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This book, focusing on the Japanese economy mainly from the 1990s to the 2010s, examines the Japanese industrial and fiscal-monetary policies and evaluates its achievements and limits from a historical perspective. Although the period that was also referred to as the "lost decade (or two, three decades)" was marked by various policy discussions, there are still few studies that summarize them as a history. Another unique feature of this publication is that it includes the contributions not only from researchers, but also from those who are/were in a position close...

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Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention. In a nation that has traditionally been uncomfortable addressing mental illness, what factors have allowed for the rising medicalization of depression and suicide? Investigating these profound changes from historical, clinical, and sociolegal perspectives, Depression in Japan explores how depression has become a national disease and entered the Japanese lexicon, how psychiatry has responded to the nation's ailing social order, and how, in...

The weekly journal Freewoman is an essential periodical source for the study of the women's movement, gender, modernity, and modernism in the early twentieth century. This facsimile reprint is the first of its kind to include a complete collection of The Freewoman covering its two-year lifespan.

A bewitching and beautiful tale of an orphan girl who was raised by crows in a trash heap. One day, a dying witch gifts her with a mysterious magic wand and her life changes forever Now, the human world is hers to play with... Or will this land of fear and corruption prove too much for the fledgling witch? In a time of witch hunts, Ravina must have her wits about her

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• The very first facsimile reprint collection of the works of Ada Ballin (1863-1906), the leader of childcare and parenting in Victorian Britain and a pioneer of the scientific management of infant health.
• Ballin founded an influential magazine, Baby, for middle-class mothers, organized a series of trade fairs, 'Baby's Exhibition', and gave many lectures.
• In this collection, in addition to all of her published books, her lecture at the famous International Health Exhibition and a series of pamphlets, 'Mother's Guide', are reprinted with many...

This book showcases recent developments in the field of Japanese applied linguistics. It covers a wide range of current issues and influential theoretical and methodological frameworks, many of which are of concern not only for Japanese specialists but also applied linguists in general. At the same time, the book provides empirical studies that exemplify how these issues and frameworks manifest themselves in contexts that surround first and second language speakers of Japanese. The book is divided into four sections. The first examines language in action, providing a close analysis of...