Japanese Studies Books

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1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

6. 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)

7. Transcultures - Asia-Pacific Media Representations of Globalization

   By Vera Mackie

   This book examines media representations of globalization emanating from Japan and its neighbours in the 1990s and early twenty-first century. It argues that the circulation of media representations, signs and symbols, which is presented as being one of the features of globalization...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-35202-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. 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)

9. The Politics of Visual Culture in Japan

   By Vera Mackie

   Vera Mackie, a leading scholar of Japanese history, takes the original approach of using examples of the extraordinary visual culture of the last century to bring new insights into the political and cultural history of twentieth century Japan. Each chapter focuses on one example of a particular...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-39612-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Globalization and the Japanese Economy

    By David Bruce

    This book provides a critical account of the origin, development and operation of the Japanese economy. Based on detailed empirical research and statistical analysis, it examines the development of the Japanese economy before and after the Second World War until today. In particular, it explores a...

    April 2011 | 978-0-415-46944-9 | Hardback (Routledge)