A Life Adrift

Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan

By Azembo Soeda

A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-7103-1337-9 (Routledge)

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Families in Asia

Home and Kin

By Stella R. Quah

This new, and fully updated 2nd edition of Families in Asia provides a unique and comparative analysis of family trends in Asia by focusing on the most...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45570-1 (Routledge)

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Population Decline and Ageing in Japan - The Social Consequences

By Florian Coulmas

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most pressing challenges facing Japan today: population decline and ageing.

It argues that social ageing...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48011-6 (Routledge)

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Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan

Edited by Peter Ackermann, Dolores Martinez, Maria Rodriguez del Alisal

This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48133-5 (Routledge)

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Making Music in Japan’s Underground

The Tokyo Hardcore Scene

By Jennifer Milioto Matsue

Grounded in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Popular Music Studies, and Japanese Studies, this book explores the underground Tokyo hardcore scene, ultimately asking what play...

July 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96152-3 (Routledge)

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Love in Modern Japan

Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society

By Sonia Ryang

This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and...

July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47926-4 (Routledge)

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The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo's Court Challenges

By Yoshiko Nozaki

The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries during the Asia-Pacific...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37147-6 (Routledge)

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Narrative acts of identity and resistance

By Davinder L. Bhowmik

Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77556-4 (Routledge)

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Modern Japan

A Social and Political History

By Elise K. Tipton

This thoroughly updated second edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41871-3 (Routledge)

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A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century

An Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes and Problems

Edited by Rien T. Segers

Many people in the West portray Japan as being fixed in its ways, and unable to change, and consequently risking national decline and international loss...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45311-0 (Routledge)

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