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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.

The modern Murasaki : writing by women of Meiji Japan

Tác giả: Rebecca L. Copeland, Melek Ortabasi

The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose, the editors have chosen and carefully translated short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and ...