Japanese Culture & Society

The authors of the book outline the realms of memory (lieux de memoire) in Japanese sport and clarify how memories of sport moments, heroes and places constitute an inventory for local and national identity._x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society...

Rural communities in Japan have suffered from significant depopulation and economic decline in post-war years. Problems of declining birth rates, aging populations, agricultural decline and migration to cities have been compounded by the triple disaster of March 11, 2011, which destroyed communities..

Rural communities in Japan have suffered from significant depopulation and economic decline in post-war years. Problems of declining birth rates, aging populations, agricultural decline and migration to cities have been compounded by the triple disaster of March 11, 2011, which destroyed communities..

The Beatles’ engagement with Japan, especially their 1966 tour, highlights a great deal about Japan’s postwar cultural development and Japan’s deepening relationship with the West. Up to the 1960s Japan’s reconstruction phase was not fully completed, its “economic miracle” and the associated high le..

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture..

This collection brings together Japan specialists in order to identify key challenges in using Japanese popular culture materials in their research and teaching. It addresses issues such as the availability of unofficially translated and distributed Japanese material; the emphasis on adult-themes, v..

This book identify key challenges in using Japanese popular culture materials in research and teaching. Issues covered include the availability of unofficially translated and distributed Japanese material; the emphasis on adult-themes, violence, and under-age characters; and the discrepancies in leg..

This collection of commentaries and reflections on Japanese culture, first published in 1904, was written shortly after the return of two English aristocrats from five years spent immersed in the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’. Touching on such diverse topics as sport, religion, music, censorship, drama a..

This collection of commentaries and reflections on Japanese culture, first published in 1904, was written shortly after the return of two English aristocrats from five years spent immersed in the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’. Touching on such diverse topics as sport, religion, music, censorship, drama a..

This book explores how the relationship between child and parent develops in Japan, from the earliest point in a child's life, through the transition from family to the wider world, first to playschools and then schools. It relates the position in Japan to theoretical writing, in both Japan and the ..

This book uses texts from classical and modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and 'sympathy for the weak', as a notion of a non-violent and changeless egalitarian society...

This book addresses the transition from postwar to post-disaster literature and examines the rise of precarity consciousness in Japanese socio-cultural discourse. Recent natural as well as man-made cataclysmic events have dramatically changed the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. This rad..