New Frontiers in Japanese Studies

New Frontiers in Japanese Studies
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 397
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ISBN-10 : 9781000054200
ISBN-13 : 1000054209
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Synopsis New Frontiers in Japanese Studies by : Akihiro Ogawa

Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from ‘demystifying the Japanese’, to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond. Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Studies away from the West to the Asia-Pacific region, this book identifies topic areas in which research focusing on Japan will play an important role in global debates in the coming years. This includes the evolution of area studies, coping with aging populations, the various patterns of migration and environmental breakdown. With chapters from an international team of contributors, including significant representation from the Asia-Pacific region, this book enacts Yoshio Sugimoto’s notion of ‘cosmopolitan methodology’ to discuss Japan in an interdisciplinary and transnational context and provides overviews of how Japanese Studies is evolving in other Asian countries such as China and Indonesia. New Frontiers in Japanese Studies is a thought-provoking volume and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese and Asian Studies. The Introduction and Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Understanding Japanese Society

Understanding Japanese Society
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 0415263832
ISBN-13 : 9780415263832
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Understanding Japanese Society by : Joy Hendry

As Japan enters the 21st century with a new emperor, this title continues to be an indispensable guide through often enigmatic and historical idiosyncrasies of Japanese culture and politics that are often confusing to the outsider. This title includes information on the latest social developments, customs, rituals, business culture, medicine and arts.

Rethinking Japanese Studies

Rethinking Japanese Studies
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9781351654968
ISBN-13 : 1351654969
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Japanese Studies by : Kaori Okano

Japanese Studies has provided a fertile space for non-Eurocentric analysis for a number of reasons. It has been embroiled in the long-running internal debate over the so-called Nihonjinron, revolving around the extent to which the effective interpretation of Japanese society and culture requires non-Western, Japan-specific emic concepts and theories. This book takes this question further and explores how we can understand Japanese society and culture by combining Euro-American concepts and theories with those that originate in Japan. Because Japan is the only liberal democracy to have achieved a high level of capitalism outside the Western cultural framework, Japanese Studies has long provided a forum for deliberations about the extent to which the Western conception of modernity is universally applicable. Furthermore, because of Japan’s military, economic and cultural dominance in Asia at different points in the last century, Japanese Studies has had to deal with the issues of Japanocentrism as well as Eurocentrism, a duality requiring complex and nuanced analysis. This book identifies variations amongst Japanese Studies academic communities in the Asia-Pacific and examines the extent to which relatively autonomous scholarship, intellectual approach or theories exist in the region. It also evaluates how studies on Japan in the region contribute to global Japanese Studies and explores their potential for formulating concrete strategies to unsettle Eurocentric dominance of the discipline.

The Female as Subject

The Female as Subject
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9781929280650
ISBN-13 : 1929280653
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis The Female as Subject by : P.F. Kornicki

Reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early 20th century

A Short History of Tokyo

A Short History of Tokyo
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Publisher : Haus Publishing
Total Pages : 147
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ISBN-10 : 9781913368005
ISBN-13 : 1913368009
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis A Short History of Tokyo by : Jonathan Clements

Tokyo, which in Japanese means the “Eastern Capital,” has only enjoyed that name and status for 150 years. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, the city that is now Tokyo was a sprawling fishing town by the bay named Edo. Earlier still, in the Middle Ages, it was Edojuku, an outpost overlooking farmlands. And thousands of years ago, its mudflats and marshes were home to elephants, deer, and marine life. In this compact history, Jonathan Clements traces Tokyo’s fascinating story from the first forest clearances and the samurai wars to the hedonistic “floating world” of the last years of the Shogunate. He illuminates the Tokyo of the twentieth century with its destruction and redevelopment, boom and bust without forgoing the thousand years of history that have led to the Eastern Capital as we know it. Tokyo is so entwined with the history of Japan that it can be hard to separate them, and A Short History of Tokyo tells both the story of the city itself and offers insight into Tokyo’s position at the nexus of power and people that has made the city crucial to the events of the whole country.

Japanese Studies

Japanese Studies
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Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Total Pages : 642
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ISBN-10 : 8172112904
ISBN-13 : 9788172112905
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Japanese Studies by : P. A. George

Papers presented at the three day International Conference on "Changing Global Profile of Japanese Studies : Trends and Prospects", held at New Delhi during 6-8 March 2009.

Rethinking Japanese Studies

Rethinking Japanese Studies
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 267
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781351654951
ISBN-13 : 1351654950
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Japanese Studies by : Kaori Okano

Japanese Studies has provided a fertile space for non-Eurocentric analysis for a number of reasons. It has been embroiled in the long-running internal debate over the so-called Nihonjinron, revolving around the extent to which the effective interpretation of Japanese society and culture requires non-Western, Japan-specific emic concepts and theories. This book takes this question further and explores how we can understand Japanese society and culture by combining Euro-American concepts and theories with those that originate in Japan. Because Japan is the only liberal democracy to have achieved a high level of capitalism outside the Western cultural framework, Japanese Studies has long provided a forum for deliberations about the extent to which the Western conception of modernity is universally applicable. Furthermore, because of Japan’s military, economic and cultural dominance in Asia at different points in the last century, Japanese Studies has had to deal with the issues of Japanocentrism as well as Eurocentrism, a duality requiring complex and nuanced analysis. This book identifies variations amongst Japanese Studies academic communities in the Asia-Pacific and examines the extent to which relatively autonomous scholarship, intellectual approach or theories exist in the region. It also evaluates how studies on Japan in the region contribute to global Japanese Studies and explores their potential for formulating concrete strategies to unsettle Eurocentric dominance of the discipline.

The SAGE Handbook of Modern Japanese Studies

The SAGE Handbook of Modern Japanese Studies
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Publisher : SAGE
Total Pages : 1373
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ISBN-10 : 9781412962353
ISBN-13 : 1412962358
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The SAGE Handbook of Modern Japanese Studies by : James D Babb

A welcome addition to any reading list for those interested in contemporary Japanese society. - Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Society, University of Oxford "I know no better book for an accessible and up-to-date introduction to this complex subject than The SAGE Handbook of Modern Japan Studies." - Hiroko Takeda, Associate Professor, Organization for Global Japanese Studies, University of Tokyo "Pioneering and nuanced in analysis, yet highly accessible and engaging in style." - Yoshio Sugimoto, Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University The SAGE Handbook of Modern Japanese Studies includes outstanding contributions from a diverse group of leading academics from across the globe. This volume is designed to serve as a major interdisciplinary reference work and a seminal text, both rigorous and accessible, to assist students and scholars in understanding one of the major nations of the world. James D. Babb is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University.

The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States

The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 453
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ISBN-10 : 9789004644861
ISBN-13 : 9004644865
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States by : Helen Hardacre

This volume of twelve essays with useful bibliographies, in the fields of history, art, religion, literature, anthropology, political science, and law, documents the history of United States scholarship on Japan since 1945.

Japanese Studies from Pre-History to 1990

Japanese Studies from Pre-History to 1990
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 0719024587
ISBN-13 : 9780719024580
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Japanese Studies from Pre-History to 1990 by : Richard Perren