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Category Archives: culture
Book Announcement: Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku
Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku Ian Reader and John Shultz The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan’s fourth largest island, takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car. Historically, Buddhist … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese history, pilgrimage, religion, Shikoku
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Book Announcement: Rethinking Locality in Japan
Rethinking Locality in Japan Edited By Sonja Ganseforth, Hanno Jentzsch 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged demography, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese society, locality, society
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Book Announcement: Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups
Green with Milk and Sugar When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups Robert Hellyer Today, Americans are some of the world’s biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is preferred. These national partialities, Robert Hellyer reveals, are deeply … Continue reading
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Tagged commodities, consumption, economy, green tea, Japan, Japanese culture, modern Japan, sencha, tea
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Book Announcement: Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude
Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude Saigyō Translated by Meredith McKinney Clear and clearer with the moon the heart swells widening out toward what distant end I know not A fresh translation of the classical Buddhist poetry of … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, Buddhist poetry, Japan, Japanese literature, Japanese poetry, literature, poetics, poetry, translation
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Book Announcement: Okada Toshiki & Japanese Theatre
Okada Toshiki & Japanese Theatre Edited by Peter Eckersall, Barbara Geilhorn, Andreas Regelsberger and Cody Poulton Playwright, novelist and theatre director Okada Toshiki is one of the most important voices of the current generation of Japanese contemporary theatre makers. He … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Touching the Unreachable Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan
Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan Fusako Innami Fusako Innami offers the first comprehensive study of touch and skinship—relationality with the other through the skin—in modern Japanese writing. The concept of the unreachable—that is, the lack of characters’ complete … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, Japanese culture, modern, modern Japan, phenomenology, relationality, touch, writing
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Book Announcement: The Tokugawa World
The Tokugawa World Edited By Gary P. Leupp, De-min Tao With over 60 contributions, The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope. … Continue reading
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Tagged early modern, early modern history, early modern Japan, Edo, Edo period, Japan, Japanese history, Tokugawa, Tokugawa Japan
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Book Announcement: The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan
The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo M. W. Shores, University of Sydney Rakugo, a popular form of comic storytelling, has played a major role in Japanese culture and society. Developed during the Edo … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan
Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan Editors Susanne Brucksch, Kaori Sasaki This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale. Focusing on Japan, it consists of … Continue reading
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Tagged Fukushima, Hiroshima, Japan, medical studies, medicine, modern Japan, Nagasaki, radiation, technology, technology studies
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Resource: Japanese Animated Film Classics
There’s no doubt that Japanese animation is now everywhere, from popular media we consume on Netflix to splashing across the big screen. But where did animated film begin? What kind of works were created? One great resource for exploring the … Continue reading
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Tagged film, film studies, Japanese film, media, media studies, movies
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 