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.
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
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
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 ...
Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan: In the (Inter)National Shadows
1st Edition
By Robert O'Mochain, Yuki Ueno
May 27, 2024
Bringing together two voices, practice and theory, in a collaboration that emerges from lived experience and structured reflection upon that experience, O’Mochain and Ueno show how entrenched discursive forces exert immense influence in Japanese society and how they might be most effectively ...
Japanese Media and the Intelligentsia after Fukushima: Disaster Culture
1st Edition
By Katsuyuki Hidaka
September 25, 2023
How and why does a catastrophic disaster change public discourse and social narratives? This is the first book to comprehensively investigate how Japanese newspapers, TV, documentary films, independent journalists, scientists, and intellectuals from the humanities and social sciences have ...
Japanese Public Diplomacy in European Countries: The Japan Foundation in Bulgaria and France
1st Edition
By Nadejda Gadjeva
September 25, 2023
To address the issue of the lack of integration and common policy among Japan’s cultural promotion actors and institutions, Gadjeva explores an integrated approach for Japanese public diplomacy through public-private partnerships. She examines the potential of the Japan Foundation as a central ...
Zainichi Koreans and Mental Health: Psychiatric Problem in Japanese Korean Minorities, Their Social Background and Life Story
1st Edition
By Taeyoung Kim
September 25, 2023
Using a qualitative, interview-based approach, Kim investigates how conflicting identities and social marginalization affect the mental health of members of the ethnic Korean minority living in Japan. So-called “Zainichi” Koreans living in Japan have a higher suicide rate than native Japanese, or ...
Japanese War Orphans: Abandoned Twice by the State
1st Edition
By Jiaxin Zhong
May 31, 2023
After Japan's defeat in August 1945, some Japanese children were abandoned in China and raised by Chinese foster parents. They were unable to return to Japan even during the mass repatriation carried out by the Japanese government in the 1950s. Most of them returned to Japan in the 1980s. They are ...