Research In Japanese Sources

Author : Herschel Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:8108386

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Research in Japanese Sources by Herschel Webb Pdf

Author : 泰子·牧野
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:1245828907

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A Student Guide to Japanese Sources in the Humanities by 泰子·牧野 Pdf

Author : Amleto Vespa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Japanese
ISBN : UCAL:$B683622

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Secret Agent of Japan by Amleto Vespa Pdf

Author : Abé Markus Nornes,Aaron Gerow
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781929280544

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Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies by Abé Markus Nornes,Aaron Gerow Pdf

The Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies provides a snapshot of all the archival and bibliographic resources available to students and scholars of Japanese cinema. Among the nations of the world, Japan has enjoyed an impressively lively print culture related to cinema. The first film books and periodicals appeared shortly after the birth of cinema, proliferating wildly in the 1910s with only the slightest pause in the dark days of World War II. The numbers of publications match the enormous scale of film production, but with the lack of support for film studies in Japan, much of it remains as uncharted territory, with few maps to negotiate the maze of material. This book is the first comprehensive guide ever published for approaching the complex archive for Japanese cinema. It lists all the libraries and film archives in the world with significant collections of film prints, still photographs, archival records, books, and periodicals. It provides a full annotated bibliography of the core books and magazines for the field. And it supplies hints for how to find and access materials for any research project. Above and beyond that, Nornes and Gerow’s Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies constitutes a comprehensive overview of the impressive dimensions and depth of the print culture surrounding Japanese film, and a guideline for future research in the field. This is an essential book for anyone seriously thinking about Japan and its cinema.

Author : 角田柳作,William Theodore De Bary,Donald Keene
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0231086059

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Sources of Japanese Tradition by 角田柳作,William Theodore De Bary,Donald Keene Pdf

Author : George Akita
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824825607

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Evaluating Evidence by George Akita Pdf

Evaluating Evidence is based on the grueling lessons learned by a senior scholar during three decades of tutoring by, and collaboration with, Japanese historians. George Akita persisted in the difficult task of reading documentary sources in Japanese, most written in calligraphic style (sôsho), out of the conviction of their centrality to the historian’s craft and his commitment to a positivist methodology to research and scholarship. He argues forcefully in this volume for an inductive process in which the scholar seeks out facts on a subject and, through observation and examination of an extensive body of data, is able to discern patterns until it is possible to formulate certain propositions. In his introduction, Akita relates how and why he decided to adopt a positivist approach and explains what he means by the term as it applies to humanistic studies. He enumerates the difficulties linked with reading primary sources in Japanese by looking at a variety of unpublished and published materials and identifying a major problem in reading published primary sources: the intervention of editors and compilers. He illustrates the pitfalls of such intervention by comparing the recently published seventeen-volume diary of Prime Minister Hara Takashi (1856–1921), a photo reproduction of the diary in Hara’s own hand, and an earlier published version. Using documents related to Yamagata Aritomo (1838–1922), a figure of central importance in Japan’s post-Restoration political history, he demonstrates the use of published and transcribed primary sources to sustain, question, or strengthen some of the themes and approaches adopted by non-Japanese scholars working on modern Japanese history. He ends his inquiry with two "case studies," examining closely the methods of the highly acclaimed American historians John W. Dower and Herbert P. Bix.

Author : John Whitney Hall
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556000609883

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Japanese History by John Whitney Hall Pdf

This is a guide to Japanese references and research materials with a general introduction covering reference aids, published sources, and scholarly journals, and a selected list of survey literature.

Author : Theodore C. Bestor,Patricia G. Steinhoff,Victoria Lyon Bestor
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824827341

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Doing Fieldwork in Japan by Theodore C. Bestor,Patricia G. Steinhoff,Victoria Lyon Bestor Pdf

Doing Fieldwork in Japan taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducting long-term research in the social sciences and cultural studies. In lively first-person accounts, they discuss their successes and failures doing fieldwork across rural and urban Japan in a wide range of settings: among religious pilgrims and adolescent consumers; on factory assembly lines and in high schools and wholesale seafood markets; with bureaucrats in charge of defense, foreign aid, and social welfare policy; inside radical political movements; among adherents of "New Religions"; inside a prosecutor's office and the JET Program for foreign English teachers; with journalists in the NHK newsroom; while researching race, ethnicity, and migration; and amidst fans and consumers of contemporary popular culture. Contributors: David M. Arase, Theodore C. Bestor, Victoria Lyon Bestor, Mary C. Brinton, John Creighton Campbell, Samuel Coleman, Suzanne Culter, Andrew Gordon, Helen Hardacre, Joy Hendry, David T. Johnson, Ellis S. Krauss, David L. McConnell, Ian Reader, Glenda S. Roberts, Joshua Hotaka Roth, Robert J. Smith, Sheila A. Smith, Patricia G. Steinhoff, Merry Isaacs White, Christine R. Yano.

