Japan viewed from interdisciplinary perspectives : history and prospects / edited by Yoneyuki Sugita.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Sugita, Yoneyuki, 1962- editor.

Series:

• New studies of modern Japan
• New studies in modern Japan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Japan--Relations--Asia.
• Japan.
• Relations.
• Asia.
• Asia--Relations--Japan.
• Japan--Relations--United States.
• United States.
• United States--Relations--Japan.
• International relations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 299 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2015]

Contents:

• Borders of "American citizens" created in a more globalized world : the significance of the transpacific steamship route for Asian immigration to the Unites States in the late nineteenth century / Yuki Ooi
• The Symbiotic relationship between Japan's status in the world and changes in the nature of medical insurances from the 1920s to the early 1940s / Yoneyuki Sugita
• Japanese identity in a globalized world : "anti-Japanism" and discursive struggle / Karl Gustafsson
• From "funeral" to "engaged" Buddhism : death rites and postwar Japanese social identity / Steven Heine
• The Obama 'Pivot' to Asia in the context of American hegemony / Bruce Cumings
• The young East : negotiating Japan's place in the world through East Asian Buddhism / Judith Snodgrass
• Asia-Pacific economic cooperation (APEC) and Japan : dispute settlement and trade security / John Paden
• Popular culture regionalization in East Asia and what this means to Japan / Nissim Otmazgin
• Myanmar : the last frontier for Japanese official development assistance (ODA) to southeast Asia / Marie Söderberg
• Recalibrating Sino-Japanese relations for a better future : implications of Japan's joint anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden with China / Victor Teo
• The unforeseen effects of the American intervention : the political purge program and the making of Japan's postwar leadership / Juha Saunavaara
• A comparative analysis of the relationship between learning environments and educational performance in Japan and the United States / Christopher Weiss, Emma García, and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa
• Privatizing foreign policy : the role of business executives in U.S.-Japan economic relations / Toru Oga
• Abolition of Japan's nuclear power plants? : analysis from a historical perspective on early cold war, 1945-1955 / Mayako Shimahoto.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781498500227
• 1498500226
• 9781498500241
• 1498500242

OCLC:

921821703