Japan category: 1648 books
Too Few Women at the Top
The Persistence of Inequality in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The number of women in positions of power and authority in Japanese companies has remained small despite the increase in the number of educated women and the passage of legislation on gender equality. In Too Few Women at the Top, Kumiko Nemoto draws on theoretical insights regarding Japan's coordinated...
Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists
The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Violence and democracy may seem fundamentally incompatible, but the two have often been intimately and inextricably linked. In Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists, Eiko Maruko Siniawer argues that violence has been embedded in the practice of modern Japanese politics from the very inception of the country's...
Constructing East Asia
Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut-and-dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy from 1931–1945. Challenging the status...
Japan in Crisis
An Englishman's Impression
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
"...The Japanese are not so black as they are painted or so immaculate as they occasionally paint themselves." As the author’s own words suggest, this book attempts to give a balanced account of Japan during the "crisis" years of 1931-1935 which were some of the most significant...
Resilient Borders and Cultural Diversity
Internationalism, Brand Nationalism, and Multiculturalism in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The acceleration of media culture globalization processes cross-fertilization and people’s exchange beyond the confinement of national borders, but not all of them lead to substantial transformations of national identity or foster cosmopolitan outlook in terms of openness, togetherness and dialogue...
Academic Nations in China and Japan
Framed by Concepts of Nature, Culture and the Universal
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The descriptions Chinese and Japanese people attribute to themselves and to each other differ vastly and stand in stark contrast to Western perceptions that usually identify a 'similar disposition' between the two nations. Academic Nationals in China and Japan explores human categories, how academics...
Japan's Dream of World Empire
The Tanaka Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Described as the Japanese Mein Kampf, this small pamphlet outlines the history of Japan which by the late 1920s was, according to the author, becoming a dream for world domination. Although this did not come to fruition, the book nonetheless represents a fascinating insight into the national psyche...
by Curtis Anderson Gayle
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
This book explores the historical writings of postwar Japanese Marxists - who were, and who continue to be, surprisingly numerous in the Japanese academic world. It shows how they developed in their historical writing ideas of 'radical nationalism', which accepted presupposed ideas of Japan's 'ethnic...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
In Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy Christopher Goto-Jones contends that existing approaches to the controversial Kyoto School fail to take it seriously as a school of philosophy, instead focussing on historical debates about the alleged complicity of the School’s members with the...
by Catherine Burns
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. It describes the culture of 'eroticised violence' in Japan, which sees the feminine body as culpable and the legal system which encourages homogeneity and conformity in decision-making...
by Scott J. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ushered in were widespread social and cultural changes. Newspapers, novels, poems, and plays from the...
by Yuki Terazawa
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
This book analyzes how women’s bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power by examining the history of women’s reproductive health in Japan between the seventeenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Yuki Terazawa combines Foucauldian theory and
feminist ideas with in-depth...
Japan WalKer Vol.9 4月號
7大主題樂玩九州：前進福岡．長崎．熊本等地吃喝玩樂
Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 7, 2016
台灣飛行時間只需約2小時就能抵達，與台灣面積大小相似的九州，絕對是體驗日本豐富旅程的首選之地。從多樣的在地美食到日本第一的美湯溫泉、大自然絕景，宛若移動觀光景點的設計觀光列車，不論喜歡什麼類型的旅遊，九州都能滿足你！
The Japanese Family in Transition
From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburban community, interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Their research led to Japan’s New Middle Class, a classic work on the sociology of Japan. Now, Suzanne Hall Vogel’s compelling sequel traces the evolution...