Encounters With Japan

Author : Emeritus Professor W G Beasley,William G. Beasley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300063245

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Japan Encounters the Barbarian by Emeritus Professor W G Beasley,William G. Beasley Pdf

For over a hundred years the Japanese have looked to the West for ideas, institutions and technology that would help them achieve their goal of 'national wealth and strength'. In this book a distinguished historian of Japan discusses Japan's 'cultural borrowing' from America and Europe. W. G. Beasley focuses on the mid-nineteenth century, when Japan's rulers dispatched diplomatic missions to the West to discover what Japan needed to learn, sent students abroad to assimilate information and invited foreign experts to Japan to help put the knowledge to practical use. Beasley examines the origins of the decision to initiate direct study of the West at a time when western countries counted as 'barbarian' by Confucian standards. Drawing on many colourful letters, diaries, memoirs and reports, he describes the missions sent overseas in 1860 and 1862, in 1865-1867 and in the years after 1868, in particular the prestigious embassy led by Iwakura in 1871-1873. The book also tells the story of the several hundred students who went overseas in this period. It concludes by assessing the impact of the encounters on the subsequent development of Japan, first by examining the later careers of the travellers and the influence they exercised (they included no fewer than six prime ministers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), and then by considering the nature of the ideas they brought home.

Author : Lieba Faier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520252141

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Intimate Encounters by Lieba Faier Pdf

Lieba Faier investigates the processes by which Filipina women who emigrated to work in rural Japan in hostess bars have overcome initial hostilities to become regarded as 'ideal, traditional Japanese brides'. 'Intimate Encounters' shows how changes to culture & identity come about through ordinary interpersonal exchanges.

Author : Anne Shannon
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781927051566

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Finding Japan by Anne Shannon Pdf

In contrast to the widely known experiences of Asian immigrants who came to Canada, this book looks at movement in the opposite direction. Using text and images, it is a collection of stories about how Canadians “found Japan,” the first place they reached when travelling westward across the Pacific. These connections began as early as 1848, when the adventurous son of a Hudson’s Bay Company trader tempted fate by smuggling himself, disguised as a shipwrecked sailor, into the closed and exotic land of the shoguns. He was followed by an intriguing cast of characters—missionaries, educators, businessmen, social activists, political figures, diplomats, soldiers and occasional misfits—who experienced a rapidly changing Japan as it underwent its remarkable transformation from a largely feudal society to a modern state. Now, when the world is becoming more Asia-centric, Finding Japan provides glimpses into an earlier era that challenged conventional perceptions about Canadian connections across the Pacific.

Author : Richard Tames
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0750900032

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Encounters with Japan by Richard Tames Pdf

The experiences of British and Americans in Japan between its opening-up in 1850 and the ending of the Japanese/Anglo alliance in 1923, mostly told in the words of the visitors themselves.

Author : William L. Neumann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080180485X

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America Encounters Japan by William L. Neumann Pdf

Critical examination of the factors which influenced American policy concerning Japan over the last century.

Author : Robert A. Rosenstone
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674576411

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Mirror in the Shrine by Robert A. Rosenstone Pdf

Based on the travels of Griffis, Morse, and Hearn in the late 1800s, these stories evoke the immediacy of daily experience in Meiji, Japan, a nation still feudal in many of its habits yet captivating to Westerners for its gentleness, beauty, and pure charm. Illustrated.

Author : Yoko Yamasaki,Hiroyuki Kuno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317354383

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Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan by Yoko Yamasaki,Hiroyuki Kuno Pdf

Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan provides a critical analysis of educational initiatives, progressive ideas and developments in curriculum and pedagogy in Japan, from 1900 to the present day. Drawing on evidence of both cultural encounters and internal drivers for progressivism and reform, this book re-evaluates the history of Japanese education to help inform ongoing and future debates about education policy and practice worldwide. With contributions from Japanese scholars specialising in the history and philosophy of education and curriculum studies, chapters consider key collaborative improvements to teacher education, as well as group learning, ‘life education’, the creative arts and writing, and education for girls and women. The book examines Western influences, including John Dewey, Carleton Washburne and A. S. Neill, as well as Japan’s own progressive exports, such as holistic Zenjin education, Children’s Villages and Lesson Study, highlighting cultural encounters and progressive initiatives at both transnational and national levels. The chapters reflect on historical and political background, motivations, influences and the impact of Japanese progressive education. They also stimulate, through argument and critical discussion, a continuing discourse concerning principles, policy, politics and practices of education in an increasingly globalised society. A rigorous and critical study of the history of progressive education in Japan, this book will interest an international readership of academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of progressive education, comparative education, social and cultural history, history of education, Japanese studies, curriculum studies, and the history of childhood.

Author : Adam Clulow
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231535731

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The Company and the Shogun by Adam Clulow Pdf

The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process. This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the Dutch were forced to retreat, compelled to abandon their claims to sovereign powers, and to refashion themselves again and again—from subjects of a fictive king to loyal vassals of the shogun, from aggressive pirates to meek merchants, and from insistent defenders of colonial sovereignty to legal subjects of the Tokugawa state. Within the confines of these conflicts, the terms of the relationship between the company and the shogun first took shape and were subsequently set into what would become their permanent form. The first book to treat the Dutch East India Company in Japan as something more than just a commercial organization, The Company and the Shogun presents new perspective on one of the most important, long-lasting relationships to develop between an Asian state and a European overseas enterprise.

