Violence and democracy may seem fundamentally incompatible, but the two have often been intimately and inextricably linked. In Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists, Eiko Maruko Siniawer argues that violence has been embedded in the practice of modern Japanese politics from the very in…
In Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste--in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources--from the immediate aftermath of World War II to the present. She shows how questions about waste were de…
'Waste' explores the many ways in which waste - be it of time, stuff, money, possessions, & resources - was thought about in Japan from the immediate aftermath of devastating war to the early 21st century. It shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions …