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Gods of the sea:whales and coastal communities in northeast Japan, c.1600-2019
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Holm, Fynn,

Challenging common portrayals of Japan as a centuries-old whaling nation, Fynn Holm shows that many coastal communities in early modern Northeast Japan believed whales to be the incarnation of the god of the sea that brought fish to the shore, leading to violent anti-whaling protests that shocked the country

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ISBN/ISSN
9781009305532
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ix, 224 pages; illustration
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639.2 HOL g
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Alexander Williamson :a victorian chemist and the making of modern Japan
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Inuzuka, TakaakiLaurie, Haruko

Alexander Williamson was professor of chemistry at UCL (1849–87) and a leading scientist of his time. He taught and cared for visiting Japanese students, thereby assisting them with their goal of modernising Japan. This short, accessible biography explores his contribution to nineteenth-century science as well as his lasting impact on Japanese society. In 1863 five students from the Chōsh…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781787359314
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xiii, 133 p. ill;
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540.92 ALE H
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The saburo hasegawa reader
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JohnsonMark DeanHart, Dakin

Published on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition “Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan,” The Saburo Hasegawa Reader encompasses a selection of writings by the Japanese artist, theorist, essayist, teacher, and curator Saburo Hasegawa (1908–1957), translated into English for the first time. Credited with introducing abstract art to Japan in the 1930s, Hasega…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780520970922
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xxv. :ill. ;166 p.
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709.2. THE j
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Anti-Japan
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Ching, Leo T. S.

In August 2017, four Chinese men dressed in Second World War Japanese military uniforms posed at the Continental Bank Warehouse in Shanghai where Chinese troops fought the Japanese imperial army in 1937. In February 2018, two different men, also in Japanese military garb, struck various poses in front of a memorial site on Zijin Mountain in Nanjing where Chinese civilians were murdered by th…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781478001881
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176p
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303.4825052 CHI a