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This article presents a history of medicine from the patient's viewpoint. Using archival materials from the Takinogawa Health Survey, conducted in Tokyo in 1938, the article examines differences in self-reported morbidity according to patients' ages and genders. It also examines differences in their choices of treatment according to income. The article proposes to understand these differences with reference to sociocultural, biological, and economic factors.

Introduction – Present and Future of Eastern Asia -- Origins of Eastern Asian Peoples -- Socioeconomic and Demographic Transitions -- Population in Premodern Eastern Asia -- Population in Modern Eastern Asia -- Population in Contemporary Eastern Asia -- Concluding Remarks.

"The Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) was Japan's first international humanitarian organisation and among the largest civic organisations in Japan before 1945. The book explores the role of the JRCS in relation to Japan's imperial expansion and diplomatic relations in the Asia Pacific region. A unique feature of the JRCS was its transnational organisation development. Between 1894, when the first overseas branch office was established in Pusan and the outbreak of the Pacific War, JRCS Tokyo Headquarters oversaw the operations of more than a hundred overseas branch offices, including hospitals and local clinics, both in Japan's colonies and spheres of influence in Asia and in the Pacific and North and South America where there were large immigrant communities. World War II brought to the fore tensions between patriotism and international humanitarianism inherent in the Red Cross' mission to provide aid and relief in wartime to all soldiers and civilian victims without distinction to nationality. The book argues that while the JRCS was a quasi-Imperial state institution, within the JRCS administrators and medical workers nevertheless sought to uphold the humanitarian mission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Even amidst the inhumanity of total war, individual JRCS practitioners strived to perform their professional duty to care for the wounded and diseased regardless of race, nationality, or military status. Drawing on oral history, this book brings to light the experiences of those individuals who chose to work for the Red Cross in the face of extreme risks, and examines the extent to which the Japanese notion of 'humanitarianism (jindō)', literally meaning 'the way of humanity' in Japanese, influenced the evolution of the modern humanitarian movement"--

What is the source of the increasing politicization of Japan's budgetary policy? Takaaki Suzuki explores this question, finding the answer in the the interplay of domestic and international politics from the early 1970s through the 1990s. Suzuki points out that, just as modern state leaders must strike a balance between the appropriate roles of the market and the state in determining how scarce resources are to be allocated internally, so must they continually negotiate with their foreign counterparts to foster freer international markets while mitigating the social costs they entail. States are confronted with the challenge of devising budgetary policies that accomodate both domestic and international concerns; Suzuki offers a cogent account of how the Japanese state has responded to this challenge

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- Introduction: Commercial Funerals for Contemporary Japanese -- 1. Death Rituals in Anthropology and Japanese Folklore Studies -- 2. The History of Japanese Funeral Traditions -- 3. The Phase of Negated Death -- 4. The Funeral Ceremony: Rites of Passage -- 5. Funeral Professionals at Moon Rise -- 6. Funeral Professionals Outside of Moon Rise -- 7. The Commoditization of the Bathing Ceremony -- Conclusion: The Shift to Commercialization and Mass Consumption -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This book investigates early modern womens interventions in politics and the public sphere during times of civil war in England and France. Taking this transcultural and comparative perspective, and the period designation "early modern" expansively, Antigones Example identifies a canon of womens civil-war writings; it elucidates their historical specificity as well as the transhistorical context of civil war, a context which, it argues, enabled womens participation in political thought. Mihoko Suzuki is Professor of English and Cooper Fellow in the Humanities Emerita, at the University of Miami, USA.

"The aim of this book is to incorporate Marshallian ideas such as external increasing returns and monopolistic competitions into the general equilibrium framework of Walrasian tradition. New chapters and sections have been added to this revised and expanded edition of General Equilibrium Analysis of Production and Increasing Returns (World Scientific, 2009). The new material includes a presentation of equilibrium existence and core equivalence theorems for an infinite horizon economy with a measure space of consumers. These results are currently the focus of extensive studies by mathematical theorists, and are obtained by an application of an advanced mathematical concept called saturated (super-atomless) measure space. The second major change is the inclusion of a simple toy model of a liberal society which implements the difference principle proposed by J Rawls as a principle of distributive justice. This new section opens up a possibility to connect theoretical economics and political philosophy. Thirdly, the author presents the marginal cost pricing equilibrium and discusses welfare properties of the external increasing returns, which also belong to Marshall/ Pigou tradition of the Cambridge school. Finally, a new mathematical appendix treats basics of singular homology theory. Although the fixed point theorem is originally a theorem of algebraic topology, most economic students know its proof only in the context of the differentiable manifold theory presented by J Milnor. Considering the significance of the fixed point theorem and its playing a key role in general equilibrium theory, the purpose of this new appendix is to provide readers with the idea of a proof of Brower's fixed point theorem from the "right place". This volume will be helpful for graduate students and researchers of mathematical economics, game theory, and microeconomics"--

Introduction 1. Anglo-Japanese Relationship and Korea before the Imo Mutiny 2. The Imo Crisis and Its Aftermath, July 1882-April 1884 3. East Asian Crises, Phase One: May 1884-October 1885 4. East Asian Crises, Phase Two: November 1885-February 1887 5. The Post-Crises Order in East Asia, March 1887-July 1892 6. The Road to the First Sino-Japanese War, August 1892-July 1894 7. The First Sino-Japanese War and Anglo-Japanese Relations Conclusion

Introduction -- Japan' s post-war reconstruction, the car industry, and Nissan/Datsun -- British car industry and Anglo-Japanese relations in the post-war period -- The negotiations over financial assistance and local contents -- The deal: financial aid and local contents -- Plant location Sunderland -- Epilogue -- Conclusion.