Japanese Studies Books

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1. Ending the Postwar in Japan: Structure, Actors, Norms and Challenges

   Edited by Hiroko Takeda, Glenn D. Hook

   The 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 2005 was a fundamental watershed in modern Japanese history. Inspired by this, much discourse has been produced on the ‘end’ of the postwar period itself. Yet, the question of ‘endings’ is perennial, and has occurred on numerous occasions...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-55240-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Japan's Post-War

   Edited by Michael Lucken, Anne Bayard-Sakai, Emmanuel Lozerand

   Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting "postwar" to be the years directly proceeding World War II. However, the contributors to this book take a unique approach to the concept of the postwar period and treat it as a...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60538-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Global Politico-Economic Crises: The pragmatic approach

   By Keiichiro Komatsu

   The 1997 Asian Crisis and 9/11 were turning points for the world economy. The two events reminded the Western World of the dynamic impacts of globalisation and the increased uncertainty the world was facing. This book examines the threats to the world economy arising in the wake of the...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-47766-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Japan's Security Identity: From a Peace-State to an International-State

   By Bhubhindar Singh

   This book examines Japanese post-Cold War security policy, analysing how Japan reacted to the end of the Cold war, the results of the transformation in the post-Cold War security environment, and exactly how Japanese security has changed from its cold war design....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-46336-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Dealing with Disaster in Japan: Japanese and Global Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash

   By Christopher Hood

   Just as the sinking of the Titanic has a large place in public consciousness in Britain and North America, so the crash of Japanese Airlines flight 123 has become part of Japanese collective memory. This crash, the world’s worst, on 12 August 1985, involved the largest loss of life in any air crash...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-45662-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. War and Responsibility in Japan: The Role of the Emperor and the War Occupation Debates

   By Kiyohiko Toyama

   War and Responsibility in Japan is a reappraisal of the role of the Emperor and his responsibility for Japan's conduct during the Second World War. It concentrates on the immediate postwar period when Japan was still occupied by the US, when these debates were first aired. It will be an invaluable&...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-25420-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Superhuman Japan: Knowledge, Nation and Culture in US-Japan Relations

   By Marie Thorsten

   From the 1980s to the 1990s, Japan - the former Second World War enemy - was reborn as public economy number one in America. By the early twenty-first century this American fear of Japanese conquest looms either as the unusual episode of American empire or as a preview of the current economic...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-41426-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Rethinking Modern Japan: Politics, Economics, Identity

   By Terry Narramore

   Rethinking Modern Japan is an accessible introduction to Japanese politics and society which combines both political and cultural studies approaches to understanding Japan. It explores the significant interaction between Japanese identity (cultural, national, regional, ethnic,...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-28866-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Women and Work in Postwar Japan

   By Helen Macnaughtan

   This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women working in the Japanese post-war economy. It shows how the role of women in the economy developed in the years of rapid economic growth when women workers were increasingly in demand to alleviate labour shortages; considers the role of women in...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-32806-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan

    Edited by Vera Mackie, Ulrike Woehr, Andrea Germer

    Bringing together international scholars from various disciplines, this study takes an interdisciplinary perspective on the formation of the modern Japanese nation-state. References to gender relations are deeply embedded in the historical concepts of nation and nationalism, and in the related...

    May 2011 | 978-0-415-38138-3 | Hardback (Routledge)