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Tag Archives: modern
Book Announcement: A History of Popular Culture in Japan
A History of Popular Culture in Japan From the Seventeenth Century to the Present E. Taylor Atkins The phenomenon of ‘Cool Japan’ is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha
Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha Robert A. Jacobs In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H‑bomb detonations, yet he approved ninety‑six US nuclear weapon tests for 1962. … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, Cold War, dislocation, Fukushima, hibakusha, history, Japan, Japanese history, modern, modern Japan, nuclear
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Book Announcement: The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan
The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan Toshio Watanabe; Translated by Robert D. Eldridge The Meji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan describes the story of Japan’s involvement and administration of Taiwan in the pre-war era, with a focus on the period … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”
The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women” Sachiyo Tsukamoto The Politics of Trauma and Integrity uses the lenses of gender and trauma to tell the stories of narratives testified by two contrasting Japanese “comfort women” survivors. Through … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Designing Modern Japan
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: Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
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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Tagged book announcement, books, history, Japan, Japanese history, Manchukuo, modern, modern history, modern Japan, Soviet Union, World War II
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Book Announcement: The Japanese Economy
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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Tagged book announcement, books, Japan, Japanese economy, labor, labor history, modern, modern history, modern Japan
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Book Announcement: Master Spy on a Mission: The Untold Story of Onodera Makoto and Swedish Intelligence 1941–1945
Master Spy on a Mission: The Untold Story of Onodera Makoto and Swedish Intelligence 1941–1945 Bert Edström Neutral Sweden’s importance for Japanese intelligence grew during the World War II. As Japan’s military attaché posted in Sweden, Makoto Onodera was second to … Continue reading
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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 Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age
The Values in Numbers Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age Hoyt Long Ideas about how to study and understand cultural history—particularly literature—are rapidly changing as new digital archives and tools for searching them become available. This is not … Continue reading