Hello all, I'm in desperate need of a little assistance.

I'm presently working on a rather large paper that will, ideally, be a critical review of Liza Dalby's ethnography, Geisha, published back in 1983. It's an extremely famous work, and Dalby is renowned as the "American geisha"... which is the point I wish to contest, as Dalby was never an ( Read more... )

I'm presently working on two projects involving Japan for upper-level undergrad social anthro courses and am floundering for a bit of assistance ( Read more... )

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(Kyodo) _ The first inhabitants of North and South America could have been fishermen from Japan who traveled there in small boats, according to research in the latest edition of New Scientist magazine ( Read more... )

US lawmakers have called on Japan's government to formally apologise for its role in forcing thousands of women to work as sex slaves in World War II.

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Japan says it has shown sufficient remorse over the issue, but survivors and relatives say it should go further.

This is an example of offending the Wa.

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