Japanese Studies

The idea that Japan is a socially homogenous, uniform society has been increasingly challenged in recent years. This book takes the resulting view further by highlighting how Japan, far from singular or monolithic, is socially and culturally complex...

This book examines five features of Japan’s ‘Lost Decades’: the speed of the economic decline in Japan compared to Japan’s earlier global prowess; a rapidly declining population; considerable political instability and failed reform attempts; shifting balances of power in the region and changing rela..

This book examines the relationship between normative femininity and women’s self-directed violence in contemporary Japanese culture including novels, artwork, TV dramas and news stories. The book analyses both well known Japanese culture such as Murakami Haruki’s literary works as well as culture u..

This book examines the relationship between normative femininity and women’s self-directed violence in contemporary Japanese culture including novels, short stories, artwork, manga, anime, TV dramas and news stories. The aim of juxtapositioning such diverse narrative and visual culture is to map com..

Bringing together international scholars from various disciplines, this book focuses on the gendering of the modern Japanese nation-state from the late nineteenth century to the present, through contemporary concepts of citizenship, ethnicity, sexuality, work and everyday life. The development of th..

First published in 1937, this collection presents a series of vignettes on Japanese life and thought, taken from 25 years of the author's work for the Japanese tourist board between 1912 and 1937._x000D_ Dealing in subjects as diverse as wrestling, singing insects and Japanese humour, this reissue o..

First published in 1937, this collection presents a series of vignettes on Japanese life and thought, taken from 25 years of the author's work for the Japanese tourist board between 1912 and 1937._x000D_ Dealing in subjects as diverse as wrestling, singing insects and Japanese humour, this reissue o..

This book examines the context of immigration to and emigration from Japan and assesses the consequences of all this for Japanese people's view of themselves as a nation...

This book contributes to the debate about the impact of globalisation upon women and examines the impact of restructuring upon women's employment in Japan...

The book examines the workings of the Japanese government and discusses the role of the military in shaping political ideals: ideals which were a compound of Marxism and National Socialism, transformed for Japanese uses and combined with fanatical racial, national and semi-religious obsessions...

Tsukuba Science City is the world's most ambitious attempt to turbocharge scientific collaboration, but it remains unpopular within Japan and scientists question whether it will ever produce the world's best science...

This book examines how Japan’s heritage conservation policy and practice, as deployed through its foreign aid programs, became one of the main means through which post-World War II Japan sought to mark its presence in the international arena, both globally and regionally. Japan’s involvement in heri..