K Nakamura
Biographic Data
| ID | 31065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Nakamura |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakamura |
| SIGNATURE | NAKAMURA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4335-2818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Preauricular grooves on Japanese female skeletal remains in Edo as a bioarchaeological indicator in population studies
Explaining complementarity in false memory
Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy
Journal Article Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy: Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge Get access Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy: Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge, edited by Brigitte Steger and Angelika Koch. Zurich: LIT Verlag, 2013, 240 pp., €29.90 (ISBN 978-3-643-90319-8) Karen NAKAMURA Karen NAKAMURA Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, S…
Paul A. Christensen, Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity
Most foreign visitors to Japan have noted the widespread societal tolerance of public drunkenness as they gingerly step over inebriated salarymen and pools of vomit as they try to catch the last tr
Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition
This is the first collection of Buddhist legends in Japan, and these stories form the repertoire of miraculous events and moral examples that later Buddhist priests used for preaching to the people. As Kyokai describes his own intentions, By editing these stories of miraculous events I want to pull the people forward by the ears, offer my hand to lead them to good, and show them how to cleanse their feet of evil (p.222).Nakamura's book is actuall…
Making Sense of Sensory Ethnography
Sensory ethnography is an emerging trend within visual anthropology, with practitioners focusing on at least two different aspects: the aesthetic-sensual and the multisensory-experiential. The former has found expression in some of the observational films of Robert Gardner and his intellectual progeny at the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab. The latter can be seen in the work of Sarah Pink, Paul Stoller, and David MacDougall
Afflictions
La recepción de Bourdieu en Argentina
Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is an unusual heart failure of unknown etiology that occurs during pregnancy or postpartum. Mirror syndrome is a characteristic of maternal edema subsequent to fetal and/or placental edema. We report a case of PPCM with a transient increase of interleukin-6 concentration occurring in the postpartum period of mirror syndrome
Disability, Destitution, and Disaster
On the morning of January 17, 1995, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the port city of Kobe, Japan. 6,400 people died and over $80 billion in property damage occurred. Among those rendered homeless was a small group of people with severe disabilities. Over the next decade, this group leveraged discourses surrounding civil society, disability, poverty, and the role of government in natural disasters, to become one of the most powerful and vocal pr…
Electron Probe Microanalysis of the Paste From Ceramics of the Far East
Results of electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) of ceramics from various sites in the Russian Far East, Sakhalin, and Japan are discussed. The proportions of the principal chemical elements (Ca–K–SiO2, K–Ca–Na, Mg–Fe–Ti) in the clay paste are shown by means of 3-D plots. New techniques for the computer-aided evaluation of sand grains and for processing images are proposed. Advantages and drawbacks of EPMA are assessed, and methodological guideline…
The Too-Good Wife
A Case against Giving Informants Cameras and Coming Back Weeks Later
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian
Reviewed by: Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life Karen Nakamura (bio) Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2005. viii, 357 pages. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper. Certain socially transformative technologies have been adopted so rapidly and universally that they have become ubiquitous and invisible. Precision port…
Two New Ogawa Shinsuke Films
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Takarazuka
Resistance and Co-optation
The main organization of the deaf in Japan has not only been able to work within a civil law environment designed largely to promote the interests of the state and quell social protest, but has been able to succeed in manipulating the system to its own benefit. It has shown remarkable organizational flexibility by subdividing in an amoeba‐like fashion to avoid political control. This paper engages questions of power and resistance in the civil so…
Urban residential environments and senior citizens’ longevity in megacity areas
Study objectives: To study the association between greenery filled public areas that are nearby a residence and easy to walk in and the longevity of senior citizens in a densely populated, developed megacity. Design: Cohort study. Methods: The authors analysed the five year survival of 3144 people born in 1903, 1908, 1913, or 1918 who consented to a follow up survey from the records of registered Tokyo citizens in relation to baseline residential…
Morals, Sexuality and Fieldwork
The new BDP-98 600-m drill core from Lake Baikal
The national financial adjustment policy and the equalisation of health levels among prefectures
STUDY OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to examine (1) trends concerning financial assistance from the national government to local governments, (2) trends regarding death rates and life expectancies among prefectures, and (3) the effect of the national financial adjustment policy in equalising both the revenues of local governments and variations in the health levels among prefectures in terms of death rates and life expectancies. DE…
Long working hours and risk for hypertension in Japanese male white collar workers
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association of long working hours with the risk for hypertension. DESIGN: A five year prospective cohort study. SETTING: Work site in Osaka, Japan. PARTICIPANTS: 941 hypertension free Japanese male white collar workers aged 35-54 years were prospectively examined by serial annual health examinations. Men in whom borderline hypertension and hypertension were found during repeated surveys were defined as incidental …
An analysis of health levels and various indicators of urban environments for Healthy Cities projects
STUDY OBJECTIVES: (1) To identify and to categorise the various city indicators that are related to health levels; (2) to demonstrate the extent of the influence on health of these categorised health determinants; and (3) to demonstrate both the interactive associations among the health determinants and the magnitude of influence of each health determinant on the people's health. DESIGN: By using city statistics of study areas, the health index a…
A new smoking cessation programme using the internet
Editor,—Starting in 1997, we introduced a new programme of smoking cessation, the “Quit-smoking marathon”, open to smokers wishing to quit and who have access to the internet. The programme consists of three components
Role of prefrontal cortex and lateral hypothalamus in feeding behavior
Urban residential environments and senior citizens’ longevity in megacity areas
Study objectives: To study the association between greenery filled public areas that are nearby a residence and easy to walk in and the longevity of senior citizens in a densely populated, developed megacity. Design: Cohort study. Methods: The authors analysed the five year survival of 3144 people born in 1903, 1908, 1913, or 1918 who consented to a follow up survey from the records of registered Tokyo citizens in relation to baseline residential…
Making Sense of Sensory Ethnography
Sensory ethnography is an emerging trend within visual anthropology, with practitioners focusing on at least two different aspects: the aesthetic-sensual and the multisensory-experiential. The former has found expression in some of the observational films of Robert Gardner and his intellectual progeny at the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab. The latter can be seen in the work of Sarah Pink, Paul Stoller, and David MacDougall
An analysis of health levels and various indicators of urban environments for Healthy Cities projects
STUDY OBJECTIVES: (1) To identify and to categorise the various city indicators that are related to health levels; (2) to demonstrate the extent of the influence on health of these categorised health determinants; and (3) to demonstrate both the interactive associations among the health determinants and the magnitude of influence of each health determinant on the people's health. DESIGN: By using city statistics of study areas, the health index a…
A Case against Giving Informants Cameras and Coming Back Weeks Later
Long working hours and risk for hypertension in Japanese male white collar workers
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association of long working hours with the risk for hypertension. DESIGN: A five year prospective cohort study. SETTING: Work site in Osaka, Japan. PARTICIPANTS: 941 hypertension free Japanese male white collar workers aged 35-54 years were prospectively examined by serial annual health examinations. Men in whom borderline hypertension and hypertension were found during repeated surveys were defined as incidental …
Electron Probe Microanalysis of the Paste From Ceramics of the Far East
Results of electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) of ceramics from various sites in the Russian Far East, Sakhalin, and Japan are discussed. The proportions of the principal chemical elements (Ca–K–SiO2, K–Ca–Na, Mg–Fe–Ti) in the clay paste are shown by means of 3-D plots. New techniques for the computer-aided evaluation of sand grains and for processing images are proposed. Advantages and drawbacks of EPMA are assessed, and methodological guideline…
The national financial adjustment policy and the equalisation of health levels among prefectures
STUDY OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to examine (1) trends concerning financial assistance from the national government to local governments, (2) trends regarding death rates and life expectancies among prefectures, and (3) the effect of the national financial adjustment policy in equalising both the revenues of local governments and variations in the health levels among prefectures in terms of death rates and life expectancies. DE…
Role of prefrontal cortex and lateral hypothalamus in feeding behavior
Involvement of dopaminergic and cholinergic systems in appetitive and aversive conditioning in the rat lateral hypothalamus
A new smoking cessation programme using the internet
Editor,—Starting in 1997, we introduced a new programme of smoking cessation, the “Quit-smoking marathon”, open to smokers wishing to quit and who have access to the internet. The programme consists of three components
The new BDP-98 600-m drill core from Lake Baikal
The national financial adjustment policy and the equalisation of health levels among prefectures
STUDY OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to examine (1) trends concerning financial assistance from the national government to local governments, (2) trends regarding death rates and life expectancies among prefectures, and (3) the effect of the national financial adjustment policy in equalising both the revenues of local governments and variations in the health levels among prefectures in terms of death rates and life expectancies. DE…
Long working hours and risk for hypertension in Japanese male white collar workers
