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Neighborhood Tokyo
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ISBN: 0804714398 9780804714396 0804717974 9780804717977 0934714398 9780934714396 Year: 1989 Publisher: Stanford, Calif.: Stanford university press,

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In the vastness of Tokyo these are tiny social units, and by the standards that most Americans would apply, they are perhaps far too small, geographically and demographically, to be considered "neighborhoods." Still, to residents of Tokyo and particularly to the residents of any given subsection of the city, they are socially significant and geographically distinguishable divisions of the urban landscape. In neighborhoods such as these, overlapping and intertwining associations and institutions provide an elaborate and enduring framework for local social life, within which residents are linked to one another not only through their participation in local organizations, but also through webs of informal social, economic, and political ties. This book is an ethnographic analysis of the social fabric and internal dynamics of one such neighborhood: Miyamoto-cho, a pseudonym for a residential and commercial district in Tokyo where the author carried out fieldwork from June 1979 to May 1981, and during several summers since. It is a study of the social construction and maintenance of a neighborhood in a society where such communities are said to be outmoded, even antithetical to the major trends of modernization and social change that have transformed Japan in the last hundred years. It is a study not of tradition as an aspect of historical continuity, but of traditionalism: the manipulation, invention, and recombination of cultural patterns, symbols, and motifs so as to legitimate contemporary social realities by imbuing them with a patina of venerable historicity. It is a study of often subtle and muted struggles between insiders and outsiders over those most ephemeral of the community's resources, its identity and sense of autonomy, enacted in the seemingly insubstantial idioms of cultural tradition.

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Neighborhoods --- Tokyo (Japan) --- Social conditions --- Alltag. --- Nachbarschaft. --- Neighborhoods. --- Quartiers (Urbanisme) --- Seikatsukankyō. --- Social conditions. --- Sociale situatie. --- Stadswijken. --- Stadtviertel. --- Tōkyōto --- Vie urbaine --- Wohnen. --- quartier (urbanisme) --- Fūzokushūkan. --- Shakai. --- Japan --- Tokio --- Tokio. --- Tōkyō (Japon) --- Condiciones sociales --- Conditions sociales. --- Tokyo (Japon) --- Conditions sociales --- J4190.12 --- J4192 --- J4000.90 --- J3411.10 --- Neighborhood --- -Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- local communities and culture -- Kantō -- Tōkyō 23 ward area (Edo) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- urban groups, the city --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Kantō -- Tōkyō 23 wards area (Edo) --- -Tokyo (Japan : Prefecture) --- Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Japan) --- Tonggyŏng (Japan) --- Tokio (Japan) --- Tʻokʻyoo (Japan) --- Tung-ching tu (Japan) --- Tung-ching tu tʻing (Japan) --- Tōkyō-shi (Japan) --- Tung-ching (Japan) --- Dongjing (Japan) --- 東京 (Japan) --- Tokyo Metropolis (Japan) --- 東京都 (Japan) --- Tōkyō-to (Japan) --- طوكيو (Japan) --- Ṭūkiyū (Japan) --- Горад Токіа (Japan) --- Horad Tokia (Japan) --- Токіа (Japan) --- Tokia (Japan) --- Токио (Japan) --- Edo (Japan) --- Shinagawa-ken (Japan) --- Tokyo (Japan : Fu) --- -J4190.12 --- -東京 (Japan) --- Tokyo (Japan : Prefecture) --- 동경 (Japan) --- Dongjing du (Japan) --- Dongjing du ting (Japan) --- 东京 (Japan) --- Toukio (Japan) --- -Neighborhoods --- -Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- local communities and culture -- Kantō -- Tōkyō 23 ward area (Edo) --- -Social conditions --- -Alltag. --- Neighborhoods - Japan - Tokyo --- Tokyo (Japan) - Social conditions --- -Neighborhoods - Japan - Tokyo --- -Tokyo (Japan)


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ISBN: 9783869221069 3869221062 9783869221731 3869221739 Year: 2011 Publisher: Architectural guide Berlin : DOM Publishers,

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Mistress Oriku : stories from a Tokyo teahouse
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ISBN: 0804838429 9780804838429 4805308869 9784805308868 Year: 2007 Publisher: Tokyo: Tuttle,

Yoshiwara : the glittering world of the Japanese courtesan
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ISBN: 0824814886 Year: 1993 Publisher: Honolulu (Hawaii) : University of Hawaii press,

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Tokyo as a Global City : New Geographical Perspectives
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ISBN: 9811076383 9811076375 Year: 2018 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,

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This book examines Tokyo’s changes, current challenges, and future trends through a new kind of regional geography and serves as an important source of comprehensive information about the past, present, and future perspectives of Tokyo as a global city. Regional geography relies on two main approaches. The traditional one addresses each geographical element of a region individually and in depth, in a descriptive and static manner. The other focuses on a region’s specific phenomena and realities as a starting point and proceeds to identify the region’s constituent elements and their interactions, which it records and explains in a systematic and dynamic manner. The present volume, unlike its predecessors, relies on the dynamic approach and endeavors to offer a fresh view of Tokyo’s new and diverse geographical realities, analyzed in a holistic, systematic manner allowing identification of its specific features. The book covers a broad range of topics including landform variations and volcanic activity, biodiversity concerns, transportation management, waste management, population issues, religious functions, and urban tourism, all of which facilitate understanding of the unique characteristics of Tokyo.  Extensive views from different fields of studies make the book a valuable reference to comprehend both the development of Tokyo into a global city and its sustainability.


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Local Government Migrant Policies in Tokyo, Japan : National Exclusion, Local Inclusion
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ISBN: 9780773417748 0773417745 9780773430624 0773430628 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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The book documents the movements of migrant populations through Tokyo. It reveals how the local government makes policies that impact the practice of multicultural co-existence. The author draws on extensive in depth interviews with government officials and his own 4-year tenure as the International Relations Coordinator in a local government in Tokyo. His findings demonstrate that in contemporary Japan, the integration of foreigners is being led by local governments. There are many factors contributing to immigration into Japan. With Japan facing a labor shortage this book examines policies t

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Local government -- Japan -- Tokyo. --- Multiculturalism -- Japan -- Tokyo. --- Tokyo (Japan) -- Economic policy. --- Tokyo (Japan) -- Emigration and immigration. --- Tokyo (Japan) -- Politics and government. --- Tokyo (Japan) -- Social policy. --- Local government --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Local administration --- Township government --- Subnational governments --- Administrative and political divisions --- Decentralization in government --- Public administration --- Government policy --- Tokyo (Japan) --- Politics and government. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Social policy. --- Economic policy. --- 東京 (Japan) --- Tokyo (Japan : Prefecture) --- Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Japan) --- Tonggyŏng (Japan) --- 동경 (Japan) --- Tokio (Japan) --- Токио (Japan) --- Tʻokʻyoo (Japan) --- Tung-ching tu (Japan) --- Dongjing du (Japan) --- Tung-ching tu tʻing (Japan) --- Dongjing du ting (Japan) --- Tōkyō-shi (Japan) --- Tung-ching (Japan) --- Dongjing (Japan) --- 东京 (Japan) --- Tokyo Metropolis (Japan) --- 東京都 (Japan) --- Tōkyō-to (Japan) --- طوكيو (Japan) --- Ṭūkiyū (Japan) --- Горад Токіа (Japan) --- Horad Tokia (Japan) --- Токіа (Japan) --- Tokia (Japan) --- Toukio (Japan) --- Edo (Japan) --- Shinagawa-ken (Japan) --- Tokyo (Japan : Fu)

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