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.
The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Mina Qiao
December 18, 2024
This volume is the first book-length collection on Japanese literary and popular cultural responses to the coronavirus pandemic in English. Disrupting the narrative of COVID-19 as a catastrophe without precedent, this book contextualizes the COVID-19 global public health crisis and ...
The Japanese Restaurant: Tasting the New Exotic in Australia
1st Edition
By Iori Hamada
December 18, 2024
This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant workers and consumers. Through first-hand testimonies, collected from chefs, restaurateurs, gourmets and casual diners, it demonstrates how Japanese ...
Alternative Virtues: Japanese Perspectives on Christian and Confucian Traditions
1st Edition
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By Koji Tachibana
December 16, 2024
Incorporating various perspectives on the Japanese notion of virtue, Alternative Virtues investigates and expands our current understanding of virtue and presents a foundational case study of an alternative approach to virtues. The study of virtue has long been dominated by Western (i.e., Christian...
Japan’s Triple Disaster: Pursuing Justice after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Accident
1st Edition
Edited
By Natalia Novikova, Julia Gerster, Manuela G. Hartwig
November 29, 2024
The authors of this volume discuss questions of disaster and justice from various interdisciplinary vantage points, including public policy, science and technology studies, law, gender, sociology and psychology, social and cultural anthropology, town planning and tourism. The term "natural" ...
Political Economy of the Tokyo Olympics: Unrestrained Capital and Development without Sustainable Principles
1st Edition
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By Miyo Aramata
November 29, 2024
This book is an analysis of both contemporary Tokyo and the contemporary Olympic Games, emphasizing the role of late-stage capitalism and political economy in shaping both. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games were mired in scandal from the beginning of the bidding process all the way through to the end of...
Border-Crossing Japanese Literature: Reading Multiplicity
1st Edition
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By Akiko Uchiyama, Barbara Hartley
November 28, 2024
This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan. With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of ...
Civil Society and International Students in Japan: The Making of Social Capital
1st Edition
By Polina Ivanova
November 28, 2024
This book explores encounters and interactions between international students and local civil society organizations (CSOs) in Japan. Based on the results of a cross-case analysis, this study reveals the possibilities for international students in Japan of creating social capital in the short term ...
Japanese Digital Cultural Promotion: Online Experience of Kyoto
1st Edition
By Nadejda Gadjeva
November 28, 2024
Gadjeva uses Kyoto as a case study to explore the innovative mechanisms being used to promote Japanese culture and cultural properties since the outbreak of COVID-19. Beginning by setting out the main initiatives and actors involved in preserving, introducing, and utilizing Kyoto’s cultural ...
Japanese Propriety, Past and Present: Disciplined Liberalism
1st Edition
By Florian Coulmas
October 08, 2024
This book offers a fresh view on Japanese society focussing on the role of comportment for group cohesiveness. It explores the stereotype that Japan is the world’s most polite country, examining how proper conduct is acquired and expressed; and how the apparent conflict with some of the concepts ...
The Presidentialization of Japanese Politics
1st Edition
By Masahiro Iwasaki
October 08, 2024
Are we seeing the presidentialization of politics in Japan? Certainly, many recent prime ministers have demonstrated powerful leadership, notably Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe. While the phenomenon of presidentialization has been much discussed for years, the Japanese case has not received much ...
Financial Euphoria, Consumer Culture, and Literature of 1980s Japan: Dreams of the Bubble Economy
1st Edition
By Ikuho Amano
August 26, 2024
This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the socially euphoric years of the Bubble Economy in the 1980s. Shedding light on consumer experiences, this study explores the socio-cultural landscape of Japan, the nation that boasted the second largest economy in the late twentieth ...
Basketball in Japan: Shooting for the Stars
1st Edition
By Aaron L. Miller
August 20, 2024
Through a study of basketball in Japan, this book aims to help readers better understand the historical formation and contemporary reformation of cultural identity in Japan. This reformation includes the process of reconciling the perceived differences between basketball in Japan and basketball in ...