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Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture
An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France
Globalisation – the global movement, and control, of products, capital, technologies, persons and images – increasingly takes place through the work of organisations, perhaps the...
ISBN: 978-0-415-44678-5 | Published December 21st 2007 by Routledge.
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Primary School in Japan
Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education
The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, including the implementation of...
ISBN: 978-0-415-44679-2 | Published November 30th 2007 by Routledge.
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The Culture of Copying in Japan
Critical and Historical Perspectives
This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.
It addresses a question...
ISBN: 978-0-415-30752-9 | Published September 13th 2007 by Routledge.
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Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan
This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters...
ISBN: 978-0-415-32318-5 | Published March 6th 2007 by Routledge.
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Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan
The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan
Naikan is a Japanese psychotherapeutic method which combines meditation-like body engagement with the recovery of memory and the reconstruction of one's autobiography in order to...
ISBN: 978-0-415-33675-8 | Published August 16th 2006 by Routledge.
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Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy
Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen
It has been customary in the appraisal of the different approaches to the study of Japan anthropology to invoke an East-West dichotomy positing hegemonic ‘Western’...
ISBN: 978-0-415-39738-4 | Published August 1st 2006 by Routledge.
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Nature, Ritual, and Society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands
Despite their small area, the southern islands of Japan can be seen as stepping stones towards a more nuanced view of cultural osmosis between Japan...
ISBN: 978-0-415-35563-6 | Published March 10th 2006 by Routledge.
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Japan's Changing Generations
Are Young People Creating a New Society?
Japan's Changing Generations argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to...
ISBN: 978-0-415-38491-9 | Published March 27th 2005 by Routledge.
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Community Volunteers in Japan
Everyday stories of social change
Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the...ISBN: 978-0-415-32316-1 | Published September 30th 2004 by Routledge.
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The Care of the Elderly in Japan
The problems of an ageing population are particularly acute in Japan. These problems include people living longer, with many needing more care, and the problems...ISBN: 978-0-415-32319-2 | Published June 17th 2004 by Routledge.
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A Japanese View of Nature
The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi
Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1632-6 | Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge.
more information about A Japanese View of NatureRoutledge is proud to announce that we have become publishers of the Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) series. JAWS has been sponsoring interesting, path-breaking anthropological work on Japan for many years, and has published a number of books with a range of publishers. New JAWS publications are now appearing as part of a RoutledgeCurzon series. Submissions from prospective authors are welcomed, and enquiries should be sent in the first instance to the series editor.
Forthcoming Titles:
Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture
Edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, Okpyo Moon
October 31st 2008
Making Japanese Heritage
Edited by Christoph Brumann, Rupert Cox
January 31st 2009