If Cats Disappeared from the World, Kawamura Genki

Автор: Kawamura Genki
Название: If cats disappeared from the world
ISBN: 1509889175 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509889174
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: A million-copy bestseller, a poignant and thought-provoking Japanese tale that asks what it really is that makes life worth living.

Автор: Kawamura Yayo
Название: Who Is Afraid of Little Wolf?
ISBN: 3791373811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783791373812
Издательство: Prestel Publishing Limited
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Описание: This enchanting board book follows Little Wolf as he searches for someone to play with and carries a simple yet profound message about prejudice and preconceived notions.

Автор: Yuniya Kawamura
Название: Sneakers: Fashion, Gender, and Subculture
ISBN: 0857857223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857857224
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This is the first academic study of sneakers and the subculture that surrounds them. Since the 1980s, American sneaker enthusiasts, popularly known as “sneakerheads” or “sneakerholics”, have created a distinctive identity for themselves, while sneaker manufacturers such as Reebok, Puma and Nike have become global fashion brands. How have sneakers come to gain this status and what makes them fashionable? In what ways are sneaker subcultures bound up with gender identity and why are sneakerholics mostly young men? Based on the author’s own ethnographic fieldwork in New York, where sneaker subculture is said to have originated, this unique study traces the transformation of sneakers from sportswear to fashion symbol. Sneakers explores the obsessions and idiosyncrasies surrounding the sneaker phenomenon, from competitive subcultures to sneaker painting and artwork. It is a valuable contribution to the growing study of footwear in fashion studies and will appeal to students of fashion theory, gender studies, sociology, and popular culture.

Автор: Kawamura Noriko
Название: Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War
ISBN: 0295742739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295742731
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the question: If the emperor could not stop Japan from going to war with the Allied Powers in 1941, why was he able to play a crucial role in ending the war in 1945? Drawing on previously unavailable primary sources, Noriko Kawamura traces Hirohito's actions from the late 1920s to the end of the war, analyzing the role Hirohito played in Japan's expansion. Emperor Hirohito emerges as a conflicted man who struggled throughout the war to deal with the undefined powers bestowed upon him as a monarch, often juggling the contradictory positions and irreconcilable differences advocated by his subordinates. Kawamura shows that he was by no means a pacifist, but neither did he favor the reckless wars advocated by Japan's military leaders.

Автор: Kawamura, Tetsuji
Название: Hybrid factories in the United States
ISBN: 0195311965 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195311969
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Since the early 1980s, Japanese firms have massively globalized their production operations and have shown superb competitive powers in global markets. This meant, however, they had to establish their unique Japanese-style management and production system locally, taking into account different
conditions in countries that had not originally nurtured their unique system. In each case, firms found ways to balance applications and adaptations, resulting in a hybridization of their management and production systems. These experiences abroad dictated changes to the traditional system-in order
to retain its basic logic and competitiveness, the essentials of the system needed to be redefined.

Hybrid Factories in the United States elucidates the real advantages and weaknesses of the Japanese-style management and production system (JMPS) in the United States and elsewhere in the globalized economy. To assess the success of the hybridization dynamics of JMPS abroad, the editor and authors
developed their own hybrid-analysis model, which has been used successfully around and globe for decades, and has been recognized as a major research framework for elucidating the study of international transferability of management and production systems in general. In very concrete ways and
attentive to regional differences, the authors' hybrid-analysis methods identify which aspects of JMPS will inevitably change and which should be sustained. Tetsuji Kawamura and his team have provided a crucial and comprehensive resource not only for anyone interested in the Japanese story, but also
for those concerned about the future of American manufacturing industries, for the investigation of Japanese transplants provides an invaluable perspective of the real dimensions of major management innovations of U.S. industries.