Studying Japan

Author : Nora Kottmann,Cornelia Reiher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3848750856

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Studying Japan by Nora Kottmann,Cornelia Reiher Pdf

Studying Japan is the first comprehensive guide on qualitative methods, research designs and fieldwork in social science research on Japan. More than 70 Japan scholars from around the world provide an easy-to-read overview on qualitative methods used in research on Japan's society, politics, culture and history. The book covers the entire research process from the outset to the the first comprehensive guide on qualitative methods, research designs and fieldwork in social science research on Japan. More than 70 Japan scholars from around the world provide an easy-to-read overview on qualitative methods used in research on Japan's society, politics, culture and history. The book covers the entire research process from the outset to the completion of a thesis, a paper, or a book. The authors provide basic introductions to individual methods, discuss their experiences when applying these methods and highlight current trends in research on Japan. The book serves as a foundation for a course on qualitative research methods and can also be used as a reference for all researchers in Japanese Studies, the Social Sciences and Area Studies. It is an essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in Japan!

Author : P. A. George
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Japan
ISBN : 8172112904

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Japanese Studies by P. A. George Pdf

Papers presented at the three day International Conference on "Changing Global Profile of Japanese Studies : Trends and Prospects", held at New Delhi during 6-8 March 2009.

Author : Yumiko Hada
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811251641

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Cross-cultural Studies: Newest Developments In Japan And The Uk by Yumiko Hada Pdf

This book brings together contributions from leading authors in a range of fields related to Japan and the United Kingdom. Adopting a comparative perspective, it tackles topics ranging from the politics of opposition, democracy, immigration and citizenship, to education, sportsmanship and popular culture, as well as issues of immigration and identity. Each chapter presents and clarifies the differences, similarities and exchanges between the two countries to emphasise that, though little exists in isolation in this global age, in-depth knowledge of particular regions remains vital. This book argues for a deeper understanding of the UK and Japan in pursuit of hope, and casts a reflection on the self and one's own sense of place and identity. It will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in cross-cultural theory and comparisons between Japan and the United Kingdom.

Author : Kaori Okano,Yoshio Sugimoto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351654968

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Rethinking Japanese Studies by Kaori Okano,Yoshio Sugimoto Pdf

Japanese Studies has provided a fertile space for non-Eurocentric analysis for a number of reasons. It has been embroiled in the long-running internal debate over the so-called Nihonjinron, revolving around the extent to which the effective interpretation of Japanese society and culture requires non-Western, Japan-specific emic concepts and theories. This book takes this question further and explores how we can understand Japanese society and culture by combining Euro-American concepts and theories with those that originate in Japan. Because Japan is the only liberal democracy to have achieved a high level of capitalism outside the Western cultural framework, Japanese Studies has long provided a forum for deliberations about the extent to which the Western conception of modernity is universally applicable. Furthermore, because of Japan’s military, economic and cultural dominance in Asia at different points in the last century, Japanese Studies has had to deal with the issues of Japanocentrism as well as Eurocentrism, a duality requiring complex and nuanced analysis. This book identifies variations amongst Japanese Studies academic communities in the Asia-Pacific and examines the extent to which relatively autonomous scholarship, intellectual approach or theories exist in the region. It also evaluates how studies on Japan in the region contribute to global Japanese Studies and explores their potential for formulating concrete strategies to unsettle Eurocentric dominance of the discipline.

Author : William M. Tsutsui
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405193399

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A Companion to Japanese History by William M. Tsutsui Pdf

A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies

Author : Mitchell Sedgwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134064168

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Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture by Mitchell Sedgwick Pdf

Globalisation – the global movement, and control, of products, capital, technologies, persons and images – increasingly takes place through the work of organisations, perhaps the most powerful of which are multinational corporations. Based in an ethnographic analysis of cross-cultural social interactions in everyday workplace practices at a subsidiary of an elite, Japanese consumer electronics multinational in France, this book intimately examines, and theorises, contemporary global dynamics. Japanese corporate ‘know-how’ is described not simply as the combination of technological innovation riding on financial ‘clout’ but as a reflection of Japanese social relations, powerfully expressed in Japanese organisational dynamics. The book details how Japanese organisational power does and does not adapt in overseas settings: how Japanese managers and engineers negotiate conflicts between their understanding of appropriate practices with those of local, non-Japanese staff – in this case, French managers and engineers – who hold their own distinctive cultural and organisational inclinations in the workplace. The book argues that the insights provided by the intimate study of persons interacting within and across organisations is crucial to a fulsome understanding of globalisation. This is assisted, further, by a grounded examination of how ‘networks’– as social constructions – are both expanded and bounded, a move which assists in collapsing the common reliance on micro and macro levels of analysis in considering global phenomena. The book poses important theoretical and methodological challenges for organisational studies as well as for analysis of the forces of globalisation by anthropologists and other social scientists.

Author : Hugo Dobson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415263849

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Japan and United Nations Peacekeeping by Hugo Dobson Pdf

With an approach based on political culture and identity, this book demonstrates the current pressures and shifting priorities that confront Japan's government and people, as they attempt to carve out a new international role.

