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Design and Society in Modern Japan

  1. Design and Society in Modern Japan: An Introduction (with a Bibliography by Tsuji Yasutaka and Kikkawa Hideaki)
  2. Ignacio Adriasola, Sarah Teasley, Jilly Traganou
  3. pp. 1-50
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0021
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Economic and Ideological Arguments for Design’s Social Role in Prewar Japan

  1. Japan's Industrial Arts: Present and Future (1917)
  2. Yasuda Rokuzō, Penny Bailey
  3. pp. 51-54
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0022
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  1. Industrial Arts and the Development of Japan's Industry (1932)
  2. Kunii Kitarō, Penny Bailey
  3. pp. 55-61
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0023
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  1. What Is Modernology (1927)
  2. Kon Wajirō, Ignacio Adriasola
  3. pp. 62-73
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0024
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  1. Conclusion to Introduction to Commercial Art (1930)
  2. Hamada Masuji, Magdalena Kolodziej
  3. pp. 74-79
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0025
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  1. "Believe in socialism …": Architect Bedřich Feuerstein and His Perspective on Modern Japan and Architecture
  2. Helena Čapková
  3. pp. 80-98
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0026
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Postwar Recovery, Affluence, and Its Critique

  1. Rethinking the Social Role of Architecture in the Ideas and Work of the Japanese Architectural Group NAU
  2. Kuroishi Izumi
  3. pp. 99-117
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0027
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  1. A Testimony from the Postwar Period (2008)
  2. Nakai Kōichi, Kim Mc Nelly
  3. pp. 118-127
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0028
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  1. Roundtable: Young Women Designers Speak (1956)
  2. Kon Wajirō, Haley Blum
  3. pp. 128-143
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0029
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  1. "Good Design" and "Good Quality" for the Consumer (1965)
  2. Toyoguchi Katsuhei, Penny Bailey
  3. pp. 144-151
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0030
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  1. The City of the Future (1960)
  2. Kawazoe Noboru, Ignacio Adriasola
  3. pp. 152-168
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0031
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  1. An Introduction to the World of Tools (1969)
  2. Ekuan Kenji, Frank Feltens
  3. pp. 169-176
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0032
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  1. The 1968 Social Uprising and Advertising Design in Japan: The Work of Ishioka Eiko and Suzuki Hachirō
  2. Ory Bartal
  3. pp. 177-197
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0033
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The Emergence of Social Design in Response to the 3.11 Triple Disaster

  1. Place-Making Before and After 3.11: The Emergence of Social Design in Post-Disaster, Post-Growth Japan
  2. Christian Dimmer
  3. pp. 198-226
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0034
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  1. Ba of Emptiness: A Place of Potential for Designing Social Innovation
  2. Yoko Akama
  3. pp. 227-246
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0035
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Art in Focus

“Archival Considerations”
From the PoNJA-GenKon 10th Anniversary Symposium (2014)

  1. Introduction
  2. Reiko Tomii
  3. pp. 248-260
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0036
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  1. Lost in the Archive: Yoko Ono and John Lennon's Four Thoughts
  2. Kevin Concannon
  3. pp. 261-274
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0037
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  1. From Design to Environment: "Art and Technology" in Two1966 Exhibitions at the Matsuya Department Store
  2. Tsuji Yasutaka, Nina Horisaki-Christens, Reiko Tomii
  3. pp. 275-296
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0038
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  1. On the Contributors
  3. pp. 297-301
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2016.0039
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