contemporary japan history, politics, and social change since the 1980s

... raising its demands. The Soviets occupied these islands in the waning days of the war and have kept them ever since. For the US, such a deal was undesirable because it would have improved the Soviet ... for Japanese goods in these coun-tries. By the mid - 1950s there were signs of a deal with the Soviet Union on the disputed northern islands off the coast of Hokkaido, but Tokyo killed the ... Given the extent of excesses and atrocities committed by Japan, the US, and its allies, the mutual accommodations and relative benefi cence of the Occupation are striking. The arrival of the Americans...

... process. The distinctivefeature of this development, and the reason why class becomes a central and Class and Social Change 59compelling issue in British culture in the late 1950s and the 1960s, ... education. Margaret Thorpe and her brotherMichael provide anguish for their parents, the father a miner and the motheran obsessively house-proud housewife, by virtue of their new (but unfashi-oned) ... father and her brother, and eventually Howarth is persuaded to call off the affair, and return to his family.It is the brooding and inconstant nature of Howarth (in particular) thatenriches the...

... rights contravention, the greater the impact and the broader the extent will be of the action required of the state. Of course, the role of the SAHRC in the interests of the disabled community ... Equality (in the case of the Office on the Status of Women), and the Integrated National Disability Strategy (in the case of the OSDP). There is currently no policy framework for the ORC. The offices ... developed in which the functions and issues of the Office of the Status of Women (OSW), the Office on the Rights of the Child (ORC) and the OSDP are operationalised in a co-ordinated and integrated...

... discrimination – the stairs, the printed word, the 1 Free download from www.hsrcpress.ac.za DISABILITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A SOUTH AFRICAN AGENDA2buses and trains, the inaccessible toilets, and the ... different. On the other hand, there is the issue of whether the health condition needs intervention from the health service or not. This is not an element of deciding whether the person experiences ... products and technology, the natural environment and human-made changes, support provided by others, attitudes of individuals and society, and services, systems and policies (WHO, 2001). Each of these...

... ascendance of Germany and Japan and, on the other, by the quagmire in Vietnam and the rise of oppositional movements.Second, while the devaluation of the dollar created the conditions for the OPEC oil ... counter-revolution and vastly changed roles of the World Bank and the IMF in Latin America, Africa and parts of Asia.From Bretton Woods to the Dollar–Wall Street Regime The passage from the collapse of the ... grouptogether. However, with the demise of apartheid, beginning around 1990, the ‘bottomfell out of their market’. As the ‘new government moved to the right’, so the researchwork and theoretical disposition...

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... established the kingdom of Kent in the south-eastern extremity of the island; the South and the West Saxons were established on the southern coast and inland to the valley of the Thames; the East ... of all the land of the vill. Much of the meadow and pasture land, and frequently all of the woods, was included in the demesne. Some of the demesne land was detached from the land of the villagers, ... country.*5. Danish and Late Saxon England.* At the end of the eighth century the Danes or Northmen, the barbarous and heathen inhabitants of the islands and coast-lands of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden,...

... their duty to lay the result of their enquiries with candour and impartiality before your Majesty, and even the Public, when theirviews are laudable to your Royal interest, and the Good of their ... defence, and for much of the eighteenth century the roleof the jury was only to determine the fact of publication and the identity of the subject.It was the judge who decided whether the act ... deliberately subverting the moral and social order in France and threatening to do the same inBritain. The end of hostilities with the French in  did little to allaysuch fears, and the early nineteenth...

... importantly, the review provided documentary linkages between those policies and institutions to the shrimp farming expansion and their impacts on the environment and local livelihood in the study ... worked in the area. The research team consisted of a staff from RIA No 1, DOFI and CSSH and officers of People's Committee of the District (PCD) and People's Committee of the Commune ... old and young, men and women, rich and poor in a flexible ways and an open atmosphere. 2.3.3. Standard survey The pre-prepared questionnaires were used to acquire quantitative data and...