Citizens Of Tokyo

Author : Oriza Hirata
Publisher : In Performance
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Japan
ISBN : 085742551X

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Citizens of Tokyo by Oriza Hirata Pdf

Citizens of Tokyo is the first collection in English of plays by one of Japan's most important contemporary playwrights, Oriza Hirata, whose works have been performed all over the world. The first part of Citizens of Tokyo, "At Home and Abroad," presents two plays--Toyko Notes and Kings of the Road--that are exemplary of Hirata's unique neorealist dramaturgy, which created one of the most important trends in Japanese theater since the 1990s: Quiet Theatre. The second part of the book presents two short comedies that satirize the politics of decision-making in Japan and abroad: "Loyal Rōnin: The Working Girls' Version" and "The Yalta Conference." The final part, "Robots and Androids are People Too," presents two short plays created in collaboration with Ishiguro Hiroshi and the Osaka University Robot Theatre Project. The plays are accompanied by a context-setting introduction from editor and cotranslator M. Cody Poulton.

Author : André Sorensen,Carolin Funck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Citizens' associations
ISBN : 9780415547079

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Living Cities in Japan by André Sorensen,Carolin Funck Pdf

Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. This volume examines the growth and nature of civil society participation in local urban and environmental governance.

Author : Isabel Licha
Publisher : IDB
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781931003803

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Citizens in Charge by Isabel Licha Pdf

"Takes a close look at people's involvement in the new framework of state decentralization. By focusing on the potential as well as the limitations of citizens managing local budgets, the goal is to improve the process of democratization of the state and society. The contributors explore the achievements of the process of decentralization, which is the backdrop for the emerging process of citizen participation in public decisionmaking at the local government level. The volume approaches this issue from a general perspective and up close through case studies. The broad perspective generates a framework for analytical understanding of fiscal decentralization and participation. The case studies highlight local experiences in East Asia - Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines - and Latin America - Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Each case illustrates a particular leadership style and type of participation. Important similarities emerge in the areas of trust, political will, unity among actors, intergovernmental coordination, capacity of government and citizen organizations to generate participatory public policies, and redistribution of power and responsibility between the state and civil society."--Publisher's web site.

Author : Tokyo (Japan)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : City planning
ISBN : UCSD:31822005184338

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Tokyo by Tokyo (Japan) Pdf

Author : T. Alexander Aleinikoff,Douglas Klusmeyer
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780870033391

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From Migrants to Citizens by T. Alexander Aleinikoff,Douglas Klusmeyer Pdf

Citizenship policies are changing rapidly in the face of global migration trends and the inevitable ethnic and racial diversity that follows. The debates are fierce. What should the requirements of citizenship be? How can multi-ethnic states forge a collective identity around a common set of values, beliefs and practices? What are appropriate criteria for admission and rights and duties of citizens? This book includes nine case studies that investigate immigration and citizenship in Australia, the Baltic States, Canada, the European Union, Israel, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and the United States. This complete collection of essays scrutinizes the concrete rules and policies by which states administer citizenship, and highlights similarities and differences in their policies. From Migrants to Citizens, the only comprehensive guide to citizenship policies in these liberal-democratic and emerging states, will be an invaluable reference for scholars in law, political science, and citizenship theory. Policymakers and government officials involved in managing citizenship policy in the United States and abroad will find this an excellent, accessible overview of the critical dilemmas that multi-ethnic societies face as a result of migration and global interdependencies at the end of the twentieth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Japan
ISBN : OSU:32435064406671

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Japan Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1159019815

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The Changing Face of Tokyo by Anonim Pdf

Author : Akihiro Ogawa
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503635906

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Antinuclear Citizens by Akihiro Ogawa Pdf

