Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Japan
ISBN : IND:30000008581872
Shinbun-USA
Anonim
Shinbun Usa
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Waste
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Author : Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501725852
Waste by Eiko Maruko Siniawer Pdf
In Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste—in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources—from the immediate aftermath of World War II to the present. She shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of everyday life, reflecting the priorities and aspirations of the historical moment, and revealing people’s ever-changing concerns and hopes. Over the course of the long postwar, Japanese society understood waste variously as backward and retrogressive, an impediment to progress, a pervasive outgrowth of mass consumption, incontrovertible proof of societal excess, the embodiment of resources squandered, and a hazard to the environment. Siniawer also shows how an encouragement of waste consciousness served as a civilizing and modernizing imperative, a moral good, an instrument for advancement, a path to self-satisfaction, an environmental commitment, an expression of identity, and more. From the late 1950s onward, a defining element of Japan’s postwar experience emerged: the tension between the desire for the privileges of middle-class lifestyles made possible by affluence and dissatisfaction with the logics, costs, and consequences of that very prosperity. This tension complicated the persistent search for what might be called well-being, a good life, or a life well lived. Waste is an elegant history of how people lived—how they made sense of, gave meaning to, and found value in the acts of the everyday.
A New History of Shinto
John Breen,Mark Teeuwen
Author : John Breen,Mark Teeuwen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781444357684
A New History of Shinto by John Breen,Mark Teeuwen Pdf
This accessible guide to the development of Japan’s indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths, sites and rituals of kami worship, and their role in Shinto’s enduring religious identity. Offers a unique new approach to Shinto history that combines critical analysis with original research Examines key evolutionary moments in the long history of Shinto, including the Meiji Revolution of 1868, and provides the first critical history in English or Japanese of the Hie shrine, one of the most important in all Japan Traces the development of various shrines, myths, and rituals through history as uniquely diverse phenomena, exploring how and when they merged into the modern notion of Shinto that exists in Japan today Challenges the historic stereotype of Shinto as the unchanging, all-defining core of Japanese culture
How Japanese and Japanese-Americans Brought Soyfoods to the United States and the Hawaiian Islands--A History (1851-2011)
William Shurtleff,Akiko Aoyagi
Author : William Shurtleff,Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Soyfoods industry
ISBN : 9781928914372
How Japanese and Japanese-Americans Brought Soyfoods to the United States and the Hawaiian Islands--A History (1851-2011) by William Shurtleff,Akiko Aoyagi Pdf
Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance
Masami Kimura
Author : Masami Kimura
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040089705
Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance by Masami Kimura Pdf
Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance reconsiders the origins of postwar U.S.-Japan relations by focusing on “modernization” ideologies that the Americans and the Japanese shared in the 1940s–early 1950s. Mobilizing a wealth of English and Japanese-language sources, the author identifies parallel groups of modernist thinkers in America and Japan – including politicians, bureaucrats, intellectuals, scholars, and journalists – and follows how different strands of thought played out within an evolving political environment, forming a “middle ground.” Despite their differences, both the Americans and the Japanese believed in the progressive view of history, considered Japan to be still underdeveloped, and therefore agreed on the advisability of democratizing Japan – which included constitutional reform. Whether proponents or opponents of the U.S.-Japan Cold War alliance system, they also shared the vision of Wilsonian internationalism and devised similar designs for a postwar Asian order where Japan would rejoin. Thus, by showing how the confluence of modernist cultures helped forge a postwar relationship between the two, this study contributes to the field of postwar U.S.-Japan relations by supplementing and reorienting the scope of scholarship, one that has been predominantly America-centered and framed along the line of diplomatic narratives informed by Cold War politics.
Blue Nippon
E. Taylor Atkins
Author : E. Taylor Atkins
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822380030
Blue Nippon by E. Taylor Atkins Pdf
Japan’s jazz community—both musicians and audience—has been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. Underpinning this tentative admiration, however, has been a tacit agreement that, for cultural reasons, Japanese jazz “can’t swing.” In Blue Nippon E. Taylor Atkins shows how, strangely, Japan’s own attitude toward jazz is founded on this same ambivalence about its authenticity. Engagingly told through the voices of many musicians, Blue Nippon explores the true and legitimate nature of Japanese jazz. Atkins peers into 1920s dancehalls to examine the Japanese Jazz Age and reveal the origins of urban modernism with its new set of social mores, gender relations, and consumer practices. He shows how the interwar jazz period then became a troubling symbol of Japan’s intimacy with the West—but how, even during the Pacific war, the roots of jazz had taken hold too deeply for the “total jazz ban” that some nationalists desired. While the allied occupation was a setback in the search for an indigenous jazz sound, Japanese musicians again sought American validation. Atkins closes out his cultural history with an examination of the contemporary jazz scene that rose up out of Japan’s spectacular economic prominence in the 1960s and 1970s but then leveled off by the 1990s, as tensions over authenticity and identity persisted. With its depiction of jazz as a transforming global phenomenon, Blue Nippon will make enjoyable reading not only for jazz fans worldwide but also for ethnomusicologists, and students of cultural studies, Asian studies, and modernism.
Japan's Budget Politics
Takaaki Suzuki
Author : Takaaki Suzuki
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Budget
ISBN : 1555878873
Japan's Budget Politics by Takaaki Suzuki Pdf
What is the source of the increasing politicization of Japan's budgetary policy? In this text, Takaaki Suzuki explores this question, finding answers in the interplay of domestic and international politics from the early 1970s through the 1990s.
