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.
Heritage Conservation and Japan's Cultural Diplomacy: Heritage, National Identity and National Interest
1st Edition
By Natsuko Akagawa
December 20, 2016
Japan’s heritage conservation policy and practice, as deployed through its foreign aid programs, has become one of the main means through which post-World War II Japan has sought to mark its presence in the international arena, both globally and regionally. Heritage conservation has been intimately...
Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan
1st Edition
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By Christopher Harding, Iwata Fumiaki, Yoshinaga Shin’ichi
December 20, 2016
Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental health and healing. This relationship developed against the backdrop of a far broader, and deeply consequential meeting: between Japan’s long-standing, ...
Superhuman Japan: Knowledge, Nation and Culture in US-Japan Relations
1st Edition
By Marie Thorsten
December 20, 2016
This book examines the imaginative narratives that shaped the attitudes of Americans (and others) toward Japan. Focusing on cultural aspects of economic nationalism and US-Japan relations during the trade war Marie Thorsten uses examples from public discourse, film, documentaries, novels, acts of ...
Examining Japan's Lost Decades
1st Edition
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By Yoichi Funabashi, Barak Kushner
December 08, 2016
This book examines five features of Japan’s ‘Lost Decades’: the speed of the economic decline in Japan compared to Japan’s earlier global prowess; a rapidly declining population; considerable political instability and failed reform attempts; shifting balances of power in the region and changing ...
Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives
1st Edition
By Anne Stefanie Aronsson
November 10, 2016
Since Japan’s economic recession began in the 1990s, the female workforce has experienced revolutionary changes as greater numbers of women have sought to establish careers. Employment trends indicate that increasingly white-collar professional women are succeeding in breaking through the "glass ...
Mental Health Care in Japan
1st Edition
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By Ruth Taplin, Sandra J. Lawman
July 27, 2016
Mental health, including widespread depression, a high suicide rate and institutionalisation, is a major problem in Japan. At the same time, the mental health care system in Japan has historically been more restrictive than elsewhere in the world. This book looks at the challenges of mental health ...
Japanese Femininities
1st Edition
By Justin Charlebois
May 04, 2016
The corporate salaryman and professional housewife stand as hegemonic archetypes of masculinity and femininity in Japan. However, these rigid gender roles are being challenged by women who are seeking to move beyond the strictly defined confines of their traditional roles as caregivers and ...
Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations: From the Cold War to the Post-Bipolar Era
1st Edition
By Oliviero Frattolillo
March 03, 2016
Since the 1950s, Japan-Europe relations have been characterised by a mutual coldness in terms of diplomatic dialogue, punctuated by a number of trade disputes. This book analyses the development of the political and diplomatic relationship between Japan and Europe, and shows that – especially ...
Sound, Space and Sociality in Modern Japan
1st Edition
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By Joseph D. Hankins, Carolyn Stevens
January 20, 2016
This book argues that sound – as it is created, transmitted, and perceived – plays a key role in the constitution of space and community in contemporary Japan. The book examines how sonic practices reflect politics, aesthetics, and ethics, with transformative effects on human relations. From ...
EU-Japan Relations, 1970-2012: From Confrontation to Global Partnership
1st Edition
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By Jörn Keck, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Franz Waldenberger
July 22, 2015
This book presents a comprehensive overview of EU-Japan relations from 1970 to the present. It charts developments over the period, analyses key specific areas of importance to the relationship, and concludes by assessing how the relationship is likely to develop going forward. Throughout, the book...
Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan
1st Edition
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By Rachael Hutchinson
July 16, 2015
Censorship in Japan has seen many changes over the last 150 years and each successive system of rule has possessed its own censorship laws, regulations, and methods of enforcement. Yet what has remained constant through these many upheavals has been the process of negotiation between censor and ...
Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The Yakeato Generation
1st Edition
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By Roman Rosenbaum, Yasuko Claremont
February 27, 2015
When we look in detail at the various peripheral groups of disenfranchised people emerging from the aftermath of the Asia–Pacific War the list is startling: Koreans in Japan (migrants or forced labourers), Burakumin, Hibakusha, Okinawans, Asian minorities, comfort women and many others. Many of ...