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Book Announcement: Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girl’s Culture in Japan

Posted on July 8, 2012 by LM

http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8616-9780824836382.aspx Deborah Shamoon University of Hawai’i Press March 2012 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3638-2; 978-0-8248-3542-2 Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age

Posted on July 1, 2012 by LM

http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8623-9780824835941.aspx Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano University of Hawai’i Press May 2012 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3594-1 Digital technology has transformed cinema’s production, distribution, and consumption patterns and pushed contemporary cinema toward increasingly global markets. In the case of Japanese cinema, a once moribund industry has … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Housewives of Japan

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Paula

http://us.macmillan.com/housewivesofjapan/ofraGoldsteinGidoni Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni Palgrave Macmillan, 6/5/2012 ISBN: 978-0-230-34031-2, ISBN10: 0-230-34031-8, Women in postwar Japan have never felt completely free from the traditional concept of the housewife. Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of the relationship … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Urban Spaces in Japan: Cultural and Social Perspectives

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Paula

Edited by Christoph Brumann, Evelyn Schulz Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto: Claiming a Right to the Past

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Paula

Author: Christoph Brumann Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series As the historic capital of the country and the stronghold of the nation’s most celebrated traditions, the city of Kyoto holds a unique place in the Japanese imagination. Widely praised for the … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Japan’s Local Newspapers: Chihoushi and Revitalization Journalism

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Paula

Japan is one of the world’s most literate societies. Its national newspapers are the most read newspapers in the world and the country also has a vibrant local newspaper sector as well. The first of its kind, this book focuses … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Coffee Life in Japan

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Paula

Merry White Paperback, 240 pages ISBN: 9780520271159 May 2012 $24.95, £16.95 Hardcover, 240 pages ISBN: 9780520259331 May 2012 $60.00, £41.95 http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271159 This fascinating book—part ethnography, part memoir—traces Japan’s vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan’s … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Nobuo Tsuji, “Lineage of Eccentrics”

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Paula

Nobuo TSUJI’s seminal work *Kiso no keifu*, originally published in 1970, offered a reappraisal of “eccentric” artists Iwasa Matabei, Kano Sansetsu, Ito Jakuchu, Soga Shohaku, Nagasawa Rosetsu, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. A new English edition, *Lineage of Eccentrics: Matabei to Kuniyoshi*, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Paula

Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan. Edited by Jeff Kingston Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Australia, Japan and their relations with Asia

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Paula

edited by Stephen Alomes, Peter Eckersall, Ross Mouer and Alison Tokita. Available through the Custom Book Centre at Melbourne University. http://www.bookshop.unimelb.edu.au/cbc/?9781921775819 Cover note: The essays in Outside Australia: Japanese and Australian Encounters & Identities in Flux originated when the authors … Continue reading →

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