Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of contemporary Japan.
Japanese-Russian Relations, 1907–2007
1st Edition
By Joseph Ferguson
May 11, 2011
This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japanese-Russian relations from the end of the Russo-Japanese War until the present. Based on extensive original research in both Japanese and Russian sources, it traces the development of relations from the tumultuous pre-war period, through the Second ...
Homosexuality and Manliness in Postwar Japan
1st Edition
By Jonathan D. Mackintosh
April 14, 2011
Japan’s first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku (‘The Rose Tribes’), was launched in 1971. Publicly declaring the beauty and normality of homosexual desire, Barazoku electrified the male homosexual world whilst scandalising ...
The Novels of Oe Kenzaburo
1st Edition
By Yasuko Claremont
April 04, 2011
Ôe Kenzaburô was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. This critical study examines Ôe’s entire career from 1957 – 2006 and includes chapters on Ôe’s later novels not published in English. Through close readings at different points in Ôe’s career Yasuko Claremont establishes the spiritual...
Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty lessons
1st Edition
By Julian Dierkes
March 17, 2011
How did East and West Germany and Japan reconstitute national identity after World War II? Did all three experience parallel reactions to national trauma and reconstruction? History education shaped how these nations reconceived their national identities. Because the content of history education ...
Civil Society and the Internet in Japan
1st Edition
By Isa Ducke
March 15, 2011
Using case studies, interviews, and empirical sources, this book analyzes the strategies and impact of Internet use by civil society actors and asks how useful it is for their work – does the availability of Internet tools change the way citizens’ groups work, does it influence their effectiveness,...
Japanese Love Hotels: A Cultural History
1st Edition
By Sarah Chaplin
December 13, 2010
Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the...
Japan's Contested War Memories: The 'Memory Rifts' in Historical Consciousness of World War II
1st Edition
By Philip A. Seaton
November 19, 2010
Japan's Contested War Memories is an important and significant book that explores the struggles within contemporary Japanese society to come to terms with Second World War history. Focusing particularly on 1972 onwards, the period starts with the normalization of relations with China and ...
Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan
1st Edition
By Nanette Gottlieb
October 15, 2010
This book is the first full-length study in English to examine the use of discriminatory language in Japan. As in other countries, there has been much debate about the public use of language deemed demeaning to certain groups within society especially in relation to the issue of minority rights ...
Translation in Modern Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Indra Levy
August 31, 2010
The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism ...
A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan
1st Edition
By Soeda Azembo, Michael Lewis (Translator)
July 20, 2010
A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan. Azembo ...
Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity
1st Edition
By David Chapman
September 17, 2009
Shedding light on contemporary Japanese society in an international context, Japanese-Korean relations and modern day notions of a multicultural Japan, this book addresses the broad notions and questions of citizenship, identity, ethnicity and belonging through investigation of Japan’s Korean ...
Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Carola Hein, Philippe Pelletier
May 26, 2009
Adding a new perspective to the current literature on decentralization in Japan, Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan, approaches the subject from an urban studies and planning approach. The essays in the collection present a cogent compilation of case studies focusing on the past, ...