Social commentary on state and society in modern Japan. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yoneyuki Sugita, editor.
• Editors: Sugita, Yoneyuki, 1962-
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; Editor and Contributors; 1 Introduction; Abstract; Modernization and Japan; 2 Civil Religion and Second Modernity in Japan: A Sociological Analysis; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Concept of Civil Religion; 2.2.1 The Political Approach: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; 2.2.2 The Sociological Approach: Robert N. Bellah; 2.3 Civil Religion in Japan; 2.3.1 Meiji Restoration and the Making of a Modern Nation; 2.3.2 Civil Religion in Post-war Japan; 2.4 Japan's "Ritual Calendar"; 2.4.1 The National Holiday's System; 2.4.2 Civil Religion and the Yasukuni Shrine 2.5 Conclusion: Japan's Civil Religion in Times of GlobalizationReferences; 3 Japan and the Rise of the Idea of Race: The Meiji Era Fusion of Foreign and Domestic Constructions; Abstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Early Modern Japanese Antecedents of the Idea of Race; 3.3 The Introduction of the Idea of Race in Early Meiji Era; 3.4 The Two Trajectories of the Meiji Racial Discourse; 3.5 The Rise of Racism Within the Discourse of Race; 3.6 Conclusion; References; 4 The 1922 Japanese Health Insurance Law: Toward a Corporatist Framework; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Background of Japanese Health Insurance Programs4.3 Previous Studies; 4.4 Denial of Exemption for Private Mutual Aid Associations; 4.5 Benefits and Obligations; 4.6 Conundrum; 4.7 Concluding Observations; References; 5 Public Health in Occupied Japan Transformed by Statistical Quality Control; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Significance of This Chapter; 5.2.1 Works on Public Health in Occupied Japan; 5.3 Quality Control in Applying Statistical Methods; 5.3.1 What Are 'Science and Technology'?; 5.3.2 Four Actors Including Industry, University, Government, and Civilian 5.3.3 Quality, Quality Control and Statistical Quality Control5.3.4 SQC Introduced in Occupied Japan by Deming; 5.3.5 Why SQC Now?; 5.4 Circumstances Surrounding Japan in Occupation Period; 5.4.1 From Defeated Country to Economic Power; 5.4.2 Public Health in Occupied Japan; 5.4.3 Intention of the ESS and the PHW; 5.4.4 Recommendation of the Science Advisory Mission from the United States; 5.5 Quality Control Movement in Japan; 5.5.1 Every Cloud Has Silver Lining; 5.6 Conclusion; References; Identity and Globalization; 6 International Issues: Japanese Artists and the Problems with Borders Abstract6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Paris in the Japanese Imagination; 6.3 Transnational Identities; 6.4 Fujita Tsuguharu; 6.5 Kaneko Mitsuharu; References; 7 Discourses on Democracy and the (Re)Birth of Civil Society, 1945-1952: Mutual Aid and Cooperatist Modernity in Kitakyushu; Abstract; 7.1 The Rise of Civic Associations in Japan, 1945-1952; 7.2 Quantitative Analysis of Civic Institutions During the Allied Occupation; 7.3 Theories of Democratization in Japan; 7.4 Cooperation Over Competition: The Spread of Guilds, Cooperatives and Chambers of Commerce in Tobata, 1945-1952
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer Nature
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.0952; Globalization -- Japan; Health insurance -- Japan; Public health -- Japan; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Globalization; Health insurance; Public health; Social conditions; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1989-; Japan; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811023958; 9811023956
• Related ISBNs: 9789811023941
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