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The Cambridge companion to modern Japanese culture

Tác giả: Yoshio Sugimoto

This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime ...

Japan : the precarious future

Tác giả: Frank Baldwin, Anne Allison

In Japan: The Precarious Future, a group of distinguished scholars of Japanese economics, politics, law, and society examine the various roads that might lie ahead. Will Japan face a continued erosion of global economic and political power, particularly as China’s outlook improves exponentially? Or ...

Japan in the twenty-first century : environment, economy, and society

Tác giả: Pradyumna Karan

The ancient civilization of Japan, with its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, is also closely associated with all that is new and modern. Looking outward, Japan sees what it has become since Hiroshima: the world's second-largest economy, a source of fury and wonder, a power without arms. Looking ...

From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen : a remarkable century of transmission and transformation

Tác giả: Steven Heine

From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen investigates the remarkable century that lasted from 1225 to 1325, during which the transformation of the Chinese Chan school of Buddhism into the Japanese Zen sect was successfully completed. Steven Heine reveals how this school of Buddhism, which started half a ...

Configurations of family in contemporary Japan

Tác giả: Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales, Romit Dasgupta

Part 1: Family, companionship; Part 2: Old age, women, storytelling; Part 3: Contemporary parenting; Part 4: Transnational families.