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Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War
The Yakeato Generation
Av Roman Rosenbaum, Yasuko Claremont
Inbunden, 2010
2904 kr
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When we look in detail at the various peripheral groups of disenfranchised people emerging from the aftermath of the Asia–Pacific War the list is startling: Koreans in Japan (migrants or forced labourers), Burakumin, Hibakusha, Okinawans, Asian minorities, comfort women and many others. Many of …
Japanese Culture Through Videogames
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and context can be analyzed together to understand videogames as a dynamic mode of artistic …
Local Politics and National Policy
Multi-level Conflicts in Japan and Beyond
Häftad, 2019
751 kr
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This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions. Its empirical focus is on the local politics of Japan which has significantly shaped, and been shaped by, larger developments in national politics. The book argues that since the 1990s, …
Trauma, Dissociation and Re-enactment in Japanese Literature and Film
Av David Stahl
Häftad, 2019
864 kr
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Japanese literature and film have frequently been approached using lenses such as language, genre and ideology. Yet, despite a succession of major social traumas that have marked, and in many ways shaped and defined much of modern Japan, Japanese fiction and cinema have not often been examined …
Japanese War Orphans
Abandoned Twice by the State
Av Jiaxin Zhong
Inbunden, 2021
2592 kr
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After Japan's defeat in August 1945, some Japanese children were abandoned in China and raised by Chinese foster parents. They were unable to return to Japan even during the mass repatriation carried out by the Japanese government in the 1950s. Most of them returned to Japan in the 1980s. They are …
Rethinking Japanese Studies
Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region
Av Kaori Okano, Yoshio Sugimoto
Häftad, 2019
743 kr
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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 …
Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia
Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia
Av Taizo Miyagi
Häftad, 2019
743 kr
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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 …
Wildlife, Landscape Use and Society
Regional Case Studies in Japan
Av Ken Sugimura
Inbunden, 2021
2517 kr
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A comprehensive analysis of the various terrestrial natural landscapes and habitats within Japan, and the efforts to sustain and conserve them and sustain landscape services.In 2011, Conservation International designated the Japanese islands collectively as one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. …
Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan
Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome
Inbunden, 2020
2592 kr
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Drawing on the concept of the somatic self, Castro-Vázquez explores how Japanese men think about, express and interpret their experiences concerning bodyweight control.Based on an extensive ethnographic investigation, this book offers a compelling analysis of male obesity and overweight in Japan …
Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film
The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades
Av Marc Yamada
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the “lost decades” of Japan’s Heisei period (1989–2019).Presenting original analysis of major Heisei writers, filmmakers, and manga artists, the chapters examine the work of Urasawa Naoki, Kurosawa …
Social Change in Japan, 1989-2019
Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values
Av Carola Hommerich, Naoki Sudo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2517 kr
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Based on extensive survey data, this book examines how the population of Japan has experienced and processed three decades of rapid social change from the highly egalitarian high growth economy of the 1980s to the economically stagnating and demographically shrinking gap society of the 2010s. It …
New Frontiers in Japanese Studies
Av Akihiro Ogawa, Philip Seaton
Inbunden, 2020
2517 kr
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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 …
Gender and the Koseki In Contemporary Japan
Surname, Power, and Privilege
Av Linda White
Häftad, 2019
637 kr
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The Japanese koseki system is the legal and social structure keeping record of all Japanese citizens. Determined by the Civil Code and the Koseki Law, for activists challenging it, the koseki is also an ideological structure, which has produced patriarchal control through single-surname …
Avant-Garde Art and Non-Dominant Thought in Postwar Japan
Image, Matter, Separation
Av K. Yoshida
Inbunden, 2020
2592 kr
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This book offers a reassessment of how "matter" – in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture – pursued a radical definition of "multiplicity", against the dominant and hierarchical tendencies underwriting post-fascist Japan. Through theoretical analysis of works by artists and …
Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture
Projects in Japan
Inbunden, 2021
695 kr
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“I regard Higuchi’s book as particularly valuable because it highlights dimensions of somaesthetics that have not been sufficiently explored. I refer not only to the various traditional Japanese somatic disciplines whose somaesthetics aspects Higuchi reveals, but also to central topics far beyond …
Being Young in Super-Aging Japan
Formative Events and Cultural Reactions
Av Patrick Heinrich, Christian Galan
Häftad, 2021
693 kr
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Japan is not only the oldest society in the world today, but also the oldest society to have ever existed. This aging trend, however, presents many challenges to contemporary Japan, as it permeates all areas of life, from the economy and welfare to social cohesion and population decline. Nobody is …
