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...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

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...

Published March 6th 2008 by Routledge.

Transcultural Japan

At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity

Edited by David Blake Willis, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Transcultural Japan provides a critical examination of being Other in Japan. Portraying the multiple intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the book suggests ways...

Published November 26th 2007 by Routledge.

By Arthur Alexander

This core textbook is the definitive overview of the Japanese economy. It charts its history from the period before the Meiji restoration and its astonishing...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.

The Arc of Japan's Economic Development

By Arthur Alexander

This core textbook is the definitive overview of the Japanese economy. It charts its history from the period before the Meiji restoration and its astonishing...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.

Living Cities in Japan

Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments

Edited by André Sorensen, Carolin Funck

Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment,...

Published July 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

By Tetsuji Okazaki

In this important new book, the authors explore how production was organized in the context of the economic development of modern Japan.

Production organizations are taken...

Published January 18th 2007 by Routledge.

Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature

A Critical Approach

Edited by Rachael Hutchinson, Mark Williams

Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between...

Published September 21st 2006 by Routledge.

A Critical Approach

Edited by Rachael Hutchinson, Mark Williams

Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between...

Published September 18th 2006 by Routledge.

The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion

Edited by Bernhard Scheid, Mark Teeuwen

The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in...

Published September 13th 2006 by Routledge.