Routledge handbook of contemporary Japan. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of contemporary Japan; Contemporary Japan
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Hiroko Takeda, Mark Williams.
• Editors: Takeda, Hiroko; Williams, Mark, 1957-
• Contents: Introduction Hiroko Takeda & Mark Williams Part I Foundations 1. History: War Memory and Japan’s "Postwar" Elyssa Faison 2. Politics: after the Demise of the "1955 System" Gill Steel 3. The Law in Japan Giorgio Fabio Colombo 4. The Japanese Economy Franz Waldenberger 5. Work and Employment: Inside, outside and beyond the Lifetime Employment Model Steffen Heinrich & Jun Imai 6. Civil Society in Japan Mary Alice Haddad 7. Structures and Dynamics of Japan’s Urban-Rural Relationship Thomas Feldhoff 8. Japan’s New Immigration: Gap in Admission Policy and Diversity in Socio-economic Integration’ David Chiavacci 9. Discursive Politics of Gender in Japan Hiroko Takeda 10. Family and Demographic Issues in Japan Mary C. Brinton 11. Popular Imagination in Japan Rumi Sakamoto 12. Japan’s International Relations Christopher W. Hughes & Misato Matsuoka Part II Issues 13. Democracy in Japan Sherry L. Martin 14. Japan’s Territorial Problems: Continuing Legacies of the San Francisco System Kimie Hara 15. The Politics of Nationalism and Identity in Contemporary Japan Jeff Kingston 16. Employment Regulation and Practices: The Production and Consumption of Non-Regular Work Huiyan Fu 17. Energy Issues in Japan Andrew DeWit 18. Japan and the Environment: Industrial Pollution, Biodiversity Loss, and Climate Change Peter Matanle 19. Japan’s Post Catch-up Modernity: Educational Transformation and its Unintended Consequences Takehiko Kariya 20. University Reform in Japan Takamichi Mito 21. Studying Japan’s Generations Agata Kapturkiewicz & Tuukka Toivonen 22. Gender Equality in Japan Priscilla Lambert 23. Femininity and Masculinity Laura Dales & Futoshi Taga 24. LGBT Hiroyuki Taniguchi 25. Consumerism Alexandra Hambleton 26. Food Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna 27. Tourism Takayoshi Yamamura and Philip Seaton 28. Young Urban Migrants in the Japanese Countryside between Self-Realization and Slow Life? The Quest for "Small-scale Happiness" and Alternative Lifestyles in Post-growth Japan Susanne Klien 29. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games: The Political Economy of Tokyo Hosting the World Wolfram Manzenreiter 30. Social Malaise in Japan Roman Rosenbaum 31. Media in Japan Yoshitaka Mōri 32. Mobile Reflections: Rethinking Digitality in a post 3/11 Japan Larissa Hjorth 33. Okinawa: Rooting and routing of Uchinānchu and Shimā Ayano Ginoza 34. The Great East Japan Earthquake and Post-Disaster Japan Allison Kwesell & Joo-Young Jung
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 952.05; Japan -- Civilization; Japan -- Politics and government; Japan -- Social conditions; Japan -- Economic conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134830015; 9781134829941; 9781134830084; 9781315544748
• Related ISBNs: 9781138668614
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