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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


Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies How Attractive for Migrants are Japan and Germany?

Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies: How Attractive for Migrants are Japan and Germany?

1st Edition

Edited By Aeneas Zi Wang, Aimi Muranaka, Florian Coulmas
August 16, 2024

This edited book argues that a new perspective on immigration is needed. As many advanced economies are ageing, and their populations stagnate or decline, immigrants are increasingly required to fill in the gaps left behind by shrinking workforces. Against this backdrop, the outdated view that it ...

Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature Inciting Difference

Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference

1st Edition

By Victoria Young
June 03, 2024

This book examines contemporary debates on such concepts as national literature, world literature, and the relationship each of these to translation, from the perspective of modern Japanese fiction. By reading between the gaps and revealing tensions and blind spots in the image that Japanese ...

Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan In the (Inter)National Shadows

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 ...

Dark Heritage in Contemporary Japan Relics of an Underground Empire

Dark Heritage in Contemporary Japan: Relics of an Underground Empire

1st Edition

By Jung-Sun Han
May 13, 2024

This book examines civic activism to conserve dark heritage built by the colonial and wartime labor regime in contemporary Japan. Introducing and analyzing local organizations and their activities in multiple locations throughout Japan, this book looks at the ways in which the Japanese have ...

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

1st Edition

By Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon
May 07, 2024

This book presents a scholarly investigation of the development and culture of Japanese videogame arcades, both from a historical and contemporary point of view. Providing an overview of the historical evolution of public amusement spaces from the early rooftop amusement spaces from the early ...

Japanese Media and the Intelligentsia after Fukushima Disaster Culture

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

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

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

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 ...

Japan’s Nationalist Right in the Internet Age Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism

Japan’s Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism

1st Edition

By Jeffrey J. Hall
May 31, 2023

Japan’s nationalist right have used the internet to organize offline activism in increasingly visible ways. Hall investigates the role of internet-mediated activism in Japan’s ongoing historical and territorial disputes. He explores the emergence of two right-wing activist organizations, Nihon ...

Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture Projects in Japan

Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture: Projects in Japan

1st Edition

By Satoshi Higuchi
May 31, 2023

“I regard Higuchi’s book as particularly valuable because it highlights dimensions of somaesthetics that have not been sufficiently explored. I refer not only to the various traditional Japanese somatic disciplines whose somaesthetics aspects Higuchi reveals, but also to central topics far beyond ...

Wildlife, Landscape Use and Society Regional Case Studies in Japan

Wildlife, Landscape Use and Society: Regional Case Studies in Japan

1st Edition

By Ken Sugimura
May 31, 2023

A comprehensive analysis of the various terrestrial natural landscapes and habitats within Japan, and the efforts to sustain and conserve them and sustain landscape services. In 2011, Conservation International designated the Japanese islands collectively as one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots...

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