Researching twenty-first century Japan
Subtitle: new directions and approaches for the electronic age
By: edited by Timothy Iles and Peter Matanle
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739170144
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Japan Foundation in China: an agent of Japan's soft power? / Utpal Vyas; title: Regulatory reform in Japan 1994-2010 and the influence of the European Union / Paul James Cardwell; title: Party financing in Germany and Japan: Comparative perspectives of political corruption / Angelos Giannakopoulos, Konstadinos Maras, Shinya Amano; title: The Heisei mergers in contemporary Japan: A step on the road to a d'sh'-sei realignment? / Anthony Rausch; title: The dilemma of "critical thinking":  Conformism and non-conformism in Japanese education policy / David Rear; title: The emergence of positive fathering roles in Japanese social marketing / Tomoko Shimoda; title: Cell phone as metaphor: Japanese deaf and hearing high school students' concepts of mobile communication / Yoshiko Okuyama; title: Japanese employment in transformation:  The growing number of non-regular workers / Kuniko Ishiguro; title: Deprofessionalization of Buddhist priests in contemporary Japan / Mitsutoshi Horii; title: Celebrating "multicultural Japan": writings on "minorities" and the discourse on "difference" / Chris Burgess; title: Ito and Isabella in the contact zone:; title: Interpretation, mimicry and unbeaten tracks in Japan / Andrew Elliott; title: "Desperate housewives" in modern Japanese fiction : three novels by Ariyoshi Sawako /; title: Wendy Nakanishi; title: Kiritake Masako's Maiden's Bunraku / Darren-Jon Ashmore; title: Manga and anime: fluidity and hybridity in global imagery / Mio Bryce, Christie Barber, and Amy Plumb; title: Moe: exploring virtual potential in post-millennial Japan; title: Patrick W. Galbraith.