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.
Women and Political Inequality in Japan: Gender Imbalanced Democracy
1st Edition
By Mikiko Eto
May 31, 2023
Why are there so few Japanese women involved in the political system? In 2019, Japanese women made up 10% of the national Lower House, 21% of the Upper House, and 14% of local assemblies. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, this places Japan 164th out of 193 countries when it comes to women...
Avant-Garde Art and Non-Dominant Thought in Postwar Japan: Image, Matter, Separation
1st Edition
By K. Yoshida
May 30, 2022
This book offers a reassessment of how "matter" – in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture – pursued a radical definition of "multiplicity", against the dominant and hierarchical tendencies underwriting post-fascist Japan. Through theoretical analysis of works by artists and ...
Social Change in Japan, 1989-2019: Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values
1st Edition
Edited
By Carola Hommerich, Naoki Sudo, Toru Kikkawa
April 29, 2022
Based on extensive survey data, this book examines how the population of Japan has experienced and processed three decades of rapid social change from the highly egalitarian high growth economy of the 1980s to the economically stagnating and demographically shrinking gap society of the 2010s. It ...
Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation during Economic and Demographic Stagnation
1st Edition
Edited
By David Chiavacci, Carola Hommerich
December 21, 2017
In recent decades Japan has changed from a strongly growing, economically successful nation regarded as prime example of social equality and inclusion, to a nation with a stagnating economy, a shrinking population and a very high proportion of elderly people. Within this, new forms of inequality ...
Japan's Foreign Aid to Africa: Angola and Mozambique within the TICAD Process
1st Edition
By Pedro Amakasu Raposo
November 22, 2017
The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was established in 1993 with the intention of creating opportunities for trade and investment on both sides and the promotion of sustainable development. In 2003, the conference translated Japanese aid policy to Africa into three key...
Japanese Women in Science and Engineering: History and Policy Change
1st Edition
By Naonori Kodate, Kashiko Kodate
November 22, 2017
The gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) varies greatly from country to country, and the number of Japanese women in these fields remains relatively few. This prompts us to ask why the proportion of female scientists in Japan is still remarkably low and what ...
Japan and the High Treason Incident
1st Edition
Edited
By Masako Gavin, Ben Middleton
October 12, 2017
The ‘High Treason Incident’ rocked Japanese society between 1910 and 1911, when police discovered that a group of anarchists and socialists were plotting to assassinate the Emperor Meiji. Following a trial held in camera, twelve of the so-called conspirators were hanged, but while the executions ...
Japan's Local Newspapers: Chihōshi and Revitalization Journalism
1st Edition
By Anthony Rausch
August 09, 2017
Japan is one of the world’s most literate societies. Its national newspapers are the most read newspapers in the world, and the country also has a very vibrant local newspaper sector. This book assesses the vital role local newspapers play in the development of local communities, as well as ...
Decision-Making Reform in Japan: The DPJ’s Failed Attempt at a Politician-Led Government
1st Edition
By Karol Zakowski
June 30, 2017
In the election to the House of Representatives in 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) almost tripled the number of its lower house members by winning 308 seats. It subsequently formed a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party and the People’s New Party. The new ruling party ...
Japan, Russia and their Territorial Dispute: The Northern Delusion
1st Edition
By James D. J. Brown
May 24, 2017
The territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over four islands off the northeast coast of Hokkaidō has been an enduring obstacle to closer relations between the two powers and therefore an important determinant of geopolitics in North-East Asia. Having emerged at the end of World War II, this ...
Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Roman Rosenbaum
May 24, 2017
Recent natural as well as man-made cataclysmic events have dramatically changed the status quo of contemporary Japanese society, and following the Asia-Pacific war’s never-ending ‘postwar’ period, Japan has been dramatically forced into a zeitgeist of saigo or ‘post-disaster.’ This radically new ...
Internationalising Japan: Discourse and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeremy Breaden, Stacey Steele, Carolyn Stevens
May 10, 2017
In the twenty-first century, the concept of internationalisation remains a crucial tool for understanding the dynamics of globalising processes. It draws attention to the dimensions of conscious action in inter- and trans-national phenomena, connecting globalisation with individuals’ experience of ...