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association of long working hours with the risk for hypertension. DESIGN: A five year prospective cohort study. SETTING: Work site in Osaka, Japan. PARTICIPANTS: 941 hypertension free Japanese male white collar workers aged 35-54 years were prospectively examined by serial annual health examinations. Men in whom borderline hypertension and hypertension were found during repeated surveys were defined as incidental …
An analysis of health levels and various indicators of urban environments for Healthy Cities projects
STUDY OBJECTIVES: (1) To identify and to categorise the various city indicators that are related to health levels; (2) to demonstrate the extent of the influence on health of these categorised health determinants; and (3) to demonstrate both the interactive associations among the health determinants and the magnitude of influence of each health determinant on the people's health. DESIGN: By using city statistics of study areas, the health index a…
Resistance and Co-optation
The main organization of the deaf in Japan has not only been able to work within a civil law environment designed largely to promote the interests of the state and quell social protest, but has been able to succeed in manipulating the system to its own benefit. It has shown remarkable organizational flexibility by subdividing in an amoeba‐like fashion to avoid political control. This paper engages questions of power and resistance in the civil so…
Urban residential environments and senior citizens’ longevity in megacity areas
Study objectives: To study the association between greenery filled public areas that are nearby a residence and easy to walk in and the longevity of senior citizens in a densely populated, developed megacity. Design: Cohort study. Methods: The authors analysed the five year survival of 3144 people born in 1903, 1908, 1913, or 1918 who consented to a follow up survey from the records of registered Tokyo citizens in relation to baseline residential…
Morals, Sexuality and Fieldwork
Takarazuka
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian
Reviewed by: Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life Karen Nakamura (bio) Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2005. viii, 357 pages. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper. Certain socially transformative technologies have been adopted so rapidly and universally that they have become ubiquitous and invisible. Precision port…
Two New Ogawa Shinsuke Films
A Case against Giving Informants Cameras and Coming Back Weeks Later
Disability, Destitution, and Disaster
On the morning of January 17, 1995, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the port city of Kobe, Japan. 6,400 people died and over $80 billion in property damage occurred. Among those rendered homeless was a small group of people with severe disabilities. Over the next decade, this group leveraged discourses surrounding civil society, disability, poverty, and the role of government in natural disasters, to become one of the most powerful and vocal pr…
Electron Probe Microanalysis of the Paste From Ceramics of the Far East
Results of electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) of ceramics from various sites in the Russian Far East, Sakhalin, and Japan are discussed. The proportions of the principal chemical elements (Ca–K–SiO2, K–Ca–Na, Mg–Fe–Ti) in the clay paste are shown by means of 3-D plots. New techniques for the computer-aided evaluation of sand grains and for processing images are proposed. Advantages and drawbacks of EPMA are assessed, and methodological guideline…
The Too-Good Wife
La recepción de Bourdieu en Argentina
Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is an unusual heart failure of unknown etiology that occurs during pregnancy or postpartum. Mirror syndrome is a characteristic of maternal edema subsequent to fetal and/or placental edema. We report a case of PPCM with a transient increase of interleukin-6 concentration occurring in the postpartum period of mirror syndrome
Afflictions
Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition
This is the first collection of Buddhist legends in Japan, and these stories form the repertoire of miraculous events and moral examples that later Buddhist priests used for preaching to the people. As Kyokai describes his own intentions, By editing these stories of miraculous events I want to pull the people forward by the ears, offer my hand to lead them to good, and show them how to cleanse their feet of evil (p.222).Nakamura's book is actuall…
Making Sense of Sensory Ethnography
Sensory ethnography is an emerging trend within visual anthropology, with practitioners focusing on at least two different aspects: the aesthetic-sensual and the multisensory-experiential. The former has found expression in some of the observational films of Robert Gardner and his intellectual progeny at the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab. The latter can be seen in the work of Sarah Pink, Paul Stoller, and David MacDougall
Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy
Journal Article Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy: Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge Get access Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy: Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge, edited by Brigitte Steger and Angelika Koch. Zurich: LIT Verlag, 2013, 240 pp., €29.90 (ISBN 978-3-643-90319-8) Karen NAKAMURA Karen NAKAMURA Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, S…
Paul A. Christensen, Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity
Most foreign visitors to Japan have noted the widespread societal tolerance of public drunkenness as they gingerly step over inebriated salarymen and pools of vomit as they try to catch the last tr
Explaining complementarity in false memory
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