Author : Margaret M. Lock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052091662X

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Encounters with Aging by Margaret M. Lock Pdf

Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly detailed account of Japanese women's lives. The result offers irrefutable evidence that the experience and meanings—even the endocrinological changes—associated with female midlife are far from universal. Rather, Lock argues, they are the product of an ongoing dialectic between culture and local biologies. Japanese focus on middle-aged women as family members, and particularly as caretakers of elderly relatives. They attach relatively little importance to the end of menstruation, seeing it as a natural part of the aging process and not a diseaselike state heralding physical decline and emotional instability. Even the symptoms of midlife are different: Japanese women report few hot flashes, for example, but complain frequently of stiff shoulders. Articulate, passionate, and carefully documented, Lock's study systematically undoes the many preconceptions about aging women in two distinct cultural settings. Because it is rooted in the everyday lives of Japanese women, it also provides an excellent entree to Japanese society as a whole. Aging and menopause are subjects that have been closeted behind our myths, fears, and misconceptions. Margaret Lock's cross-cultural perspective gives us a critical new lens through which to examine our assumptions.

Author : Shūji Takashina,J. Thomas Rimer,Gerald D. Bolas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015017040828

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Paris in Japan by Shūji Takashina,J. Thomas Rimer,Gerald D. Bolas Pdf

Author : David R. Ambaras
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108470117

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Japan's Imperial Underworlds by David R. Ambaras Pdf

Explores Sino-Japanese relations through encounters that took place between each country's people living at the margins of empire.

Author : Shogo Suzuki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134063666

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Civilization and Empire by Shogo Suzuki Pdf

This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International Society as a progressive, linear process, this book contends that imperialism – along with an ideology premised on ‘civilising’ ‘barbarous’ peoples – played a central role in its historic development. Considering how these elements of International Society affected China and Japan’s entry into it, Shogo Suzuki contends that such states envisaged a Janus-faced International Society, which simultaneously aimed for cooperative relations among its ‘civilized’ members and for the introduction of ‘civilization’ towards non-European polities, often by coercive means. By examining the complex process by which China and Japan engaged with this dualism, this book highlights a darker side of China and Japan’s socialization into International Society which previous studies have failed to acknowledge. Drawing on Chinese and Japanese primary sources seldom utilized in International Relations, this book makes a compelling case for revising our understandings of International Society and its expansion. This book will be of strong interest to students and researcher of international relations, international history, European studies and Asian Studies.

Author : Marc Gallicchio
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807860687

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The African American Encounter with Japan and China by Marc Gallicchio Pdf

In the first book to focus on African American attitudes toward Japan and China, Marc Gallicchio examines the rise and fall of black internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. This daring new approach to world politics failed in its effort to seek solidarity with the two Asian countries, but it succeeded in rallying black Americans in the struggle for civil rights. Black internationalism emphasized the role of race or color in world politics and linked the domestic struggle of African Americans with the freedom struggle of emerging nations "of color," such as India and much of Africa. In the early twentieth century, black internationalists, including W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, embraced Japan as a potential champion of the darker races, despite Japan's imperialism in China. After Pearl Harbor, black internationalists reversed their position and identified Nationalist China as an ally in the war against racism. In the end, black internationalism was unsuccessful as an interpretation of international affairs. The failed quest for alliances with Japan and China, Gallicchio argues, foreshadowed the difficulty black Americans would encounter in seeking redress for American racism in the international arena.

Author : Shin'ichi Yamamuro
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812239126

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Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion by Shin'ichi Yamamuro Pdf

From 1932 until the end of World War II, the Japanese established and maintained by bloody rule a puppet regime in the Chinese region of Manchuria. This region was composed of three northern provinces in China; the puppet ruler was the last Chinese Emperor, Pu Yi, and this rich industrial region was clearly coveted and managed by the Japanese as a critical element in their imperial dominion. Yamamuro Shin'ichi's extraordinary book rereads this occupation under new light. The author shows that right-wing Japanese military and civilian groups thought of construction in this sparsely populated region as an effort to build a paradise on earth, with roots deep in Asian traditions. At the same time, Chinese and Korean populations in the region were abused by the Japanese military, and many Japanese were deliberately misinformed about what was being done in their name. Yamamuro examines the policies and events unfolding on the ground during this time. With close attention to the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans involved, and the links between the military and the home islands, he offers his own overall assessment of this distinctive instance of state-building. Making use of numerous sources in Chinese and Japanese, from legal documents and government decrees to memoirs and poetry, Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion goes beyond rhetoric to provide a unique assessment of the history of this period.

Author : Eyal Ben-Ari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351680080

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Japanese Encounters by Eyal Ben-Ari Pdf

This book explores the multiplicity of special times and spaces in Japan within which people get together to decide, celebrate or play, in gatherings such as organizational meetings, community festivities, preschool games or drinking bouts. It analyzes these gatherings in relation to the theoretical model of sociocultural frames, examining how such occasions are put together, their unfolding stages, interactive encounters, and relations between participants and the wider social and cultural contexts. It considers the cognitive, emotional and behavioural dimensions, the scope for manipulation and the effects, intentional and unintentional, on participants and the connections to the ways in which in society and culture change. Overall, besides describing specific rites and ceremonies in Japan, the book provides great insights into the process whereby the interactions, feelings and action of individuals and groups shape popular culture.