Category Archives: culture

Book Announcement: Designing Modern Japan

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Paula

Designing Modern Japan Sarah Teasley From cars to cameras, design from Japan is ubiquitous. So are perceptions of Japanese design, from calming, carefully crafted minimalism to avant-garde fashion and street subcultures. But these portrayals overlook the creativity, generosity and sheer … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Paula

The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity Edited By Ayelet Zohar, Alison J. Miller This volume examines the visual culture of Japan’s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century. Through … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan

Posted on February 20, 2022 by Paula

Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan Sherzod Muminov The odyssey of 600,000 imperial Japanese soldiers incarcerated in Soviet labor camps after World War II and their fraught repatriation to postwar Japan. In … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Japanese Economy

Posted on February 13, 2022 by Paula

The Japanese Economy Hiroaki Richard Watanabe The Japanese economy was once considered a “miracle”. Although still the world’s third largest economy, it continues to feel the effects of the collapse of a massive asset price bubble in the early 1990s. … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Japan’s Contemporary Media Culture between Local and Global: Content, Practice and Theory

Posted on January 30, 2022 by Paula

Japan’s Contemporary Media Culture between Local and Global: Content, Practice and Theory Martin Roth, Hiroshi Yoshida and Martin Picard (Eds.) This collection features a wide range of inquiries into Japan’s contemporary media culture, situating popular media content and its related … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Japanese Screens

Posted on January 23, 2022 by Paula

Japanese Screens By Claire Akiko Brisset, Torahiko Terada, Anne Marie Christin Japanese screens (byobu, meaning “barrier against the wind”) are made of wooden lattices with two to twelve panels, covered with a paper or fabric canvas. They are unique for … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Paula

Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo Thomas Baudinette Shinjuku Ni-chōme is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city’s gay male community. Typically understood as a “safe space” where … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Mini Tokyo 3D

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Paula

Everyone knows someone who is obsessed with Japan’s easy to navigate public transportation system. Whether you’re memorizing stops and their short jingles and reflecting nostalgically on the line that took you to and from work or school all the time, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan

Posted on January 9, 2022 by Paula

Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan Edited By Irena Hayter, George T. Sipos, Mark Williams This book approaches the concept of tenkō (political conversion) as a response to the global crisis of interwar modernity, as opposed to a distinctly Japanese … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Wild Lines and Poetic Travels: A Keijro Suga Reader

Posted on January 2, 2022 by Paula

Wild Lines and Poetic Travels: A Keijiro Suga Reader Edited by Doug Slaymaker This volume of essays and translations analyzes the prodigious and wide-ranging output of Keijiro Suga. Based in Japan, Keijiro Suga’s works are wide-ranging and multilingual. His volumes … Continue reading →

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