The U.S. Sea Urchin Industry and Its Market in Tokyo
Chi H. Phu
Author : Chi H. Phu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fish trade
ISBN : UCSD:31822008894875
The U.S. Sea Urchin Industry and Its Market in Tokyo by Chi H. Phu Pdf
Kabuki at the Crossroads
Samuel L. Leiter
Author : Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004251144
Kabuki at the Crossroads by Samuel L. Leiter Pdf
Samuel L. Leiter's Kabuki at the Crossroads: Years of Crisis, 1952-1965 is the first detailed account of Japan's kabuki theatre in the years immediately following the end of the Occupation. It examines every aspect of this traditional theatre as it struggled to maintain its position in a rapidly changing postwar entertainment environment. It covers acting rivalries, major productions, theatres, international tours, the convention of men playing female roles, name-taking and memorial ceremonies, the company system and managerial strategies. In addition, the volume includes numerous appendixes chronicling the period, including a thorough chronology and 150 summaries of new plays never previously discussed in English.
Japan and the War on Terror
Michael Penn
Author : Michael Penn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857724731
Japan and the War on Terror by Michael Penn Pdf
The role of the Far East is becoming increasingly important in global geopolitics. Japan's economic might and sphere of geographical influence, between China, North Korea and the US, means it has the potential to be a major ally in the War on Terror. While Japan's constitution does not allow for militarism or acts of war, in the post 9/11 world the use of the Japanese nation's 'Self-Defence Force' has become increasingly normal - a result of the exploitation of legal loopholes and political double-speak that has been used to bypass Japan's pacifist ideology. Here, Michael Penn assesses the role of US diplomats and lobbyists in Tokyo, the politicians who see the War on Terror as a means of self-advancement and the influence of Washington in the unprecedented deployment of Japanese troops in Iraq. Written using a huge range of primary source material, including interviews with US insiders and Japanese policy makers, this is a scholarly and lucid account of Japan's relationship to the US and the Middle East from 9/11 to Barack Obama and the death of Osama Bin Laden.
Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire
David G. Wittner,Philip C Brown
Author : David G. Wittner,Philip C Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317444350
Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire by David G. Wittner,Philip C Brown Pdf
Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially different from other Asian countries and thus justify its imperialist activities, but also to position itself within the civilized and enlightened world with the advantages of modern science, technologies, and medicine. This book explores the ways in which scientists, engineers and physicians worked directly and indirectly to support the creation of a new Japanese empire, focussing on the eve of World War I and linking their efforts to later post-war developments. By claiming status as a modern, internationally-engaged country, the Japanese government was faced with having to control pathogens that might otherwise not have threatened the nation. Through the use of traditional and innovative techniques, this volume shows how the government was able to fulfil the state’s responsibility to protect society to varying degrees. Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138905337_oachapter14.pdf
The Best Course Available
Wakaizumi Kei
Author : Wakaizumi Kei
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780824864613
The Best Course Available by Wakaizumi Kei Pdf
This volume affords a fascinating and rare look at the sensitive issue of nuclear diplomacy between two critical Cold War allies, the United States and Japan, during the 1960s. Challenging the silence of the official bureaucracies in Washington and Tokyo, Wakaizumi Kei reveals the truth behind the secret 1969 agreement that ensured the eventual reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction in 1972. Revelation of this secret accord created considerable controversy in Japan when Wakaizumi's memoir was first published in 1994. With the publication of this translation, his description of the events leading up to the closed-door agreement is available to an English-language audience for the first time. At a time when security matters are once again predominant in the U.S.-Japan alliance, Professor Wakaizumi's account is a timely reminder of the gap between official, media-filtered descriptions of diplomatic relations and the private discussions of national leaders. The long-standing reluctance of the Japanese government to declassify its postwar diplomatic records has meant that Japan's side of its relationship with the U.S. has been only partially revealed. The Best Course Available attempts to correct this shortcoming and at the same time provides insight into the complicated and arcane process of foreign policymaking, national leadership, and domestic politics in Japan after 1945.
The Allure of Empire
Chris Suh
Author : Chris Suh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Japan
ISBN : 9780197631614
The Allure of Empire by Chris Suh Pdf
The Allure of Empire traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made and remade on the imperial stage before World War II. Following the Russo-Japanese War, the United States cultivated an amicable relationship with Japan based on the belief that it was a "progressive" empire akin to its own. Even as the two nations competed for influence in Asia and clashed over immigration issues in the American West, the mutual respect for empire sustained their transpacific cooperation until Pearl Harbor, when both sides disavowed their history of collaboration and cast each other as incompatible enemies. In recovering this lost history, Chris Suh reveals the surprising extent to which debates about Korea shaped the politics of interracial cooperation. American recognition of Japan as a suitable partner depended in part on a positive assessment of its colonial rule of Korea. It was not until news of Japan's violent suppression of Koreans soured this perception that the exclusion of Japanese immigrants became possible in the United States. Central to these shifts in opinion was the cooperation of various Asian elites aspiring to inclusion in a "progressive" American empire. By examining how Korean, Japanese, and other nonwhite groups appealed to the United States, this book demonstrates that the imperial order sustained itself through a particular form of interracial collaboration that did not disturb the existing racial hierarchy.
Status Power
Isa Ducke
Author : Isa Ducke
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : International relations
ISBN : 0415933714
Status Power by Isa Ducke Pdf
This book examines recent developments in Japanese-Korean relations. Its aim is to show how "soft" issues like history consciousness or national identity have an impact on concrete policy decisions including security or economic matters which are traditionally considered more substantial foeign policy issues. The author develops the concept of status as based on either prestige of on a positive reputation, or moral authority. Cases studies illustrate the mechanisms in which status power is used for other ends, also in the policy areas of economy and security.
Modern Japan
William G. Beasley
Author : William G. Beasley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0520034953