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This text explains how the Hawaiians of the 19th century were divested of their land, and how the past continues to shape the island's present as Hawaiians now debate the structure of land-claim settlements.

Eleanor Hadley was a woman ahead of her time. Her personal story provides a colourful backdrop to her substantive discussions of early postwar policies, which were created to provide Japan with a more efficient and competitive economy.

Using primary sources and oral history, the contributors to this volume examine how Okinawan identity was constructed in the various countries to which Okinawans migrated. They also look at how their experiences were shaped by the Japanese nation-building project and by globalization.

This volume brings together three plays by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. They are ""The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu"", ""Emmalehua"" and ""Ola Na Iwi"".

In Good Company is a celebration of life in Hawai'i, beyond Waikiki and Diamond Head. Its characters work 16-hour-shifts at airport drive-ins, play pool with cursed hitmen and wrestle their high school sweethearts in Chinatown bars.

This title addresses central issues in the history of chinese attitudes towards sex and gender from 500BC to AD 400. It reveals the use of the image of copulation as a metaphor for various human relations in some of the most revered and influential texts in the Chinese tradition.

The ""Zhongyong"" - translated here as ""Focusing the Familiar"" has been regarded as a document of enormous wisdom for more than two millennia and is one of Confucianism's most sacred and seminal texts. This translation seeks to provide a distinctly philosophical interpretation.

In 1960 millions of Japanese citizens took to the streets for months of protest against the US-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo). This title focuses on the significance of the Anpo protests on the citizens' drive to transform Japanese society.

This monograph covers every major aspect of the book in traditional Japan: its place in Japanese history; books as material objects; manuscript cultures; printing; the Edo period book trade; authors and readers; and importation and exportation.

Yuanming Yuan, China's famous imperial garden, is noted for its magnificent architecture and extraordinary history. This is a comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex and a tour of its architecture and history. It refers throughout to maps and models of individual buildings.

This volume offers a profile of Japan's pre-war foreign ministry, especially the Chinese specialists within the ministry, who advocated that Japan must adopt policies in harmony with China's rising nationalism and national interests. It examines a range of primary sources.

An analysis of military rule in mediaeval Korea during the Koryo. Although it lasted for only a century, the period was one of dynamic change: institutional development, social transformation, the reassertion of Confucian ideology, and a flowering of Son (Zen) Buddhism.

An examination of the context for the development of female literary expression in Meiji Japan. It studies the lives and literary careers of three of Higuchi Ichiyo's peers - Miyake Kaho, Wakamatsu Shizuko and Shimizu Shikin - each representative of the diversity of the period.

A collection of three plays by Edward Sakamoto - ""A'ala Park"", ""Stew Rice"" and ""Aloha Las Vegas"". The three plays present a dramatised panorama of life in Hawaii.

A social history of the experience of Korean immigrants, the ""ilse"", in Hawaii from 1903 to 1973, mainly as seen through their own eyes. It makes use of primary source material from Korea, Japan, the continental USA and Hawaii.

Wakaizumi Kei examines the sensitive issue of nuclear diplomacy between the United States and Japan during the 1960s. Challenging the silence of the official bureaucracies, he reveals the truth behind the 1969 agreement that ensured the eventual return of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction in 1972.

Despite Japan's Westernization, the country has remained ""uniquely"" Japanese. This text offers insight into Japan and its people to facilitate Western business dealings in the country. It ranges from interpersonal communication to decision-making styles, negotiating tactics and business contacts.

An exploration of the rich complexity of the worship of the deity Inari in contemporary Japan. The work covers institutional and popular power in religion, the personal meaningfulness of religious figures and the communicative styles that preserve homogeneity in the face of factionalism.

A collection of four stories and a novella by Japanese modernist writer Ishikawa Jun. His works address issues of political and artistic significance, and in the introduction and critical essays, Tyler emphasizes Ishikawa's importance as a ""resistance"" writer.

Offering an insight into early Japanese history (AD 100-800), this text examines: Yamatai, the lost realm of the third-century Queen Himiko; Japan-Korea relations 350-700; the creation of capital cities 645-800; and the appropriation of Chinese-style governing arrangements during the same era.

Examining economic development in the Caroline, Mariana and Marshall islands, this text explores in ethnographic terms how different groups of island people responded to development programmes in complex and sometimes conflicting ways - reflecting historical experiences and cultural understandings.

In the past few years, there has been a growing appreciation by Western scholars of the vast scale, great achievements, and methodological originality of Japanese archaeologists. However, an understanding of the results of their work has been hampered in the West by a lack of up-to-date and authoritative texts in English. This book provides Western readers for the first time with a uniquely East Asian perspective of Japanese archaeology. Prehistoric Japan is organized into 16 chapters covering the environment, the history of the Japanese investigations of their past, the peculiarities of Japanese scholars' interests and methodologies, the organization and material culture of previous Japanese societies, economic trade and the question of immigration, the political unification of Japan, and the relationships between the core islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu to Hokkaido in the north and the Ryukyu Islands to the south.

This is an authoritative and ground-breaking assessment of an important but little-studied facet of Japanese politics.

Between 1886 and 1924 thousands of Japanese journeyed to Hawaii to work the sugarcane plantations. First the men came, followed by brides, known only from their pictures, for marriages arranged by brokers. This book tells the story of two generations of plantation workers as revealed by the clothing they brought with them and the adaptations they made to it to accommodate the harsh conditions of plantation labor. Barbara Kawakami has created a vivid picture highlighted by little-known facts gleaned from extensive interviews, from study of preserved pieces of clothing and how they were constructed, and from the literature. She shows that as the cloth preferred by the immigrants shifted from kasuri (tie-dyed fabric from Japan) to palaka (heavy cotton cloth woven in a white plaid pattern on a dark blue background) so too their outlooks shifted from those of foreigners to those of Japanese Americans. Chapters on wedding and funeral attire present a cultural history of the life events at which they were worn, and the examination of work, casual, and children's clothing shows us the social fabric of the issei (first-generation Japanese). Changes that occurred in nisei (second-generation) tradition and clothing are also addressed. The book is illustrated with rare photographs of the period from family collections.

A collection of ten essays which cover topics such as: arguments for King Sejong's "personal creation" of the script; the Asian and domestic linguistic and socio-cultural background to its creation; the principles under which each symbol was created; and the structure of phonological units.