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Author : Sandra Buckley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415481526
This encyclopedia covers culture from the end of the Imperialist period in 1945 right up to date to reflect the vibrant nature of contemporary Japanese society and culture.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Japan
ISBN : 4939030296
Author : Mark Schilling
Publisher : Weatherhill
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015048629292
Alphabetically arranged list of popular Japanese cultural icons.
Author : James L. Huffman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135634971
A valuable companion reference Concentrating on the period following Admiral Perry's visit in the 1850's, the encyclopedia examines the historical events, leaders, and societal pressures in the country's recent past that affected Japan's entry into the modern age. Like its companion volume, the encyclopedia covers important political topics, the arts, religion, business, literature, education, journalism, and other major social, cultural, and economic forces. Looks at the emperor and nationalism Emphasizing the close ties that always existed between the emperor system and nationalism, the encyclopedia carefully explores the various forms of nationalism that flourished since the middle of the last century, discusses how hte supernationalism of the beginning of the century ultimately led to World War II, looks at the uniquely Japanese custom of national self-analysis, and examines the country's remarkable postwar market-building economic nationalism. Charts major influences and contemporary concerns The Encyclopedia brings together in a single volume the major themes and currents that influenced and shaped Japan into a modern economic giant. Ranging over the entire spectrum of modern Japanese history, expert contributors provide concise entries on specific episodes and individuals, as well as longer articles on broad topics such as militarism, labor, cinema, censorship, and returning students. The Encyclopedia also examines many of the forces driving Japan today: trade relationships, attitudes towards World War II, the role of national defense, whether to revise the constitution, dealing with unskilled foreign labor, and more. All major entries are followed by an English-language bibliography for pursuing subjects in depth.
Author : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited,Kodansha America, Incorporated,Kodansha Europe Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1964 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4069310983
This work offers information on contemporary Japanese society, history, artnd culture and also contains data on the economy, government, and politicsf Japan. In addition to the main entries and over 4000 colour illustrations,here are nearly 100 feature articles and pictorial essays.
Author : Tomoko Aoyama
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824832858
Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton’s words, "endlessly interpretable," and food, like literature, "looks like an object but is actually a relationship." So how much do we, and should we, read into the way food is represented in literature? Reading Food explores this and other questions in an unusual and fascinating tour of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Tomoko Aoyama analyzes a wide range of diverse writings that focus on food, eating, and cooking and considers how factors such as industrialization, urbanization, nationalism, and gender construction have affected people’s relationships to food, nature, and culture, and to each other. The examples she offers are taken from novels (shosetsu) and other literary texts and include well known writers (such as Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, Hayashi Fumiko, Okamoto Kanoko, Kaiko Takeshi, and Yoshimoto Banana) as well as those who are less widely known (Murai Gensai, Nagatsuka Takashi, Sumii Sue, and Numa Shozo). Food is everywhere in Japanese literature, and early chapters illustrate historical changes and variations in the treatment of food and eating. Examples are drawn from Meiji literary diaries, children’s stories, peasant and proletarian literature, and women’s writing before and after World War II. The author then turns to the theme of cannibalism in serious and popular novels. Key issues include ethical questions about survival, colonization, and cultural identity. The quest for gastronomic gratification is a dominant theme in "gourmet novels." Like cannibalism, the gastronomic journey as a literary theme is deeply implicated with cultural identity. The final chapter deals specifically with contemporary novels by women, some of which celebrate the inclusiveness of eating (and writing), while others grapple with the fear of eating. Such dread or disgust can be seen as a warning against what the complacent "gourmet boom" of the 1980s and 1990s concealed: the dangers of a market economy, environmental destruction, and continuing gender biases. Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature will tempt any reader with an interest in food, literature, and culture. Moreover, it provides appetizing hints for further savoring, digesting, and incorporating textual food.
Author : Roger J. Davies,Osamu Ikeno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015052881979
Twenty-eight essays provide an overview of modern Japanese culture, with attention to the society's values, attitudes, behavior patterns, and communication styles. War, gender roles, seniority rules, group consciousness, and aesthetics are specifically considered. A chronology and glossary are included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Roger J. Davies
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462918836
Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history. This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy of Japan. This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural traditions that underlie modern Japan and offers readers deep insights into Japanese manners and etiquette. Davies begins with an investigation of the origins of the Japanese, followed by an analysis of the most important approaches used by scholars to describe the essential elements of Japanese culture. From there, each chapter focuses on one of the formative elements: Shintoism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zen, Confucianism, and Western influences in the modern era. Each chapter is concluded with extensive endnotes along with thought-provoking discussion activities, making this volume ideal for individual readers and for classroom instruction. Anyone interested in pursuing a deeper understanding of this complex and fascinating nation will find Davies's work an invaluable resource.