Author : Edward R. Beauchamp,Richard Rubinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351387149

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Education in Japan by Edward R. Beauchamp,Richard Rubinger Pdf

This book, first published in 1989, includes essays on a number of the most important topics in Japanese education as well as the highly selected, and annotated, bibliographies. It is the editors' belief that understanding educational matters requires insight into the historical context, and have therefore placed contemporary Japanese educational matters in historical perspective.

Author : Hiroshi Oda
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1443 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191018831

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Japanese Law by Hiroshi Oda Pdf

This book presents the only English language, up-to-date, and comprehensive reference to Japanese law. It covers a wide range of topics, from the fundamentals of the Japanese legal system, to the Civil Code which is the cornerstone of private law in Japan and business related laws in a comprehensive manner. The author presents the current state of Japanese law in operation by referring to numerous cases and the latest discussions. Since the last edition in 1999, Japanese Law, in almost every area, has undergone substantial reform, all of which is reflected in the new text. In particular, the new edition contains the first comprehensive analysis of the new Company Law and the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law. This makes this book an essential reference work for all who have an interest in Japanese law.

Author : David W. Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351697606

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music by David W. Hughes Pdf

Music is a frequently neglected aspect of Japanese culture. It is in fact a highly problematic area, as the Japanese actively introduced Western music into their modern education system in the Meiji period (1868-1911), creating westernized melodies and instrumental instruction for Japanese children from kindergarten upwards. As a result, most Japanese now have a far greater familiarity with Western (or westernized) music than with traditional Japanese music. Traditional or classical Japanese music has become somewhat ghettoized, often known and practised only by small groups of people in social structures which have survived since the pre-modern era. Such marginalization of Japanese music is one of the less recognized costs of Japan's modernization. On the other hand, music in its westernized and modernized forms has an extremely important place in Japanese culture and society, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, being so widely known and performed that it is arguably part of contemporary Japanese popular and mass culture. Japan has become a world leader in the mass production of Western musical instruments and in innovative methodologies of music education (Yamaha and Suzuki). More recently, the Japanese craze of karaoke as a musical entertainment and as musical hardware has made an impact on the leisure and popular culture of many countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas. This is the first book to cover in detail all genres including court music, Buddhist chant, theatre music, chamber ensemble music and folk music, as well as contemporary music and the connections between music and society in various periods. The book is a collaborative effort, involving both Japanese and English speaking authors, and was conceived by the editors to form a balanced approach that comprehensively treats the full range of Japanese musical culture.

Author : Ryūsaku Tsunoda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:1080766959

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Sources of Japanese Tradition by Ryūsaku Tsunoda Pdf

Author : Jason Ānanda Josephson,Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226412344

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The Invention of Religion in Japan by Jason Ānanda Josephson,Jason Ananda Josephson Storm Pdf

Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call “religion.” There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to sign treaties demanding, among other things, freedom of religion, the country had to contend with this Western idea. In this book, Jason Ananda Josephson reveals how Japanese officials invented religion in Japan and traces the sweeping intellectual, legal, and cultural changes that followed. More than a tale of oppression or hegemony, Josephson’s account demonstrates that the process of articulating religion offered the Japanese state a valuable opportunity. In addition to carving out space for belief in Christianity and certain forms of Buddhism, Japanese officials excluded Shinto from the category. Instead, they enshrined it as a national ideology while relegating the popular practices of indigenous shamans and female mediums to the category of “superstitions”—and thus beyond the sphere of tolerance. Josephson argues that the invention of religion in Japan was a politically charged, boundary-drawing exercise that not only extensively reclassified the inherited materials of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto to lasting effect, but also reshaped, in subtle but significant ways, our own formulation of the concept of religion today. This ambitious and wide-ranging book contributes an important perspective to broader debates on the nature of religion, the secular, science, and superstition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:314319140

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Sources of Japanese Tradition by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barbara Ambros
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479827626

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Women in Japanese Religions by Barbara Ambros Pdf

A comprehensive history of women in Japanese religious traditions Scholars have widely acknowledged the persistent ambivalence with which the Japanese religious traditions treat women. Much existing scholarship depicts Japan’s religious traditions as mere means of oppression. But this view raises a question: How have ambivalent and even misogynistic religious discourses on gender still come to inspire devotion and emulation among women? In Women in Japanese Religions, Barbara R. Ambros examines the roles that women have played in the religions of Japan. An important corrective to more common male-centered narratives of Japanese religious history, this text presents a synthetic long view of Japanese religions from a distinct angle that has typically been discounted in standard survey accounts of Japanese religions. Drawing on a diverse collection of writings by and about women, Ambros argues that ambivalent religious discourses in Japan have not simply subordinated women but also given them religious resources to pursue their own interests and agendas. Comprising nine chapters organized chronologically, the book begins with the archeological evidence of fertility cults and the early shamanic ruler Himiko in prehistoric Japan and ends with an examination of the influence of feminism and demographic changes on religious practices during the “lost decades” of the post-1990 era. By viewing Japanese religious history through the eyes of women, Women in Japanese Religions presents a new narrative that offers strikingly different vistas of Japan’s pluralistic traditions than the received accounts that foreground male religious figures and male-dominated institutions.