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Routledge Contemporary Japan Japanese-Russian Relations 1907-2007 (Hardcover)

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japanese-Russian relations from the end of the Russo-Japanese War until the present. Based on extensive original research in both Japanese and Russian sources it traces the development of relations from the... more

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Stud Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures Sorting and Strategies (Paperback)

Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy and the first examples of middle-mass society. Today and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990 s the promises of... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan The Rise of Japanese NGOs (Hardcover)

Over the past two decades non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have exploded in number and emerged as a new force in international and transnational politics. Why however do some countries nonetheless have more active NGO sectors than others? Using... more

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Stud Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures Sorting and Strategies (Hardcover)

Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy and the first examples of middle-mass society. Today and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990 s the promises of... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan: The Presidentialization of Japanese Politics (Hardcover)

Are we seeing the presidentialization of politics in Japan? Certainly many recent prime ministers have demonstrated powerful leadership notably Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe. While the phenomenon of presidentialization has been much discussed for... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Japanese Love Hotels: A Cultural History (Paperback)

Drawing on theories of place consumption and identity Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution then were extremely popular in... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Marriage in Contemporary Japan Book 26 (Hardcover)

The phenomenon of bankonka - postponement of marriage - is increasingly reported in contemporary Japanese media clearly illustrating the changing patterns of modern lifestyles and attitudes towards marriage personal obligation and ambition. This is the... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Japan s Contested War Memories: The Memory Rifts in Historical Consciousness of World War II (Hardcover)

Japan s Contested War Memories is an important and significant book that explores the struggles within contemporary Japanese society to come to terms with Second World War history. Focusing particularly on 1972 onwards the period starts with the... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Japan s Contested War Memories: The Memory Rifts in Historical Consciousness of World War II (Paperback)

Japan s Contested War Memories is an important and significant book that explores the struggles within contemporary Japanese society to come to terms with Second World War history. Focusing particularly on 1972 onwards the period starts with the... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Challenges of Human Resource Management in Japan (Hardcover)

Human resource management systems differ across corporations around the world. Japan has unique characteristics that create specific challenges for HRM and there is currently a lack of research focusing on Japanese HR issues available to westerners.... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis Literature Culture (Hardcover)

How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki s canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make of Jacques Lacan s infamous claim that because of... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Japan in the Age of Globalization (Hardcover)

The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have indeed affected Japan significantly over the past decades. But so it must be said has Japan influenced a variety of critical global developments - globalization is not a one-way street particularly... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Language Life in Japan: Transformations and Prospects Book 34 (Hardcover)

Despite its monolingual self-image Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan s autochthonous languages such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages there are... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty Lessons (Hardcover)

How did East and West Germany and Japan reconstitute national identity after World War II? Did all three experience parallel reactions to national trauma and reconstruction? History education shaped how these nations reconceived their national... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan The Quest for Japan s New Constitution (Hardcover)

This book examines the many attempts over the last three decades to revise Japan s constitution. As the book shows these attempts at revision have been relatively conservative aiming to embed in the constitution visions of a different future for Japan.... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Avant-Garde Art and Non-Dominant Thought in Postwar Japan: Image Matter Separation (Hardcover)

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... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Cities Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan (Paperback)

Adding a new perspective to the current literature on decentralization in Japan Cities Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan approaches the subject from an urban studies and planning approach. The essays in the collection present a cogent compilation... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Civil Society and the Internet in Japan (Paperback)

Using case studies interviews and empirical sources this book analyzes the strategies and impact of Internet use by civil society actors and asks how useful it is for their work - does the availability of Internet tools change the way citizens groups... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty Lessons (Paperback)

How did East and West Germany and Japan reconstitute national identity after World War II? Did all three experience parallel reactions to national trauma and reconstruction? History education shaped how these nations reconceived their national... more

Routledge Studies in Asia s Transformati Democracy in Occupied Japan: The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society (Paperback)

With expert contributions from both the US and Japan this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society and discusses the long-term impact of the Occupation on contemporary Japan. Focusing on two central themes -... more

Routledge Library Editions: Japan British Factory Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations (Hardcover)

The Japanese way of work is notoriously different . But is it Japan or Britain which is the odd man out? When originally published this was the first book to explore the real differences through a point-by-point comparison of two Japanese factories... more

Routledge Library Editions: Japan Direct Foreign Investment: A Japanese Model of Multi-National Business Operations (Hardcover)

