Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of contemporary Japan.
Zainichi Koreans and Mental Health: Psychiatric Problem in Japanese Korean Minorities, Their Social Background and Life Story
1st Edition
By Taeyoung Kim
September 25, 2023
Using a qualitative, interview-based approach, Kim investigates how conflicting identities and social marginalization affect the mental health of members of the ethnic Korean minority living in Japan. So-called “Zainichi” Koreans living in Japan have a higher suicide rate than native Japanese, or ...
Japanese War Orphans: Abandoned Twice by the State
1st Edition
By Jiaxin Zhong
May 31, 2023
After Japan's defeat in August 1945, some Japanese children were abandoned in China and raised by Chinese foster parents. They were unable to return to Japan even during the mass repatriation carried out by the Japanese government in the 1950s. Most of them returned to Japan in the 1980s. They are ...
Japan’s Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism
1st Edition
By Jeffrey J. Hall
May 31, 2023
Japan’s nationalist right have used the internet to organize offline activism in increasingly visible ways. Hall investigates the role of internet-mediated activism in Japan’s ongoing historical and territorial disputes. He explores the emergence of two right-wing activist organizations, Nihon ...
Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture: Projects in Japan
1st Edition
By Satoshi Higuchi
May 31, 2023
“I regard Higuchi’s book as particularly valuable because it highlights dimensions of somaesthetics that have not been sufficiently explored. I refer not only to the various traditional Japanese somatic disciplines whose somaesthetics aspects Higuchi reveals, but also to central topics far beyond ...
Wildlife, Landscape Use and Society: Regional Case Studies in Japan
1st Edition
By Ken Sugimura
May 31, 2023
A comprehensive analysis of the various terrestrial natural landscapes and habitats within Japan, and the efforts to sustain and conserve them and sustain landscape services. In 2011, Conservation International designated the Japanese islands collectively as one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots...
Women and Political Inequality in Japan: Gender Imbalanced Democracy
1st Edition
By Mikiko Eto
May 31, 2023
Why are there so few Japanese women involved in the political system? In 2019, Japanese women made up 10% of the national Lower House, 21% of the Upper House, and 14% of local assemblies. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, this places Japan 164th out of 193 countries when it comes to women...
Avant-Garde Art and Non-Dominant Thought in Postwar Japan: Image, Matter, Separation
1st Edition
By K. Yoshida
May 30, 2022
This book offers a reassessment of how "matter" – in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture – pursued a radical definition of "multiplicity", against the dominant and hierarchical tendencies underwriting post-fascist Japan. Through theoretical analysis of works by artists and ...
Social Change in Japan, 1989-2019: Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values
1st Edition
Edited
By Carola Hommerich, Naoki Sudo, Toru Kikkawa
April 29, 2022
Based on extensive survey data, this book examines how the population of Japan has experienced and processed three decades of rapid social change from the highly egalitarian high growth economy of the 1980s to the economically stagnating and demographically shrinking gap society of the 2010s. It ...
Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome
1st Edition
By Genaro Castro-Vázquez
December 13, 2021
Drawing on the concept of the somatic self, Castro-Vázquez explores how Japanese men think about, express and interpret their experiences concerning bodyweight control.Based on an extensive ethnographic investigation, this book offers a compelling analysis of male obesity and overweight in Japan ...
New Frontiers in Japanese Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Akihiro Ogawa, Philip Seaton
December 13, 2021
Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from ‘demystifying the Japanese’, to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future ...
Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan: Rethinking Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion
1st Edition
Edited
By Yoshikazu Shiobara, Kohei Kawabata, Joel Matthews
June 30, 2021
The recent manifestation of exclusionism in Japan has emerged at a time of intensified neoliberal economic policies, increased cross-border migration brought on by globalization, the elevated threat of global terrorism, heightened tensions between East Asian states over historical and territorial ...
Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades
1st Edition
By Marc Yamada
June 30, 2021
This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the “lost decades” of Japan’s Heisei period (1989–2019).Presenting original analysis of major Heisei writers, filmmakers, and manga artists, the chapters examine the work of Urasawa Naoki, Kurosawa Kiyoshi...