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

Japan's Foreign Aid to Africa

Pedro Amakasu Raposo

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was established in 1993 with the intention of creating opportunities for trade and i... Lees meer

Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia

Taizo Miyagi

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• More than any other region in the world, Asia has witnessed tremendous change in the post-war era. A continent once engulfed by independence and revol... Lees meer

The Japanese Communist Party

Peter Berton, Sam Atherton

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• This book provides an historical overview of the Japanese Communist Party from its foundation to the present. It outlines the development of the party... Lees meer

Japan's Border Issues

Akihiro Iwashita

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Japan was sometimes described as a country of "peace" during the Cold War period, in contrast to the continental border conflicts taking place at the ... Lees meer

Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• 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 star... Lees meer

Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan

• Hardcover | 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

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

A Japanese Joint Venture in the Pacific

Kate Barclay

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• The Japanese, and other Asians, are increasingly taking over some of the roles previously played by Europeans in the Pacific islands, which is giving ... Lees meer

Japan's Nationalist Right in the Internet Age

Jeffrey J Hall

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Japan's nationalist right have used the internet to organise offline activism in increasingly visible ways. Hall investigates the role of internet-med... Lees meer

Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental healt... 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

Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental healt... Lees meer

Homosexuality and Manliness in Postwar Japan

Jonathan D Mackintosh

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Japan's first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku ('The Rose Tribes'), was laun... Lees meer

Rethinking Japanese Studies

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• 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... Lees meer

Critical Review of the Abe Administration

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• The second Abe administration, which lasted for seven years and eight months, turned out to be the longest administration in Japan's constitutional hi... Lees meer

Japan's Colonial Moment in Southeast Asia 1942-1945

Nakano Satoshi

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• The first-ever attempt to paint a full-scale portrait of the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia during the Asia-Pacific War (1942-5). This book dra... Lees meer

Social Networks and Japanese Democracy

Ken'ichi Ikeda, Sean Richey

• Paperback | 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

Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Katsuyuki Hidaka

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Hailed by Japanese critics as a milestone in the study of contemporary Japanese media, this book explores the contemporary 'boom' in Japanese media re... Lees meer

Decision-Making Reform in Japan

Karol Zakowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• In the election to the House of Representatives in 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) almost tripled the number of its lower house members by w... Lees meer

Civil Society and the Internet in Japan

Isa Ducke

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Using case studies, interviews, and empirical sources, Isa Ducke has produced an original work, analyzing the strategies and impact of Internet use by... Lees meer

Japan's Foreign Aid to Africa

Pedro Amakasu Raposo

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was established in 1993 with the intention of creating opportunities for trade and i... Lees meer

Challenging Nuclear Pacifism in Japan

Masae Yuasa

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary Japan
• Is Japan abandoning its pacifism? The Japanese government has claimed it is doubling its defense spending and has announced a plan to equip itself wit... Lees meer