social Capital on Residents’ Interest in Community Revitalization in an Isolated Island: Focusing on the Difference between Locals and Migrants on Rebun Island, Japan

• Editorial Note

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• Developing and Evaluating a Scoring Rubric for Argumentative Essays: A Module-Based Approach

Special Topic

• Introduction: Military Affairs and Modern Society in the Media: Journals, Advertising Design, Public Relations and Museums
• Article 1. Prussian Military Reforms and the Berliner Landwehr in Local News during the Wars of Liberation, 1813-1815
• Article 2. Civil Society and the Army from Family Magazines during the German Empire: Army Representation in the Family Magazine Die Gartenlaube and Daheim
• Article 3. Public Relations Exercises of Firma Krupp in Japan at the End of the 19th Century: The Shooting test and Nichi-Doku-Kōgyō-Kōkoku
• Article 4. Public Relations of the Japanese Navy in the Prewar Period: The Case of Boarding a Warship
• Article 5. Museum as Propaganda: War Exhibitions in Britain during the First World War
• Article 6. The Influence of Early 20th-Century German Advertising Design on the Modernization of Japanese Advertising from 1921 to 1922

• Editorial Note

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• Trends in Research on Bruno Taut: Bruno Taut as a Transcultural Architect and Theorist

Research Note

• The Use of Lakes as Natural Resources in Late Medieval England: A Study on Lake Windermere, the Lake District

• Editorial Note

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• Introduction Conference Panel: The Dismantling of the Status System in Nineteenth-Century Japan
• Lamp Oil and the Transformation of Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan
• The Dissolution of Outcast Status and Outcast Property in Meiji Japan
• Panhandling, Subsistence, and Poverty Management in Meiji Tokyo
• The Struggle to Modernize Community Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
• Discussant’s Comments

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• Introduction The Scope of Public Education in Japan and Germany with a Focus on “School Absenteeism”
• Research and Management of School Absenteeism in Germany: Educational Perspectives
• Investigation and Research of Absenteeism in the Sumiyoshi Ward Investigative Report (March 31, 2017)
• Aspects of self-exclusion in the Japanese education system
• The Changing Meaning of Schools for Children: Focusing on All-day Schools in Germany
• The Scope of Public Education in Japan and Germany with a Focus on “School Absenteeism”: Conclusion

Research Note

• A bifurcation of rural gentrification?: An experience of Sasayama, Hyogo

• Editorial Note

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• Yone Noguchi’s Introduction of Noh and Kyogen to the West and East

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• Introduction
• The Power of the Water System: Towards a Global History of the Water Closet
• Environmental History and Spatiality
• Monks and the Desert in Western Thebes from the Sixth to the Eighth Century
• Forest Settlement by Bruno Taut in Past and Present
• Dreaming of “Human-Uninhabited” Areas? National Park Debates in Modern Germany and Japan

• Editorial Note

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• The Development of Urban Medical Culture during the Transition From the Medieval to the Early Modern Era
• Goble UrbanScope article; Dr. Umihara comments
• Goble UrbanScope article; Professor Niki commentsComments – from the standpoint of urban history

• Editorial Note

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• Perceptions of Poverty and Neighborhood Effects in Osaka
• Database, Pakuri (Rip-offs), Hatsune Miku

Research Article

• Deviation and conformity in fanwork: Narrative transformation in yaoi

Research Note

• Branding of Horie, Nishi Ward from the Viewpoint of Long-term Residents: A Case of Urban Change in Osaka City after the Collapse of the Economic Bubble

• Editorial Note

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• Changes in Political Space Between the Northern Song and the Southern Song: Centering on Wei Liaoweng’s “Sealed Memorial in Response to the Edict”
• Japanese Elementary Education Policies in the 1900’s: Movements in the Localities and the Ministry of Education Concerning the Development of the Third Elementary School Order

• Editorial Note

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• The Context behind Naoya Shiga’s “Rōjin”: Björnsen and Current Literature
• The District Supervisor Office Field System and Its Actual Operation: A Window on Ancient Japanese Regional Society

Research Article

• Compensation versus halo effects in competitive or cooperative social settings: Mediation effects of social comparison-based emotions

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• Dual Kingship in the Kofun Period as Seen from the Keyhole Tombs
• Topics of Existence: Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases and Types of Topic-Statement Relationships in Japanese

Research Article

• Performing Leaf Viewing: A Study on Practices of Viewing Nature in Asuke, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

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