Japan category: 1648 books
Japanese Inns and Hot Springs
A Guide to Japan's Best Ryokan & Onsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Richly illustrated and exhaustively researched, Japanese Inns & Hot Springs is the definitive guide to Japanese spas and hot springs known as ryokans.
It presents the finest ryokans in Japan, from historic properties like Hiiragiya in Kyoto and Kikkaso in Hakone to luxury retreats like...
by S. Katsumata
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First published in 1937 this is a collection of articles written by the author under the pseudonym 'Waseda Eisaku' for the Japan Tourist Bureau's magazine over twenty five years. Intended to satisfy the intellectual curiosity of cultivated tourists from abroad by giving the insider's view of all things...
The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan
Bodies Re-Presenting the Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
These unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Japan, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime, the...
The Female as Subject
Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 70
The Female as Subject reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early twentieth century. Eleven essays by an international group of scholars from Europe, Japan, and North America examine...
Uneven Moments
Reflections on Japan's Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of Harootunian’s...
A Storied Sage
Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Since its arrival in Japan in the sixth century, Buddhism has played a central role in Japanese culture. But the historical figure of the Buddha, the prince of ancient Indian descent who abandoned his wealth and power to become an awakened being, has repeatedly disappeared and reappeared, emerging...
Contested Governance in Japan
Sites and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are...
Japan's Household Registration System and Citizenship
Koseki, Identification and Documentation
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Japan’s Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance, social control and the maintenance of social order. It provides identity whilst at the same time imposing identity upon everyone...
by Matthew M. Carlson, Steven R. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Combining history with comparative politics, Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed take on political corruption and scandals, and the reforms designed to counter them, in post–World War II Japan.
Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan makes sense of the scandals that have plagued Japanese...
Japan's Outcaste Abolition
The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and...
Women's Employment in Japan
The Experience of Part-time Workers
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace. This book examines the problem in-depth using case-study investigations in Japanese workplaces, and reveals the extent of the inequality. It shows how many part-time workers, most of whom are...
Single Mothers in Contemporary Japan
Motherhood, Class, and Reproductive Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Combining work and family remains a major challenge for married women in contemporary Japan, and it’s not uncommon for them to quit working when starting a family. Single mothers, by contrast, almost always work, regardless of the age of their children. Despite their eagerness to support themselves...
The Voluntary and Non-Profit Sector in Japan
The Challenge of Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The voluntary and non-profit sector is an important and emerging feature of Japanese society. It is a response both to the changing nature of this society and to political and social trends that have encouraged the Japanese government to see this sector as a potential provider of public services....