Japan and the Great Powers

Edited by Linus Hagström, Marie Söderberg

North Korea features highly on the agenda of the main actors in East Asia and around the globe, and many large foreign policy initiatives have...

Published October 18th 2006 by Routledge.

Legacy of the Gwangju Uprising

Edited by Georgy Katsiaficas, Na Kahn-chae

This new book offers a retrospective appraisal of the Gwangju Uprising by academics, activists and artists from Gwangju, Korea.

In 1980, South Koreans took to the...

Published September 21st 2006 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.

Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa

By Miyume Tanji

Okinawan people have developed a unique tradition of protest in their long history of oppression and marginalization. Beginning with the Ryukyu Kingdom’s annexation to Japan...

Published September 13th 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.

Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan

The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan

By Chikako Ozawa-de Silva

Naikan is a Japanese psychotherapeutic method which combines meditation-like body engagement with the recovery of memory and the reconstruction of one's autobiography in order to...

Published August 16th 2006 by Routledge.

Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy

Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen

Edited by Joy Hendry, Heung Wah Wong

It has been customary in the appraisal of the different approaches to the study of Japan anthropology to invoke an East-West dichotomy positing hegemonic ‘Western’...

Published August 1st 2006 by Routledge.

Politics, Economics and Security

By Robert L. Carlin, Joel Wit

In the past, foreign policy and security concerns have trumped any efforts to reform the North Korean economy. Today, the linkage between security and economic...

Published July 11th 2006 by Routledge.

Nationalisms in Japan

Edited by Naoko Shimazu

Nationalisms in Japan brings together leading specialists in the field to discuss how notions of ‘nationalism’ in modern Japan impinges on all aspects of social,...

Published June 28th 2006 by Routledge.

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Published prior to the Japanese edition ‘Kohon Nihon Teikoku Bijyutsu Ryakushi’, this is the very first official history of Japanese art compiled in Japan. The...

Published June 15th 2006 by Edition Synapse.