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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 ...

Women in Japanese religions

Tác giả: Barbara Ambros

This concise volume provides a nuanced account of Japanese womens religious activities from ancient times to the present. Attentive to social context, historical change, and Japans religious diversity, Barbara Ambros explores the complex ways in which religious ideas and practices have both ...

Social inequality in post-growth Japan : transformation during economic and demographic stagnation

Tác giả: David Chiavacci, Carola Hommerich

Part 1. Introduction. Part 2. Creation of inequality and its perception in Japan. Part 3. Labour market and employment system. Part 4. Welfare state and family. Part 5. Education and social mobility. Part 6. Urban-rural divide. Part 7. New immigration and ethnic minorities. Part 8. Conclusion.

Japan since 1945 : from postwar to post-bubble

Tác giả: Timothy S. George, Christopher Gerteis

Does Japan really matter anymore? The challenges of recent Japanese history have led some pundits and scholars to publicly wonder whether Japan's significance is starting to wane. The essays that comprise this book demonstrate its ongoing importance and relevance.

Precarious Japan

Tác giả: Anne Allison

Contents: Pain of life. From lifelong to liquid Japan. Ordinary refugeeism : poverty, precarity, youth. Home and hope. The social body. in life and death. Cultivating fields from the edges. In the mud.