Art Toys in the contemporary art scene by Laura Sernissi

“…Art toys are the heirs of an already pop-surrealist and neo-pop circuit, which since the eighties of the twentieth century has pervaded the Japanese-American art scene, winking to the playful spirit of the avant-garde of the early century. …”
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Performance in the wartime archive : Michio Ito at the Alien Enemy Hearing Board by Riordan, Kevin

“…The day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the recently formed Federal Bureau of Investigation ordered the incarceration of 770 Japanese and Japanese American “alien enemies.”1 These arrests came two months before Executive Order 9066, which infamously called for the mass incarceration of 110,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast of the United States.2 Among these initial 770 alien enemies was the modernist dancer and choreographer Michio Ito. …”
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“Educational Facials”: A Healing Tool for the Beautiful Struggle by Kari Kokka, Michelle Cody

“…In this paper, two mathematics educators, a Japanese American woman and a Black woman, elaborate a theory of <i>educational facials</i>, first coined by the second author in 2015. …”
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A Japanese Santa Claus: A Nikkei Subject and Lévi-Strauss’s Gift Theory in <i>Through the Arc of the Rain Forest</i> by Rie Makino

“…Japanese American writer Karen Tei Yamashita’s first novel, <i>Through the Arc of the Rainforest</i> (1990), portrays protagonist Kazumasa Ishimaru as “a Japanese Santa Claus”, depicted as having a plastic ball spinning in front of his face. …”
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Essays on the economic effects of human capital investments by Chin, Aimee Yee Ying

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The Sensing Salon by Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva (The Sensing Salon)

“…*The Echo Deck was inspired by the poems of African American-Japanese American poet Ai Ogawa. A provisional version of deck, with all the cards still blank, was first used in readings during our residency at Amant in New York, in 2022.…”
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Postmodern Angst and Zen Buddhism in Ruth Ozeki‘s A Tale for the Time Being by Mojca Krevel

“…Through the analysis of the status of reality and subject in A Tale for the Time Being, a 2013 novel by Japanese-American author Ruth Ozeki, I first identify the violent and traumatic aspects of contemporary conditions as experienced by the protagonists in the novel. …”
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Fake and Reality of Our World by Sergey N. Il’chenko

“…In the new work, the Japanese-American continues a deep and comprehensive analysis of the modern American financial and monetary system. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Japanese and Western Corporate Venture Capital by Okamoto, Tomohisa

“…I research pioneers in both Japanese and American CVC in high tech field, then we analyze a comparison of Japanese, American and European CVCs in heavy industry. …”
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Challenging Islamophobia through Intermediality: Anida Yoeu Ali’s Performance Art by Martina Pfeiler

“…The first work is titled 1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim (2010), a performance poetry clip that was directed by the Japanese American filmmaker Masahiro Sugano in 2010 and which widely circulates on the Internet. …”
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Nerovnosti jsou ostřejší než kdykoli předtím. Rozhovor Evelyn Nakano Glenn se Zuzanou Uhde by Zuzana Uhde

“…Publikovala několik knih, Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor (2002) a Issei, Nisei, Warbride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service (1986). Jako editorka se spolupodílela na knize Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency (1994) a editorsky připravila rovněž Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters (2009).…”
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Extensive reading: The vocabulary levels of English-subtitled Korean, Japanese and Chinese drama series by Wenhua Hsu

“…The researcher compiled four corpora with each having approximately 2.5 million English-subtitled words from Korean, Japanese, American and Chinese TV series across a couple of genres with high viewership ratings on OTT services for comparison. …”
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Deconstructing Desire: Criticism of Western Romantic Narratives in Mitski's "Your Best American Girl" Music Video by Nicole Bussey

“… Mitski Miyawaki, a Japanese American indie-rock artist professionally known as Mitski, wrote her 2016 song, “Your Best American Girl,” from the perspective of a woman who is unable to have a relationship with her love interest due to their different racial and cultural backgrounds. …”
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A Study On The Factors Influencing The Success Of Statistical Process Control (SPC) Projects In Electrical And Electronics Firms by Siea Dass, Phynthamilkumaran

“…Questionnaire was distributed to the respondents by the Human Resource department and Quality Assurance department in each selected Japanese, American, European and Malaysian ownership of companies. …”
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Relation of Serum Leptin and Adiponectin Level to Serum C-Reactive Protein: The INTERLIPID Study by Yasuyuki Nakamura, Hirotsugu Ueshima, Nagako Okuda, Katsuyuki Miura, Yoshikuni Kita, Tomonori Okamura, Akira Okayama, Sohel R. Choudhury, Beatriz Rodriguez, Kamal H. Masaki, Jeremiah Stamler

“…Serum leptin, adiponectin, and CRP were measured by standardized methods in men and women of ages 40 to 59 years from two population samples, one Japanese-American in Hawaii (83 men, 89 women) and the other Japanese in central Japan (111 men, 104 women). …”
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Association Between Occupational Exposure to Pesticides and Cardiovascular Disease Incidence: The Kuakini Honolulu Heart Program by Zara K. Berg, Beatriz Rodriguez, James Davis, Alan R. Katz, Robert V. Cooney, Kamal Masaki

“…Methods and Results With the Occupational Safety Health Administration exposure scale used as an estimate of exposure, statistical analyses were performed on a cohort of 7557 Japanese‐American men from the Kuakini Honolulu Heart Program. …”
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Early-life family structure and microbially induced cancer risk. by Martin J Blaser, Abraham Nomura, James Lee, Grant N Stemmerman, Guillermo I Perez-Perez

“…In this study, we considered whether early-life family structure affects the risk of later developing gastric cancer among H. pylori+ men.We examined a long-term cohort of Japanese-American men followed for 28 y, and performed a nested case-control study among those carrying H. pylori or the subset carrying the most virulent cagA+ H. pylori strains to address whether family structure predicted cancer development. …”
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The association between sex hormone-binding globulin and type 2 diabetes in Nigerian men by Fayefori M. Abbiyesuku, Augustine N. Agbakwuru, Olatunbosun O. Olawale

“…However, a prospective study on Japanese-American subjects concluded that SHBG was not a significant risk factor in either men or women, suggesting ethnic differences. …”
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Pharmacokinetics of Beclomethasone Dipropionate in an Hydrofluoroalkane-134a Propellant System in Japanese Children with Bronchial Asthma by Takahide Teramoto, Toshiyuki Fukao, Yoshiko Tomita, Yoshiaki Terauchi, Kaori Hosoi, Eiko Matsui, Minako Aoki, Naomi Kondo, Haruki Mikawa

“…These parameters were compared with the previously reported parameters of American children with bronchial asthma. The Japanese/American ratio of the geometric means of each parameter was 1.36 for AUC0-t, 1.04 for Cmax and 1.4 for t1/2. …”
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Russian-Japanese relations and the Chinese factor: Evolution and transformation (2012–2022) by S. G. Luzyanin

“…The author focuses on the coverage of Russian-Japanese contacts in the areas of regional security before and after February 24, 2022, including the South Kuril options, as well as the analysis of hidden possible Japanese political motivations during the rule of Shinzō Abe regarding the problems of the deepening of the Russian-Chinese strategic partnership and the projections of this partnership on the security of Japan and the Japanese-American military-political alliance. An important aspect of the work is the coverage of the dynamics of the Russian-Japanese political relations in the light of the Russian leadership designating Japan as an “unfriendly state” and the further development of bilateral Russian-Japanese and Russian-Chinese models of interaction in the Asia-Pacific region.…”
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