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Your search for Japan returned 567 results:
Japanese Studies
May 31, 2021
Japan's Private Spheres
Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930
William Puck Brecher
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Jingyi Li
Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 (Brill, 2021) traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the historical development of the private and its evolving relationship with public authority, a dynamic that evokes stereotypes about an alleged dearth of individual agency in Japanese society. It does so through a montage of case studies. For the early …
Japanese Studies
January 29, 2021
Scripting Japan
Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese
Wesley C. Robertson
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Jingyi Li
Imagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content within? Generally, discussions …
Japanese Studies
June 13, 2022
Designing Modern Japan
Sarah Teasley
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Nathan Hopson
Sarah Teasley's Designing Modern Japan (Reaktion, 2022) unpicks the history of Japanese design from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, focusing on continuities and disruptions within communities and practices …
Japanese Studies
March 18, 2021
Japan's Russia
Challenging the East-West Paradigm
Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konishi
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Jingyi Li
The Russian cultural presence in Japan after the Meiji Revolution was immense. Indeed, Japanese cultural negotiations with Russian intellectuals and Russian literature, art, theology and political thought, formed an important …
Japanese Studies
January 7, 2021
Immigrant Japan
Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society
Gracia Liu-Farrer
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Takeshi Morisato
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows in Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society (Cornell University Press, 2020), millions of immigrants make their …
Japanese Studies
August 2, 2022
Sino-Japanese Reflections
Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh
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Jingyi Li
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh's edited volume Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity (de Gruyter, 2022) offers ten richly detailed case studies that …
On Religion
March 25, 2022
On Japanese Buddhist Art
A Discussion with Michael Vanhartingsveldt
Michael Vanhartingsveldt
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Gregory Soden
Michael Vanhartingsveldt is a contributing columnist at Buddhistdoor Global. He works full-time at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art. He did his masters in East Asian Art Business at …
East Asian Studies
December 3, 2013
Japanoise
Music at the Edge of Circulation
David Novak
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Carla Nappi
Thinking about "Noise" in the history and practice of music means thinking in opposites. Noise is both a musical genre, and is not. It both produces a global circulation and …
Nordic Asia Podcast
April 29, 2022
The Future of Japanese Studies
A Conversation with Aike P. Rots
Aike P. Rots
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Duncan McCargo
Does the rise of China mean that studying Japan is inexorably declining? Many students become interested in Japan because of popular culture, such manga and video games: is this a …
Japanese Studies
April 26, 2022
Post-Fascist Japan
Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War
Laura Hein
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After Japan’s devastating defeat in World War II, by late 1945, local Japanese turned their energies towards creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to …
East Asian Studies
July 7, 2022
Japan Rearmed
The Politics of Military Power
Sheila A. Smith
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John Traphagan
Today I talked to Sheila A. Smith about her book Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power (Harvard UP, 2019). Modern Japan is not only responding to threats from North Korea and …
East Asian Studies
May 23, 2014
Precarious Japan
Anne Allison
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Carla Nappi
"[All] I want to eat is a rice ball." This was the last entry in the diary of a 52-year-old man who starved to death in an apartment he had …
Japanese Studies
December 20, 2021
Revisiting Japan's Restoration
New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation
Timothy D. Amos and Akiko Ishii
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Jingyi Li
Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation (Routledge, 2021) presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study …
Japanese Studies
April 1, 2021
The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900)
A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan
Christopher Joby
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Jingyi Li
In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan (Brill, 2020), Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of …
Japanese Studies
June 27, 2022
Japanese Role-Playing Games
Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon
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Jingyi Li
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon's edited volume Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG (Lexington Books, 2022) examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing significant …
Japanese Studies
December 8, 2021
Japan on American TV
Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost
Alisa Freedman
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Jingyi Li
Alisa Freedman's book Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost (Association for Asian Studies, 2021) explores political, economic, and cultural issues underlying depictions …
Japanese Studies
July 6, 2022
Animal Care in Japanese Tradition
A Short History
W. Puck Brecher
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Jingyi Li
In Animal Care in Japanese Tradition: A Short History (Association for Asian Studies, 2022), Brecher offers a brief overview of animals in Japanese culture and society from ancient times to …
East Asian Studies
August 16, 2014
Seismic Japan
The Long History and Continuing Legacy of the Ansei Edo Earthquake
Gregory Smits
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Carla Nappi
In two recent books, Gregory Smits offers a history of earthquakes and seismology in Japan that creates a wonderful dialogue between history and the sciences. Seismic Japan: The Long History …
Japanese Studies
September 29, 2021
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions
Erica Baffelli, Fabio Rambelli, and Andrea Castiglioni
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Raditya Nuradi
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions is edited by Erica Baffelli, Fabio Rambelli, and Andrea Castiglioni published by Bloomsbury, 2021. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions offers a comprehensive overview …
Japanese Studies
November 29, 2021
Japanese Philosophy in the Making 2
Borderline Interrogations
John Maraldo
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Jingyi Li
The second of three volumes of essays that engage Japanese philosophers as intercultural thinkers, this collection critically probes seminal works for their historical significance and contemporary relevance. Japanese Philosophy in …
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