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Advance Paper Spotlight: “Pink Purchasing: Interrogating the Soft Power of Japan's Kawaii Consumption” by Lieber-Milo Shiri

Advance: a SAGE preprints community continues to garner submissions from a wide range of authors in various fields. We would like to draw attention to a preprint entitled, “Pink Purchasing: Interrogating the Soft Power of Japan's Kawaii Consumption” and authored by Dr. Lieber-Milo Shiri, who is a graduate of Human Sciences from Osaka University. Dr. Shiri’s paper was posted to Advance in February 2019 and has accumulated just over 100 downloads.

Research, Editor's PicksKimberley SimpsonMarch 11, 2020SAGE Advance, Japan, consumers’ behaviour

Fossil Fuels, GHG Emissions and Clean Energy Development

During the post-1970 period, there has been an impressive increase in energy consumption across the world. The primary energy consumption has increased at an annual growth rate of 2.21 per cent over this period. Energy baskets of a large number of countries remained dominated by fossil fuels such as oil and coal.

ResearchLORNA MCCONNVILLEOctober 31, 2019SAGE post, development studies, Fossil fuels, GHG emissions, clean energy, Asian giants, India, China, Japan