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Samurai, Darwin, the Poet Laureate and some very Curious Cures

13 Jan 2022

A year of wonder in store at Cambridge 探花直播 Library during 2022.

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What next for Japan's women?

30 Jun 2020

Japan's women are experimenting with new femininities in challenging times, a new book reveals

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How Japan鈥檚 鈥榮alaryman鈥 is becoming cool

02 Feb 2018

Japanese men are becoming cool . 探花直播suit-and-tie salaryman remodels himself with beauty treatments and 'cool biz' fashion. Loyal company soldiers...

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Earliest-known children鈥檚 adaptation of Japanese literary classic discovered in British Library

14 Jun 2017

A chance discovery in the British Library has led to the discovery and reproduction of the earliest-known children鈥檚 adaptation of one of Japan鈥檚...

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Sumo Wrestlers Wrestling on the Ring 1

Opinion: As ARM enjoys a Japanese embrace, the lessons it can teach UK tech firms

19 Jul 2016

Peter Williamson (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the sale of Cambridge-based technology firm ARM Holdings to Japan's Softbank for 拢24...

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 探花直播Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 T艒hoku earthquake and tsunami

Opinion: Five years after Fukushima, there are big lessons for nuclear disaster liability

11 Mar 2016

Makoto Takahashi (Department of Geography) discusses the impact of the Fukushima disaster and Japan's nuclear-liability laws.

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A Sellotaped page from the speech that never was. Homepage image: Miner's strike, 1984 by Nick Sarebi (CC: Att)

探花直播speech that never was 鈥 Thatcher papers for 1984 open to the public

03 Oct 2014

Papers opened to the public today reveal how the Brighton bombing stopped Margaret Thatcher from widening her infamous 鈥榚nemy within鈥 rhetoric to...

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Chinese migrant workers in Japan: behind the headlines

26 Aug 2014

Chinese migrant workers in Japan are more than passive victims of difficult work conditions and are able to use their own networks and provide mutual...

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鈥楬erbivore boys鈥 and other fault lines in Japan鈥檚 gender crisis

21 Feb 2013

A new book of student research into key areas of gender in modern Japan highlights emerging trends of redefinition between sexes, and the impact on...

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Cartoon produced as state propaganda in China during the 1950s

Out of the ashes of Empire

12 Feb 2013

探花直播new identities and ideologies that emerged in East Asia after the fall of Japan鈥檚 Empire have rarely been studied. Now, as the region again...

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General Chen Yi of China accepts the surrender of And艒 Rikichi, the Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan.  探花直播collapse of Japanese Imperial rule in the area marked the beginning of a new era for both countries.

Identity, trial and retribution: East Asia after World War II

05 Nov 2012

A five-year research project will examine East Asia鈥檚 emergence and struggle for self-definition after the fall of the Japanese Empire.

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Japan of the apocalypse

Facing up to Fukushima

20 May 2011

In the wake of the disaster at the Fukushima reactor, Japan and other nations are re-evaluating their attitude to nuclear energy. Cambridge academic...

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