SYNERGY Vol. 21 / No. 2 / 2025

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Editorial
Magdalena CIUBANCAN, Angela-Oana DRAGAN, Irina HOLCA, Alexandra MUSTATEA, Roman PASCA, Carmen SAPUNARU-TAMAS

An Analysis of Japan's Educational Reformations and Significant Barriers to Higher Education
Sheikh AJAHAR

On the Verb Kikoyu in Premodern Japanese: Semantic Expansion of Comprehension Usage
Daiki YOSHITAKE

Fukuzawa Yukichi and Karl Marx on the 'Stagnation' and the 'Opening' of Asian Societies. An Experimental Approach of Comparative Reception History
Ferenc TAKÓ

Fukuzawa Yukichi as the First Advocate of Financial Capitalism in Japan
Ryohei KAGEURA

Confucian Women, Women Confucians: Reassessing Confucianism and Women's Status before the Meiji Period
Alexandra MUSTATEA

Animals of War: Visual and Textual Representations in Graphic Magazines of The Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Irina HOLCA

What Is the Obi in Japanese Books?
Mizuki MATSUMOTO

Identifying Opportunities in Romanian-Japanese Economic Relations
Costin-Andrei ISTRATE

At the Intersection of Profit and the Sacred: An Analysis of Ise Dai Kagura from the Business Model Perspective
Carmen SAPUNARU-TAMAS
Masanao KAWAKAMI

Japanese Literary Theories: An Anthology
George T. SIPOS