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Zilia Papp
HOSEI UNIVERSITY, TOKYO
KEY FEATURE(S) Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics, yet this is the first study which sets out to put today’s anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji- period painters and the post-war period animation and manga series ‘Gegegeno Kitaro’ by Mizuki Shigeru.
Through an investigation of the very popular Gegegeno Kitaro series, broadcast from the 1960s to the present time, the author is able to pinpoint the visual roots of the animation characters in the ... |
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Andrew Cobbing
UNIVERSITY OF KYUSHU
In this first major study of the region in English, the author examines the key themes of Kyushu’s history from earliest times – the cultural interaction with the continental mainland, settlement, loc... |
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Series 1, Volumes 1-10: Books
EDITED and with a GENERAL INTRODUCTION by Peter O’Connor
MUSASHINO UNIVERSITY,TOKYO
KEY FEATURE(S) In Critical Readings on Japan, 1906-1948: Countering Japan's Agenda in East Asia, Series 1, Volumes 1-10: Books, a distinguished team turn their attention to the world’s reactions to Japan’s Imperial agenda. With scholarly introductions to eighteen books by Japanese, American, British, Korean, Russian, Irish, Italian and Chinese authors, Series 1 of this new collection appraises a broad range of critical presentations on the most controversial aspects of ‘new Japan’.
With Japanese Propaganda: Selected Readings, Series 1: Books 1872-1943, and Series 2: Pamphlets, 1891-1939, (in 20 volumes, co-published in Japan with Edition Synapse) Peter O’Connor and a panel of di... |
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Yulia Mikhailova
HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume recognizes the growing awareness of the importance of images in international relations, exploring the phenomenon over three centuries as it relates to Russia and Japan.
The general perception of one country by another – the ‘stereotypical collective mentality’ – is an historic phenomenon that continues to be a fundamental component in international relations at all l... |
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Sven Saaler
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
KEY FEATURE(S) Today’s increasing interest in the relevance of memory generated a particularly strong response at the 2005 conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies (Vienna), providing a rich and varied group of papers. A selection of the most significant research relating to modern Japan, not least from Japanese scholars, subsequently edited for publication, forms the basis of this volume.
For the historian and social scientist the opportunity to access recorded memories is invariably welcomed as a valuable building block in research and a determinant in establishing balance and perspec... |
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Peter O’Connor
MUSASHINO UNIVERSITY,TOKYO
KEY FEATURE(S) This study is the first to assess the combined significance of the English-language newspapers of China, Japan and Korea in the period 1918-45. It not only frames the English-language press networks in the international media history of East Asia but also relates them to media developments in the ‘British world’, linking Fleet Street to the Empire and Dominions, and to the rise of the United States as a broker of international opinion on and in the Asia-Pacific.
The English-language newspapers occupied a narrow but significant segment of the public sphere in East Asia in the inter-war years. As forums of opinion on Japanese, Chinese and Western interests in E... |
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Contemporary Expressions of Cultural Identity
Henry Johnson
UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO
KEY FEATURE(S) For the first time, using an interdisciplinary, theoretical and ethnographic approach, the editors have brought together a rich collection of current research on contemporary Japanese performance practices. Topics covered include theatre, music, art, fashion and technology, media, architecture and tourism.
Well illustrated, Performing Japan will provide added-value in introductory courses on the Japanese language, history, or culture, as well as Asian Studies in general. In addition, it offers valuable... |
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Mary L. Hanneman
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
KEY FEATURE(S) This new in-depth study of Hasegawa Nyozekan (1895-1969) examines his life and intellectual contributions as a pre-eminent liberal reformer through his role as a journalist and social critic, particularly in pre-war and wartime Japan.
Though to date little has been published in English on his work, Hasegawa Nyozekan was one of the strongest and most widely-read advocates of liberalism and democracy in Japan in the inter-war years. ... |
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Vol. I Centennial Perspectives
EDITED by Rotem Kowner
Drawing on many of the papers delivered by leading scholars in their field at the centennial conference held in Jerusalem and Haifa in 2004, with additional contributions from other specialists, the e... |
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Carl Cassegard
GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This study introduces the concepts of naturalization and naturalized modernity and uses them as tools for understanding the way modernity has been experienced and portrayed in Japanese literature since the end of World War II. Special emphasis is given to four Japanese writers: Kawabata Yasunari, Abe Kobo, Murakami Haruki and Murakami Ryu.
Notions of ‘shock’ in modern city life, exemplified by the writings of Walter Benjamin and Georg Simmel, while present in the work of older Japanese writers, do not appear to hold true in much contem... |
