The Boundaries Of The Japanese

Author : Eiji Oguma
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Aliens
ISBN : 1925608948

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The Boundaries of "the Japanese". by Eiji Oguma Pdf

Now available in this paperback In this the parallel volume to The Boundaries of 'the Japanese': Volume 1: Okinawa 1818-1972 (2014), renowned historical sociologist Eiji Oguma further explores the fluctuating political, geographical, ethnic, and sociocultural borders of Japan and the Japanese from the latter years of the Tokugawa shogunate to the mid-20th century. Focus is placed first upon the northern island of Hokkaido with its indigenous Ainu inhabitants, and then upon the mainstays of Japan's colonial empire-Taiwan and Korea. In continuing to elaborate on the theme of inclusion and exclusion, the author comprehensively recounts and analyzes the events, actions, campaigns, and attitudes of both the rulers and the ruled as Japan endeavoured both to be seen as a strong, civilized nation by the wider world, and to 'civilize' its disparate subjects on its own terms. (Series: Japanese Society Series) Subject: Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Cultural Studies, History]

Author : Eiji Oguma
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Aliens
ISBN : 1920901485

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The Boundaries of "the Japanese" by Eiji Oguma Pdf

The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have operated for centuries in the island chain that constitutes Japan's southernmost prefecture, Okinawa - otherwise known as the Ryukyu Islands. Are the people of Okinawa 'Japanese' or not 'Japanese'? Answers to this puzzling question are explored in this richly-detailed volume, written by one of Japan's foremost public intellectuals, historical sociologist Eiji Oguma. Here, Oguma addresses issues of Okinawan sovereignty and its people's changing historical, cultural, and linguistic identity, over more than 150 years until its 1972 reversion to Japanese control, following its administration by the US from the end of the Pacific War. (Series: Japanese Society) [Subject: Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Cultural Studies, History]

Author : Nelson H. H. Graburn,John Ertl,R. Kenji Tierney
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1845452267

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Multiculturalism in the New Japan by Nelson H. H. Graburn,John Ertl,R. Kenji Tierney Pdf

"...a valuable addition to the increasing literature on Japanese multiculturalism which has challenged the long-held homogeneous Japan thesis...A particular contribution of this ... book is to illuminate the ground-level process where hybridities emerge and group boundaries are redrawn in a particular local context...I greatly enjoyed reading [this book] from beginning to end. My undergraduate students who encountered it in their subject reading list also enjoyed it. I would recommend it highly for both undergraduate and graduate students studying Japanese society." - Japan Studies "This book importantly seeks out the meanings behind the nooks and crannies in which peoples from different cultures are juxtaposed within Japan. However the real work of living side by side, of respecting individual and cultural differences, of embracing diversity...remains a vital challenge to both Japan, as well as to scholars who stand poised to connect the dots of this critical and evolving picture. I recommend this volume as one further step toward that undertaking." - Asia Pacific World "...a very readable volume offering through its focus on the local a vivid picture of multiculturalism in Japan. All articles are ethnographically grounded and it is here, and not in systematic and theoretically exhaustive treatment of the subject of multiculturalism." - Zeitschrift für Ethnologie Like other industrial nations, Japan is experiencing its own forms of, and problems with, internationalization and multiculturalism. This volume focuses on several aspects of this process and examines the immigrant minorities as well as their Japanese recipient communities. Multiculturalism is considered broadly, and includes topics often neglected in other works, such as: religious pluralism, domestic and international tourism, political regionalism and decentralization, sports, business styles in the post-Bubble era, and the education of immigrant minorities.

Author : Dolores P. Martinez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521637295

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The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture by Dolores P. Martinez Pdf

Dolores Martinez heads an international team of scholars in this lively discussion of Japanese popular culture. The book's contributors include Japanese as well as British, Icelandic and North American writers, offering a diversity of views of what Japanese popular culture is, and how it is best approached and understood. They bring an anthropological perspective to a broad range of topics, including sumo, karaoke, manga, vampires, women's magazines, soccer and morning television. Through these topics - many of which have never previously been addressed by scholars - the contributors also explore several deeper themes: the construction of gender in Japan; the impact of globalisation and modern consumerism; and the rapidly shifting boundaries of Japanese culture and identity. This innovative study will appeal to those interested in Japanese culture, sociology and cultural anthropology.

Author : Glenn Hook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136840999

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Decoding Boundaries in Contemporary Japan by Glenn Hook Pdf

The purpose of this book is to illuminate the changing nature of contemporary Japan by decoding a range of political, economic and social boundaries, with a focus on the period following the inauguration of Prime Minister Koizumi Junichirō’s administration (2001—6). A rapid turnover of prime ministers followed Koizumi—Abe Shinzō (2006--7), Fukuda Yasuo (2007--8) and Asō Tarō (2008—)—but the transformation set in motion through his promotion of a more proactive role for Japan internationally, and the implementation of ‘structural reforms’ domestically, set the direction for future administrations. The central argument of the book is that, in order to achieve the twin goals of greater international proactivity and domestic reform, the government and other actors supporting the new direction for Japan pushed forward by the Koizumi administration needed to take action in order to destabilize and reformulate a range of extant boundaries. This task was achieved by deploying material as well as normative resources, including the production of new discourses about the way these resources should be deployed.

Author : Nelson H. Graburn,John Ertl,R. Kenji Tierney
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450258

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Multiculturalism in the New Japan by Nelson H. Graburn,John Ertl,R. Kenji Tierney Pdf

Like other industrial nations, Japan is experiencing its own forms of, and problems with, internationalization and multiculturalism. This volume focuses on several aspects of this process and examines the immigrant minorities as well as their Japanese recipient communities. Multiculturalism is considered broadly, and includes topics often neglected in other works, such as: religious pluralism, domestic and international tourism, political regionalism and decentralization, sports, business styles in the post-Bubble era, and the education of immigrant minorities.

Author : Bruce L. Batten
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824865207

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To the Ends of Japan by Bruce L. Batten Pdf

What is Japan? Who are its people? These questions are among those addressed in Bruce Batten's ambitious study of Japan's historical development through the nineteenth century. Traditionally, Japan has been portrayed as a homogenous society formed over millennia in virtual isolation. Social historians and others have begun to question this view, emphasizing diversity and interaction, both within the Japanese archipelago and between Japan and other parts of Eurasia. Until now, however, no book has attempted to resolve these conflicting views in a comprehensive, systematic way. To the Ends of Japan tackles the "big questions" on Japan by focusing on its borders, broadly defined to include historical frontiers and boundaries within the islands themselves as well as the obvious coastlines and oceans. Batten provides compelling arguments for viewing borders not as geographic "givens," but as social constructs whose location and significance can, and do, change over time. By giving separate treatment to the historical development of political, cultural, and ethnic borders in the archipelago, he highlights the complex, multifaceted nature of Japanese society, without losing sight of the more fundamental differences that have separated Japan from its nearest neighbors in the archipelago and on the Eurasian continent.

Author : Bruce Loyd Batten
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824824474

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To the Ends of Japan by Bruce Loyd Batten Pdf

"Unusually wide ranging in scope and highly eclectic in approach, To the Ends of Japan offers a fresh and coherent view of Japanese history that will appeal to both students of Japan and East Asia and readers with a general interest in frontiers and borders."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Eiichi Tomiura
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811300356

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Cross-Border Outsourcing and Boundaries of Japanese Firms by Eiichi Tomiura Pdf

This book is the first book that provides comprehensive economic analysis of cross-border outsourcing by Japanese manufacturing firms based on microdata. Previous literature on many other countries has often been constrained by limited data availability about outsourcing, but research contained in this book exploits unique firm-level data and directly tests theoretical hypotheses derived from new firm heterogeneity trade models. Productivity, capital–labor ratio and R&D intensity are examined at the firm level. While rich empirical results in this book convince us how powerful the orthodox economic theory is in understanding Japanese firms, detailed firm-level findings, combined with accessible and concise overviews of Japanese international trade, are widely informative for international economists, experts of Japanese society, business strategists for offshoring, and policy makers in both developed and developing economies. This book further discusses how boundaries of Japanese firms, traditionally sheltered by language and cultural barriers, are affected by outsourcing decisions simultaneously crossing national borders and firm boundaries. The interpretations of Japanese characteristics in outsourcing have deep implications for understanding drastically changing Japanese business amid globalization.

Author : Mari Sako,Professor of International Business Mari Sako
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199268160

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Shifting Boundaries of the Firm by Mari Sako,Professor of International Business Mari Sako Pdf

This in-depth exploration of the organizational strategies of Japanese corporate management and union leaders considers the issue of the 'organizational boundaries' which arise from the restructuring following mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing and spin-offs.

Author : J. R. V. Prescott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317601999

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Political Frontiers and Boundaries by J. R. V. Prescott Pdf

This classic work is a comprehensive treatment of the world’s political frontiers and boundaries, and includes sections on boundaries in the air as well as chapters treating the subject in a regional manner, covering the continents in terms of the evolution of boundaries.

Author : Alberto Ferreira,Lucy Moyse
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848885455

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Cosmetic, Aesthetic, Prophetic: Beyond the Boundaries of Beauty by Alberto Ferreira,Lucy Moyse Pdf

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. The ever-elusive field of Beauty Studies is one that often underappreciated, yet it is a key concept across all spheres of knowledge, transcending traditional and innovative epistemologies, and providing provocative insights into fundamental aspects of human existence. Here, researchers from around the globe contribute rich and diverse ideas and perspectives from a multitude of disciplines to highlight, explore, and re-evaluate the significance and infinite implications of this pervading topic, within history, science, society, culture, new media, mathematics, art, and literature.

Author : Eiji Oguma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1920901434

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The Boundaries of 'The Japanese', Volume 1 by Eiji Oguma Pdf

The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have operated for centuries in the island chain that constitutes Japan's southernmost prefecture, Okinawa - otherwise known as the Ryukyu Islands. Are the people of Okinawa 'Japanese' or not 'Japanese'? Answers to this puzzling question are explored in this richly-detailed volume, written by one of Japan's foremost public intellectuals, historical sociologist Eiji Oguma. Here, Oguma addresses issues of Okinawan sovereignty and its people's changing historical, cultural, and linguistic identity, over more than 150 years until its 1972 reversion to Japanese control, following its administration by the US from the end of the Pacific War. (Series: Japanese Society)

Author : American Society of International Law
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0792311876

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International Maritime Boundaries by American Society of International Law Pdf

This is Volumes I and II of the ultimate guide to international maritime boundaries.

Author : John Robert Victor Prescott,Clive H. Schofield
Publisher : IBRU
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Baselines (Maritime law)
ISBN : 9781897643433

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Undelimited Maritime Boundaries of the Asian Rim in the Pacific Ocean by John Robert Victor Prescott,Clive H. Schofield Pdf