Category: Japan

By Jack Seward

ISBN-10: 1462907628

ISBN-13: 9781462907625

Hari-Kiri is a definitive textual content on eastern ritual suicide, sometimes called seppuku.

To the common westerner, the observe hara-kiri evokes a picture of excruciating, self-inflicted soreness; of a deep, deadly incision. To the japanese, this sort of suicide embodies the easiest characteristics of braveness, honor, and discipline.

Through wide examine, writer Jack Seward brings to the English-speaking public a dissertation at the topic that's completely enlightening. Fluent in conversing, interpreting, and writing eastern, he used to be in a position to glean details from historic records lots of them scrolls within the eastern files that few foreigners have visible. The earliest writings on hara-kiri (known extra officially as seppuku) are hence published, as are the complicated rituals surrounding the ceremony.

"The significant goal of this book," says the writer, "is to elucidate the historic and sociological value of a different approach to self-destruction." In satisfying this goal, writer Seward has get a hold of a definitive paintings that's guaranteed to arouse curiosity either as a scholarly attempt and as uncomplicated, interesting studying.

By Nakazawa Keiji

ISBN-10: 1442207477

ISBN-13: 9781442207479

This compelling autobiography tells the lifestyles tale of famed manga artist Nakazawa Keiji. Born in Hiroshima in 1939, Nakazawa was once six years outdated whilst on August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb. His gritty and gorgeous account of the terrible aftermath is powerfully instructed during the eyes of a kid who misplaced such a lot of his family members and associates. In eminently readable and wonderfully translated prose, the narrative maintains throughout the brutally tricky years instantly after the conflict, his paintings apprenticeship in Tokyo, his pioneering "atomic-bomb" manga, and the production of Barefoot Gen, the vintage photograph novel in response to Nakazawa's stories earlier than, in the course of, and after the bomb.

This first English-language translation of Nakazawa's autobiography contains twenty pages of excerpts from Barefoot Gen to provide readers who don't recognize the manga a style of its strength and scope. a up to date interview with the writer brings his lifestyles as much as the current. His trenchant hostility to jap imperialism, the emperor and the emperor method, and U.S. coverage provides vital nuance to the controversy over Hiroshima. regardless of the grimness of his adolescence, Nakazawa by no means succumbs to pessimism or defeatism. His trademark optimism and activism shine via during this inspirational paintings.

By Y. Sellek

ISBN-10: 0230288251

ISBN-13: 9780230288256

ISBN-10: 1349422266

ISBN-13: 9781349422265

This booklet explores the effect of overseas migrant staff on components of sovereign energy in Japan and examines how the country's immigration keep watch over has been reshaped via the lifestyles of those staff. It lines the altering scenario of international migrant staff in Japan from the mid Nineteen Eighties to the current day. a selected concentration is the transition of those staff from 'temporary staff' to 'long-term stayers' or 'social beings'.

By Robert Hoppens, Christopher Gerteis

ISBN-10: 1472575466

ISBN-13: 9781472575463

The Seventies have been a interval of dramatic switch in family members among Japan and the People's Republic of China (PRC). the 2 international locations tested diplomatic family for the 1st time, cast shut fiscal ties and reached political agreements that also consultant and constrain family this present day. This booklet promises a background of this foundational interval in Sino-Japanese family members. It offers an up to date diplomatic historical past of the connection but in addition is going past this to argue that Japan's relatives with China has to be understood within the context of a bigger “China challenge” that was once inseparable from a household contest to outline jap nationwide identification.

The China challenge in Postwar Japan demanding situations a few universal assertions or assumptions in regards to the position of eastern nationwide identification in postwar Sino-Japanese kin, displaying how the background of eastern relatives with China within the Nineteen Seventies is formed through the power of jap nationwide identification, no longer its weakness.

