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Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Japan

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• Urban ecology (Sociology)
• Sociology, Urban -- Japan
• Cities and towns -- Japan
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• Down with the Cities!, by Nakashima Tadashi (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), ed. by Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City (c2006), ed. by Rutherford H. Platt (PDF files at umass.edu)

• Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2018), by Anne Rademacher (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Crisis in the Built Environment: The Case of the Muslim City (1988), by Jamel A. Akbar (PDF at archnet.org)

• Rethinking Density: Art, Culture, and Urban Practices (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v20; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2017), ed. by Anamarija Batista, Szilvia Kovács, and Carina Lesky (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Reed Town, Japan: A Study in Community Power Structure and Political Change (originally published 1974; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), by Yasumasa Kuroda (PDF and Epub with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan (Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies #11; 1984), by Robert C. Marshall (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Japan: A Country Study (fifth edition, 1992), ed. by Ronald E. Dolan and Robert L. Worden (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• Report from Tokyo: A Message to the American People by Joseph C. Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan, 1932 to 1941 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942), by Joseph C. Grew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through the Torii (Boston: Four Seas Co., 1922), by Yoné Noguchi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Exotics and Retrospectives (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With Japan, for the Use of Travellers and Others (fifth edition revised; London: John Murray, 1905), by Basil Hall Chamberlain (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Geschichte des Christentums in Japan (2 volumes in 1, in German; 1902-1904), by Hans Haas
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (based on the 1896 edition; this edition Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2022), by Lafcadio Hearn (PDF at unl.edu)
• Evolution of the Japanese, Social and Psychic, by Sidney Lewis Gulick (Gutenberg text)
• Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (New York: Macmillan, ca. 1904), by Lafcadio Hearn
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Invention of a New Religion, by Basil Hall Chamberlain
  • HTML at hoary.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Japan, Foe of Freedom: Some Important Economic, Historical and Political Facts About the Ruthless Enemy We Are Fighting in the Pacific (New York: Book-of-the-hour Company, 1942), by Stanley Nehmer, illust. by J. Camarero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kokoro, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
• Kokoro (German translation and notes; Frankfurt am Main: Rütten und Loening, 1905), by Lafcadio Hearn, trans. by Berta Franzos, contrib. by Hugo von Hoffmansthal (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kokoro (German translation and notes; Frankfurt am Main: Rütten und Loening, 1907), by Lafcadio Hearn, trans. by Berta Franzos, contrib. by Hugo von Hoffmansthal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Appeal of Japanese Fishing People to the World Concerning the Question of Rhee Line (Tokyo: Japan-Korea Fishery Deliberation Headquarters, 1953) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Newfoundland to Cochin, China, By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), by Lady Shikibu Murasaki, Izumi Shikibu, and Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, trans. by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi, contrib. by Amy Lowell
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• New York to Peking (San Francisco: Privately printed, 1921), by Blanche Sellers Ortman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• As the Hague Ordains: Journal of a Russian Prisoner's Wife in Japan (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1907), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An English Girl in Japan (second edition; London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co., 1906), by Ella M. Hart Bennett (page images at Google; US access only)
• Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East (1897), by Lafcadio Hearn
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Glimpses of Old Japan, 1861-1866 (Tokyo: Methodist publishing house, 1908), by Margaret Tate Kinnear Ballagh
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, by Lafcadio Hearn
  • first series: Gutenberg text
  • second series: Gutenberg text
• Japan, by John Finnemore, illust. by Ella Du Cane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jinrikisha Days in Japan (revised edition; New York: Harper and Bros., 1902), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Journal From Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist (London: Blackie and Son, 1910), by Marie Carmichael Stopes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, by Isabella L. Bird (Gutenberg text)
• A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan (London: Sisley's, n.d.), by Gertrude Adams Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Roving East and Roving West, by E. V. Lucas (Gutenberg text)
• Letters From China and Japan (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1920), by John Dewey and Alice Chipman Dewey, ed. by Evelyn Dewey (Gutenberg text)
• Descripción de los Reinos, Costas, Puertos e Islas que hay Desde el Cabo de Buena Esperanza Hasta los Leyquios; Libro que Trata del Descubrimiento y Principio del Estrecho que se Llama de Magallanes; y Descrición de Parte del Japón (in Spanish; first part variously attributed to Barbosa or Magalhaes (Magellan); Madrid: Estab. Tip. de Torrent y Compañía, 1920), ed. by Antonio Blázquez y Delgado Aguilera, contrib. by Duarte Barbosa, Fernão de Magalhães, and Ginés de Mafra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Newfoundland to Cochin, China, By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ranald MacDonald: The Narrative of His Early Life on the Columbia.Under the Hudson's Bay Company's Regime, by Ranald MacDonald (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)

• Japan's Future in East Asia and the Pacific (2007), ed. by Mari Pangestu and Ligang Song (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• A History of Wealth and Poverty: Why a Few Nations are Rich and Many Poor (electronic edition; originally published 1994), by John P. Powelson (HTML at quaker.org)
• Japan from a Japanese Perspective: Some Pointers for Textbook Writers and Publishers, by International Society for Educational Information (HTML at archive.org)

• Diaspora Without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan (c2009), ed. by Sonia Ryang and John Lie (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
• Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity (c2008), by John Lie (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)

• Botchan (Master Darling) (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2022), by Natsume Sōseki, trans. by Yasotaro Mori, contrib. by J. R. Kennedy (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• Kimono (1922), by John Paris (Gutenberg text)
• Daughters of Nijo: A Romance of Japan (New York and London: Macmillan, 1904), by Onoto Watanna, illust. by Kiyokichi Sano (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Heart of Hyacinth (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1903), by Onoto Watanna, illust. by Kiyokichi Sano (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Japanese Blossom (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Onoto Watanna, illust. by L. W. Ziegler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Japanese Nightingale (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1903), by Onoto Watanna, illust. by Genjiro Yeto (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kokoro, by Sōseki Natsume, trans. by Edwin McClellan (illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org)
• Miss Numè of Japan: A Japanese-American Romance (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally and Co., c1899), by Onoto Watanna (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stopover: Tokyo (c1957), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Botchan (Master Darling), by Natsume Sōseki, trans. by Yasotaro Mori, contrib. by J. R. Kennedy (Gutenberg text)
• You Only Live Twice (c1964), by Ian Fleming (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Last Laugh, Mr. Moto (c1941), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Mr. Moto is So Sorry (c1938), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Think Fast, Mr. Moto (c1937), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Thank You, Mr. Moto (c1936), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• No Hero (c1935), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

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