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Japan copes with calamity

Tác giả: Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger, David H. Slater

This acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an update on the affected communities, this volume brings together studies ...

Assembling Japan : Modernity, Technology and Global Culture

Tác giả: Griseldis Kirsch, D. P. Martinez, Merry I. White

Part I. Roots and Branches. Part II Contemporary Configurations. Part III. Technological Connections: Past, Present and Future.

Re-reading the salaryman in Japan : crafting masculinities

Tác giả: Romit Dasgupta

Introduction: salarymen in the 'Lost Decade'. Framing the 'macro': historicizing salaryman masculinity. Men's stories of becoming otoko. Becoming shakaijin: ' craftings' into salaryman masculinity. Working with salaryman masculinity. Working with heterosexuality: sexuality, marriage, fatherhood, ...

Resonances of chindon-ya : sounding space and sociality in contemporary Japan

Tác giả: Marie Abe

Introduction Resonances Of Chindon-Ya; One Walking Histories; Two Performing Enticement; Three Sounding Imaginative Empathy; Four Politicizing Chindon-Ya; Five Resonances Of Silence.

The long defeat : cultural trauma, memory, and identity in Japan

Tác giả: Akiko Hashimoto

The opening chapter outlines the themes of the book: the cultural trauma of defeat in 1945, and its pervasive influence on the narratives that are told and retold to future generations. With the burgeoning 'memory boom' since the 1980s and intensified globalisation, Japan's efforts to define its ...