Social Commentary on State and Society in Modern Japan [electronic resource] /
Sugita, Yoneyuki.editor.
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.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
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.
Area studies.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Cultural studies.
Area Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Cultural Studies.