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 Japanese Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Leszek Buszynski
December 01, 2025
Japan has risen in stature to become an important player not only in the Western Pacific, but the wider Indo-Pacific. From a defeated nation that adopted a pacifist constitution and demilitarization, Japan has been provoked by unwelcomed external events to ensure its security. It has faced a ...
Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Copeland
December 01, 2025
The Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers offers a comprehensive overview of women writers in Japan, from the late 19th century to the early 21st. Featuring 24 newly written contributions from scholars in the field—representing expertise from North America, Europe, Japan, and ...
Handbook of Sport and Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Helen Macnaughtan, Verity Postlethwaite
December 01, 2025
The Handbook of Sport and Japan presents a fascinating collection of established and new scholarship, a valuable text for readers who want to use sport as lens to look more closely into a nation. The handbook draws on a diversity of perspectives, disciplines and experiences all of which respond to ...
Reconsidering Postwar Japanese History: A Handbook
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Avenell
December 01, 2025
After war defeat in 1945, Japan underwent historic political, economic and social transformations resulting in the country’s rebirth as an economic powerhouse and exemplar of liberal democracy in East Asia. This handbook expands and enriches our understanding of this tumultuous contemporary era in ...
Teaching Japan: A Handbook
1st Edition
Edited
By Ioannis Gaitanidis, Gregory Poole
December 01, 2025
This book aims to offer ideas and examples of pedagogy in the undergraduate classroom. The basic premise taken by the authors begins with a question: What if stereotypes surrounding Japan were not pushed to the margins in teaching but took center stage and were exposed for the multiple ways that ...
The Annotated Constitution of Japan: A Handbook
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin Jones
December 01, 2025
The Annotated Constitution of Japan: A Handbook for the first time makes the entirety of Japan’s constitution accessible in English. The book consists of a historical and contextual overview of how the constitution came into being, followed by descriptions of each of its 103 articles; the meaning ...
Handbook of Feminisms in Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Germer, Ulrike Wöhr
May 20, 2025
The Handbook of Feminisms in Japan seeks to give a broad and, even without prior knowledge of Japan, easily accessible introduction to a range of feminisms in this non-Western context. With a useful comparative framework, it aims to advance transnational and international perspectives on feminisms ...
Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachael Hutchinson
May 20, 2025
The Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay showcases the rich variety of games in Japan, placing them in the context of industry, development processes, and a broader media ecology. We trace Japanese games through history, including card games, board games, pachinko and digital games, as well as ...
Handbook of Japan's Foreign and Domestic Policies During the Decade of Abe
1st Edition
Edited
By Tosh Minohara
March 26, 2025
No Japanese leader has dominated Japan’s recent political landscape more than the late Abe Shinzo. With the this as the basic premise, the main objective of this compiled volume is to examine and assess Japan’s foreign and domestic polices during the 2010s, a decade which largely overlaps with Abe’...
Handbook of Civil Society in Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Avenell, Akihiro Ogawa
February 20, 2025
Civil society in Japan is a large and multifaceted sphere with a diversity of actors pursuing various social, political, and economic objectives. The sphere has experienced major waves of transformation in the post-1945 era, especially in the 1990s when volunteering and nonprofit activities came to...
Handbook of Japan’s Environmental Law, Policy and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Hiroshi Ohta
February 20, 2025
This handbook offers an exposition of the contemporary status of Japan's environmental law, policy, and politics. The compass of ecological quandaries explored within this tome is expansive, encompassing issues pertinent to both natural and synthetic ecosystems, natural resources, and inorganic ...