R&L Japan Catalogue

books on Japan

2020

Contemporary Japanese Philosophy: A Reader P.18

CONTENTS Art

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Autobiography

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Business & Economics

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Education

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History

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Literature & Language

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Music

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Philosophy

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Political Science

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Religion

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Social Science

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Feminism and Folk Art Case Studies in Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, and Brazil

By Eli Bartra

June 2019 152 pages Hardback 9781498564335 $85.00

This book uses a feminist approach to analyzing gender relations in the production and distribution of folk art in four different cultures. It examines examples of women’s creativity within male-dominated societies and offers an analysis of different art forms, including clay figures, baskets, lacquer work, and dolls.

Eli Bartra is distinguished professor at the Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaXochimilco, Mexico City.

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Trees of Life: Polychrome Clay Figures, and Women’s Work in Izúcar de Matamoros Chapter 2: Art Weavers: Maori Women of Aotearoa (New Zealand).

Chapter 3: From the Sober to the Saturated: Japanese Shunkei Lacquers and Edo Hagoita Chapter 4: The Smiler of the Moon: Brazilian Folk Art and the Abayomi Project

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Art

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Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons

By Nichola Dobson

April 2020 324 pages Hardback 9781538123218 $95.00

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on animators, directors, studios, techniques, films, and some of the best-known characters.

Nichola Dobson is a Lecturer in Animation at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Devoted to the study of animation history and theory since 2000 she was the founding editor of Animation Studies Online Journal from 2006-2010 and the President for the Society of Animation Studies from 2015-2019.

Table of Contents Editor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff Preface Acronyms and Abbreviations Chronology Introduction THE DICTIONARY Appendix: Academy Award Winners Bibliography About the Author

Art

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Climb Leaving Safe and Finding Strength on 100 Summits in Japan

By Susan Spann

August 2020 256 pages Hardback 9781633885929 $26.95

After more than forty years of living "safe and scared," California attorney and mystery author Susan Spann decided to break free by climbing one hundred of Japan's most famous mountains, inspired by a classic list of hyakumeizan peaks. But when an unexpected cancer diagnosis forced her to confront her deepest fears, the mountains of Japan became the setting for an even more transformative journey from pain and fear to a new life fueled by hope, confidence, and strength.

This immersive, inspiring, and witty page-turner captures the terrifying lows and breathtaking highs of a woman's journey from timidity to confidence, cancer to healing, and regret to joy, as she breaks the mental and physical chains that once prevented her from living out her dreams. Susan chronicles her journey with an insightful, often humorous eye for not only her travels across Japan, but the culture, food, nature, and obstacles she encountered along the way, and complements her honest and vivid prose with breathtaking personal photographs.

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Autobiography

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Toward a More Amicable AsiaPacific Region Japan’s Roles Edited by Yoneyuki Sugita

September 2018 160 pages Paperback 9780761869450 $36.99 Hardback 9780761866787 $75.00

As President Obama’s “pivot to Asia” strategy indicates, the Asia-Pacific region is an engine for the world economic growth. However, it has also been an unstable region suffering from many sources of conflicts. This book explores ways and means to establish a more amicable Asia-Pacific region.

Yoneyuki Sugita is professor of history at Osaka University. He has been writing on USJapan relations, Japanese foreign and security policies, and Japanese health insurance systems.

Business & Economics

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American Universities in China Lessons from Japan

By Dennis T. Yang

November 2017 116 pages Hardback 9781498554534 $85.00

This book considers the aspirations and operations of American universities in China through the lens of previous American universities’ expansion efforts in Japan. Drawing on lessons from their experiments in Japan, it assesses the potential sustainability of American universities in China.

Dennis Yang is member of the US Foreign Service and regional English language officer at the US Department of State.

