Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Rethinking 'Eurocentrism' and area studies: Japanese Studies in the Asia-Pacific -- 2 Studying Japan as 'the other': a short history of Japanese Studies and its future -- 3 Jap…
"Japanese Studies has provided a fertile space for non-Eurocentric analysis for a number of reasons. It has been embroiled in the long-running internal debate over the so-called Nihonjinron, revolving around the extent to which the effective interpretation of Japanese society an…
"Education in Contemporary Japan examines the main developments of modern schooling in Japan, from the beginning of the Meiji era up to the present, and includes analysis of the most recent reforms. By drawing extensively on detailed ethnographic studies and interviews with stud…
