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  1. On the Margins of Japanese Society

    Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass

    By Carolyn S. Stevens

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a...

    Published March 26th 1997 by Routledge

  2. Life in a Japanese Women's College

    Learning to be Ladylike

    By Brian J. McVeigh

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    One third of the Japanese female workforce are 'office ladies' and their training takes place in the many women's junior colleges. Office ladies are low-wage, low-status secretaries who have little or no job security.Brian J. McVeigh draws on his experience as a teacher at one such institution to...

    Published December 4th 1996 by Routledge

  4. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature

    The Subversion of Modernity

    By Susan Napier

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century.The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature...

    Published December 27th 1995 by Routledge

  5. Democracy in Post-War Japan

    Maruyama Masao and the Search for Autonomy

    By Rikki Kersten

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    Democracy in Post-War Japan assesses the development of democracy through the writings of the brilliant political thinker Maruyama Masao. The author explores the significance of Maruyama's notion of personal and social autonomy and its impact on the development of a distinctively Japanese...

    Published December 6th 1995 by Routledge

  6. Militarisation and Demilitarisation in Contemporary Japan

    By Glenn D. Hook

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    The intertwined issues of Japanese `identity' and `normality' are at the centre of the tension between internal and external pressures on Japanese defence and security policies. With chapters on peace thought, the militarisation and demilitarisation of language as well as the `hard' aspects of the...

    Published November 29th 1995 by Routledge

  7. The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System

    By Junji Banno

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    The 1889 Meiji constitution: how it actually worked, the establishment of the Diet and the shifting roles and interests of the parties. A Japanese classic translated by one our leading authorities....

    Published November 22nd 1995 by Routledge

  8. Growing a Japanese Science City

    Communication in Scientific Research

    By James W. Dearing

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    Tsukuba Science City is the world's most ambitious attempt to `turbocharge' scientific collaboration. James W. Dearing looks at the political and economic context within which the plans for Tsukuba were laid, how those plans changed during the process of implementation, and at the functioning of...

    Published October 25th 1995 by Routledge

  9. Japan's Early Parliaments, 1890-1905

    Structure, Issues and Trends

    By Andrew Fraser, R. H. P. Mason, Philip Mitchell

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    Japan's Early Parliaments, 1890-1905 is the first detailed study of the early history of the Japanese Diet, providing a thorough discussion of the origins of the Japanese parliament, still the central institution of Japanese politics, and its development during this formative period. Drawn from...

    Published December 14th 1994 by Routledge

  10. Japan: Beyond the End of History

    By David Williams

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    In this analysis of Japan's policy-making, David Williams places his argument within the debates about Japanese political economy in the United States and Britain, debates previously polarised between `market' and `ministry' views. He presents Japanese-style nationalist development as a serious...

    Published December 15th 1993 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Japan's Interventionist State: The Role of the MAFF
    By Aurelia George-Mulgan
    To Be Published June 19th 2013
  2. Technology and Industrial Growth in Pre-War Japan: The Mitsubishi-Nagasaki Shipyard 1884-1934
    By Yukiko Fukasaku
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  3. Life in a Japanese Women's College: Learning to be Ladylike
    By Brian J. McVeigh
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  4. Democracy in Post-War Japan: Maruyama Masao and the Search for Autonomy
    By Rikki Kersten
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  5. On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass
    By Carolyn S. Stevens
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  6. Academic Nations in China and Japan: Framed by Concepts of Nature, Culture and the Universal
    By Margaret Sleeboom
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  7. The Nature of the Japanese State: Rationality and Rituality
    By Brian J. McVeigh
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  8. Opposition Politics in Japan: Strategies Under a One-Party Dominant Regime
    By Stephen Johnson
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  9. Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
    By Sharon Kinsella
    To Be Published October 29th 2013
  10. Social Inequality in Japan
    By Sawako Shirahase
    To Be Published December 30th 2013

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