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Routledge Library Editions: Japan


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Routledge Library Editions: Japan brings together a century's worth of publishing and provides a comprehensive collection of volumes which chart the literature, history, economics, politics & sociology of this fascinating country.

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A Study of Shinto The Religion of the Japanese Nation

A Study of Shinto: The Religion of the Japanese Nation

1st Edition

By Genchi Katu
February 27, 2013

This volume investigates and presents the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present. It is a historical study of Shinto from a scientific point of view, illustrating the higher aspects of the religion, compiled on strict lines of ...

An Essay on the Civilisations of India, China and Japan

An Essay on the Civilisations of India, China and Japan

1st Edition

By G Dickinson
February 27, 2013

This volume presents an account of the author’s travels during 1912-13 making particular note of the characteristics of Indian, Chinese and Japanese societies and the effect upon them of contact with the West. Although inevitably dated in some of its views, the volume nonetheless provides an ...

Japan Under Taisho Tenno 1912-1926

Japan Under Taisho Tenno: 1912-1926

1st Edition

By A Young
February 27, 2013

A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years this volume examines the history, economy, politics and society of Japan from just before the First World War until 1926. Japan’s relations with the West, as well as with Russia and China are also discussed.  ...

Japan and a New World Economic Order

Japan and a New World Economic Order

1st Edition

By Kyoshi Kojima
February 27, 2013

President Nixon’s new economic policy of August 1971, aggravated by the oil problem since October 1973 caused chaos and uncertainty in the international trade and currency system. There were fears of another 1930s style depression. In addition, a world food shortage and strident claims by ...

Japan's Accession to the Comity of Nations

Japan's Accession to the Comity of Nations

1st Edition

By Alexander von Siebold
February 27, 2013

This volume is based upon personal observations and recollections of the author extending over six different periods of residence in Japan between 1859 and 1877. It examines how the focus of the West towards Japan changed, as Japan became a dominant force in the political arena of the Far East when...

Japan's Economic Aid Policy Making and Politics

Japan's Economic Aid: Policy Making and Politics

1st Edition

By Alan Rix
February 27, 2013

Japan’s arrival since World War Two as a major industrial nation has meant that she has had to bear a greater share of the developed world’s contribution to the developing nations and foreign aid has become an integral part of foreign policy. This book describes the roots of Japan’s aid policy and ...

Japan's Foreign Aid Challenge

Japan's Foreign Aid Challenge

1st Edition

By Alan Rix
February 27, 2013

When this volume was published in 1993 it was the first comprehensive analysis of the major policy issues confronting Japan’s massive foreign aid programme. It deals with the philosophy behind Japan’s aid, Japanese reactions to the severe criticisms of its programmes and the beginnings of ...

Japanese Participation in British Industry

Japanese Participation in British Industry

1st Edition

By John Dunning
February 27, 2013

Japanese participation in British industry has increased greatly in recent years. While the new investment is welcomed for the jobs it helps create and the injection of new technology and managerial techniques, many people are fearful lest this increased participation should lead to loss of control...

Japanese Whaling? End of an Era

Japanese Whaling?: End of an Era

1st Edition

By Arne Kalland, Brian Moeran
February 27, 2013

This book gives a social anthropological account of whaling culture in Japan. When originally published this was the first comprehensive account in English of the history of Japanese whaling, showing how it has given rise to a particular culture. The volume discusses what happens when that culture ...

Japanese-Style Management Transferred The Experience of East Asia

Japanese-Style Management Transferred: The Experience of East Asia

1st Edition

By K Fukuda
February 27, 2013

Japan’s rapid rise to economic super-power status has led to a worldwide interest in and attempts to emulate Japanese management practices. This book, based on extensive original research, considers both the opportunities and problems of the transfer of Japanese management practices to other areas ...

Language and Popular Culture in Japan

Language and Popular Culture in Japan

1st Edition

By Brian Moeran
February 27, 2013

When this book was originally published it was the first work of its kind to examine the way in which language is used to express the ‘myth’ of advertising slogans and other popular cultural forms. By making use of general theories from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, media studies ...

Industrial Collaboration with Japan

Industrial Collaboration with Japan

1st Edition

By Louis Turner
February 14, 2013

This study looks at the experiences of European and American companies that have collaborated with their Japanese competitors in the fields of computers, consumer electronics, automobiles and aero-engines, by forming joint ventures, designing products together and pursuing complementary marketing ...

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