Table of Contents CONTENTS Acknowledgements I. American Universities in Japan II. The Internationalization of Higher Education in China III. Public Universties in China IV. The Ivy League in China V. Sustainable or Short-lived References Appendix A. List of American Universities in Japan Appendix B. List of American Universities in China About the Author

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Education

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Children’s Literature from Asia in Today’s Classrooms Towards Culturally Authentic Interpretations

By Yukari Takimoto Amos and Daniel Miles Amos

July 2018 122 pages Paperback 9781475843682 $23.00 Hardback 9781475843675 $46.00

This book provides readers with interpretation guides and practical ideas for making use of Asian international children’s literature in the classroom. Part I discusses how to authentically read children’s literature from India, Thailand, China and Japan. Part II consists of annotated bibliographies of international children’s literature from Asia.

Yukari Takimoto Amos is a full professor at Central Washington University. She teaches a wide range of subjects including Asian Studies, linguistics, and multicultural education.

With graduate training at both Japanese and U.S. universities, she has been a professor or an instructor in Japan, Singapore, the United States, and Hong Kong.

Daniel Miles Amos was the first U.S. graduate student to successfully complete ethnographic research in the People’s Republic of China. He has held academic positions at several universities, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Normal University in greater China, and Clark Atlanta University in the United States.

Education

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The Aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Living among the Rubble

By Shoichiro Takezawa

May 2018 230 pages Paperback 9781498542531 $44.99 Hardback 9781498542517 $95.00

Based on witness testimony and eighteen months of fieldwork, this work of disaster ethnography examines the effects of East Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami on the fishing town of Otsuchi. It analyzes how local social systems developed to cope with the destruction and redevelopment and how residents behaved and narrated their own experiences.

Shoichiro Takezawa is professor of social anthropology at the National Museum of Ethnology of Japan.

Table of Contents Introduction: The Tsunami Hits Chapter 1: The Day of Catastrophe: Escaping the Waves Chapter 2: The Weeks Following the Tsunami: Evading Danger, Running the Evacuation Centers Chapter 3: The Months after the Tsunami: The Reconstruction Process along the Sanriku Coast Conclusion

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History

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Japan's Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century Continuity and Change Edited by Lam Peng Er and Purnendra Jain

March 2020 400 pages

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.

Hardback 9781498587952 $130.00

Purnendra Jain is professor of Japanese studies in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide.

Lam Peng Er is senior research fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore.

History

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Peace in the East An Chunggun's Vision for Asia in the Age of Japanese Imperialism Edited by Yi Tae-Jin, Eugene Y. Park and Kirk W. Larsen

September 2019 284 pages Paperback 9781498566421 $39.99 Hardback 9781498566407 $105.00

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History

This interdisciplinary collection examines the philosophy, politics, and legacy of An Chungg�n. The contributors analyze his vision of pan-Asian cooperation and his opposition to Japanese militaristic expansion. They also investigate his significance to broader issues related to nationalism, imperialism, and the role of violence in politics.

Yi Tae-Jin is professor emeritus of Korean history at Seoul National University.

Eugene Y. Park is Korea Foundation associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kirk W. Larsen is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University.

Air Apaches

The Augmented Reality of Pokémon Go

The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II

Chronotopes, Moral Panic, and Other Complexities

By Jay Stout

Edited by Neriko Musha Doerr and Debra J. Occhi

Imprint: Stackpole Books

Imprint: Lexington Books

April 2019 432 pp

February 2019 148 pp

9780811738019 I $29.95 I HB

9781498574914 I $90.00 I HB

Bridging the Atomic Divide

Changing Security Policies in Postwar Japan

Debating Japan-US Attitudes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Political Biography of Japanese Defense Minister Sakata Michita

By Harry J. Wray and Seishiro Sugihara

By Sase Masamori

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Lexington Books November 2018 340 pp

November 2017 182 pp

9781498593212 I $115.00 I HB

9781498552608 I $90.00 I HB

Creating Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945– 2015 A Sword Well Made

October 2018 314 pp 9781498537896 I $110.00 I HB 9781498537919 I $42.99 I PB

The Fighting Corsairs THE FIGHTING CORSAIRS

The Men of Marine Fighting Squadron 215 in the Pacific during WWII

By David Hunter-Chester

By Jeff Dacus

Series: New Studies in Modern Japan

Imprint: Lyons Press

Imprint: Lexington Books

November 2020 272 pp 9781493055081 I $27.95 I HB

History

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The Greatest Stories Never Told: Snipers

The Hidden Places of World War II

By Laurence J. Yadon

The Extraordinary Sites Where History Was Made During the War That Saved Civilization

Imprint: Lyons Press

By Jerome M. O'Connor Imprint: Lyons Press April 2019 248 pp

January 2019 360 pp

9781493038558 I $18.95 I PB

9781493030385 I $27.95 I HB

Historical Dictionary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan

By William D. Hoover

By James E. Hoare

Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East

Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East October 2019 742 pp

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

9781538119730 I $150.00 I HB

December 2018 652 pp

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

9781538111550 I $140.00 I HB

Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850–1913

The Indestructible Man The Incredible True Story of the Legendary Sailor the Japanese Couldn't Kill

By Ann Marie L. Davis Series: New Studies in Modern Japan

By Don Keith and David Rocco Imprint: Stackpole Books

Imprint: Lexington Books March 2019 248 pp

January 2021 240 pp

9781498542142 I $95.00 I HB

9780811739641 I $27.95 I HB

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History

The JET Program and the US–Japan Relationship

Journalism and the RussoJapanese War

Goodwill Goldmine

The End of the Golden Age of Combat Correspondence

By Emily T. Metzgar

By Michael S. Sweeney and Natascha Toft Roelsgaard

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Lexington Books January 2019 210 pp

November 2019 260 pp

9781498526036 I $90.00 I HB 9781498526050 I $39.99 I PB

9781793617903 I $95.00 I HB

The Korean War in Asia

Living Transnationally between Japan and Brazil

A Hidden History

Routes beyond Roots

Edited by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

By Sarah A. LeBaron von Baeyer

Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives

Series: New Studies in Modern Japan

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2018 238 pp

November 2019 258 pp

9781538111895 I $84.00 I HB 9781538111901 I $37.00 I PB

9781498580366 I $95.00 I HB

Imprint: Lexington Books

Music and Words

Poisoning the Pacific

Producing Popular Songs in Modern Japan, 1887–1952

The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange

By Patrick M. Patterson Series: New Studies in Modern Japan

By Jon Mitchell

Imprint: Lexington Books

Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives

October 2018 230 pp

September 2020 296 pp

9781498550352 I $95.00 I HB

9781538130339 I $24.95 I HB

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

History

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The Politics of Religion, Nationalism, and Identity in Asia

Resistant Islands

By Jeff Kingston

By Gavan McCormack and Satoko Oka Norimatsu

Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives

August 2019 312 pp

April 2018 350 pp

9781442276864 I $85.00 I HB

9781538115572 I $69.00 I HB 9781442215634 I $28.00 I PB

Russia and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Saipan The Battle That Doomed Japan in World War II

China, Japan, and Korea, 1858–1945

By James H. Hallas

Edited by Kimitaka Matsuzato

Imprint: Stackpole Books

Imprint: Lexington Books

October 2018 222 pp

July 2019 592 pp

9781498537049 I $95.00 I HB 9781498537063 I $39.99 I PB

9780811738439 I $34.95 I HB

Setting the Rising Sun

To Hell and Back

Halsey's Aviators Strike Japan, Summer 1945

The Last Train from Hiroshima

By Charles Pellegrino

By Kevin A. Mahoney Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives

Imprint: Stackpole Books

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers March 2019 368 pp

February 2019 448 pp

9780811738422 I $32.95 I HB

9781442250581 I $29.95 I HB 9781538121788 I $19.95 I PB

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History

THE UNITED STATES AND THE JAPANESE STUDENT MOVEMENT, 1948– 1973

The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948–1973 Managing a Free World

The Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm and the Creation of Japanese America