Author : Victoria Bestor,Theodore C. Bestor,Akiko Yamagata
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136736261
The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of significant phenomena, institutions, and directions in Japan today, on issues ranging from gender and family, the environment, race and ethnicity, and urban life, to popular culture and electronic media. Written by an international team of Japan experts, the chapters included in the volume form an accessible and fascinating insight into Japanese culture and society. As such, the Handbook will be an invaluable reference tool for anyone interested in all things Japanese. Students, teachers and professionals alike will benefit from the broad ranging discussions, useful links to online resources and suggested reading lists. The Handbook will be of interest across a wide range of disciplines including Japanese Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and Asian Studies in general.
Author : Jennifer Milioto Matsue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317649540
Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan explores a diversity of musics performed in Japan today, ranging from folk song to classical music, the songs of geisha to the screaming of underground rock, with a specific look at the increasingly popular world of taiko (ensemble drumming). Discussion of contemporary musical practice is situated within broader frames of musical and sociopolitical history, processes of globalization and cosmopolitanism, and the continued search for Japanese identity through artistic expression. It explores how the Japanese have long negotiated cultural identity through musical practice in three parts: Part I, "Japanese Music and Culture," provides an overview of the key characteristics of Japanese culture that inform musical performance, such as the attitude towards the natural environment, changes in ruling powers, dominant religious forms, and historical processes of cultural exchange. Part II, "Sounding Japan," describes the elements that distinguish traditional Japanese music and then explores how music has changed in the modern era under the influence of Western music and ideology. Part III, "Focusing In: Identity, Meaning and Japanese Drumming in Kyoto," is based on fieldwork with musicians and explores the position of Japanese drumming within Kyoto. It focuses on four case studies that paint a vivid picture of each respective site, the music that is practiced, and the pedagogy and creative processes of each group. The accompanying CD includes examples of Japanese music that illustrate specific elements and key genres introduced in the text. A companion website includes additional audio-visual sources discussed in detail in the text. Jennifer Milioto Matsue is an Associate Professor at Union College and specializes in modern Japanese music and culture.
Author : Irina Holca,Carmen Sapunaru Tamas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793623881
This collection brings together fifteen chapters written by scholars specializing in disciplines ranging from anthropology and sociology to literature, film, and performance studies. These scholars analyze complex questions about how the body is lived and imagined as a locus of meaning-making in contemporary Japan. Exploring such topics as mind-body dualism, aging and illness, spirit possession, beauty, performance, and gender, this collection addresses the wide array of socio-cultural and literary contexts in which the body is interpreted in Japanese culture and thought.
Author : Mark Schilling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1437969763
Postwar Japanese pop culture has been extraordinarily fertile, vibrant, and commercially successful. ¿Manga,¿ Japan¿s unique contribution to comic art, became a major force in the nation¿s cultural life, as did Japanese music and movies. This book has more articles about people than products because the author wanted to bring the individual faces of Japanese pop culture into sharp focus. In choosing subjects, he used objective criteria -- most sales, longest run, highest ratings -- but often the choice to include a subject came down to his own feeling about what was important and what was not. Contains more than 70 in-depth entries covering Japanese pop culture since 1945 in the areas of music, movies, comedy, fads, popular media, and much more.
Author : Dolores P. Martinez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCSD:31822035143411
Brings together new-wave essays written from the 1990s onwards, together with the several articles written in earlier decades in order to build up a nuanced portrait of modern Japanese culture and society. This work looks at the macro level of politics and the economy. It also addresses religion and the diversity of contemporary Japanese society.
Author : Mina Qiao
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793646132
Murakami Haruki, Ogawa Yōko, Tawada Yōko, Kanai Mieko, Hino Keizō, Murakami Ryū, Kawakami Hiromi, Murata Sayaka... These acclaimed authors are united by a shared fascination with fantastical conceptions of space. In highlighting these luminaries of contemporary Japanese literature, Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature examines the role of extramundane topos from an interdisciplinary approach. As writers navigate fantastical spaces in resistance to the logic of everyday life, they are able to challenge the dualistic norms on the body and mind that typify modern Japanese life. These studies demonstrate the essential role played by fantastical spaces in the development of modern Japanese literature to the present day. Scholars of Japanese studies, literature, and other fields will find this book an excellent resource for teaching and research.
Author : Takie Sugiyama Lebra,William P. Lebra
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824810554
Every chapters offers insights into one aspect or other of contemporary Japanese life. Newly included are discussions on such topics as dinner entertainment, skiing cross-culturally, male chauvinism as a manifestation of love in marriage, and domestic violence. Ten chapters have been retained from the first edition because they have achieved the status of classics.
