Searching For Japan

Author : Michele Monserrati
Publisher : Transnational Italian Cultures
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789621075

Get Book

Searching for Japan by Michele Monserrati Pdf

This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan's relations with the West. Drawing from the fields of Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, analysis of these texts explores one central question: what does it mean to imagine Japanese culture as contributing to Italian culture? Each author shares in common an attempt to disrupt ideas about dichotomies and unbalanced power relationships between East and West. Proposing the notion of 'relational Orientalism, ' this book suggests that Italian travelogues to Japan, in many cases, pursued the goal of building imaginary transnational communities, predicated on commonalities and integration, by claiming what they perceived as 'Oriental' as their own. In contrast with a long history of Western representations of Japan as inferior and irrational, Searching for Japan identifies a positive overarching attitude toward the Far East country in modern Italian culture. Expanding the horizon of Italian transnational networks, normally situated within the Southern European region, this book reinstates the existence of an alternative Euro-Asian axis, operating across Italian history.

Author : Karin Muller
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781623361631

Get Book

Japanland by Karin Muller Pdf

During a year spent in Japan on a personal quest to deepen her appreciation for such Eastern ideals as commitment and devotion, documentary filmmaker Karin Muller discovered just how maddeningly complicated it is being Japanese. In this book Muller invites the reader along for a uniquely American odyssey into the ancient heart of modern Japan. Broad in scope and deftly observed by an author with a rich visual sense of people and place, Japanland is as beguiling as this colorful country of contradictions.

Author : Alan MacFarlane
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847650580

Get Book

Japan Through the Looking Glass by Alan MacFarlane Pdf

This entertaining and endlessly surprising book takes us on an exploration into every aspect of Japanese society from the most public to the most intimate. A series of meticulous investigations gradually uncovers the multi-faceted nature of a country and people who are even more extraordinary than they seem. Our journey encompasses religion, ritual, martial arts, manners, eating, drinking, hot baths, geishas, family, home, singing, wrestling, dancing, performing, clans, education, aspiration, sexes, generations, race, crime, gangs, terror, war, kindness, cruelty, money, art, imperialism, emperor, countryside, city, politics, government, law and a language that varies according to whom you are speaking. Clear-sighted, persistent, affectionate, unsentimental and honest - Alan Macfarlane shows us Japan as it has never been seen before.

Author : Alan Roland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780691228167

Get Book

In Search of Self in India and Japan by Alan Roland Pdf

Drawing on work with Indian and Japanese patients, a prominent American psychoanalyst explores inner worlds that are markedly different from the Western psyche. A series of fascinating case studies illustrates Alan Roland's argument: the "familial self," rooted in the subtle emotional hierarchical relationships of the family and group, predominates in Indian and Japanese psyches and contrasts strongly with the Western "individualized self." In perceptive and sympathetic terms Roland describes the emotional problems that occur when Indians and Japanese encounter Western culture and the resulting successful integration of new patterns that he calls the "expanding self." Of particular interest are descriptions of the special problems of women in changing society and of the paradoxical relationship of the "spiritual self" of Indians and Japanese to the "familial self.? Also described is Roland's own response to the broadening of his emotional and intellectual horizons as he talked to patients and supervised therapists in India and Japan. "As we were coming in for a landing to Bombay," he writes, "the plane banked so sharply that when I supposedly looked down all I could see were the stars, while if I looked up, there were the lights of the city." This is the "world turned upside down" that he describes so eloquently in this book. What he has learned will fascinate those who wish to deepen their understanding of a different way of being.

Author : Gauri Khandekar,Bart Gaens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317372905

Get Book

Japan’s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships by Gauri Khandekar,Bart Gaens Pdf

As tensions between China and Japan increase, including over the disputed islands in the East China Sea, Japan has adopted under Prime Minister Abe a new security posture. This involves, internally, adapting Japan’s constitutional position on defence and, externally, building stronger international relationships in the Asia-Pacific region and more widely. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of these developments. It shows how trust and co-operation with the United States, the only partner with which Japan has a formal alliance, is being rebuilt, discusses how other relationships, both on security and on wider issues, are being formed, in the region and with European countries and the EU, with the relationships with India and Australia being of particular importance, and concludes by assessing the likely impact on the region of Japan’s changing posture and new relationships.

Author : John Dougill
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780281075539

Get Book

In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians by John Dougill Pdf

In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians is a remarkable story of suppression, secrecy and survival in the face of human cruelty and God’s apparent silence. Part history, part travelogue, it explores and seeks to explain a clash of civilizations—of East and West—that resonates to this day. For seven generations, Japan’s ‘Hidden Christians’ preserved a faith that was forbidden on pain of death. Just as remarkably, descendants of the Hidden Christians continue to practise their beliefs today, refusing to rejoin the Catholic Church. Why? And what is it about Japanese culture that makes it so resistant to Western Christianity?

Author : Alan Booth
Publisher : Vertical Inc
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781568366159

Get Book

Looking for the Lost by Alan Booth Pdf

A VIBRANT, MEDITATIVE WALK IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL OF JAPAN Traveling by foot through mountains and villages, Alan Booth found a Japan far removed from the stereotypes familiar to Westerners. Whether retracing the footsteps of ancient warriors or detailing the encroachments of suburban sprawl, he unerringly finds the telling detail, the unexpected transformation, the everyday drama that brings this remote world to life on the page. Looking for the Lost is full of personalities, from friendly gangsters to mischievous children to the author himself, an expatriate who found in Japan both his true home and dogged exile. Wry, witty, sometimes angry, always eloquent, Booth is a uniquely perceptive guide. Looking for the Lost is a technicolor journey into the heart of a nation. Perhaps even more significant, it is the self-portrait of one man, Alan Booth, exquisitely painted in the twilight of his own life.

Author : Yoshihide Soeya,David A. Welch,Masayaki Tadokoro
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442694255

Get Book

Japan as a 'Normal Country'? by Yoshihide Soeya,David A. Welch,Masayaki Tadokoro Pdf

For decades, Japan's foreign policy has been seen by both internal and external observers as abnormal in relation to its size and level of sophistication. Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic and geographically comparative discussion of the unique limitations of Japanese foreign and defence policy. The contributors reappraise the definition of normality and ask whether Japan is indeed abnormal, what it would mean to become normal, and whether the country can—or should—become so. Identifying constraints such as an inflexible constitution, inherent antimilitarism, and its position as a U.S. security client, Japan as a 'Normal Country'? goes on to analyse factors that could make Japan a more effective regional and global player. These essays ultimately consider how Japan could leverage its considerable human, cultural, technological, and financial capital to benefit both its citizens and the world.

Author : Michele Monserrati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Japan
ISBN : 1800341199

Get Book

Searching for Japan by Michele Monserrati Pdf

This volume pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan's relations with the West. Drawing from the fields of Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, analysis of these texts explores one central question: what does it mean to imagine Japanese culture as contributing to Italian culture? Each author shares in common an attempt to disrupt ideas about dichotomies and unbalanced power relationships between East and West.

Author : Christopher Harding
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462922512

Get Book

A History of Modern Japan by Christopher Harding Pdf

"Lucid and lyrical…a vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization." --The Daily Telegraph In A History of Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into the untold stories of Japan's recent history--from a pop star's nuclear power protest song in 2011, to Japanese feminists who fought for an equal political voice in the 1890s. Though highly successful, and typically portrayed as a unified effort, Japan's rebuilding throughout the 20th century faced a lot of domestic criticism. This story-led account gives a voice to those who felt they didn't fit in with what Japan was becoming. It's that push and pull that made the country what it is today. This book will be a fascinating read for anyone interested in Japanese culture--whether film and literature, or pop culture and manga--as big shifts in Japanese ideology and society tend to come from culture and the arts, rather than being politically-driven. It will also be of interest to those traveling to Japan who want a better sense of the place, or anyone seeking to better understand Japan's role on the global stage. With over 100 photographs, maps and prints, A History of Modern Japan showcases the compelling story of Japan's amazing growth and its resulting struggles. For all the country's advancement, the Japanese people continue to wrestle with the notion of what it means to be Japanese in a changing world.

Author : John Condon,Keisuke Kurata
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760664456

Get Book

In Search of What's Japanese about Japan by John Condon,Keisuke Kurata Pdf

Author : Rikki Kersten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136160110

Get Book

Democracy in Post-War Japan by Rikki Kersten Pdf

Democracy in Post-War Japan assesses the development of democracy through the writings of the brilliant political thinker Maruyama Masao. The author explores the significance of Maruyama's notion of personal and social autonomy and its impact on the development of a distinctively Japanese democratic ideal. This book, based on contemporary documents and on interviews with Maruyama, is the only full-scale analysis of his work and thought to be published in English.

Author : Michael A. Barnhart
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801468452

Get Book

Japan Prepares for Total War by Michael A. Barnhart Pdf

The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of Japan's quest for economic security, drawing on a wide array of Japanese and American sources.Barnhart focuses on the critical years from 1938 to 1941 as he investigates the development of Japan's drive for national economic self-sufficiency and independence and the way in which this drive shaped its internal and external policies. He also explores American economic pressure on Tokyo and assesses its impact on Japan's foreign policy and domestic economy. He concludes that Japan's internal political dynamics, especially the bitter rivalry between its army and navy, played a far greater role in propelling the nation into war with the United States than did its economic condition or even pressure from Washington. Japan Prepares for Total War sheds new light on prewar Japan and confirms the opinions of those in Washington who advocated economic pressure against Japan.

Author : Eiichiro Azuma
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520304383

Get Book

In Search of Our Frontier by Eiichiro Azuma Pdf

In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with Japan’s colonial empire through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and capital in the Asia-Pacific basin before World War II. The trajectories of Japanese transpacific migrants exemplified a prevalent national structure of thought and practice that not only functioned to shore up the backbone of Japan’s empire building but also promoted the borderless quest for Japanese overseas development. Eiichiro Azuma offers new interpretive perspectives that will allow readers to understand Japanese settler colonialism’s capacity to operate outside the aegis of the home empire.

Author : John C. Condon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:929817771

Get Book

In Search of What's Japanese about Japan by John C. Condon Pdf