Japanese Culture & Society

A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan. ..

A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan. ..

In a comparatively short period, the television industry helped to reconstruct not only postwar Japanese popular culture, but also the Japanese social and political landscape. This book offers a history of Japanese television audiences and the popular media culture that television helped to spawn...

This book therefore seeks to study aging Japan in detail, investigating how social aging is affecting intergenerational relations. It analyses themes such as employment, parenthood, sexuality, and art, thus demonstrating how the younger generation can provide insights into the future of Japanese soc..

This book examines what motivates Japanese women to pursue professional careers in the contemporary neoliberal economy, and how they reconfigure notions of selfhood while doing so. It analyses how professional women contest conventional notions of femininity and negotiate new gender roles and cultur..

This book examines what motivates Japanese women to pursue professional careers in the contemporary neoliberal economy, and how they reconfigure notions of selfhood while doing so. It analyses how professional women contest conventional notions of femininity and negotiate new gender roles and cultur..

_x005F_x000D_ This book explores the meanings and practices of "family" in Japan, and brings together research by scholars of literature, gender studies, media and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. The chapters examine key issues such as ageing, single households, non-heterosexual living..

Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of Japanese Airlines flight JL123 has become part of Japanese collective memory. This book examines the crash, considering why it has come to have such importance for the Japanese...

Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of Japanese Airlines flight JL123 has become part of Japanese collective memory. This book examines the crash, considering why it has come to have such importance for the Japanese...

This book, based on extensive original research, explores the various ways in which Japanese people think about death and how they approach the process of dying and death. It shows how new forms of funeral ceremonies have been developed by the funeral industry, how traditional grave burial is being ..

Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the "other" to "normal" able-bodiedness. Most studies of disability consider disability in North American or European contexts; and studies of diversity in Japan consider ethnic and cultural diversity, but not the differ..

Based on ethnographic data gathered from fieldwork spanning 15 years, this book analyses the lives of women managers in Japan. It explores the ways in which professional women in Tokyo mobilize their friendships as a way of mitigating the disappointments in their working lives and conceptualizing ne..