Japan: Beyond the End of History (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies)

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Few nations rely upon the ocean as much as Japan for livelihood, culture and transport. The seas have long played a vital role for the Japanese, helping to support the economic and social life of a nation that possesses few resources and little arable land, and sustain a population that has nearly….

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From the s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about how to be women. By Aurelia George Mulgan. He helped to reshape the electoral system, political funding rules, the evolution of the party system, the nature of executive government, the roles and powers of bureaucrats, and the conduct of parliamentary and…. Pekkanen , Yutaka Tsujinaka , Hidehiro Yamamoto. Most Japanese belong to one local neighborhood association or…. By Hiroaki Richard Watanabe. Japan and Italy encountered severe economic problems in the early s, and the governments had to deal with those issues effectively under the increasing neoliberal pressures of globalisation.

In this context, labour market deregulation was considered an effective tool to cope with those economic…. For several decades internationalisation has been a cornerstone of both Japanese government higher education policy and approaches to reform at an institutional level, but Japan has still not managed to lose its reputation as a somewhat reclusive member of the global academic community. Edited by Barbara Holthus , Wolfram Manzenreiter. Much of the existing literature on happiness in Japan has been produced in the field of economics and psychology and is quantitative in nature.

Here, for the first time, a group of anthropologists and sociologists jointly analyze the state of happiness and unhappiness in Japan among varying social…. Edited by Yoichi Funabashi , Koichi Nakano. When the Democratic Party of Japan DPJ came to power in September , Japanese citizens expected the imminent arrival of a new political era, characterized by a two-party system.

However, in addition to the triple disasters of March , the DPJ faced numerous difficulties arising from its…. In this book, Junji Banno…. The middle-class nuclear family model has long dominated discourses on family in Japan. Yet there have always been multiple configurations of family and kinship, which, in the context of significant socio-economic and demographic shifts since the s, have become increasingly visible in public…. Dearing looks at the political and economic context within which the plans for Tsukuba were laid, how those plans changed during the process of implementation, and at the functioning of….

However, this changed dramatically in the s, and by the s, youth employment came to be recognized as a serious…. By Andrew Fraser , R. Mason , Philip Mitchell. Japan's Early Parliaments, is the first detailed study of the early history of the Japanese Diet, providing a thorough discussion of the origins of the Japanese parliament, still the central institution of Japanese politics, and its development during this formative period. Rather than focusing on the evolution of….

By Helene Bowen Raddeker. Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in and of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in prison, but both women maintained their defiance of the state even in the face of death. After the Meiji Restoration of Japan modernized rapidly, transforming itself perhaps more quickly than any other country in history.

However, the change was not without its conflicts, many of them still unresolved as the pleasures of modern society vie with a respect for the traditional…. This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan.

Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, Tipton links everyday lives with major historical developments,…. However since the s there have been growing doubts as to the real degree of social equality in Japan, particularly in the context of…. Edited by Christoph Brumann , Evelyn Schulz. Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space.

Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, this book examines the potential of civil society in contemporary…. Written by an internationally recognized specialist on Buraku studies, this book casts new light on majority-minority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation. Ian Neary focuses on the Burakumin activist, left-wing politician, family company manager and arguably the most important Buraku…. Like many industrialised nations, the current employment trend in Japan centres on diversification of the labour market with an increased use of temporary labour.

Among a wide range of non-regular labour arrangements, haken are a newly legalised category of non-regular workers who are typically…. The descriptions Chinese and Japanese people attribute to themselves and to each other differ vastly and stand in stark contrast to Western perceptions that usually identify a 'similar disposition' between the two nations.

Academic Nationals in China and Japan explores human categories, how…. Japan's Interventionist State gives a detailed examination of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and its role in promoting, protecting and preserving the regime of agricultural support and protection. This account is integral to the author's extended and multidimensional…. Democracy in Post-War Japan assesses the development of democracy through the writings of the brilliant political thinker Maruyama Masao.

The author explores the significance of Maruyama's notion of personal and social autonomy and its impact on the development of a distinctively Japanese…. Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan. Stephen Large draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his study of Emperor Hirohito's political role in Showa Japan An almost obsessional use of numbers characterizes Japanese popular culture.

A wide variety of numerical formulae and strategies provide the means for explaining events and solving problems occurring in everyday life. These include such matters as the choice of the name for a child, ranking in…. Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting "postwar" to be the years directly proceeding World War II.

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