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Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Japan"
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Beyond Economics and Security: Strategic Export Control Practices in Advanced Countries
How do like-minded countries decide which sensitive technologies they will export to countries of concern? When the economic and security stakes are high, what factors contribute to effective strategic export control policy? ... -
Discursive Provocateurs
By setting hermeneutical analysis within contemporary discourse, this dissertation reveals that in the period from the end of World War II to the early 1980s globalization in Japan occurring under the auspices of the same ... -
Electoral Campaigning and the Internet in Japan in the 2010s
In the late spring of 2013, Japanese politicians passed a revision to their election laws that essentially unbanned the use of the Internet in electoral campaigns. This dissertation is composed of three independent, but ... -
Heliocracy: A Comprehensive Reevaluation of Japanese Political History
Who governs? This question has hounded scholars of Japan Studies of the modern era. Some have argued that it is the bureaucracy that governs. Others claim that it is a combination of corporations and the bureaucracy. ... -
Landscapes of Light: An Investigation of Light-driven Forms in Northern Climates and Cultures
This is a study of light: an investigation into the ability of light to not only illuminate, but also to awaken a deeper sense of the existence of the natural world. Universally, light is an essential aspect of life: it ... -
Nakano Flow: Designing for Spatial and Temporal Flow in urban Tokyo
Urban Tokyo is an environment of flows, having rapidly developed from its feudal form of the Edo period through cycles of destruction, growth and transformation since modernization. The plaza space adjacent to Nakano Station ... -
Plugin Homes - Metabolic Framework: Hong Kong as a Testing Ground
Hong Kong presents a complex and oftentimes paradoxical system of housing. It is the product of many contradictory elements: traditional village development and more recent urbanization; extremely organic urban growth and ... -
Polishing A Gem On The Surface Of The Sea
(2014)Polishing a Gem on the Surface of the Sea is a hybrid work that is non-fiction, creative fiction, fiction and poetry but, for classification purposes, I label it fiction. The narrative and poetry sections focus on grief, ... -
Rewriting Your Own Narrative: Isekai as a Contemporary Coming of Age Tale
Within the last 10 years isekai (other world) stories have exploded in popularity in the Japanese young adult fiction market. In these tales, economically and socially disadvantaged protagonists are teleported away from ... -
Social-Institutional Structures That Matter: An Exploratory Analysis of Sexual/Gender Minority Status and Income in Japan
While most previous studies examining the effect of sexual orientation on earnings rely on lesbian women, gay men, and their heterosexual counterparts in Western societies, this paper argues that focusing on income disparities ... -
States of Legibility: Mohammad Kibria’s Calligraphic Modernism, 1950-1970
This paper focuses on the works of Bangladeshi artist Mohammad Kibria, particularly those created between the 1950s and 1970s, the decades around the time in which the artist studied in Japan at the Tokyo University of ...