Author : Chika Takahashi
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800414853

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Motivation to Learn Multiple Languages in Japan by Chika Takahashi Pdf

This book provides rare insights into motivation among extremely successful learners of English and languages other than English (LOTEs) through the analysis of a longitudinal study and the examination of the factors involved in becoming multilingual in a non-multilingual environment. Based on sixteen interview sessions, conducted over the course of nine years while the learners progressed from high school to the world of work, this book offers the story of how two learners persist in English/LOTE learning. The study illuminates the long-term processes through which the interviewees develop ideal English/LOTE selves in an environment where multilingualism is not emphasized and where both English and LOTEs can still be described as foreign languages. Educators and researchers will learn from this study, which stretches our understanding of motivation beyond the recent theorizing of L2 motivation and contributes to the limited research in long-term motivational trajectories and LOTE learning motivation, which is particularly scarce in non-European contexts. The book will be of interest not only to readers in Japan but also to those in other contexts as it offers an example of successful learners who go beyond the pragmatic and instrumentalist view of language learning to hold a more holistic view, thus revealing the factors which can sustain multiple language learning, even in foreign language contexts.

Author : Tuttle Publishing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 4805316128

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Japanese Language Composition Notebook by Tuttle Publishing Pdf

This beautiful notebook makes studying a pleasure! Each double page spread has squared paper on the right-hand side for practicing formation of the Japanese characters, and lined paper on the left-hand side for note-taking. A ten-page reference section at the back of the notebook gives hiragana and katakana charts, a list of the 100 most common kanji; key vocabulary, and basic grammar tips. Contents: Pages 1-118 Alternate Pages of lined and squared paper for note-taking and handwriting practice Pages 119-120 Hiragana alphabet charts Pages 121-122 Katakana alphabet charts Page 123 100 most common kanji Pages 124-125 Key vocabulary lists Pages 126-128 Basic grammar tips

Author : Sonja Ganseforth,Hanno Jentzsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000415360

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Rethinking Locality in Japan by Sonja Ganseforth,Hanno Jentzsch Pdf

This book inquires what is meant when we say "local" and what "local" means in the Japanese context. Through the window of locality, it enhances an understanding of broader political and socio-economic shifts in Japan. This includes demographic change, electoral and administrative reform, rural decline and revitalization, welfare reform, as well as the growing metabolic rift in energy and food production. Chapters throughout this edited volume discuss the different and often contested ways in which locality in Japan has been reconstituted, from historical and contemporary instances of administrative restructuring, to more subtle social processes of making – and unmaking – local places. Contributions from multiple disciplinary perspectives are included to investigate the tensions between overlapping and often incongruent dimensions of locality. Framed by a theoretical discussion of socio-spatial thinking, such issues surrounding the construction and renegotiation of local places are not only relevant for Japan specialists, but also connected with topical scholarly debates further afield. Accordingly, Rethinking Locality in Japan will appeal to students and scholars from Japanese studies and human geography to anthropology, history, sociology and political science.

Author : Edward Norbeck,Susan Parman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015042749039

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The Study of Japan in the Behavioral Sciences by Edward Norbeck,Susan Parman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004345423

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Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860-2010 by Anonim Pdf

This volume examines the mutual images formed between Japan and Germany from the mid-nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries. Exploring previously untapped historical sources, the contributions by seventeen leading scholars create a more nuanced picture of Japanese-German relations.

Author : J. Abegglen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230500853

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21st-Century Japanese Management by J. Abegglen Pdf

Japan's economy and businesses are entering this century with new management systems but their values unchanged. Drawing on the author's analysis of the 1950s, financial systems, personnel management methods, role of the corporation and R&D capabilities are re-assessed to provide a comprehensive analysis of Japan's financial and industrial changes.

Author : Stefan Köck,Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia,Bernhard Scheid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350181083

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Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan by Stefan Köck,Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia,Bernhard Scheid Pdf

This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the Tokugawa government aimed to control the populace via Buddhism and at the same time submitted Buddhism to the sacralization of the Tokugawa dynasty. The second part focuses on the religious protests throughout the entire period, with chapters on the suppression of Christians, heterodox Buddhist sects, and unwanted folk practitioners. The third part tackles the question of why early Tokugawa Confucianism was particularly interested in “Shinto” as an alternative to Buddhism and what “Shinto” actually meant from a Confucian stance. The final part of the book explores attempts to curtail the institutional power of Buddhism by reforming Shinto shrines, an important step in the so called “Shintoization of shrines” including the development of a self-contained Shinto clergy.

Author : Sukehiro Hirakawa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004213821

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Japan's Love-Hate Relationship with the West by Sukehiro Hirakawa Pdf

Introductory chapters cover Japan’s historic love-hate relationship with China, then an in-depth analysis of three themes: Japan’s turn to the West; Japan’s return to the East; from war to peace. The book explains why Japanese modern writers oscillate between East and West.