This major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter explores mobility in East Asia through the histories of o…
From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan and China. Japan has long learned many things from Chinese civilization, and since the modern era China began to learn from Japan. In the twenty-first century, however, China surpas…
Studies the period between the end of World War II and the advent of High Speed Growth.
Japanese religions: past and present
by Reader, Ian, Andreasen, Esben, Stefánsson, Finn
"Hailed by Japanese critics as a milestone in the study of contemporary Japanese media, this book explores the contemporary 'boom' in Japanese media representations of the recent past. Recent years have seen the production of an unprecedented number of films, animation, manga, a…
This is the first long-term analysis of the development of Japanese martial arts, connecting ancient martial traditions with the martial arts practised today. The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts captures the complexity of the emergence and development of martial tr…
First book-length investigation of modern Japanese political thought and IR with a focus on non-western and indigenous Asian practices of IR.
Oe and beyond: fiction in contemporary Japan
Japan's Asia policy: regional security and global interests
by Mendl, Wolf
fromPolitics in Asia
Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-mass" society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990's, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far …