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...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

Edited by Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto

Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new...

Published February 21st 2008 by Routledge.

Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45

By Bruce Elleman

The important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negotiation of 'prisoner' exchanges between the United States and Japan...

Published December 1st 2007 by Routledge.

Primary School in Japan

Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education

By Peter Cave

The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, including the implementation of...

Published November 30th 2007 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.

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.

Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy

Edited by Christopher Goto Jones

In Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy Christopher Goto-Jones contends that existing approaches to the controversial Kyoto School fail to take it seriously as a...

Published September 26th 2007 by Routledge.

By David Chapman

Shedding light on contemporary Japanese society in an international context, Japanese-Korean relations and modern day notions of a multicultural Japan, this book addresses the broad...

Published September 25th 2007 by Routledge.

The Culture of Copying in Japan

Critical and Historical Perspectives

Edited by Rupert Cox

This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.

It addresses a question...

Published September 13th 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.