The Oriental Economist was a monthly English magazine launched in 1934 (Showa 9) to commemorate the fortieth year of the founding of Toyo Keizai Inc. (Toyo Keizai Shimposha). Tanzan Ishibashi, editor in chief and president of the Toyo Keizai Shimpotherefore decided to
Jinbutsu Sosho is a monumental collection of biographies of historical figures in Japan edited by the Nihon Rekishi Gakkai (The Society of Japanese history) and published by Yoshikawa Kobunkan. It is a book series of biographies of persons deemed important in Japanese history,
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ChinaMaxx is a collection of e-books connected to the same platform as the search engine Duxiu. Here you can find 700,000 Chinese titles focusing on social sciences and humanities. The titles are available for searching via Duxiu (select 图书) or
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ISEAS – The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS),is a leading research centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security, and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. ISEAS Publishing disseminates important research