By Naoko Koda

By Daniel A. Métraux

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Lexington Books

August 2020 274 pp

April 2019 158 pp

9781498583411 I $105.00 I HB

9781498585385 I $85.00 I HB

WESTERN ROCK ARTISTS, MADAME BUTTERFLY, AND THE ALLURE OF JAPAN

Western Rock Artists, Madame Butterfly, and the Allure of Japan

When the Earth Roars Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan

Dancing in an Eastern Dream

By Gregory Smits

By Christopher T. Keaveney

Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives

Imprint: Lexington Books August 2020 284 pp

November 2017 226 pp

9781793625250 I $105.00 I HB

9781442220096 I $110.00 I HB 9780810895577 I $28.00 I PB

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The World at War, 1914– 1945

Zen Terror in Prewar Japan

By Jeremy Black

By Brian Daizen Victoria

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Series: Asian Voices

Portrait of an Assassin

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

April 2019 362 pp

February 2020 392 pp

9781538108345 I $98.00 I HB 9781538108352 I $39.00 I PB

9781538131664 I $34.00 I HB

History

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The Earth Writes

Ecocriticism in Japan

The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post-3/11 Japan

Edited by Hisaaki Wake, Keijiro Suga and Yuki Masami

By Koichi Haga Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Imprint: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books January 2019 148 pp

November 2017 308 pp

9781498569033 I $90.00 I HB

9781498527842 I $110.00 I HB

Exploring Multilingual Hawai'i

Literature among the Ruins, 1945–1955

Language Use and Language Ideologies in a Diverse Society

Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism

By Scott Saft

Edited by Atsuko Ueda, Michael K. Bourdaghs, Richi Sakakibara and Hirokazu Toeda

Imprint: Lexington Books March 2019 272 pp

May 2018 202 pp

Series: New Studies in Modern Japan

9781498561181 I $95.00 I HB

9780739180723 I $90.00 I HB

Imprint: Lexington Books

The Politics and Literature Debate in Postwar Japanese Criticism, 1945– 52 Edited by Atsuko Ueda, Michael K. Bourdaghs, Richi Sakakibara and Hirokazu Toeda May 2018 358 pp

Series: New Studies in Modern Japan

9780739180754 I $116.00 I HB 9780739180761 I $49.99 I PB

Imprint: Lexington Books

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Literature & Language

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Japan Fluxus

By Luciana Galliano

November 2018 176 pages Hardback 9781498578257 $90.00

This book reinterprets the Fluxus movement focusing on the important and charming contribution of Japanese musicians and artists. It argues they were at the roots of Fluxus in their radical and refined way of making art—whether it was playing, performing, writing, or simply living.

Luciana Galliano is musicologist and independent scholar in musical aesthetics.

Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Globalism Chapter 2 Experimentalism and iconoclasm Chapter 3 Unity of art and life Chapter 4 Ephemerality Chapter 5 Specificity Chapter 6 Musicality Chapter 7 Fluxus off - Conclusions Appendix Bibliography

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Contemporary Japanese Philosophy A Reader Edited by John W. M. Krummel

August 2019 296 pages Paperback 9781786600851 $44.95 Hardback 9781786600844 $135.00

Contemporary Japanese Philosophy is an anthology of post-war Japanese philosophy showcasing a range of philosophers and philosophical trends from 1945 to the present.

This important volume introduces the reader to a variety schools of thought. Ideal for classroom use, this is the ultimate resource for students and teachers of Japanese philosophy.

John W.M. Krummel is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is Assistant Editor of the Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Editor of Social Imaginaries and President of the International Association of Japanese Philosophy.

Table of Contents Introduction / Part I: Selected Texts / 1. 'To Be' and 'To Do' (1958), Maruyama Masao (1914-1996) / 2. Marginal Art (1960), Tsurumi Shunsuke (1922-2015) / 3.

Consciousness and Essence (1983), Izutsu Toshihiko (1914-1993) / 4. Toward an EastWest Dialogue (1991), Yuasa Yasuo (1925-2005) / 5. Horizon and Beyond Horizon (1992), Ueda Shizuteru (1926-) / 6. The Realism of 'Form qua Emptiness' (1993), �mori Sh�z� (1921-) / 7. Common Sense and Place (1979), Nakamura Y�jir� (1925-) / 8.

