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.
Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeff Kingston
April 05, 2012
The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as thirty-eight meters in some places, news trickled out that Fukushima had experienced ...
A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Goodman, Yuki Imoto, Tuukka Toivonen
January 12, 2012
Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical ...
Ceremony and Ritual in Japan: Religious Practices in an Industrialized Society
1st Edition
Edited
By D. P. Martinez, Jan Van Bremen
November 08, 2011
Japan is one of the most urbanised and industrialised countries in the world. Yet the Japanese continue to practise a variety of religious rituals and ceremonies despite the high-tech, highly regimented nature of Japanese society. Ceremony and Ritual in Japan focuses on the traditional and ...
The Transformation of the Japanese Left: From Old Socialists to New Democrats
1st Edition
By Sarah Hyde
October 11, 2011
This book examines the transition within the Japanese party system that has seen the demise of ‘the old socialists’, the Japan Socialist Party, and in its place, the emergence of the Democratic Party of Japan as the leading opposition party. Sarah Hyde has produced an original book which looks...
Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute: Hokkaido-Sakhalin Relations
1st Edition
By Brad Williams
September 11, 2011
The unresolved territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the South Kuril Islands/Northern Territories remains the largest obstacle to concluding a peace treaty and fully normalising bilateral relations between the two nations. This book traces the evolution of transnational relations ...
The US-Japan Alliance: Balancing Soft and Hard Power in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By David Arase, Tsuneo Akaha
April 21, 2011
Japan's use of Soft power in its international politics is as yet understudied. Soft power presents as many challenges as promises. This book explores the way Japan uses soft power in its relationship with the US, its Asian neighbours and Europe and aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of ...
Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Sorting and Strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Hiroshi Ishida, David H. Slater
March 17, 2011
Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-mass" society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990’s, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far away. Social Class...
Living Cities in Japan: Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments
1st Edition
Edited
By André Sorensen, Carolin Funck
May 26, 2009
Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as machizukuri, and represent an important ...
Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919
1st Edition
By Naoko Shimazu
April 29, 2009
This study explores the Japanese motivations in raising the proposal for racial equality at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. This is the first comprehensive analysis of an historically significant event which has not been given adequate scholarly attention in the past. The story which unfolds ...
Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime
1st Edition
By Aurelia George Mulgan
January 13, 2006
Written by the world’s leading expert in the field, this book examines the evolution of Japanese agricultural policy in the post-war period, focusing particularly from the 1970s onwards when both domestic and external pressures for reform began to intensify. The author explains how the MAFF has ...
Japan at Play
1st Edition
By Joy Hendry
December 12, 2005
This book explores the myth, so abused by the mass media, that the Japanese are a grey, anonymous mass of efficient, obedient workers. The articles shed light on a Japan outside officialdom, a lively Japan of tumultuous and independent thought, inefficient and aesthetic, pleasure-loving, aggressive...
The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century
1st Edition
By André Sorensen
October 28, 2004
During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the planning ideas and methods of many other...