Japan category: 1648 books
Lovesick Japan
Sex * Marriage * Romance * Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Lovesick Japan, Mark D. West explores an official vision of love, sex, and marriage in contemporary Japan. A comprehensive body of evidence—2,700 court opinions—describes a society characterized by a presupposed absence of physical and emotional intimacy, affection, and personal connections....
Popular Democracy in Japan
How Gender and Community Are Changing Modern Electoral Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Popular Democracy in Japan examines a puzzle in Japanese politics: Why do Japanese women turn out to vote at rates higher than men? On the basis of in-depth fieldwork in various parts of the country, Sherry L. Martin argues that the exclusion of women from a full range of opportunities in public life...
The International Relations of Japan and South East Asia
Forging a New Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The International Relations of Japan and South East Asia asks three main questions: how and when has a new South East Asian regionalism been set in motion? what is the nature of Japanese leadership and networking in maintaining and promoting that new regionalism?; and, given the current economic and...
Japan 1868-1945
From Isolation to Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The history of Imperial Japan, from the Meiji Restoration through to defeat and occupation at the end of the Second World War, is central to any understanding of the way in which modern Japan has developed and will continue to develop in the future. This wide-ranging accessible and up-to-date interpretation...
by Mark Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Japan is home to a spectacular and diverse range of birds, and this up-to-date text covers the identification, voice, habitat, behaviour and range of all the species and subspecies found across the beautiful and fascinating Japanese archipelago. The authoritative text is accompanied by superb full-colour...
Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy
The Textile Industry before the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
During the period of industrialisation in Japan from the 1870s to the 1930s, the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry, and the country's major source of export earnings. It had a predominantly female labour force, drawn mainly from the agricultural population.
This book examines...
A Tokyo Anthology
Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works,...
Sanitized Sex
Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Sanitized Sex analyzes the development of new forms of regulation concerning prostitution, venereal disease, and intimacy during the American occupation of Japan after the Second World War, focusing on the period between 1945 and 1952. It contributes to the cultural and social history of the occupation...
Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan
Autonomy, Asian Brotherhood, or World Citizenship?
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2005
Throughout the history of modern Japan there has been a continuous struggle to create an integrated conception of how a politically and/or culturally autonomous Japan might relate to a pluralistic and interactive world. The aim of this study is to scrutinise nationalist and internationalist rhetoric...
by Curtis Anderson Gayle
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in education...
Political Philosophy in Japan
Nishida, the Kyoto School and co-prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Political Philosophy in Japan focuses on the politics of Japan's pre-eminent philosophical school - the Kyoto School - and particularly that of its founder, Nishida Kitarô (1870-1945). Existing literature on Nishida is dismissive of there being serious political content in his work, and of the political...
by Kenji Hasegawa
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
This book offers a timely and multifaceted reanalysis of student radicalism in postwar Japan. It considers how students actively engaged the early postwar debates over subjectivity, and how the emergence of a new generation of students in the mid-1950s influenced the nation’s embrace of the idea...
by Kevin C. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
American merchants established trading firms in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki which operated from 1859-1899 until the repeal of the Unequal Treaties. Members of a privileged, semi-colonial community, the merchants formed the largest group of Americans in 19th century Japan. In this first...
The Abe Restoration
Contemporary Japanese Politics and Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Shinzo Abe returned to office as Prime Minister of Japan 2012, leading the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for a second time. This book examines how Abe has sought a restoration of Japanese primacy at three levels: political, through the restoration of the traditional postwar parliamentary dominance...