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Jews in Japan: Presence and Perception. Antisemitism, Philosemitism and International Relations is a study on the history of real and imagined Jews in Japan, which discusses the little known cultural, political and economic ties between Jews and Japan, and follows the evolution of Jewish stereotypes in Japan in the last century and a half. The book begins with the arrival of Jews and their image in late 19th to early 20th-century Japan, when the seeds of later stereotyped visions were sown. The discussion then focuses on wartime Japan, delving into the complex and mixed attitudes of the Japanese Empire toward Jews. In postwar Japan, the partial reception of the Holocaust intertwined with earlier antisemitic and philosemitic manifestations, resulting in instances of both hatred and admiration toward Jews. Finally, the book explores the recent reframing of Japanese-Jewish historical encounters within the context of the growing ties between Japan and Israel. This study sheds new light on the little explored relations between Jews and Japan, offering thought-provoking insights into the coexistence of antisemitism and philosemitism, the political and diplomatic uses of Jewish history, and the perpetuation of Jewish stereotypes in a land devoid of a local Jewish population

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Story of Noona's Noonchi -- A Global K-Drama Community -- Why K-Dramas? -- The K-Content Phenomenon -- South Korean Tourism -- K-Food -- A Double-Edged Sword -- K Is for Korean: The Not-So-Soft Power -- Part I The Powerful Intersectionality of K-Dramas and Mental Health -- Chapter 1 The Global Appeal of K-Dramas -- Jeong = Noona's Noonchi Tours -- K-Drama Characters -- Chapter 2 K-Dramas Are for Self-Care -- Marriage and Family -- Reply 1988, 2015 -- Intergenerationality -- Dear My Friends, 2017 -- Healthy Emotionality -- Chapter 3 K-Dramas and Processing Grief -- Move to Heaven, 2021 -- Thirty-Nine, 2022 -- Be Melodramatic, 2017 -- Chapter 4 K-Dramas and Korean Han -- Start-Up, 2020 -- Our Blues, 2022 -- Chapter 5 K-Dramas and Healing Our Traumas -- Racial Trauma -- Secondary Trauma -- Intergenerational Trauma -- The Good Bad Mother, 2023 -- Something in the Rain, 2018 -- True Beauty, 2020 -- The Red Sleeve, 2021 -- Breaking the Trauma Cycle -- Chapter 6 K-Dramas and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Rain or Shine, 2017 -- It's Okay to Not Be Okay (IOTNBO), 2020 -- The Glory, 2023 -- Chapter 7 K-Dramas and Suicide Awareness -- Jealousy, 1992 -- Tomorrow, 2022 -- Taxi Driver, 2021 -- True Beauty, 2021 -- Chapter 8 K-Dramas and Coping with Depression -- Crash Landing on You, 2019 -- My Liberation Notes, 2022 -- Reply 1988, 2015 -- Our Blues, 2022 -- My Mister, 2018 -- Chapter 9 K-Dramas and Managing Anxiety -- Pandemic and Politics -- Practicing Mindfulness -- Part II The Powerful Intersectionality of K-Dramas and Identity -- Chapter 10 K-Dramas and Life Stages -- K-Dramas to Help You Understand a Midlife Crisis -- K-Dramas to Help You Understand an Older Adulthood Fulfillment Crisis -- K-Dramas to Help You Understand a Young Adult Crisis.

"Legal Education in the Western World provides an encompassing history of legal education from Ancient Rome to present day Europe and the Americas. Legal education is considered the locus of the formation of professional culture, and in this book Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo contributes to our understanding of its formation by paying attention to how legal knowledge is conceived, the way it is created and transmitted, and the social status of masters, professors, teachers, apprentices and students. He focuses on historical periods and societies that have influenced the current state of legal education. While these are established touchpoints used by historians and supported by a vast bibliographies in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, this book also includes material often overlooked by historians. Ultimately, this concise and accessible history presents a panoramic view that highlights the strengths and weaknesses of approaches to legal education in different societies, and an examination of the shared idea of law manifested in them. This historical and comparative perspective will be useful to comparative legal scholars and legal historians interested in a more informed general approach to improving legal education"--

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"Propaganda played an essential role in influencing the attitudes and policies of German National Socialism on racial purity and euthanasia, but little has been said on the impact of medical hygiene films. Cinematically Transmitted Disease explores these films for the first time, from their inception during the Weimar era and throughout the years to come. In this innovative volume, author Barbara Hales demonstrates how medical films as well as feature films were circulated among the German people to embed and enforce notions of scientific legitimacy for racial superiority and genetically spread "incurable" diseases, creating and maintaining an instrumental fear of degradation in the German national population"--