Encounters With Japan And The Japanese

Author : Emeritus Professor W G Beasley,William G. Beasley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Richard Tames
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Eyal Ben-Ari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,7 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.

Author : Shūji Takashina,J. Thomas Rimer,Gerald D. Bolas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Lieba Faier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Joanne Miyang Cho,Lee Roberts,Christian W. Spang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137573971

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Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan by Joanne Miyang Cho,Lee Roberts,Christian W. Spang Pdf

Showcasing moments of convergence between the German and Japanese cultures towards common points of interest over the last one hundred fifty years, the chapters in this book cover such topics as culture, diplomacy, geography, history, law, literature, philosophy, politics, and sports. From the creation of two similar modern nation-states, to the aggressive struggle for national supremacy and subsequent total defeat in 1945, the necessity of coping with their earlier militarism and parallel economic miracles in the postwar era, Germans and Japanese look back on a remarkably similar past.

Author : Hiroko Kataoka,Tetsuya Kusumoto
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0844285315

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Japanese Cultural Encounters by Hiroko Kataoka,Tetsuya Kusumoto Pdf

Reveals subtle differences between Japanese culture and our own._

Author : Shogo Suzuki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Marie Conte-Helm
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780939803

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The Japanese and Europe by Marie Conte-Helm Pdf

Japanese investment in Europe has been growing by leaps and bounds and this book charts the course of this phenomenon, looking both at the Japanese experience of Europe and the European experience of the Japanese, and social, cultural and economic consequences of this encounter. This contemporary snap-shot is based upon a wealth of interviews and fully-illustrated by photographs, maps and diagrams. First published in 1996, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Author : Alan Macfarlane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1491075414

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Encounters with Japan and the Japanese by Alan Macfarlane Pdf

I knew little of Japan and the Japanese before I was fifty although I had been interested in some curious similarities between the islands of England and Japan historically (primogeniture, early industrialization, centralized feudalism, ascetic religion, tea drinking). When I was invited to Hokkaido University in 1990 as a visiting British Council fellow, I was delighted at the opportunity to visit this fabled land with my wife Sarah; though I distinctly remembering having to find a map to work out exactly where Japan was. When we visited Japan, we met our hosts Professors Kenichi and Toshiko Nakamura. They became close friends and have remained so since. Our friendship and collaboration has been the underpinning of all my work on Japan. They have hosted, guided, corrected and stimulated us during our numerous visits since 1990, and when they came for sabbaticals to Oxford and Cambridge we would hold long informal seminars in the attempt to understand each other's culture. I found and still find Japan enormously puzzling. In many superficial ways, as mentioned, it is like England. Yet as one goes deeper, the differences become more pronounced. I spent fifteen years in often fruitless attempts to understand it and was only finally able to write my book when I read Lafcadio Hearn. Hearn had fallen in love with Japan, learnt the language, taught in Japanese schools, married a Japanese wife. Yet in the preface to Japan - An Interpretation he wrote: 'Long ago the best and dearest Japanese friend I ever had said to me... "When you find, in four or five years more, that you cannot understand the Japanese at all then you will begin to know something about them." After having realised the truth of my friend's prediction, - after having discovered that I cannot understand the Japanese at all, - I feel better qualified to attempt this essay.' Entering Japan is a gradual process and my final book, Japan Through the Looking Glass (2007) is the summation of many earlier attempts. The various stages of that journey are quite well illustrated in a number of articles and talks, only some of them published, which I have written since 1993. They are rough and sometimes unchecked, but they do give a sense of how I tried to come to terms with various puzzling features of Japan - economy, social structure, law and custom, work, technology and art.

Author : Tsuneichi Miyamoto,Jeffrey Irish
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781933330808

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The Forgotten Japanese by Tsuneichi Miyamoto,Jeffrey Irish Pdf

A revealing look into the hearts of the Japanese people and at rural lifestyles that have all but disappeared, in a long-awaited translation of a classic text by one of Japan's great folklore scholars.

Author : Shin'ichi Yamamuro
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Robert A. Rosenstone
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Robert E. Carter
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791490303

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Encounter with Enlightenment by Robert E. Carter Pdf

In Encounter with Enlightenment, Robert E. Carter puts forth the East, and specifically Japan, as a source of possible solutions to the world's social, economic, and environmental problems. Not only is the book a sustained scholarly analysis of both the religious and philosophical roots of Japan's distinctive ethical approach to life, but it also provides the Western reader with a context for understanding Eastern values—values that although familiar to the West tend to be deemphasized. Encounter with Enlightenment begins a horizontal fusion between East and West, and establishes a common ground for mutual understanding and for working toward an ethical approach that could resolve some of the earth's difficulties.

Author : David R. Ambaras
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,6 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.