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Routledge Contemporary Japan Series


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The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of contemporary Japan.

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Basketball in Japan Shooting for the Stars

Basketball in Japan: Shooting for the Stars

1st Edition

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By Aaron Miller
August 23, 2024

Through a study of basketball in Japan, this book aims to help readers better understand the historical formation and contemporary reformation of cultural identity in Japan. This reformation includes the process of reconciling the perceived differences between basketball in Japan and basketball in ...

Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies How Attractive for Migrants are Japan and Germany?

Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies: How Attractive for Migrants are Japan and Germany?

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Aeneas Zi Wang, Aimi Muranaka, Florian Coulmas
August 21, 2024

This book argues that a new perspective on immigration is needed: as Western societies age, and their populations stagnate or decline, and immigrants are increasingly required, the old view that it is a privilege for immigrants to move from less developed to more developed countries needs to be ...

Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature Inciting Difference

Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Victoria Young
June 03, 2024

This book examines contemporary debates on such concepts as national literature, world literature, and the relationship each of these to translation, from the perspective of modern Japanese fiction. By reading between the gaps and revealing tensions and blind spots in the image that Japanese ...

Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan In the (Inter)National Shadows

Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan: In the (Inter)National Shadows

1st Edition

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By Robert O'Mochain, Yuki Ueno
May 27, 2024

Bringing together two voices, practice and theory, in a collaboration that emerges from lived experience and structured reflection upon that experience, O’Mochain and Ueno show how entrenched discursive forces exert immense influence in Japanese society and how they might be most effectively ...

Dark Heritage in Contemporary Japan Relics of an Underground Empire

Dark Heritage in Contemporary Japan: Relics of an Underground Empire

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Jung-Sun Han
May 13, 2024

This book examines civic activism to conserve dark heritage built by the colonial and wartime labor regime in contemporary Japan. Introducing and analyzing local organizations and their activities in multiple locations throughout Japan, this book looks at the ways in which the Japanese have ...

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon
May 07, 2024

This book presents a scholarly investigation of the development and culture of Japanese videogame arcades, both from a historical and contemporary point of view. Providing an overview of the historical evolution of public amusement spaces from the early rooftop amusement spaces from the early ...

Japanese Whaling and the People Behind It A Look from Within

Japanese Whaling and the People Behind It: A Look from Within

1st Edition

By Nadzeya Shutava
February 13, 2024

This book explores the recent developments in global and Japanese whaling from the viewpoint of the members of the Japanese whaling community, a perspective that is largely neglected and misinterpreted. Japanese whaling has been one of the most contentious issues in global environmental governance ...

Lay Zen in Contemporary Japan Tradition, Interpretation, and Invention

Lay Zen in Contemporary Japan: Tradition, Interpretation, and Invention

1st Edition

By Erez Joskovich
December 29, 2023

This book explores the emergence and growth of Zen as a non-monastic spiritual practice in modern Japan. Focusing on several prominent lay Zen associations, most notably Ningen Zen, it explores different aspects of lay Zen as a lived religion, such as organization, ideology, and ritual. Through a ...

Critical Review of the Abe Administration Politics of Conservatism and Realism

Critical Review of the Abe Administration: Politics of Conservatism and Realism

1st Edition

Edited By Yoichi Funabashi, Koji Nakakita
December 12, 2023

The second Abe administration, which lasted for seven years and eight months, turned out to be the longest administration in Japan’s constitutional history. What factors contributed to its remarkable longevity? What accomplishments and enduring legacies did this administration achieve during its ...

Civil Defense in Japan Issues and Challenges

Civil Defense in Japan: Issues and Challenges

1st Edition

Edited By Yasuhiro Takeda, Jun Ito, Yusuke Kawashima
December 01, 2023

In 2004, Japan instituted a system to protect citizens against military attacks and terrorism for the first time after World War II. Faced with the Tokyo subway attack (1995), the 9/11 terrorist attacks (2001), and the changing security environment in East Asia, the Japanese government was forced ...

Mobile Japanese Migrants to the Pacific West and East Self-searching, Work, and Identification

Mobile Japanese Migrants to the Pacific West and East: Self-searching, Work, and Identification

1st Edition

By Etsuko Kato
December 01, 2023

This book explores “self-searching migrants,” a new group of indefinitely globally mobile people whose purpose of overseas stay is the search of true self and the work they really want to do, using Japanese trans-Pacific sojourners as the case study. Utilizing testimonies collected from interviews ...

The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade The Curious Resilience of Heisei Japan

The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade: The Curious Resilience of Heisei Japan

1st Edition

By Paul Dunscomb
October 27, 2023

This book examines Japan’s Heisei era through the lens of the crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004, challenging the narrative of decline that dominates the discourse on the period. The story of this crisis reveals much about the Japanese psyche during the “Lost Decade,” about the nature...

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