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, tsunamis engulfed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located on Japan's Pacific Coast, leading to the worst nuclear disaster the world has seen since the Chernobyl crisis of 1986. Prior to this disaster, Japan had the third largest commercial nuclear program in the world, surpassed only by those in the United States and France—nuclear power significantly contributed to Japan's economic prosperity, and nearly 30% of Japan's electricity was generated by reactors dotted across the archipelago, from northern Hokkaido to southern Kyushu. This long period of institutional stasis was, however, punctuated by the crisis of March 11, which became a critical juncture for Japanese nuclear policymaking. As Akihiro Ogawa argues, the primary agent for this change is what he calls "antinuclear citizens"— a conscientious Japanese public who envision a sustainable life in a nuclear-free society. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research conducted across Japan—including antinuclear rallies, meetings with bureaucrats, and at renewable energy production sites—Ogawa presents an historical record of ordinary people's actions as they sought to survive and navigate a new reality post-Fukushima. Ultimately, Ogawa argues that effective sustainability efforts require collaborations that are grounded in civil society and challenge hegemonic ideology, efforts that reimagine societies and landscapes—especially those dominated by industrial capitalism—to help build a productive symbiosis between industry and sustainability.

Author : Simon Andrew Avenell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520262706

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Making Japanese Citizens by Simon Andrew Avenell Pdf

Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought in postwar Japan. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Andrew Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. This rich portrayal of activists and their ideas illuminates questions of democracy, citizenship, and political participation not only in contemporary Japan but also, more generally, in other industrialized nations. --

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Local government
ISBN : UCAL:B2863187

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Civic Affairs by Anonim Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264189843

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Cities for Citizens Improving Metropolitan Governance by OECD Pdf

Drawing on the lessons from successful and unsuccessful attempts at the reform of metropolitan governance, this book identifies ways by which central and metropolitan governments can work better to optimise the potential of each urban region.

Author : Sang-Jin Han
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004415492

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Confucianism and Reflexive Modernity by Sang-Jin Han Pdf

Confucianism and Reflexive Modernity criticizes the paradigm of Asian Value Debate and defends a balance between individual empowerment and flourishing community for human rights in the context of global risk society from an enlightened post-Confucianism perspective.

Author : Ian Brittain,Aaron Beacom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781137479013

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The Palgrave Handbook of Paralympic Studies by Ian Brittain,Aaron Beacom Pdf

This handbook provides a critical assessment of contemporary issues that define the contours of the Paralympic Movement generally and the Paralympic Games more specifically. It addresses conceptualisations of disability sport, explores the structure of the Paralympic Movement and considers key political strategic and governance issues which have shaped its development. The Palgrave Handbook of Paralympic Studies is written by a range of international authors, a number of whom are senior strategists as well as academics, and explores legacy themes through case studies of recent Paralympic games. Written in the wake of the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, it provides an assessment of contemporary challenges faced by the International Paralympic Committee and other key stakeholders in the Paralympic Movement. Its critical assessment of approaches to branding, classification, social inclusion and technological advances makes this handbook a valuable resource for undergraduate study across a range of sport and disability related programmes, as well as a point of reference for researchers and policy makers.

Author : W.A. Robson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135672409

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Great Cities of the World by W.A. Robson Pdf

The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed countries, in capitalist and communist states, the great metropolis represents a problem of the first importance which challenges the statesman, the official, the town planner, the political scientist, the sociologist and, above all, the intelligent citizen. The editor has here assembled an authoritative series of studies describing the growth, significance, government, politics adn planning of twenty-four great cities of the world. They show how these widely scattered cities faced essentially similar problems. Each study deals with the actual working of one city in the 1950s, how its elective adn executive bodies are organized, the kind of political forces which motivate their activities, the scope and character of the municipal services, how they are finiance. The cities dealt with include Bombay, Amsterdam, Moscow, Montreal, Stockholm, Rome, New York, London, Sydney and Tokyo. This book was first published in 1954.

Author : Sally A. Hastings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Community development, Urban
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039164152

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The Government, the Citizen, and the Creation of a New Sense of Community by Sally A. Hastings Pdf