Others in Japanese Agriculture

Kenichi Yasuoka

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• Japan's national identity associates the 'Japanese people' with the Japanese land, making the farmer the backbone of the nation. Others in Japanese Ag... Lees meer

A History of the Pachinko Industry

Jaehyang Han

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• Pachinko parlors offer a form of gambling unique to Japan located near train stations, in the suburbs, and in other everyday living spaces. Before Wor... Lees meer

From Salvation to Spirituality

Susumu Shimazono

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• Susumu Shimazono, one of Japan's foremost sociologists of religion, deals with the development of popular religious and spiritual movements in Japan i... Lees meer

Living on the Streets in Japan

Satomi Maruyama

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant model of a "homeless person" has been that of an unem... Lees meer

The Boundaries of 'The Japanese'

Eiji Oguma

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• In this the parallel volume to The Boundaries of 'the Japanese': Volume 1: Okinawa 1818-1972 (2014), renowned historical sociologist Eiji Oguma furthe... Lees meer

Japan's Ultra-Right

Naoto Higuchi

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• This book is a comprehensive account of the nativist movement in Japan today. Naoto Higuchi uses the life histories of activists to establish that the... Lees meer

The Modern Family in Japan

Chizuko Ueno

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• This award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall of the modern family in Japan. Combining historical,... Lees meer

Demographic Change and Inequality in Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• Japan is a rapidly aging society with a declining birthrate and increasing lifespan. The nation's youth tend to marry late, and some never engage in t... Lees meer

Postwar South Korea and Japanese Popular Culture

Sungmin Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | Japanese Society
• After World War II, Japanese popular culture was "banned" in Korea. However, despite the official ban, Japanese popular culture was introduced and cir... Lees meer

The State Construction of 'Japaneseness'

Masataka Endo

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• For more than 140 years, Japan's koseki registration system has functioned as the official means by which an individual qualifies as 'Japanese.' Infor... Lees meer

U.S. Occupation of Okinawa

Hideko Yoshimoto

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persuade the local Okinawan public that the US administrat... Lees meer

Hegemony of Homogeneity

Harumi Befu

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• Much of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain stereotypes about the Japanese. Harumi Befu spearhead... Lees meer

In Pursuit of the Seikatsusha

Masako Amano

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• Now available in paperback, this book explores Japan's home-grown concept of seikatsusha that resembles 'citizen, ' 'people, ' 'consumer, ' 'common ma... Lees meer

Pop Culture and the Everyday in Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• Manga, anime, J-pop, and other forms of Japan's mass culture are increasingly popular around the world, a situation which requires structural, demogra... Lees meer

Postwar South Korea and Japanese Popular Culture

Sungmin Kim

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• After World War II, Japanese popular culture was "banned" in Korea. However, despite the official ban, Japanese popular culture was introduced and cir... Lees meer

Nationalism and Gender

Chizuko Ueno

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• This is written by a sociologist and Japan's "most famous feminist", Chizuko Ueno. A discursive battle over how Japan's history should be remembered c... Lees meer

Scams and Sweeteners

Masahiro Ogino

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• In Scams and Sweeteners, author Masahiro Ogino presents his sociological reflections on fraudulent acts, which are preformed in the space that is not ... Lees meer

An Ecological View of History

Harumi Befu, Beth Cary, Tadao Umesao

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• This is the first English version of Tadao Umesao's classic, published first in Japanese in 1957, with a full description of his "ecological theory" o... Lees meer

A Genealogy of Japanese Self-Images

Eiji Oguma

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• This book presents a counter-argument to the widely held view that the Japanese have believed that they are a homogeneous nation since the Meiji perio... Lees meer

Toyota's Assembly Line

Ryoji Ihara

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• Anybody who is a dedicated Toyota driver and admirer of the Toyota Production System would be shocked to read of Ryoji Ihara's experience as a casual ... Lees meer

Youth Deviance in Japan

Robert Stuart Yoder

• Hardcover | Engels | Japanese Society
• Based on fieldwork spanning two decades, this book presents a longitudinal study of deviance and crime among youths in Kanagawa-ken, with a focus upon... Lees meer

Creating Subaltern Counterpublics

Akwi Seo

• Hardcover | Engels | Japanese Society
• This is a study of a political and social movement instigated by older Korean women in Japan, beginning in the 1990s. Koreans in Japan have occupied a... Lees meer

Health Inequalities in Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | Japanese Society
• The life expectancy of the Japanese is among the highest in the world, and their preventive system to avoid nursing care is attracting international a... Lees meer

Beyond Fukushima

Koichi Hasegawa

• Paperback | Engels | Japanese Society
• ''It finally dawned on us. The government was unreliable. Politicians and bureaucrats were unreliable. The media were untrustworthy. The brutal realit... Lees meer