Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume that examines the history of Japan's constitutional debates, key legal decisions and interpretations, history and activism, and activists' ties to party politics and fellow activists overseas.
This book presents an ethnographic portrait of transnational Japanese-Brazilian labor migrants and their families as they navigate life between Japan and Brazil. The author pays particular attention to gender, generation, and class, and to structures besides work such as family, education, and religion.
Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism places the naturalistic pragmatism of John Dewey in conversation with Motoori Norinaga's mono no aware, a Japanese aesthetic theory of experience, to examine gender as a felt experience of an aware, or an affective quality of persons. By treating gender as an affect, ......
This volume presents a comparative approach to textual glossing practices in both the West and East Asia, looking for evidence of historical and cultural continuity in this wide-spread practice.
Pro-Japan Anti-Interventionists and the FBI on the Eve of the Pacific Wa
In this first full study of pro-Japan isolationists in the United States, Roger Jeans provides a detailed history of the Committee on Pacific Relations. Drawing on previously untapped sources-- personal letters of committee members and the dossiers the FBI compiled on them--he paints a rich picture of this little-known and often-ostracized group.
The author argues that interactions between the movement and US Cold Warriors had a profound and lasting impact on Japanese society and Japan-US relations.
This volume examines Japan's new foreign policy frontiers in South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. The contributors analyze Japan's ongoing relationships with the United States and the ASEAN states as China's influence expands.
Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan
This book investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective. By analyzing a variety of communication during the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the author examines how Japaneseness is constructed in relation to discursive Others.
This book examines the origins and boundaries of Japanese digital role-playing games. A geographically diverse roster of contributors introduces English-speaking audiences to Japanese video game scholarship and applies postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text.
