State, cultivator, land: determination of land tenures in early modern Japan reconsidered

Article Abstract:

Japan's early ruler, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, has significantly influenced the country's land tenure practices through his extensive land surveys. The system promoted ties between peasants and a given piece of land, which consequently gave villagers sufficient control over the land tenure process. However, central political authorities, land surveys and reparitions provide significant evidences for the determination of Japan's modern land tenure systems.

Analysis, Laws, regulations and rules, Land reform, Land tenure

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The disintegrating machinery of the modern: Akutagawa Ryunosuke's late writings

Article Abstract:

Akutagawa Ryunosuke committed suicide in July 1927 following 'vague anxiety'. Parallels have been drawn between Akutagawa's death and the end of the Taisho period, of which Akutagawa ranked amongst its most exceptional intellectuals. However, it is argued that rather than marking the end of an era, Akutagawa's late writings were fundamental to the formation of the subsequent period of Showa literature.

Criticism and interpretation, Literary form, Literary forms, Authors, Japanese, Japanese writers, Akutagawa, Ryunosuke

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Who are the Cuyonon? Ethnic identity in the modern Philippines

Article Abstract:

Cuyonon, native to small and isolated Cuyo Island today find themselves in a world where migration and local mobility, out-group marriage and various state sponsored modernity projects have undermined the traditional geographical and social basis for links between people and place.

Science & research, Philippines, Research, Evaluation, Multiculturalism, Culture conflict, Cultural conflict

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