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Tag Archives: Japanese society
Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellow (Project Researcher), University of Tokyo, Tokyo College
Tokyo College is looking to invite researchers from broad range of fields under the research theme, “The Earth and Human Society in 2050”, and carry out interdisciplinary collaboration to contribute to the realization of sustainable and inclusive future of humanity. … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan
Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan Max M. Ward In Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state’s efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an antiradical law called the … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, Japanese history, Japanese society, law, modern Japan, radicalism, Taisho Japan
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Book Announcement: Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan’s Modern History
Uneven Moments Reflections on Japan’s Modern History Harry Harootunian Columbia University Press Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has … Continue reading
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Tagged history, Japanese society, japanese studies, modern Japan, modern Japanese history, politics, society
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Book Announcement: Zainichi Korean Women in Japan: Voices
Zainichi Korean Women in Japan: Voices by Jackie Kim-Wachutka. https://www.routledge.com/p/book/9781138584853 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KTH39XD Description Presenting the voices of a unique group within contemporary Japanese society—Zainichi women—this book provides a fresh insight into their experiences of oppression and marginalization that over time … Continue reading
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Tagged community, ethnography, history, Japan, Japanese society, Korea, society, women, women's history, WWII, zainichi
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Book Announcement: Japan at the Crossroads
Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo Nick Kapur —- In spring of 1960, Japan’s government passed Anpo, a revision of the postwar treaty that allows the United States to maintain a military presence in Japan. This move … Continue reading
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Resource: Re-envisioning Japan
How do we connect to objects, and how did people connect to them when they were made? Today’s resource is ReEnvisioning Japan, a collaborative digital humanities project produced through the University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries Digital Scholarship Lab. Rooted … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th century, culture, film, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese society, materiality, media, media studies, modern, modern Japan, resource, society
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Book Announcement: Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms Editor: Bullock, Julia C.; Kano, Ayako; Welker, James Welker Rethinking Japanese Feminisms offers a broad overview of the great diversity of feminist thought and practice in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present. Drawing on methodologies … Continue reading
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Resource: Visualizations and Digital Analyses on Modern Japan
Much is presently being made of the digital humanities, that is, how we can use digital tools to engage, answer, or facilitate humanities study. From this marriage of tech and humanistic thought, a number of fascinating projects related to Japan … Continue reading
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Tagged data visualization, digital humanities, history, Japan, Japanese history, Japanese society, kanji, language, modern Japan, resources
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Book Announcement: Life course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan
Holthus, B. and Manzenreiter, W. eds. 2017. Life course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan London/New York. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Life-Course-Happiness-and-Well-being-in-Japan/Holthus-Manzenreiter/p/book/9781138290594 https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Well-being-Institute-Routledge-Japanese/dp/1138290599. This book investigates the connections between sociostructural aspects, individual agency and happiness in contemporary Japan from a life course perspective. For the … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Happiness and the Good Life in Japan
Manzenreiter, W. and Holthus, B. eds. 2017. Happiness and the Good Life in Japan. London/New York. Routledge. About the book: Contemporary Japan is in a state of transition, caused by the forces of globalization that are derailing its ailing economy, … Continue reading
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