Social Networks and Japanese Democracy

Ken'ichi Ikeda, Sean Richey

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan | nr. 37
• Many who critique democracy as practiced in East Asia suggest that the Confucian political culture of these nations prevents democracy from being the ... Lees meer

A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Many people in the West portray Japan as being fixed in its ways, and unable to change, and consequently risking national decline and international lo... Lees meer

Language Life in Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of m... Lees meer

The Changing Japanese Family

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan | nr. 8
• The Japanese family is shifting in fundamental ways, specifically in terms of attitudes towards family and societal relationships, and also the role o... Lees meer

Japan-Bashing

Narrelle Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• The aim of this book is to examine and analyse the phenomenon of 'Japan-bashing', from its invention and popularisation in the United States in the la... Lees meer

Japan's Local Newspapers

Anthony Rausch

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Japan is one of the world's most literate societies. Its national newspapers are the most read newspapers in the world, and the country also has a ver... Lees meer

EU-Japan Relations, 1970-2012

Keck Jorn

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• This book presents a comprehensive overview of EU-Japan relations from 1970 to the present. It charts developments over the period, analyses key speci... Lees meer

Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys

Julian Dierkes

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• How did East and West Germany and Japan reconstitute national identity after World War II? Did all three experience parallel reactions to national tra... Lees meer

Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history. The articles explore the representation o... Lees meer

Fukushima and the Arts

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11 March 2011 disaster, or 3.11, have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japanese ... Lees meer

Japanese Propriety, Past and Present

Florian Coulmas

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• This book explores the stereotype that Japan is the world's most polite country, examining how proper conduct is acquired and expressed, and how the a... Lees meer

The Japanese Restaurant

Iori Hamada

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant worker... Lees meer

Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan

Genaro Castro-Vázquez

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Drawing on the concept of the somatic self, Castro-Vázquez explores how Japanese men think about, express and interpret their experiences concerning b... Lees meer

Adoption in Japan

Peter Hayes, Toshie Habu

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan | nr. 9
• The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of a... Lees meer

Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film

Marc Yamada

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the "lost decades" of Japan's Heisei period (1989-2019).... Lees meer

Dark Heritage in Contemporary Japan

Jung-Sun Han

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• This book examines civic activism to conserve dark heritage built by the colonial and wartime labor regime in contemporary Japan. Introducing and anal... Lees meer

The Origin of Japan's Protectionist Agricultural Policy

Hironori Sasada

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• This book explores the origins of Japan's protectionist agricultural policies through an in-depth historical analysis of Japanese agricultural policie... Lees meer

Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Adding a new perspective to the current literature on decentralization in Japan, Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan , approaches the subje... Lees meer

Language Life in Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan | nr. 34
• Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of m... Lees meer

Japanese Apologies for World War II

Jane Yamazaki

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Post-war Japan offers a compelling case study of national apologies for past wrongdoings. Actions of the Japanese Army and government during the Secon... Lees meer

Japanese Public Diplomacy in European Countries

Nadejda Gadjeva

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• To address the issue of the lack of integration and common policy among Japan's cultural promotion actors and institutions, Gadjeva explores an integr... Lees meer

Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan | nr. 27
• Instead of asking the usual questions about Japanese aid -- Why is Japanese aid so different from that of other donors? Is Japanese aid effective? -- ... Lees meer

Civil Society and the Internet in Japan

Isa Ducke

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Using case studies, interviews, and empirical sources, this book analyzes the strategies and impact of Internet use by civil society actors and asks h... Lees meer

Examining Japan's Lost Decades

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• This book examines five features of Japan's 'Lost Decades' the speed of the economic decline in Japan compared to Japan's earlier global prowess; a ra... Lees meer