By Tim Anderson

ISBN-10: 1612181317

ISBN-13: 9781612181318

Everybody desires to break out their uninteresting, stagnant lives packed with inertia and remorse. yet so few humans even have the bravery to run -- run clear of every little thing and selflessly hunt down own achievement at the different part of the area the place they don't comprehend whatever and won't be anticipated to. the area is filled with cowards. Tim Anderson was once pushing thirty and dealing a string of dead-end jobs while he made the spontaneous choice to pack his luggage and stream to Japan, “where my prestige as a U.S. passport holder and card-carrying ‘American English’ speaker was once an asset instead of a liability.” It was once a gutsy circulation, specially for a tall, white, homosexual Southerner who didn’t converse a lick of jap. yet his existence desperately wanted a shot of adrenaline, and what greater solution to get one than to go away in the back of every little thing he had ever recognized to maneuver to “a tiny, overcrowded island heaving with shrewdpermanent, sensibly proportioned people who make him glance fat?” In Tokyo, Tim turned a “gaijin,” an intruder whose stumbling development via eastern tradition is minutely chronicled in those 16 howlingly humorous tales. but regardless of the steep studying curve and the doubtless consistent humiliation, the gaijin from North Carolina progressively starts to discover his manner. even if taking part in drums at the fly in an in a different way all-Japanese noise band or trying to maintain his English school room fresh while it’s invaded by means of an older girl scholar with a grimy brain, Tim involves observe that dwelling a significant lifestyles is ready anticipating the unexpected…right while he least expects it.

By Donald Richie

ISBN-10: 1880656973

ISBN-13: 9781880656976

By John Knight Sir

ISBN-10: 9004187936

ISBN-13: 9789004187931

This publication is a examine of using monkeys as a vacationer appeal in Japan. Monkey parks are renowned customer sights that show free-ranging troops of jap macaques to the paying public. The parks paintings through manipulating the pursuits of the monkey troop during the common provision of nutrients handouts at a set web site the place the monkeys should be simply considered. the program of administration results in quite a few difficulties, together with proliferating monkey numbers, park-edge crop-raiding, and the sedentarization of the troop. as well as falling customer numbers, those difficulties have ended in the closure or fencing in of many parks, calling into query the way forward for the monkey park as an establishment.

By Janis Mimura

Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a brand new section of brutal career and war in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the venture of remaking the japanese kingdom alongside technocratic and fascistic traces and making a self-sufficient Asian bloc founded on Japan and its puppet kingdom of Manchukuo. In Planning for Empire, Janis Mimura lines the origins and evolution of this new order and the guidelines and rules of its leader architects, the reform bureaucrats. The reform bureaucrats pursued an intensive, authoritarian imaginative and prescient of recent Japan within which private and non-private spheres have been fused, possession and keep watch over of capital have been separated, and society was once governed through technocrats.

Mimura shifts our consciousness clear of reactionary younger officials to kingdom planners—reform bureaucrats, overall battle officials, new zaibatsu leaders, economists, political scientists, engineers, and exertions get together leaders. She exhibits how empire development and battle mobilization raised the stature and impact of those middle-class execs by means of calling forth new executive making plans organisations, study bureaus, and imagine tanks to draft 5 12 months business plans, rationalize undefined, mobilize the loads, streamline the paperwork, and deal with immense company. Deftly studying the political battles and compromises of jap technocrats of their bid for political energy and Asian hegemony, Planning for Empire bargains a brand new standpoint on jap fascism via revealing its sleek roots within the shut interplay of know-how and right-wing ideology.

By Keiji Nishitani

ISBN-10: 0520043294

ISBN-13: 9780520043299

ISBN-10: 0520049462

ISBN-13: 9780520049468

By Nanette Gottlieb

ISBN-10: 0203219619

ISBN-13: 9780203219614

ISBN-10: 0415279186

ISBN-13: 9780415279185

ISBN-10: 0415279194

ISBN-13: 9780415279192

Japan is rightly considered as the most technologically complex international locations on this planet, but the advance and deployment of web know-how in Japan has taken a distinct trajectory in comparison with Western international locations. this can be the 1st booklet to examine the explicit dynamics of jap web use.
It examines the the most important questions:
• how the japanese are utilizing the web: from the superiority of entry through transportable units, to the style tradition of cellular phones
• how Japan's "cute tradition" has colonized cyberspace
• the function of the web in several musical subcultures
• how assorted men's and women's teams have embraced expertise to focus on difficulties of harassment and bullying
• the social, cultural and political affects of the web on jap society
• how marginalized teams in eastern society - homosexual males, these residing with AIDS, contributors of recent spiritual teams and Japan's hereditary sub-caste, the Burakumin - are difficult the mainstream by utilizing the Internet.
Examined from quite a few interdisciplinary views, utilizing a extensive diversity of case-studies, this is often an exhilarating and really state-of-the-art e-book which breaks new flooring in jap experiences and may be of worth to a person drawn to eastern tradition, the net and cyberculture.