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Islamic cultures in the Middle East have inherited and developed a legacy of urbanism spanning millennia to the ancient civilizations of the region. In contrast to well-organized states like China in history, Muslim peoples formed loose states based on intricate social networks. As a consequence, most studies of urban history in the Middle East have focused their gaze exclusively on urban social organization, often neglecting the extension of political power to rural areas. Covering Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Iran and Brunei, this volume explores the relationship between political power and social

Cover -- Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 A Framework for Analysis -- Chapter 2 Modeling Japan's Foreign Economic Policy with the United States -- Chapter 3 Consensus or Compliance? Gaiatsu, Interests, and Japan's Foreign Aid -- Chapter 4 Continuity and Discontinuity of Japanese Foreign Policy toward North Korea: Freezing the Korean Energy Development Organization (KEDO) in 1998 -- Chapter 5 Cautious Proactivism and Reluctant Reactivism: Analyzing Japan's Foreign Policytoward Indochina -- Chapter 6 Japan's Middle East Policy: Fuzzy Nonbinary Process Model -- Chapter 7 Nonproliferation as a Goal of Japanese Foreign Assistance -- Chapter 8 Japan's Role in the Making of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) -- Chapter 9 Determining Factors in Japan's Cooperation and Noncooperation with the United States: The Case of Asian Financial Crisis Management, 1997-1999 -- Chapter 10 Diplomacy of the Ministry of Finance: Promoting or Handicapping the Yen? -- Chapter 11 Conclusion: Japan in Asia and the Pacific -- Index.

Chapter 1: The Man Who Transformed His Wife into a Matricultural Visionary -- Chapter 2: Traveling an Uncharted Path in Search of the Unifying Power of Love in a Dichotomously Divided and Godless World -- Chapter 3: Anarchist Views on Women in Modern Capitalist Societies -- Chapter 4: Women's Beauty and Intelligence in the Ancient Classics of Japan -- Chapter 5: Pioneering Japanese Feminist History -- Chapter 6: From Oppression to the Dawn of Liberation: "Women Are Now Standing on Their Own Feet" -- Chapter 7: Revolting Against Western Capitalist Patriarchy: Questioning Modernity During the Asia-Pacific War -- Chapter 8: One Human Family and the Love of Life -- Chapter 9: Matricultures and Maternalist Paradigms Around the Globe -- Chapter 10: Takamure in the Twenty-First Century.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- I. Japan's Industrial Organization: Historical Perspective -- 1. "Monopoly Capital" and Income Redistribution Policy -- 2. The Dual Structure of the Japanese Economy and Its Growth Pattern -- 3. Excessive Competition and the Formation of Keiretsu -- 4. Japan's Industrial Organization -- II. Industry Studies -- 5. The Automobile Industry of Japan -- 6. Iron and Steel -- III. Big Business and Business Groups -- 7. The Establishment of the Big Business System -- 8. The Japanese-type Structure of Big Business -- 9. The Measurement of Interfirm Relationships -- IV. Industrial Policy -- 10. The Conception and Evaluation of Japanese Industrial Policy -- V. Bibliographic Studies -- 11. Industry Studies of Japan: A Survey -- 12. Japanese Studies of Industrial Organization -- Contributors

"This title was first published in 1980: This volume analyzes Japan's industrial organization both from a historical perspective and by looking in details at specific industries such as iron, steel and the automotive industry. Big business, business groups and industrial policy are also discussed. The volume also provides a survey of the literature in Japanese which will help the reader in search of original sources."--Provided by publisher

Mai Sato examines public attitudes to the death penalty in Japan, focusing on knowledge and attitudinal factors relating to support for, and opposition to, the death penalty. She uses a mixed-method approach and mounts quantitative and qualitative surveys to assess Japanese death penalty attitudes. The author's main findings show that death penalty attitudes are not fixed but fluid. Information has a significant impact on reducing support for the death penalty while retributive attitudes are associated with support. This book offers a new conceptual framework in understanding the death penalty without relying on the usual human rights approach, which can be widely applied not just to Japan but to other retentionist countries. Contents · Public Attitudes towards the Death Penalty · Critical Examination of the Japanese Government Survey · Experimental Survey Examining the Impact of Information on Support for the Death Penalty Target Groups · Researchers and students in the fields of sociology, law, political sciences, criminology, socio-legal studies, Japan studies and Asian studies · NGOs, policymakers, civil society The Author Mai Sato completed her PhD at King's College London in 2011. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London, and a Research Officer at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford

"Scholarly communities and policy experts have a tendency to divide natural resources into categories, hindering holistic understanding. Similarly, the stakeholders themselves--the state, business and people--are conceived monolithically, making it difficult to grasp how business interests, intra-bureaucratic politics and civil society movements influence policy outcomes. This book examines the socio-political dynamic generated by the environment and its attendant resources: how nature becomes a resource, and how this process in turn shapes our vision of society. It deploys a case study approach in examining the interactions between bureaucratic institutions; rural communities; national leaders and business elites, allowing for a more nuanced analysis. Particular emphasis is placed on how resources become the subject of conflict--but also opportunities for cooperation--and how different societies might establish more sustainable interactions with nature. The way society controls natural resources is the foundation of both economic development and environmental conservation. The primary motive for natural resource management has been the development and production of marketable commodities, and institutional structures have been shaped accordingly. The Social Constitution of Natural Resources asks that we re-consider the very concept of resources, and how we view them"--