Japan category: 1648 books
by Charles Foreign Corresponden
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Since its founding in 1945, the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan (FCCJ) has been a haven for working journalists. From its origins at "No. 1 Shimbun Alley" in the ruins of Tokyo immediately after World War II, the club quickly took on a life of its own. At times it became like a miniature...
Language Life in Japan
Transformations and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan's autochthonous languages such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages, there are more than 75,000 immigrant children in the Japanese...
by Jonathan D. Mackintosh
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Japan’s first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku (‘The Rose Tribes’), was launched in 1971. Publicly declaring the beauty and normality of homosexual desire, Barazoku electrified the male homosexual world whilst scandalising...
by Raymond Furse
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This Japan travel pictorial takes readers on a colorful journey across the many regions of this fascinating country.
Over 130 color photographs reveal the many facets of Japan, capturing it's many hues and shapes, from the quiet of a neighborhood shop to the frenzy of crowded festivals, the...
Postwar Japan
Growth, Security, and Uncertainty since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Japanese security, economic, institutional, and developmental policies have undergone a remarkable evolution in the 70 years since the end of World War II. In this volume, distinguished Japanese scholars reflect on the evolution of these policies and draw lessons for the coming decades. The pillars...
Before the Nation
Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2003
Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination ofthe late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our country.” Departing from earlier studies of...
Making Time
Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything—it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time, Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in Japan to show that humans perceive time as constructed...
Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia
Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
More than any other region in the world, Asia has witnessed tremendous change in the post-war era. A continent once engulfed by independence and revolution, and later by the Cold War and civil war, has now been transformed into the world’s most economically dynamic region. What caused this change...
Imperial Japan
1926-1938
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years, the author collected in this volume the most significant current events for discussion. They include the financial crisis of 1927, hostilities with China and in particular Manchuria, Japan’s booming manufacturing industry, Japanese nationalism,...
The Proletarian Gamble
Korean Workers in Interwar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depression in Japan, migrant Korean peasants arrived on Japanese soil amid extreme instability in the labor...
The Long Defeat
Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
In The Long Defeat, Akiko Hashimoto explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its catastrophic defeat in World War II, showing how and why defeat has become an indelible part of national collective life, especially in recent decades. Divisive war memories lie at the root of the contentious...
Recentering Globalization
Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2002
Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western—particularly American—popular culture. Yet if one nation stands out in the dissemination of pop culture in East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokémon, anime, pop music, television dramas such as Tokyo Love Story and Long...
by Pedro Iacobelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Placing a distinct focus on the role of the sending state, this book examines the history of postwar Japan's migration policy, linking it to the larger question of statehood and nation-building in the postwar era. Pedro Iacobelli delves into the role of states in shaping migration flows by exploring...
The Turning Point in US-Japan Relations
Hanihara’s Cherry Blossom Diplomacy in 1920-1930
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book analyses two international incidents in the 1920s shocked Japan and changed the way in which the country looked at the West. In the Paris Peace Conference, Japanese proposed Racial Equality Bill was defeated. In 1924, the US passed the immigration law that singularly excluded Japanese from...