Format:
XI, 181 Seiten
,
Diagramme
ISBN:
9789811023941
Content:
This anthology analyzes societal and cultural aspects of modern Japan. It identifies the dynamic trend and undercurrent in Japan by addressing three key areas: modernization, internationalization, and memory and imagination. Using interdisciplinary and multi-language approaches, it discusses topics such as religion, ethnicity, civil society, art, public health, popular culture, war, identity and education. It is a valuable resource for scholars and graduate students with an interest in cutting-edge research analyses of Japanese / Asian studies
Content:
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Modernization and Japan -- Chapter 2: Civil Religion and Second Modernity in Japan: A Sociological Analysis -- Chapter 3: Japan and the Rise of the Idea of Race: The Meiji-Era Fusion of Foreign and Domestic Constructions -- Chapter 4: The 1922 Japanese Health Insurance Law: Toward a Corporatist Framework -- Chapter 5: Public Health in Occupied Japan Transformed by Statistical Quality Control -- Part II: Identity and Globalization -- Chapter 6: International Issues: Japanese Artists and the Problems with Borders -- Chapter 7: Discourses on Democracy and the (Re)birth of Civil Society, 1945-1952: Mutual Aid and Cooperatist Modernity in Kitakyushu -- Chapter 8: Imagining America: The Origins of Japanese Public Opinion toward the United States in the Cold War -- Chapter 9: Soft Powering Popular Culture: Discourse and Policy Making in Japan's Content Industries -- Chapter 10: Blending Ethnicities: Perceptions of East Asian Identities Today
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Japan
;
Gesellschaft
;
Ethnizität
;
Aufsatzsammlung
