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"Exploring anxieties raised by Atlantic slavery in radical enlightenment literature concerned about political unfreedom in Europe, Metaracial argues that Hegel's philosophy assuages these anxieties for the left. Interpreting Hegel beside Rousseau, Kant, Mary Shelley, and Marx, Terada traces Hegel's transposition of racial hierarchy into a hierarchy of stances toward reality. By doing so, she argues, Hegel is simultaneously antiracist and antiblack. In dialogue with Black Studies, psychoanalysis, and critical theory, Metaracial offers a genealogy of the limits of antiracism"--

Cover -- Note on Japanese names and the translation of Japanese texts -- Introduction -- The definition of international cooperation -- The characteristics of Japanese international cooperation -- The structure of this book -- Part I: The development of international cooperation before the First World War -- Chapter 1: International community life and the limits on the freedom of immigration: Yamada Saburō's view on international migration -- Yamada Saburō and the shin jōyaku jisshi junbi project -- A controversy over article 2 of the Civil Code -- Yamada and the Institut de droit international -- The IDI's discussion about the admission of foreigners into a country -- Limits on the freedom of immigration -- Japanese immigration law -- Open questions -- Part II: International cooperation after the foundation of the League of Nations -- Chapter 2: The problem of international migration and the League of Nations Association of Japan: 1919-1925 -- The LNAJ and its relations with business and financial circles -- The LNAJ and its relationship with the Japanese government -- The LNAJ and its racial equality proposal -- Discussion of racial equality at the IFLNS -- The ILO intervention -- French proposal on the admission of foreigners into a country -- A defeat at the ninth Congress of the IFLNS -- The aftermath of the defeat -- Chapter 3: The Geneva World Economy Conference and the LNAJ: 1925-1927 -- The LNAJ's discussion about the World Economy Conference -- Three positions -- Discussion at the IFLNS -- The Japanese government's attitude towards the Conference -- A middle-ground position -- The World Economy Conference and its results -- Change and persistence in the LNAJ's activities -- Part III: International cooperation at a crossroads

What lessons have we learned from the changing landscape of the food habitus in Okinawa? This study focuses on the narrative of a centenarian regarding his childhood memories of food. Food is closely related to the environment; hence, inhabitants internalize their environment through food habitus. Okinawa was famous for its longevity, but now, owing to globalization and Americanization, it has lost its prestigious status. Nostalgically remembering the past is not enough to create a sustainable future. We need to notice the importance of the present: the present will be the past when seen from the viewpoint of the future. With such transition of standpoint, the present food habitus should be viewed differently. Our centenarian's long life resulted from his life on the island. Islandness, or fudo in this study, supported his hundred years of life. However, repeating his life is impossible for us. We can look our past and future in order to observe our present differently. The centenarians' childhood narratives enabled us to realize this.

In February 2020, Miwa Yanagi: Myth Machines (2019-2020), a traveling exhibition of works by the Japanese contemporary artist Miwa Yanagi (1967-), concluded its tour across Japan after failing to incite meaningful critical response from art historians and critics. The year-long, five-museum itinerary of the solo show reflected the public's keen interest in Yanagi's first major exhibition in a decade, but the enthusiasm was betrayed by the paucity of scholarly attention; beyond the four essays included in the catalogue, hardly any scholar or critic seriously engaged with the artist who previously represented Japan at the Venice Biennale and whose work continues to be exhibited internationally. The few texts that appeared display a noticeable anxiety toward Myth Machines—in particular its unapologetic juxtaposition of photography and theater—which suggests a failure of the prevailing art historical language to speak and write about Yanagi's career. In response to this laconic condition, this paper identifies the concept of heterotopia, delineated by Michel Foucault on three occasions between 1966 and 1967, as a useful device to activate a discourse on Yanagi's exhibition. A reading of Myth Machines as a heterotopia reveals an exhibition that astutely comments on the ongoing global political moment defined by divisions along racial, gender and national boundaries, visually symbolized by former American president Donald Trump's divisive border wall.

