Traditional Japanese folk songs (min'yō) from the countryside are strongly linked to their places of origin and continue to play a role there. This book explores a range of topics such as song life in the traditional village, rural-urban tensions, local min'yō preservation socie…
Traditional Japanese folk songs (min'yō) from the countryside are strongly linked to their places of origin and continue to play a role there. This book explores a range of topics such as song life in the traditional village, rural-urban tensions, local min'yō preservation socie…
Der junge Tsukuru Tazaki ist Teil einer Clique von fünf Freunden, deren Mitglieder alle eine Farbe im Namen tragen. Nur Tsukuru fällt aus dem Rahmen und empfindet sich - auch im übertragenen Sinne - als farblos, denn anders als seine Freunde hat er keine besonderen Eigenheiten o…
"In this ethnographic study of Otaku-- a loose category referring to intense fans of Japanese animation, games, and comics-- conducted in Akihabara, the electronics-turned-pop-culture neighborhood of Tokyo, author Patrick Galbraith traces the evolving relationships of mostly mal…
Rakugo introduces the storytelling genre of Edo-style rakugo as performed around the turn of the twenty-first century, focusing on the performers' image, training, and techniques and the art's contexts and audiences. Brau argues that, while storytellers' goal of making a hit wit…
"An introduction to the theatrical art of comic storytelling that originated in the Edo period, Rakugo sheds light on Japanese culture as a whole: its aesthetics, social relations, and learning styles. Enriched with personal anecdotes, Rakugo explicates the art's contemporary pe…
Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with l…
Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation-the Great Kant? Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923-this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. The Kant? earthquake trig…
Like its Nuremberg counterpart, the Tokyo Trial was foundational in the field of international law. However, until now, the persistent notion of 'victor's justice' in the existing historical literature has made it difficult to treat it as such. David Cohen and Yuma Totani seek t…
