Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy

Jonathan DIL

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as much ... Lees meer

Selected Essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• During the sweeping changes taking place in 19th century Japan, no thinker was more important than Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Born into a low-ranki... Lees meer

Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands

Pedro Iacobelli

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Placing a distinct focus on the role of the sending state, this book examines the history of postwar Japan's migration policy, linking it to the large... Lees meer

Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan

Jan Bardsley

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan offers a fresh perspective on gender politics by focusing on the Japanese housewife of the 1950s as a controvers... Lees meer

Politics and Power in 20th-Century Japan

Mikuriya Takashi, Nakamura Takafusa

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Miyazawa Kiichi played a leading role in Japan's government and politics from 1942 until 2003, during which time he served as Prime Minister, and also... Lees meer

Media, Propaganda and Politics in 20th-Century Japan

The Asahi Shimbun Company

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• This book investigates the role played by the Asahi Newspaper , one of Japan's largest daily newspapers, as a mediator of information and power during... Lees meer

Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen

Griseldis Kirsch

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Japan and China look back on a history of friendship as well as friction, particularly in recent decades. As the People's Republic of China's economy ... Lees meer

Media, Propaganda and Politics in 20th-Century Japan

The Asahi Shimbun Company

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• This book investigates the role played by the Asahi Newspaper , one of Japan's largest daily newspapers, as a mediator of information and power during... Lees meer

Japan's Empire of Birds

Annika A Culver

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• As a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology focuses on the political aspect... Lees meer

Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• With the spread of manga (Japanese comics) and anime (Japanese cartoons) around the world, many have adopted the Japanese term 'otaku' to identify fan... Lees meer

Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War

Ethan Mark

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the... Lees meer

Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War

Peter Wetzler

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Informed Western understanding of Imperial Japan still often conjures up images of militarism, blind devotion to leaders, and fanatical pride in the c... Lees meer

Selected Essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• During the sweeping changes taking place in 19th century Japan, no thinker was more important than Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Born into a low-ranki... Lees meer

Japanese Taiwan

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Colonial agents worked for fifty years to make a Japanese Taiwan, using technology, culture, statistics, trade, and modern ideologies to remake their ... Lees meer

Engineering Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in... Lees meer

Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• When Emperor Hirohito announced defeat in a radio broadcast on 15th August 1945, Japan was not merely a nation; it was a colossal empire stretching fr... Lees meer

Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society

Tomoyuki Sasaki

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Japan's so-called 'peace constitution' renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation, and bans the nation from possessing any war potential. Yet Ja... Lees meer

Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War

Ethan Mark

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the... Lees meer

Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan

Martyn David Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan addresses Japan's evolving nationalism and national identity in relation to its newly r... Lees meer

Japanese Taiwan

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Colonial agents worked for fifty years to make a Japanese Taiwan, using technology, culture, statistics, trade, and modern ideologies to remake their ... Lees meer

Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan

Emily Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan explores how Japanese Protestants engaged with the unsettling changes that resulted from Japan's emergenc... Lees meer

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan

Simon Gunn, Susan C Townsend

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Brit... Lees meer

Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism

Yuka Hiruma Kishida

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism makes a fresh contribution to the recent effort to re-examine the Japanese wartime ideology of P... Lees meer

Post-Fascist Japan

Laura Hein

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
• In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat ... Lees meer