Routledge Library Editions: Japan
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Japan brings together a century's worth of publishing and provides a comprehensive collection of volumes which chart the literature, history, economics, politics & sociology of this fascinating country.
Party Politics in Japan
1st Edition
By Hans Baerwald
April 24, 2013
To the outside observer, the character and dynamics of Japan’s political parties and Diet (National Assembly) are often obscure. This volume is an invaluable description of party politics in Japan, and a unique analysis of the influence that a changing balance of power has had upon the functioning ...
Social Psychology of Modern Japan
1st Edition
By Munesuke Mita
April 24, 2013
This study reveals the complex combination of cultural particularity and modern universality that underlies the reality of contemporary Japan. The work uses sources such as popular works of art, song, best-selling books and the advice columns of newspapers to draw a striking portrait of the ...
The Origins of Socialist Thought in Japan
1st Edition
By John Crump
April 24, 2013
Socialism first gained a major foothold in Japan after the revolution and the subsequent Meiji restoration of 1868. Against the background of the rapid development of capitalism in Japan after the revolution, and the accompanying emergence of the working class, this study shows how early Japanese ...
Global Japanization?: The Transnational Transformation of the Labour Process
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Elger, Chris Smith
March 21, 2013
Global Japaniziation? Brings together research from North America, Japan, Europe and Latin America to analyse the influence of Japanese manufacturing investment and Japanese working practices across the global economy. The editors present original case studies of work reorganization and workers’ ...
Handbook of Japanese Grammar
1st Edition
By Harold Henderson
March 21, 2013
This grammar has been written to help the student to think in the Japanese way. Part One contains several introductory notes on Nomenclature, Syntax, Verbs, Aru, Iru, Oru, on Adjectives and on Foreign Words. Part Two concentrates on connectives – the particles and suffixes which modify the sense of...
Health Care in Japan
1st Edition
By Margaret Powell, Masahira Anesaki
March 21, 2013
In the 1970s and 80s Japan experienced some deep-rooted social changes which affected attitudes to health care services among both professionals and consumers alike. Health Care in Japan provides an introduction to and overview of health and medical services in Japan at that time. It describes the ...
Imperial Japan: 1926-1938
1st Edition
By A Young
March 21, 2013
A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years, the author collected in this volume the most significant current events for discussion. They include the financial crisis of 1927, hostilities with China and in particular Manchuria, Japan’s booming manufacturing industry, Japanese nationalism, ...
A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945-1980
1st Edition
By Shunsuke Tsurumi
March 11, 2013
Shunsuke Tsurumi, one of Japan’s most distinguished contemporary philosophers, continues his study of the intellectual and social history of modern Japan with this penetrating analysis of popular culture in the post-war years. Japanese manga (comics), manzai (dialogues), television, advertising and...
Democracy and Foreign Policy
1st Edition
By R Bassett
March 11, 2013
The Sino-Japanese crisis of 1931-33 provides effective illustrations of wider themes in British Foreign Policy. It might even be said that the general pattern of opinion in the UK at the time was to be reproduced in subsequent crises. The Manchurian problem and the controversies which it provoked ...
The Death of Old Yokohama: In the Great Japanese Earthquake of 1923
1st Edition
By Otis Poole
March 11, 2013
It was almost noon in the picturesque city of Yokohama on Saturday, September 1st 1923 when the first sway of one of the world’s most destructive earthquakes was felt. The first great shock lasted for four minutes and in that time every building in the city was destroyed, together with 100,000 of ...
A History of Japan
1st Edition
By Hisho Saito
February 27, 2013
This volume presents the Japanese version of the history of Japan from its origins, through the subjection of Korea, the introduction of Chinese culture, rebellion in Korea, Buddhism, Taika reforms, Ainu insurrection, the founding of Kyoto as the capital, the power of Fujiwara, the founding of the ...
A Study of Shinto: The Religion of the Japanese Nation
1st Edition
By Genchi Katu
February 27, 2013
This volume investigates and presents the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present. It is a historical study of Shinto from a scientific point of view, illustrating the higher aspects of the religion, compiled on strict lines of ...