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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.

99 Series Titles


The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture

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

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

Alternative Virtues: Japanese Perspectives on Christian and Confucian Traditions

1st Edition

Edited 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

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

Political Economy of the Tokyo Olympics: Unrestrained Capital and Development without Sustainable Principles

1st Edition

Edited 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

Border-Crossing Japanese Literature: Reading Multiplicity

1st Edition

Edited 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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