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Tag Archives: modern
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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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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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
Book Announcement: Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration
Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration Mark R. Mullins Although religious fundamentalism is often thought to be confined to monotheistic “religions of the book,” this study examines the emergence of a fundamentalism rooted in the Shinto tradition … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, history, Japan, modern, nationalism, politics, Yasukuni, Yasukuni Shrine
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Book Announcement: Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation
Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation Christopher Gerteis In Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japan—left-wing radicals and right-wing activists—attempted to mold the political consciousness of the nation’s first postwar generation, … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Interpreting the Mikado’s Empire: The Writings of William Elliot Griffis
Interpreting the Mikado’s Empire:The Writings of William Elliot GriffisEDITED BY JOSEPH M. HENNING For more than fifty years, William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928) chronicled a rapidly changing Meiji Japan and its people. He was unequaled in the length of his writing … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, Japan, Japanese history, meiji, Meiji Japan, Meiji period, modern, modern Japan, Tokyo, travel writing
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Call for applications: Reischauer Policy Research Fellows Program
REISCHAUER POLICY RESEARCH FELLOWS PROGRAM PROGRAM OVERVIEW Inaugurated in May 2013, the Reischauer Policy Research Fellows Program is a critical element of the Reischauer Center at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, Japan, job opening, Johns Hopkins University, modern, policy, politics
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