This paper analyzes and criticizes changes in the relationship between politics and the bureaucracy, in Japan up to the present from the viewpoint of administrative organizations and related public law system. Drastic changes in the legal system, or legal reform, may sometimes undermine the true intention of the policy and its implementation. Thus, bringing political leadership in administrative decision-making bodies cannot be easily concluded as better or worse than the complete separation of administration and government. To analyze this matter in detail, this paper looks at the following points: 1) Analysis of the operation of the limited political appointment system under the one-party dominance by the Liberal Democratic Party and several attempts of administrative reform; 2) Changes in the government in 1993 that broke the Liberal Democratic Party's rule and subsequent changes in executive personnel and political leadership by the prime minister's office; and 3) The establishment of the Cabinet Bureau of Personnel Affairs in May 2014, which strengthened the involvement of the Cabinet in the executive staff personnel. Through an analysis of these changes, the institutional basis of the current phenomenon of increasing enforcement power and expanding administrative power is presented. Then this article considers current problems of democratic legitimacy within institutional limitations and policymaking, coordination of political leadership and securing administrative expertise. As a conclusion, this paper considers the requirement of separation of power in Japan and possible solutions to the increasing influence of political leadership on administrative power.

The book is the first study on the history of one of the most powerful semi-governmental international organizations in interwar Japan: the League of Nations Association of Japan. Established in 1920 for the purpose of achieving the spirit of the League of Nations, the association was at the center of Japanese international cooperation and, even after Japan's withdrawal from the League itself, acted vigorously as a member of the non-governmental International Federation of League of Nations Societies.Based on extensive multi-archival research, this book explores how members of the association including both governmental and non-governmental actors tried to address international problems such as racial equality, migration, labour, and population. By doing so, the book reconstructs a little-known history of Japan's international cooperation and puts it into the context of global history.

Выпускница-филолог Университета Вако из г. Токио впервые услышала тувинскую музыку в 1999 г. на компакт диске всемирно известной группы «Хун-Хурту». Начала учиться исполнять хоомей. В 2000-х годах приезжала в Туву для участия в музыкальных фестивалях, а с 2006 г. осталась здесь для изучения музыкальных традиций. Автор наблюдает, что музыкальная жизнь Тувы не стоит на месте, а постоянно развивается. В статье делится результатами своих личных наблюдений и своими интересными соображениями о том, как и в какую сторону развивается тувинская музыка на современном этапе.Автор называет причины большого интереса японцев к тувинскому горловому пению. Жители урбанизированной страны испытывают дефицит «живых» впечатлений, оторваны от природы. В Японии почти не осталось сказителей и исполнителей на древних музыкальных инструментах, очень редким явлением стало чтение буддийскими ламами сутр. Грусть японцев по старинным звукам компенсируется звуками хоомея и тувинских песен, выражающих разные настроения, имеющих большое количество жанров. Удивительно многообразие тувинских музыкальных инструментов. Количество исполнителей хоомея в Японии постоянно растет. Японские исполнители хоомея каждый год приглашают тувинских хоомейжи к себе и сами также приезжают в Туву, в рамках программ по культурному обмену.Тувинские музыканты находятся в постоянном творческом поиске. В самой музыке также наблюдается разностороннее развитие. Интересным автор называет и опыт исполнения хоомея женщинами. Хоомей исполняется вместе с забытыми старинными мелодиями, своеобразны еще не известные варианты хоомея. В случае использования хоо­мея в сочетании с современными формами музицирования существенно видоизменяется контекст функционирования самого хоомея. Тем не менее у многих современных тувинских хоомейжи исполнение этого уникального искусства становится более однообразным. С каждым годом увеличивается и число иностранных исполнителей хоомея.

In this article, I show how Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has promoted two major national and international economic policies-Abenomics and Japan's involvement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership-by focusing on his administration's domestic political struggles. Both agendas become significant in the face of China's regional engagement, demonstrating the inextricable ties between international affairs and domestic politics, a combination essential for grasping the "Abe effect" in foreign policy. (Asian Perspect/GIGA)