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