Papers Of The Japanese Studies Centre
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The SAGE Handbook of Modern Japanese Studies
Author | : James D Babb |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 1373 |
Release | : 2014-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1412962358 |
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.
Japenese Encounters With Postmod
Author | : Yoshio Sugimoto |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136163824 |
This is a systematic study of the sociological debate on postmodernity in the Japanese context. The volume consists of a collection of 12 papers that explore the idea of postmodernity primarily from sociological perspectives, covering a wide range of domains including work, feminism, communication, science and technology, social stratification, fine arts and literature. The contributors come from diverse disciplines ranging from sociology and history to political science and linguistics. They include advocates of postmodern theories and postmodernist analyses of Japanese society, as well as critics who argue that a suitable revised theory of modernity is still an adequate framework for comparing Japan and the West. Others take the view that an intermediate position might be more productive; that a qualified or provisional version of postmodern can throw new light on issues traditionally neglected by social theory. While the postmodernity debate has been carried out chiefly in the context of European and American experiences, this book aims to pave the way for the postmodernity question to be explored in the non-western but highly industrialized setting of Japan, and brings forward a series of open-ended questions about the bias in the debate. Written by academics based in universities in Japan and Australia, the volume itself is postmodern in its internal diversity and multi-cultural orientation.
Papers of the 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia: Studies in language and linguistics
Author | : Japanese Studies Association of Australia. Conference |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Papers from the Tenth Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia.
Papers of the 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia: Identity politics and critiques in contemporary Japan
Author | : Japanese Studies Association of Australia. Conference |
Publisher | : Monash University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Glorify the Empire
Author | : Annika A. Culver |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0774824387 |
In the 1930s and ’40s, Japanese rulers in Manchukuo enlisted writers and artists to promote imperial Japan’s modernization program. Ironically, the cultural producers chosen to spread the imperialist message were previously left-wing politically. In Glorify the Empire, Annika A. Culver explores how these once anti-imperialist intellectuals produced avant-garde works celebrating the modernity of a fascist state and reflecting a complicated picture of complicity with, and ambivalence toward, Japan’s utopian project. A groundbreaking work, Glorify the Empire magnifies the intersection between politics and art in a rarely examined period of Japanese history.
The Far East and Australasia 2003
Author | : Europa Publications |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 1724 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781857431339 |
A unique survey of each country in the region. It includes an extensive collection of facts, statistics, analysis and directory information in one accessible volume.
Rethinking Japanese Studies
Author | : Kaori Okano |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2017-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351654969 |
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.
Amakudari
Author | : Richard A. Colignon |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1501722611 |
The widespread migration of civil servants to high-profile positions in the private and public sectors is known in Japan as amakudari, or "descent from heaven." Recent media stories associate the practice with corruption as the former officials seek government favors for their new employers. In their timely book, Richard A. Colignon and Chikako Usui offer the first systematic exploration of this influential yet poorly understood Japanese institution.Colignon and Usui analyze amakudari as a ministry-level phenomenon that is consciously constructed and reproduced with intricate networks in many political and corporate spheres. Drawing on five decades of qualitative and quantitative data delineating the post-retirement careers of leading bureaucrats, they examine changes in traditional job patterns. Although not as strong a force as in the 1960s and 1970s, amakudari, in their view, remains a critical feature of Japanese society and heavily shapes the relationship between government and business.The authors warn that despite the Japanese media criticism of amakudari, it comprises a power structure resistant to radical change. Most important, their book demonstrates that a gradual weakening of this practice may not lead to a more democratic, meritocratic society.