Direct foreign investment and the activities of multinational corporations are new dynamic elements in the international economy. This book identifies theoretically and practically a Japanese model of multinational business operations which has... more

Routledge/Leiden Modern East Asian Polit China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period: China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity 1895-1904 (Paperback)

The first war between China and Japan in 1894/95 was one of the most fateful events not only in modern Japanese and Chinese history but in international history as well. The war and subsequent events catapulted Japan on its trajectory toward temporary... more

Routledge Library Editions: Japan Japanese Whaling?: End of an Era (Hardcover)

This book gives a social anthropological account of whaling culture in Japan. When originally published this was the first comprehensive account in English of the history of Japanese whaling showing how it has given rise to a particular culture. The... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History Britain Japan and China 1876-1895: East Asian International Relations before the First Sino-Japanese War (Paperback)

This book revises the conventional wisdom about the Anglo-Japanese relationship in the late nineteenth century that these two countries were bound by mutual sympathy and common interests and therefore the common ground which led to the signing of the... more

Shingu: A Study Of A Japanese Fishing Community (Routledge Library Editions: Japan Vol. 75) - Kalland Arne

From Being An Important Centre Which Attracted A Large Number Of Merchants During The Feudal Period Shingū On The Northern Shores Of Kyushu Is Today A Suburb Of Fukuoka City. Fishing Is A Slowly-Dying Occupation And This Volume Analyses How The... more

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Stud Labour Migration from China to Japan: International Students Transnational Migrants (Hardcover)

Chinese students are the largest international student population in the world and Japan attracts more of them than any other country. Since the mid-1980s when China opened the door to let private citizens out and Japan began to let more foreigners in... more

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Stud Policy Entrepreneurship and Elections in Japan: A Political Biogaphy of Ozawa Ichir� (Hardcover)

Ozawa Ichir� is one of the most important figures in Japanese politics having held the positions of Chief Secretary of the Liberal Democrat Party and after defection from the LDP President of the Democratic Party of Japan. Ozawa has distinctive ideas... more

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Stud Living Cities in Japan: Citizens Movements Machizukuri and Local Environments (Paperback)

Over the last fifteen years local citizens movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment and of environmental management processes such activities are widely referred to as... more

Routledge Library Editions: Japan The Anatomy of Japanese Business (Hardcover)

This volume collects eleven essays written by Japanese experts on various aspects of Japanese business management and is a sequel to the volume Industry and Business in Japan. It examines the mechanisms for Japan s phenomenal economic growth since the... more

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Stud The US-Japan Alliance (Hardcover)

Japan s use of Soft power in its international politics is as yet understudied. Soft power presents as many challenges as promises. This book explores the way Japan uses soft power in its relationship with the US its Asian neighbours and Europe and... more

Routledge Contemporary Asia Soft Power in Japan-China Relations: State sub-state and non-state relations (Hardcover)

Soft power has tended to be overlooked in the field of international relations often dismissed as lacking relevance or robustness as a theoretical concept. This book seeks to expand upon the idea of soft power in international relations and to... more

Routledge Contemporary South Asia Pakistan-Japan Relations: Continuity and Change in Economic Relations and Security Interests (Hardcover)

This is the first book-length study to explain the complex nature of Pakistan-Japan relations. It analyses the evolution and development of relations between the two countries by defining two key factors: economic interests and security concerns in the... more

Routledge Contemporary Asia Business Innovation in Asia: Knowledge and Technology Networks from Japan (Hardcover)

Industrial competition with rising economies new regional investment from the West and trade pacts among competitors threaten Japan s long postwar prominence. Global market dynamics and regional competition prompted the shift from offshore factories to... more

Routledge Contemporary Asia Business Innovation in Asia: Knowledge and Technology Networks from Japan (Paperback)

Industrial competition with rising economies new regional investment from the West and trade pacts among competitors threaten Japan s long postwar prominence. Global market dynamics and regional competition prompted the shift from offshore factories to... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan The Novels of Oe Kenzaburo (Hardcover)

Ôe Kenzaburô was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. This critical study examines Ôe s entire career from 1957 - 2006 and includes chapters on Ôe s later novels not published in English. Through close readings at different points in Ôe... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan The Novels of Oe Kenzaburo (Paperback)

Ôe Kenzaburô was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. This critical study examines Ôe s entire career from 1957 - 2006 and includes chapters on Ôe s later novels not published in English. Through close readings at different points in Ôe... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan: Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The Yakeato Generation (Paperback)

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... more