Japanese Culture & Society

This book addresses the transition from postwar to post-disaster literature and examines the rise of precarity consciousness in Japanese socio-cultural discourse. Recent natural as well as man-made cataclysmic events have dramatically changed the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. This rad..

This book traces the development of Okinawan literature over the tumultuous past century, during which the island experienced imperial subjectification, wartime annihilation, a protracted American occupation, and reversion to Japan. ..