Handbooks on Japanese Studies
About the Book Series
The Handbook on Japanese Studies series focuses on the broad field of Japanese Studies, aimed at the worldwide English language scholarly market, to be published in English. The aim is to publish an average of six such volumes per annum initially. Each Handbook will contain an average of 20 newly written contributions (not exceeding about 8,000 words each) on various aspects of the topic, which together will comprise an up-to-date survey of use to scholars and students. The focus will be on Humanities and Social Sciences.
Handbook of Japan-Korea Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark E. Caprio, Robert Winstanley-Chesters
August 31, 2026
This Handbook examines relations between Japan and Korea from1850 to the present. Analysing almost 200 years of Japan and Korea relations uncovers a relationship that has been both congenial and confrontational. This Handbook examines these relations in this age of modernity by dividing it into ...
Handbook of Women in Japanese Buddhism
1st Edition
Edited
By Monika Schrimpf, Emily B. Simpson
August 24, 2026
This handbook explores Buddhist women’s lives and agency from ancient times to the present in Japan. The book examines lives and representations of Buddhist women by utilizing a thematic approach, with each theme representing a network of interrelated gender roles, norms and hierarchies that ...
Handbook of Buraku Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy D. Amos
August 11, 2026
This handbook explores the history, culture, social challenges of Japan’s Burakumin through the multifaceted scholarship of current Buraku studies. The handbook situates Buraku studies by examining the origins of the Burakumin, from Japan’s medieval outcaste groups and their connections and ...
Handbook of Japan-European Union Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Cogan
June 22, 2026
This Handbook explores the relationship between Japan and the European Union (EU). The book begins by outlining the political, cultural and historical context for the relationship, from the first encounter by Portuguese traders in the mid-16th century to the post-Cold War era highlighting how ...
Handbook of Japanese Labor Practices: Changing Perceptions
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Sakamoto
May 26, 2026
This volume examines the three pillars of Japanese management—lifetime employment, seniority-based wages and promotions, and enterprise unions—from the viewpoint of both Japanese and non-Japanese scholars. Multiple chapters revolve around the themes of labor practices found in Japan including ...
Handbook of Disaster Studies in Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Paola Cavaliere, Junko Otani
January 22, 2026
This volume is a critical interrogation of the concept, meaning and experience of disaster in 21st-century Japan. Throughout the chapters, a central theme and guiding theoretical perspective is the recognition of the human element in disasters. The evolution of disaster studies in Japan over the ...
Handbook of Japanese Tourism and Hospitality
1st Edition
Edited
By Hideto Fujii
January 22, 2026
The Handbook of Tourism and Hospitality in Japan explains how Japanese nature, society, and culture are related to essential elements of tourism, hospitality, and tourism resources. Japan has created a new type of tourism based on the harmonized relationship between its natural and cultural ...
The Advent of Sound in Japanese Cinema: A Handbook
1st Edition
Edited
By Sean O'Reilly
January 22, 2026
The advent of synchronous sound is the most fundamental rupture in the history of cinema. Building on the growing general interest in and the excellent recent scholarship on Japanese cinema’s fraught transition to sound, this book paradoxically offers a narrow thematic and chronological focus yet ...
Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Shaun O'Dwyer
December 01, 2025
In mainstream assessments of Confucianism's modern genealogy there is a Sinocentric bias which is, in part, the result of a general neglect of modern Japanese Confucianism by political and moral philosophers and intellectual historians during the post-war era. This collection of essays joins a ...
Handbook of Environmental History in Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Fujihara Tatsushi
December 01, 2025
Japan: a land plagued by volcanoes, earthquakes and typhoons, yet blessed with a climate suitable for all manner of agriculture and forestry, and positioned where ocean currents collide and bring an abundance of the ocean's resources to its people; a country which moved quickly from an agrarian ...
Handbook of Higher Education in Japan
1st Edition
By Paul Snowden
December 01, 2025
Just as higher education (HE) in Europe had its beginnings in religious training for the priesthood, HE in feudal Japan, too, provided instruction for a religious life. But while the evolution to secular instruction was gradual in Europe, in Japan it came with a big bang: the opening of the country...
Handbook of Japan-Russia Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Kazuhiko Togo, Dmitry Streltsov
December 01, 2025
The history of official relations between Russia and Japan encompasses a period of a little more than one hundred and fifty years, but stretch back unofficially for at least double that amount of time. But for both Russia and Japan, these relations have never been a key element of foreign policy, ...