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Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society presents a vivid picure of the life of Suzuki Bokushi (1770-1842), an elite villager in a snowy province of Japan, focusing on his interaction with the changing social and cultural environment of the late Tokugawa period (1603-1868).
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This is the eighth and largest volume in the series Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits published on behalf of The Japan Society, London. It contains essays from forty contributors relating to fifty-two portraits of personalities who have been influential in political, official and ...
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The famous ryōsai kenbo or ‘good wife, wise mother’ role of Japanese women was, in fact, not a traditional Confucian view but a modern construct – its first appearance in Japan being the latter half of the nineteenth century. Girls at the time were proud to fulfill their new role of contributing ...
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Critical Readings on Contemporary Japanese Politics is an interdisciplinary collection that examines various aspects of 21st century Japan ranging from elections, policymaking and foreign policy to history, nationalism, identity, civil society and the March 11, 2011 disasters.
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Critical Readings on Japanese Confucianism advances more in-depth understandings of the multifaceted nature of Confucianism in Japan by bringing together important studies from the humanities and works in translation, offering a vision of Confucianism as a dynamic cultural force.
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This publication concentrates on the emperors of Japan and brings together in 4 volumes the scholarship of a variety of authors addressing Ancient and Medieval Japan; Early Modern Japan; Imperial Japan and Postwar Japan.
Brill's Critical Readings publications are a one stop reference resource in ...
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Brian Burke-Gaffney provides a detailed account of the activities of Holme, Ringer & Co., the leading foreign enterprise in western Japan prior to the Second World War, and describes the remarkable achievements and tragedies of the Ringer family.
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In Search of Nature by Kenneth G. Henshall provides a biography of Tayama Katai, leader of Japan's naturalist movement. This book discusses Katai's prose fiction and perceptions of nature, and also corrects widely held but erroneous assumptions about Japanese naturalism.
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In International Education Policy in Japan in an Age of Globalisation and Risk, Robert Aspinall analyses the ways in which Japanese government policies on English language education and the promotion of Study Abroad have been implemented in schools and universities.
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This study contains a detailed record of the history and development of Kurokawa nō, the processes of its transmission over the generations and its impact on the wider cultural life of Japan. Kurokawa Nō also offers an invaluable, authentic case study in the wider context of notions of Japanese ...