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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 ...

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 ...

Japan's ASEAN policy : in search of proactive multilateralism

Tác giả: Sueo Sudō

The central puzzle in the study of Japanese foreign policy has been why Japan has continued to play a passive role in international affairs, despite its impressive economic and political power. Challenging this central puzzle, the core argument of this study is to present an alternative path for ...