In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese...... more

In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women s studies will find a vivi... more

In Japan as in the United States, family farming is on the wane, increasingly rejected by the younge... more

The eleven chapters in this volume explore the process of carving out, in discourse and in practice,... more

Historic sites are visited by millions of people every year, but most of these places perpetuate the... more

It is the merit of Bernstein’s portrait of Kawakami Hajime that he emerges as a recognizable human b... more