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 collection brings together Japan specialists in order to identify key challenges in using Japanese popular culture materials in their research an..
The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11th March 2011 have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. While mu..
This book addresses the transition from postwar to post-disaster literature and examines the rise of precarity consciousness in Japanese socio-cultura..
Rural communities in Japan have suffered from significant depopulation and economic decline in post-war years. Problems of declining birth rates, agin..
The proposed book explores the employment patterns of women born in the 1960s and the 1970s by presenting a comprehensive picture of the employment pa..
This book contains the most up-to-date, original data on Japanese migrant culture available. Its inescapable conclusion is that the multicultural age ..
Covering a wide chronological period, this clearly presented book brings together leading specialists in the field to discuss how notions of 'national..
This book examines the history of the relationship between male homosexuality and conceptions of manliness in postwar Japan. It provides a detailed ac..
This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed,..
This book explores the degree to which traditional patterns of both houses the family system (ie) are changing in contemporary Japan. It examines the ..
This book traces the development of Okinawan literature over the tumultuous past century, during which the island experienced imperial subjectificatio..