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The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan [PDF]
, 2023 Review of the book The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan, edited by Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio ...
Kai E. Tsao
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[REVIEW] Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan
New Voices in Japanese Studies, 2021 A review of the monograph "Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan" by Allison Alexy, The University of Chicago Press (Chicago and London), 2020.
Laura Emily Clark
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Emotional Factors in the Service Experience in the COVID-19 Environment:
Maketingu rebyu, 2022 The aim of this study is to identify factors that evoke customer emotion and how this emotion influences the service experience in the context of changes in the business environment brought about by COVID-19.
Jing Zhang, Tingchang Liang
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 BackgroundThree clinical trials have examined the chronic effects of medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) on muscle mass and function in frail older adults (mean age 85 years old).
Osamu Ezaki, Sakiko Abe
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, 2020 Current debates on the conceptualization and measurement of social stratification are finding increasing value in Weber’s distinction between class and status for empirical analysis.
Sho Fujihara
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Romanticising Shinsengumi in Contemporary Japan
New Voices, 2011 Shinsengumi, a group of young men recruited by the Bakufu to protect Kyoto from radical Imperial House loyalists in the tumultuous Bakumatsu period, is romanticised and idolised in Japan despite its limited place in history.
Rosa Lee
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Effect of personality traits on matching dolls and their makers
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Studies have shown that possessions such as cars and dogs resemble their owners, and products such as dolls resemble their makers even when students make them. We conducted three experiments to examine which part of the dolls resembled their makers.
Miki Uetsuki +2 more
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Do Dolls Resemble Their Makers?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Many often say that people resemble their pets or that the faces of manga characters and Buddha statues resemble those of their artists. Previous studies demonstrated that participants could match dogs with their owners, suggesting that pets resemble ...
Miki Uetsuki +2 more
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Analysis on accessibility to urban facilities using the flexible distance attenuation function
Japan Architectural Review, 2020 In urban planning, variations in accessibility to facilities that change with distance are often regarded as monotonically decreasing distance functions. However, it is difficult to select an appropriate function type.
Yusuke Kataoka
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Religions, 2019 In contemporary Japan, a Buddhist discourse has emerged that links life and food and centers on gratitude. While the connection between animals and gratitude has a long history in Buddhism, here the meaning of repaying a debt of gratitude has shifted ...
B. Ambros
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