Japan’s Colonial Moment in Southeast Asia 1942-1945
The Occupiers’ Experience
Häftad, 2020
713 kr
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The first-ever attempt to paint a full-scale portrait of the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia during the Asia-Pacific War (1942–5). This book draws on the huge body of available narrative—military documents, bureaucratic records and personal accounts of combatants and civilians, including …
Political Sociology of Japanese Pacifism
Häftad, 2020
693 kr
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While Japanese pacifism is usually seen as a national policy or an ideology rooted in the provision of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, it cannot be adequately understood without grasping Japanese social discourses on peace, war and justice. The perspective of political sociology provides a …
Women and Political Inequality in Japan
Gender Imbalanced Democracy
Av Mikiko Eto
Inbunden, 2020
2517 kr
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Why are there so few Japanese women involved in the political system? In 2019, Japanese women made up 10% of the national Lower House, 21% of the Upper House, and 14% of local assemblies. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, this places Japan 164th out of 193 countries when it comes to …
Women and Political Inequality in Japan
Gender Imbalanced Democracy
Av Mikiko Eto
Häftad, 2023
693 kr
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Why are there so few Japanese women involved in the political system? In 2019, Japanese women made up 10% of the national Lower House, 21% of the Upper House, and 14% of local assemblies. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, this places Japan 164th out of 193 countries when it comes to …
Challenging Nuclear Pacifism in Japan
Hiroshima's Anti-nuclear Social Movements
Av Masae Yuasa
Inbunden, 2023
2592 kr
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Is Japan abandoning its pacifism? The Japanese government has claimed it is doubling its defense spending and has announced a plan to equip itself with the capability to “counterattack” enemy bases overseas, a departure from the nation’s postwar consensus. Shedding new light on Japan’s pacifism and …
Challenging Nuclear Pacifism in Japan
Hiroshima's Anti-nuclear Social Movements
Av Masae Yuasa
Häftad, 2025
668 kr
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Is Japan abandoning its pacifism? The Japanese government has claimed it is doubling its defense spending and has announced a plan to equip itself with the capability to “counterattack” enemy bases overseas, a departure from the nation’s postwar consensus. Shedding new light on Japan’s pacifism and …
Japan’s Nationalist Right in the Internet Age
Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism
Inbunden, 2021
2517 kr
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Japan’s nationalist right have used the internet to organize offline activism in increasingly visible ways.Hall investigates the role of internet-mediated activism in Japan’s ongoing historical and territorial disputes. He explores the emergence of two right-wing activist organizations, Nihon Bunka …
Japan’s Nationalist Right in the Internet Age
Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism
Häftad, 2023
693 kr
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Japan’s nationalist right have used the internet to organize offline activism in increasingly visible ways.Hall investigates the role of internet-mediated activism in Japan’s ongoing historical and territorial disputes. He explores the emergence of two right-wing activist organizations, Nihon Bunka …
Social Change in Japan, 1989-2019
Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values
Av Carola Hommerich, Naoki Sudo m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
693 kr
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Based on extensive survey data, this book examines how the population of Japan has experienced and processed three decades of rapid social change from the highly egalitarian high growth economy of the 1980s to the economically stagnating and demographically shrinking gap society of the 2010s. It …
Animism in Contemporary Japan
Voices for the Anthropocene from post-Fukushima Japan
Häftad, 2020
722 kr
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‘Postmodern animism’ first emerged in grassroots Japan in the aftermath of mercury poisoning in Minamata and the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. Fusing critiques of modernity with intangible cultural heritages, it represents a philosophy of the life-world, where nature is a manifestation of a …
Zainichi Korean Women in Japan
Voices
Häftad, 2020
819 kr
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Presenting the voices of a unique group within contemporary Japanese society—Zainichi women—this book provides a fresh insight into their experiences of oppression and marginalization that over time have led to liberation and empowerment. Often viewed as unimportant and inconsequential, these …
Japanese Communist Party
Permanent Opposition, but Moral Compass
Häftad, 2020
713 kr
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This book provides an historical overview of the Japanese Communist Party from its foundation to the present. It outlines the development of the party, explores its stance on key issues and discusses how the party has set a high moral tone, avoiding compromising coalitions with other parties, being …
Avant-Garde Art and Non-Dominant Thought in Postwar Japan
Image, Matter, Separation
Av K. Yoshida
Häftad, 2022
713 kr
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This book offers a reassessment of how "matter" – in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture – pursued a radical definition of "multiplicity", against the dominant and hierarchical tendencies underwriting post-fascist Japan. Through theoretical analysis of works by artists and …
Wildlife, Landscape Use and Society
Regional Case Studies in Japan
Av Ken Sugimura
Häftad, 2023
693 kr
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A comprehensive analysis of the various terrestrial natural landscapes and habitats within Japan, and the efforts to sustain and conserve them and sustain landscape services.In 2011, Conservation International designated the Japanese islands collectively as one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. …
