Routledge handbook of contemporary Japan / edited by Hiroko Takeda and Mark Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Takeda, Hiroko, editor.

Williams, Mark, 1957- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Politics and government.

Civilization.

Japan--Civilization.

Japan.

Japan--Politics and government.

Japan--Social conditions.

Japan--Economic conditions.

Economic history.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Handbook of contemporary Japan

Contemporary Japan

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Hiroko Takeda is Professor of Political Analysis at Nagoya University, Japan. Mark Williams is Vice President for International Academic Exchange at the International Christian University Tokyo, Japan.

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan presents a synthesized, interdisciplinary study of contemporary Japan based on up-to-date theoretical models designed to provide readers with a comprehensive and full understanding of the dynamics of contemporary Japan. In order to achieve this, the Handbook is organized into two parts. Part I, Foundations', clarifies the state of contemporary Japan topic by topic by referring to the latest theoretical developments in the relevant disciplinary fields of politics, international relations, economy, society, culture and the personal. Part II, Issues', then offers a series of concrete analyses building upon the theoretical discussions introduced in Part I to help undergraduate and postgraduate students learn how to conduct independent analysis. Locating Japan in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, this Handbook is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in Japanese studies, Asian studies and global studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Hiroko Takeda & Mark Williams -- Part I Foundations. 1. History: War Memory and Japan's "Postwar" / Elyssa Faison -- 2. Politics: after the Demise of the "1955 System" / Gill Steel -- 3. The Law in Japan / Giorgio Fabio Colombo -- 4. The Japanese Economy / Franz Waldenberger -- 5. Work and Employment: Inside, outside and beyond the Lifetime Employment Model / Steffen Heinrich & Jun Imai -- 6. Civil Society in Japan / Mary Alice Haddad -- 7. Structures and Dynamics of Japan's Urban-Rural Relationship / Thomas Feldhoff -- 8. Japan's New Immigration: Gap in Admission Policy and Diversity in Socio-economic Integration' / David Chiavacci -- 9. Discursive Politics of Gender in Japan / Hiroko Takeda -- 10. Family and Demographic Issues in Japan / Mary C. Brinton -- 11. Popular Imagination in Japan / Rumi Sakamoto -- 12. Japan's International Relations / Christopher W. Hughes & Misato Matsuoka -- Part II Issues. 13. Democracy in Japan / Sherry L. Martin -- 14. Japan's Territorial Problems: Continuing Legacies of the San Francisco System / Kimie Hara -- 15. The Politics of Nationalism and Identity in Contemporary Japan / Jeff Kingston -- 16. Employment Regulation and Practices: The Production and Consumption of Non-Regular Work / Huiyan Fu -- 17. Energy Issues in Japan / Andrew DeWit -- 18. Japan and the Environment: Industrial Pollution, Biodiversity Loss, and Climate Change / Peter Matanle -- 19. Japan's Post Catch-up Modernity: Educational Transformation and its Unintended Consequences / Takehiko Kariya -- 20. University Reform in Japan / Takamichi Mito -- 21. Studying Japan's Generations / Agata Kapturkiewicz & Tuukka Toivonen -- 22. Gender Equality in Japan / Priscilla Lambert -- 23. Femininity and Masculinity / Laura Dales & Futoshi Taga -- 24. LGBT / Hiroyuki Taniguchi -- 25. Consumerism / Alexandra Hambleton -- 26. Food / Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna -- 27. Tourism / Takayoshi Yamamura and Philip Seaton -- 28. Young Urban Migrants in the Japanese Countryside between Self-Realization and Slow LifeThe Quest for "Small-scale Happiness" and Alternative Lifestyles in Post-growth Japan / Susanne Klien -- 29. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games: The Political Economy of Tokyo Hosting the World / Wolfram Manzenreiter -- 30. Social Malaise in Japan / Roman Rosenbaum -- 31. Media in Japan / Yoshitaka Mōri -- 32. Mobile Reflections: Rethinking Digitality in a post 3/11 Japan / Larissa Hjorth -- 33. Okinawa: Rooting and routing of Uchinānchu and Shimā / Ayano Ginoza -- 34. The Great East Japan Earthquake and Post-Disaster Japan / Allison Kwesell & Joo-Young Jung.

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ISBN:

9781134830015

1134830017

9781134829941

1134829949

9781134830084

1134830084

9781315544748

1315544741

OCLC:

1197741987

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