Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
About the Book Series
Despite Japan's importance in the modern world, much about Japan remains unknown outside the country. This series provides informative, original, detailed studies on a variety of aspects of modern Japan.
It has established itself as an authoritative available source of scholarship on all aspects of Japan. Publishing policy is directed by some of the most respected names in Japanese studies.
The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan: The Career of Matsumoto Jiichiro
1st Edition
By Ian Neary
February 27, 2015
Written by an internationally recognized specialist on Buraku studies, this book casts new light on majority-minority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation. Ian Neary focuses on the Burakumin activist, left-wing politician, family company manager and arguably the most important Buraku ...
Urban Spaces in Japan: Cultural and Social Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Christoph Brumann, Evelyn Schulz
February 27, 2015
Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, this book examines the potential of civil society in contemporary ...
Academic Nations in China and Japan: Framed by Concepts of Nature, Culture and the Universal
1st Edition
By Margaret Sleeboom
December 22, 2014
The descriptions Chinese and Japanese people attribute to themselves and to each other differ vastly and stand in stark contrast to Western perceptions that usually identify a 'similar disposition' between the two nations. Academic Nationals in China and Japan explores human categories, how ...
Interpreting History in Sino-Japanese Relations: A Case-Study in Political Decision Making
1st Edition
By Caroline Rose
December 01, 2014
The first book-length study to examine the re-writing of school textbooks by the Japanese Education Ministry in an attempt to play down atrocities in China during World War II. The famous textbook crisis in 1982 was at the centre of a diplomatic storm extending through the 1980s as Sino-Japanese ...
The Nature of the Japanese State: Rationality and Rituality
1st Edition
By Brian J. McVeigh
December 01, 2014
Brian J. McVeigh uses a unique anthropological approach to step outside flawed stereotypes of Japanese society and really engage in the current debate over the role of bureaucracy in Japanese politics.To many in the West, Japan appears as a paradox: a rational, high-tech economic superpower and yet...
The Right to Life in Japan
1st Edition
By Noel Williams
December 01, 2014
The Right to Life in Japan is a study that brings new perspectives to bear on an extremely important topic for all those facing the moral dilemmas of such issues as abortion and the death penalty. It also helps to fill a gap in life, in social science and law studies of contemporary Japan.Noel ...
Japan's Interventionist State: The Role of the MAFF
1st Edition
By Aurelia George-Mulgan
September 11, 2014
Japan's Interventionist State gives a detailed examination of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and its role in promoting, protecting and preserving the regime of agricultural support and protection. This account is integral to the author's extended and multidimensional ...
Democracy in Post-War Japan: Maruyama Masao and the Search for Autonomy
1st Edition
By Rikki Kersten
August 12, 2014
Democracy in Post-War Japan assesses the development of democracy through the writings of the brilliant political thinker Maruyama Masao. The author explores the significance of Maruyama's notion of personal and social autonomy and its impact on the development of a distinctively Japanese ...
Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography
1st Edition
By Stephen Large
July 17, 2014
Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan.Stephen Large draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his study of Emperor Hirohito's political role in Showa Japan (1926-89). This ...
Endö Shüsaku: A Literature of Reconciliation
1st Edition
By Mark B. Williams
April 10, 2014
Endö Shüsaka is probably the most widely translated of all Japanese authors. In this first major study of Endö's works, Mark Williams moves the discussion on from the well-worn depictions of Endö as the 'Japanese Graham Greene', and places him in his own political and cultural context....
Japanese Numbers Game
1st Edition
By T Crump
April 10, 2014
An almost obsessional use of numbers characterizes Japanese popular culture. A wide variety of numerical formulae and strategies provide the means for explaining events and solving problems occurring in everyday life. These include such matters as the choice of the name for a child, ranking in ...
Japan's Postwar
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Lucken, Anne Bayard-Sakai, Emmanuel Lozerand
March 13, 2014
Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting "postwar" to be the years directly proceeding World War II. However, the contributors to this book take a unique approach to the concept of the postwar epoch and treat it as a ...