Japanese Studies Around the World
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Japan
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Japan
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Author : Center for Japanese Studies
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0472901923
In fall 1997 the Center for Japanese Studies at The University of Michigan celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. The November symposium featured more than fifty speakers, moderators, and musicians who celebrated the occasion and offered reminiscences on the Center's multifaceted scholarly and professional missions, discussions of the accomplishments of its al-umni/ae, and perspectives on wartime and postwar Japan-U.S. relations. As the first American interdisciplinary institute devoted to education and research on Japan, The University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies has a path-making legacy. This volume, which includes the public presentations from the November 1997 symposium, reflects that legacy and the university's long and continuing involvement in Asia, which dates back to the 1870s.
Author : P. A. George
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Japan
ISBN : 9788172112905
Papers presented at the three day International Conference on "Changing Global Profile of Japanese Studies : Trends and Prospects", held at New Delhi during 6-8 March 2009.
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Page : 131 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Japan
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Japan
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Author : International Research Center for Japanese Studies
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Page : 206 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Japan
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Author : Kaori Okano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1351654969
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 and culture requires non-Western, Japan-specific emic concepts and theories. This book takes this question further and explores how we can understand Japanese society and culture by combining Euro-American concepts and theories with those that originate in Japan. Because Japan is the only liberal democracy to have achieved a high level of capitalism outside the Western cultural framework, Japanese Studies has long provided a forum for deliberations about the extent to which the Western conception of modernity is universally applicable. Furthermore, because of Japan’s military, economic and cultural dominance in Asia at different points in the last century, Japanese Studies has had to deal with the issues of Japanocentrism as well as Eurocentrism, a duality requiring complex and nuanced analysis. This book identifies variations amongst Japanese Studies academic communities in the Asia-Pacific and examines the extent to which relatively autonomous scholarship, intellectual approach or theories exist in the region. It also evaluates how studies on Japan in the region contribute to global Japanese Studies and explores their potential for formulating concrete strategies to unsettle Eurocentric dominance of the discipline.
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Japan
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Japan
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Author : James D Babb
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1373 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412962358
A welcome addition to any reading list for those interested in contemporary Japanese society. - Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Society, University of Oxford "I know no better book for an accessible and up-to-date introduction to this complex subject than The SAGE Handbook of Modern Japan Studies." - Hiroko Takeda, Associate Professor, Organization for Global Japanese Studies, University of Tokyo "Pioneering and nuanced in analysis, yet highly accessible and engaging in style." - Yoshio Sugimoto, Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University The SAGE Handbook of Modern Japanese Studies includes outstanding contributions from a diverse group of leading academics from across the globe. This volume is designed to serve as a major interdisciplinary reference work and a seminal text, both rigorous and accessible, to assist students and scholars in understanding one of the major nations of the world. James D. Babb is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University.