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Civil Society in Japan
Get PDFIn considering civil society and social capital in Japan, we cannot neglect the traditions from pre-modern times which have given Japan its thick layer of voluntary associational activities and a history of human relationships with society based on trust. However, the concept of civil society proper was quite alien in Japan until the 1990s, when civil society began to play a major role in fiscal concerns and the globalization of society. The social capital of present-day Japan is quite difficult to measure in a concrete, comparative manner. However, Japan continues to aim at a high degree of publicness and social capital in civil society. As a whole, social capital, with its potential in neighborhood associations and NPOs as well as rich developmental associations, can presumably maintain its status. In the future, we can expect to see new policies and new associations that follow and maintain this path even under the new progressive regime of 2009. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????NPO??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Get PDFThe aim of this article is to discuss the competing and contradictory influences inherent in cinematographic representations of Africa. In particular, I will focus on the films pertaining to Theodore Roosevelt’s exploration of East Africa with emphasis on the following points: how Roosevelt’s safari expeditions created a framework for exploration films; and how natural history added educational discourse to U.S. cinema of the transitional period. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????(1) ?????????????????????????????(2) ???????????????????????????????????????
When the sadness of the world exceeds personal pain
Get PDFTwo tanka anthologies, Natsubane (Feathers in Summer) by UMENAI Mikako and Tomodachi ni deau no wa yoi koto (It’s so good to see friends) by YABE Masayuki, with a very modern perspective on our society, are reviewed here. From cameo observations of solitude and nature to war and daily life, both anthologies portray poignant themes of contemporary life through the medium of classical Japanese poetry. ??????????2??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Preface
Get PDFThis first issue of Inter Faculty presents the results of some of the study and research activities carried out over the past three years under the IFERI (Inter Faculty Education Research Initiative) programme New fields of academic research in the Humanities and Social Sciences and Inter Faculty Education set up in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Tsukuba
Differences in Understanding Literary Texts between Japanese Language Learners and Japanese Native Speakers
Get PDFThe purpose of this research is to clarify trends and change in the comprehension level of authentic literary texts in relation to a learner’s Japanese language level and frequency of communication with Japanese people. University students in both Japan and Uzbekistan were surveyed on a chosen text and their answers were analyzed. The research study confirmed that the less chance learners have of communicating with Japanese people the shallower their comprehension level of cultural and literary connotation, regardless of their level of Japanese language ability. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
The Momentary and Placeless Community: Constructing a New Community with regards to Otaku Culture
Get PDFThe aim of this article is to examine how a new community in information societies is constructed by referring to the cultural practices of Otaku and their methods of communication. Today, the realities of internet space are gaining ground. The Otaku are the most acclimatized people, or the most addicted, to the information society, however, when they gather in certain real geographic places that they denominate by religious terms, they affirm the existence of their reference group and strengthen the plausibility of their structures. The practices of Otaku present one of the ways of living in the information society. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????1????????????
Do Suicide Websites Really Encourage Suicide? Content Analysis of Postings to a Japanese Suicide Website
Get PDFThe main aim of this research is to reveal the function of suicide websites by examining the language used by individuals to describe their feelings and communicate in a social environment. Content analysis of seven message boards from a suicide website revealed that the central topic was self-disclosure through communication with others and not death images arising from suicidal intentions. From this research it became clear that suicide websites function in the same manner as self-help groups in the physical world and were not sufficiently biased towards suicide to justify internet regulations at the present time. ????,?????????????????????????????????????????????CMC??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Get PDFFederalism and the French Revolution: Towards an understanding of French Republicanism Even today, in the twenty-first century, the tendency towards centralization of power is strong in France. Now, however, at least in Europe with the creation of the EU, the framework of the unitary state itself is in question. Therefore, in such an environment is centralization as can be seen in France still acceptable? In order to answer this question, we shall examine the French people’s understanding of the state through a study of the French Revolution; the cradle of the French nation state. For this research, we will examine the concept of the one and indivisible republic and federalism from both the philosophical and the linguistic points of view. 21????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????