Asian Studies Textbooks Catalog 2012

New Titles and Key Backlist

Japan: Culture & Society

  1. Understanding Japanese Society

    4th Edition

    By Joy Hendry

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    With the ever growing contact between Japan and the rest of the world comes an increasingly important need to understand a society that is fascinating but still often confusing to the outsider. In this brand new fourth edition of Understanding Japanese Society Joy Hendry brings the reader up to...

    Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Japan's Minorities

    The illusion of homogeneity, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Michael Weiner

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    Based on original research, Japan's Minorities provides a clear historical introduction to the formation of individual minorities, followed by an analysis of the contemporary situation. This second edition identifies and explores the six principal minority groups in Japan: the Ainu, the Burakumin,...

    Published November 24th 2008 by Routledge

  3. Modern Japan

    A Social and Political History

    By Elise K. Tipton

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    Published May 15th 2002 by Routledge