Japanese Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. EU-Japan Relations, 1970-2012

   From Confrontation to Global Partnership

   Edited by Jörn Keck, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Franz Waldenberger

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   This book presents a comprehensive overview of EU-Japan relations from 1970 to the present. It charts developments over the period, analyses key specific areas of importance to the relationship, and concludes by assessing how the relationship is likely to develop going forward. Throughout, the book...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan

   By Denis Gainty

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the Butokukai’s efforts to define and popularise...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
3. Human Security in East Asia

   Challenges for Collaborative Action

   Edited by Sorpong Peou

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

   Since the end of the Cold War the number of interstate wars has remained relatively low, although whilst states may be more secure than ever this does not mean that individual human beings are too. This has led to a growing recognition of the importance of human security, in contrast to the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Japan's Interventionist State

   The Role of the MAFF

   By Aurelia George-Mulgan

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Japan's Interventionist State gives a detailed examination of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and its role in promoting, protecting and preserving the regime of agricultural support and protection. This account is integral to the author's extended and multidimensional...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Japan and the G7/8

   1975-2002

   By Hugo Dobson

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan

   By Takeda Hiroko

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   This book analyzes the political economy of reproduction and its role in the process of Japanese modernization. Hiroko analyzes state attempts and policies to intervene into women's bodies and everyday lives to integrate them into the Japanese political economy. Based on Foucault's concept of...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945

   A patchwork of internment

   By Bernice Archer

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   Bernice Archer's comparative study of the experiences of the Western civilians interned by the Japanese in mixed family camps and sexually segregated camps in the Far East, combines a wide variety of conventional and unconventional source material. This includes contemporary War, Foreign and...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Innovation and Business Partnering in Japan, Europe and the United States

   Edited by Ruth Taplin

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   Innovation studies and partnering/collaborative alliances are rapidly growing areas of interest. Originally combining the two areas, this book examines the role of business partnering as a pathway to innovation for small and medium enterprises – SMEs. This text outlines global and regional trends,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry

   By Ralph Paprzycki

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry analyses changes in production networks in the Japanese electronics industry. Japan's post-war success in the assembly industries is frequently attributed to innovative approaches to the organization of production: Japanese assemblers have...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Handbook of Japanese Grammar

    By Harold Henderson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    This grammar has been written to help the student to think in the Japanese way. Part One contains several introductory notes on Nomenclature, Syntax, Verbs, Aru, Iru, Oru, on Adjectives and on Foreign Words. Part Two concentrates on connectives – the particles and suffixes which modify the sense of...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge