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Social Commentary on State and Society in Modern Japan
ISBN-13:
9789811023958
Veröffentl:
2016
Einband:
eBook
Seiten:
181
Autor:
Yoneyuki Sugita
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
Reflowable eBook
Kopierschutz:
Digital Watermark [Social-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This anthology analyzes societal and cultural aspects of modern Japan. It identifies the dynamic trend and undercurrent in Japan by addressing three key areas: modernization, internationalization, and memory and imagination. Using interdisciplinary and multi-language approaches, it discusses topics such as religion, ethnicity, civil society, art, public health, popular culture, war, identity and education. It is a valuable resource for scholars and graduate students with an interest in cutting-edge research analyses of Japanese / Asian studies.
This anthology analyzes societal and cultural aspects of modern Japan. It identifies the dynamic trend and undercurrent in Japan by addressing three key areas: modernization, internationalization, and memory and imagination. Using interdisciplinary and multi-language approaches, it discusses topics such as religion, ethnicity, civil society, art, public health, popular culture, war, identity and education. It is a valuable resource for scholars and graduate students with an interest in cutting-edge research analyses of Japanese / Asian studies.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Modernization and Japan.- Chapter 2: Civil Religion and Second Modernity in Japan: A Sociological Analysis.- Chapter 3: Japan and the Rise of the Idea of Race: The Meiji-Era Fusion of Foreign and Domestic Constructions.- Chapter 4: The 1922 Japanese Health Insurance Law: Toward a Corporatist Framework.- Chapter 5: Public Health in Occupied Japan Transformed by Statistical Quality Control.- Part II: Identity and Globalization.- Chapter 6: International Issues: Japanese Artists and the Problems with Borders.- Chapter 7: Discourses on Democracy and the (Re)birth of Civil Society, 1945–1952: Mutual Aid and Cooperatist Modernity in Kitakyushu.- Chapter 8: Imagining America: The Origins of Japanese Public Opinion toward the United States in the Cold War.- Chapter 9: Soft Powering Popular Culture: Discourse and Policy Making in Japan's Content Industries.- Chapter 10: Blending Ethnicities: Perceptions of East Asian Identities Today.