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Monthly new acquisitions list – during February 2013Sorted by subjectBringingJapanto you• PUBLISHER: Tokyo : Tuttle, 2010.• ISBN: 978-4-8053-1079-3 (hardcover)• PHYSICAL DESC: 111 p. :col., ill. ;32 cm. Book• LANGUAGE: Parallel text in English and Japanese.CALL NUM: 392.1076 MIDRETHINKING JAPANESE PUBLIC OPINION ANDSECURITY : FROM PACIFISM TO REALISM? / PAULMIDFORD.• PUBLISHER: Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press,2011.• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7217-4• PHYSICAL DESC: xvi, 250 p :ill. ;24 cm. Book• LANGUAGE: Text in English.CALL NUM: 392.1076 ORONORMALIZING JAPAN : POLITICS, IDENTITY, AND THEEVOLUTION OF SECURITY PRACTICE / ANDREW L.OROS.• PUBLISHER: Singapore : NUS Press, 2008.• ISBN: 978-9971-69-446-3 (pbk.)• PHYSICAL DESC: xvii, 282 p. ;23 cm. Book• LANGUAGE: Text in English.CALL NUM: 392.1076 RETRETHINKING JAPANESE SECURITY : INTERNAL ANDEXTERNAL DIMENSIONS / PETER J. KATZENSTEIN.• PUBLISHER: London; New York : Routledge, 2008.• ISBN: 978-0-415-77395-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)• PHYSICAL DESC: xiv, 290 p. :ill. ;24 cm. Book• LANGUAGE: Text in English.CALL NUM: 392.715 ASA ENGTHE NIGHT OF A THOUSAND SUICIDES : THE JAPANESEOUTBREAK AT COWRA. / TRANSLATED FROM THEJAPANESE AND EDITED BY RAY COWAN.• PUBLISHER: [Sydney] : Angus and Robertson, [1970].• PHYSICAL DESC: 125 p. :ill. ;21 cm. Book• LANGUAGE: Text in English, Translated from the Japanese.CALL NUM: 402.106 MIZSCIENCE FOR THE EMPIRE : SCIENTIFIC NATIONALISMIN MODERN JAPAN / HIROMI MIZUNO.• PUBLISHER: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,2009.• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5961-8• PHYSICAL DESC: [xi], 269 p. ;24 cm. Book• LANGUAGE: Text in English.• SUMMARY: "This study examines the discourse of sciencein Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation tonationalism and imperialism. Focusing on three groupsof science promoters - technocrats, Marxists, andpopular science proponents - this work demonstrates hCALL NUM: 493.195 NHK ENGA SLOW DEATH : 83 DAYS OF RADIATION SICKNESS /NHK TV "TOKAIMURA CRITICALITY ACCIDENT"CREW ; TRANSLAYTED BY MAHO HARADA.• EDITION: 1st ed.• PUBLISHER: New York : Vertical• ISBN: 978-1-934287-40-8 (hbk.)• PHYSICAL DESC: xv, 141 p., [8] p. of plates. :col. ill. ;23 cm.Book• LANGUAGE: Text in English. Translated from the Japanese.• SUMMARY: Japan's worst nuclear radiation accident tookplace at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokaimura,northeast of Tokyo, on 30 September 1999. The directcause of the accident was cited as the depositing of auranyl nitrate solution--containing about 16.6CALL NUM: 493.82 JANTHE VACCINATORS : SMALLPOX, MEDICALKNOWLEDGE, AND THE 'OPENING' OF JAPAN / ANNJANNETTA.• PUBLISHER: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,2007.• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5489-7• PHYSICAL DESC: xviii, 245 p. :il., maps. ;24 cm. Book• LANGUAGE: Text in English.• SUMMARY: "In Japan, as late as the mid-nineteenth century,smallpox claimed the lives of an estimated 20 percent ofall children born - most of them before the age of five.When the apathetic Tokugawa shogunate failed torespond to this health crisis, Japanese phyCALL NUM: 498.021 KEN ENGHEALTH INEQUALITIES IN JAPAN : AN EMPIRICAL STUDYOF OLDER PEOPLE / EDITED BY KATSUNORI KONDO ;FOREWORD BY ICHIRO KAWACHI.• PUBLISHER: Balwyn North, Vic. : Trans Pacific Press, 2010.• ISBN: 978-1-920901-71-4• PHYSICAL DESC: xxxii, 291 p. :ill. ;23 cm. Book• LANGUAGE: Text in English. Translated from the Japanese.CALL NUM: 498.48 WALTOXIC ARCHIPELAGO : A HISTORY OF INDUSTRIALDISEASE IN JAPAN / BRETT L. WALKER ; FOREWORD BYWILLIAM CRONON.• PUBLISHER: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2010.• ISBN: 978-0-295-98954-9 (hardback : alk. paper)• PHYSICAL DESC: xviii, 284 p. :ill., map. ;24 cm. Book• LANGUAGE: Text in Englsih.• SUMMARY: "Every person on the planet is entangled in aweb of ecological relationships that link farms andfactories with human consumers. Our lives depend onthese relationships - and are imperiled by them as well.Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archiCALL NUM: 499.021 NAKPRACTICAL PURSUITS : TAKANO CHŌEI, TAKAHASHIKEISAKU, AND WESTERN MEDICINE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAPAN / ELLEN GARDNER NAKAMURA.5 1-Mar-13Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library.