{p=The significance and reverberations of the Russo-Japanese War, the first in which a Western power had been defeated by an Asian nation, is the focus of this chapter. The war is viewed from both geopolitical and racial perspectives, with the ‘Great Game’ between Russia and Britain serving as a backdrop. It was a harbinger of the total wars of the twentieth century to come, the demise of the Russian Empire, and the rise of nationalism around the world., h1=Abstract}

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{p=Migrants’ squats often inhabit marginal and “out of sight” urban areas, placed at the intersection of institutional neglect and alternative strategies for self-managed living. Yet, at times, migrants’ informal settlements become highly visible places, as they find themselves in the spotlight as symbols of governmental failure and urban decay. This chapter reflects on the hurdles and conundrums of negotiating access as a researcher within such a place. It is based on a number of ethnographic encounters that took place at “Ex-MOI”, a housing squat in Turin’s abandoned Olympic Village that became catalyst of local anxieties, as well as of national xenophobic propaganda. Entering a housing squat – at once a public and a private environment – is by no means obvious. Yet, this scenario offers a fertile perspective to look at some underlying aspects of the ethnographic encounter, such as research subjects’ resistance to the “ethnographic gaze”, cross-gender and cross-racial dynamics within fieldwork, as well as the role of the “unsaid” as a telling social act. Refugees’ refusal to be “domesticated” for academic purposes testifies to their multiple attempts at re-gaining control over the representation of their lives, as well as to the inherent political nature of acts of homemaking., h1=Abstract}

{p=This chapter provides a detailed examination of the legal and political aspects of the International Military Tribunal of the Far East of May 1946–November 1948, more commonly known as the Tokyo war crimes trial. It reviews the legal origins of the three classes of war crimes, assesses the perspectives of the Allied prosecutors, and traces the process whereby judgments and sentences were reached. The chapter concludes with how international policy developments (peace and independence of Japan) affected the fates of those convicted and poses questions about the judicial process itself., h1=Abstract}

{p=Jeffrey Young assumes that people suffering from personality disorders differ from healthy ones in schema modes intensity but not diversity. Besides, healthy people also present behaviours typical for personality disorders, but to a lesser extent. However, research lacks the interrelationships between modes, especially in healthy individuals. The presented study aimed to investigate the mutual relations between the schema modes using path analysis to understand better problematic behaviour in borderline and narcissistic types in a non-clinical sample and to verify Young assumption about the continuum of the schema modes. A sample of 467 healthy adults aged 18–50 (M = 32.87, SD = 10.56), 52.9% of whom were women, completed SMI 1.1 and SCID-II. Descriptive statistics, matrix of correlation and structural equation modelling were used. Results confirmed the significance of the theoretically assumed and previously empirically proved schema modes also for healthy people. The most important modes for both borderline and narcissistic behaviours are the Punitive Parent, the Angry Child and the Enraged Child modes. For borderline behaviour, the Detached Protector coping mode, connected to a sense of emptiness, is significant. Narcissistic behaviour relates to Bully and Attack, and Self-Aggrandiser modes and is connected to aggressive and dominant behaviour. The obtained models explain 47% of the variance in borderline and 44% in narcissistic behaviours. The study indicates the validity of analysing the modes among people with lower intensity of behaviours typical for personality disorders and also confirms Young’s assumptions about the universality of schema modes. Results are discussed in the context of their relevance for practitioners., h1=Abstract}

{p=Many migrants opt for shared accommodation as a way of coping with the shortage of affordable housing in large cities. As a distinct type of co-housing, flat sharing has been described as one of the many forms of housing precariousness, and even as a type of homelessness. This chapter describes a series of substantive and methodological issues arising from an ethnographic study conducted with Peruvian migrants in Madrid. It examines how people produce a sense of home in the context of sharing an apartment, and how this process is related or not to the act of dwelling in a particular flat. In doing so, it argues that dwelling in a given place and developing a sense of home are closely related, but do not always go hand in hand. The (in)congruence between living in a given place and evoking feelings of home depends on the role that dwellers play within the shared household and the degrees of control that they have over different settings within the flat. The usage of the domestic space and the ways in which its settings become compartmentalised constitute entry points to methodological issues emerging from the study of dwelling with strangers., h1=Abstract}

{p=This chapter presents a high-level, historical retrospective from modern-day Japan, looking back at the Meiji period with which the book began, through the immediate postwar period and into the 1960s and Japan’s rise as an economic power. It then looks at Japan’s “meanderings” following the end of the Cold War and the collapse of its bubble economy, before taking a speculative look at what might lie ahead for the nation in the new era of Reiwa. The author posits a need to supplant the popular “Shiba view of history” with a perspective more appropriate to the present changing postwar order and that reevaluates the successes of the Meiji period., h1=Abstract}

{p=What is the added value of visiting migrants’ current and previous houses when investigating the transnational circulation of home? This chapter addresses this question, drawing on ethnographic research in houses inhabited by Peruvian migrants in England and Spain and by their relatives in Peru. Through the analysis of how the domestic space is organised and how individuals interact with their everyday materialities we can better understand the transnational circulation of home. Some objects can help those living at both ends of a migration corridor to feel emotionally and symbolically connected. As my empirical findings show, ordinary materialities play multiple roles in keeping families connected across transnational spaces. Moreover, everyday materialities afford migrants to be connected not only to the family members who stayed put but also to those who passed away. More broadly, engaging with migrants and their significant others’ domestic spaces contributes to conceptualise transnational homemaking. By entering into people’s domestic space migration, researchers can better understand the emotional and even spiritual connections that migrants and those affected by the migration of others establish with those objects and with people that no longer dwell with them. In short, we can better understand the ‘secret life’ some individuals built with their objects., h1=Abstract}

{p=[Background, Oral midazolam is commonly administered to reduce anxiety in children presenting for medical procedures or surgery. It is unclear what volume of medication remains unabsorbed in the stomach when the child presents for anesthetic induction prior to these procedures. The presence of any significant residual medication in the stomach has significant clinical implications in the postoperative period., Case presentation, A 5-year-old white Caucasian boy presented for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy after receiving oral midazolam liquid. Insertion of the endoscope into the stomach revealed a significant amount of unabsorbed medication remaining within the gastric cavity., Conclusion, Clinicians should be aware that the sedative effects of midazolam may be present before the medication is fully absorbed. A significant amount of unabsorbed medication may be present in the stomach during medical procedures/surgery. This may continue to be absorbed in the intraoperative and postoperative period, with unwanted clinical effect.], h1=Abstract}

{p=This chapter revisits the emerging literature on so-called remittance houses along conceptual, methodological and self-reflexive lines. Building on our visits and stays in migrant houses in Ecuador over the last fifteen years, we discuss what “entering home(s)” means and what it enables a researcher-as-guest to understand, whenever a house embodies migrants’ efforts to visibly improve their life conditions and prospects in their countries of origin. By comparing visits into five different household and migration arrangements, we discuss questions of hospitality, of (in)visibilization of the absent ones through material culture, and of family and housing obligations being negotiated in a dual – local and transnational – framework. In all these respects, being in makes a critical difference. It also reveals the existence of a fundamental parallel between the life course of migrant families and of their remittance houses. The latter are like a palimpsest to reconstruct the former. Furthermore, our fieldwork opens up to further issues and dilemmas, moving “out” of the houses and “beyond” them. These include the tension between migrant exceptionalism and non-migrant normality and autonomy, as well as the significance of what these houses “do” in any circumstances, to illustrate the promise of further comparative research into transnational housing and migration., h1=Abstract}