SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

Transwar Asia

Ideology, Practices, and Institutions, 1920-1960

Edited by Reto Hofmann, University of Western Australia, Australia & Max Ward, Middlebury College, USA

This volume uses the term 'transwar' as a lens to understand the history of Asia from the 1920s to 1960s Recent scholarship challenges the pre and post-war divide in the national histories of Asia, instead assessing change and continuity across the divide of war Taking this reconsideration further, Transwar Asia explores the complex processes by which prewar or colonial ideologies, practices, and institutions were reconfigured during World War II and, crucially, in the two decades that followed, thus shaping the Asian Cold War and the processes of decolonization and nation state-formation

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350281127

• 240 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350182813 ePub 9781350182837 ePdf 9781350182820

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan • Bloomsbury Academic

A History of Economic Thought in Japan 1600 - 1945

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Waseda University, Japan & Sumiyo Ishii, Daito Bunka University, Japan

Translated by Ayuko Tanaka & Tadashi Anno

This ground-breaking book provides the first English-language survey of economic thought in modern Japan, offering both a detailed study of economic thought from 1600 to 1945 and a nuanced analysis of Western and Asian perspectives on Japanese economic history

UK July 2023 US July 2023 288 pages

PB 9781350198692 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350150133 ePub 9781350150157 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350150140 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan • Bloomsbury Academic

Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy

Stories from the Second Basement

Jonathan Dil, Keio University, Japan

Haruki Murakami has said that he started writing novels as a means of self-therapy; this book explores Murakami’s fourteen published novels as an evolving therapeutic project It starts by looking into the biographical factors behind this therapeutic project, beginning with Murakami’s estrangement from his father and the death of a former girlfriend Jonathan Dil argues that these two ‘traumas’ in Murakami’s life are essential for understanding why he writes, before going on to successfully reason that Murakami’s fiction has transcended these proximate motivations to deal with the theme of therapy on a much broader, cultural level

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350270589