Time as the Between (1982), Kimura Bin (1931-) / 9. Forms of the Articulation of the World of Things (1982), Hiromatsu Wataru (1933-1994) / 10. Appearance and Copula (1973), Sakabe Megumi (1936-2009) / 11. The Will to Architecture (1979), Karatani K�jin (1941-) / Part II: Selected Essays / 12. The Contemporary Situation of Kyoto School Philosophy, Fujita Masakatsu / 13. Environmental Philosophy in Contemporary Japan, Kazashi Nobuo / 14. Feminist Philosophy/Philosophy of Gender in Contemporary Japan, Naka Mao / 15. Contemporary Japanese Philosophy: Trends and Prospects, Uehara Mayuko / Further Reading / Index

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Philosophy

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New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics Edited by A. Minh Nguyen

September 2019 520 pages

This collection begins with an engaging historical overview of Japanese aesthetics and offers contemporary multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Japan and the central themes in Japanese art and aesthetics.

Paperback 9781498572118 $49.99

A. Minh Nguyen is professor of philosophy and Asian studies at Eastern Kentucky University.

Hardback 9780739180815 $140.00

Philosophy

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Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics

By Steve Odin

September 2018 352 pages Paperback 9781498514798 $49.99 Hardback 9781498514774 $122.00

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Philosophy

This book examines Whitehead’s process aesthetics focusing the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while establishing parallels with the Japanese sense of evanescent beauty. It clarifies how both traditions develop a religioaesthetic vision of tragic beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace.

Steve Odin teaches Japanese and East-West comparative philosophy at the University of Hawaii, where he has taught for more than thirty years.

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Japan as an Immigration Nation Demographic Change, Economic Necessity, and the Human Community Concept

By Hidenori Sakanaka

February 2020 286 pages Hardback 9781793614933 $115.00

In this treatise by veteran Japanese immigration specialist, Hidenori Sakanaka—the former director of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau—proposes sweeping changes to Japan’s immigration policy to address the interrelated problems of a rapidly declining population and a decrease in working-age adults.

Hidenori Sakanaka established the Japan Immigration Policy Institute and is the author of almost two dozen books about immigration policy in Japan.

Robert D. Eldridge is former associate professor of Japanese political and diplomatic history at Osaka University.

Graham B. Leonard earned a PhD in international public policy from Osaka University.

Political Science

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Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations Edited by Felix Rรถsch and Atsuko Watanabe

September 2018 270 pages

First book-length investigation of modern Japanese political thought and IR with a focus on non-western and indigenous Asian practices of IR.

Paperback 9781786603685 $41.95

Felix Rosch is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Coventry University.

Atsuko Watanabe is Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo.

Hardback 9781786603678 $125.00

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Political Science

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Rethinking Japan The Politics of Contested Nationalism

By Arthur Stockwin and Kweku Ampiah

April 2019 312 pages Paperback 9781498537940 $42.99 Hardback 9781498537926 $116.00

This study provides a broad examination of the current Shinzďż˝ Abe government in Japan.

It analyzes various controversial domestic and foreign policies and argues that its election in 2012 inaugurated a new political phase characterized by opposition weakness and ruling-party unity around a nationalist agenda.

Arthur Stockwin is retired professor of modern Japanese studies at the University of Oxford.

Kweku Ampiah is associate professor of Japanese studies at the University of Leeds.

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Peace, Democracy and Economic Growth: Political Economy under the Postwar Dispensation Chapter 2: The System Begins to Change: From the 1990s to 2009 Chapter 3: The Opposition in Power: September 2009 to December 2012 Chapter 4: Abe Takes Charge: From December 2012 Chapter 5: Abenomics Chapter 6: Revising and Reinterpreting the 1947 Constitution Chapter 7: The Designated Secrets Law and Freedom of Speech Chapter 8: Historical Revisionism, National Identity, and War Apology Chapter 9: Legislating for Collective Defense by Fiat: The Realist View of Japan as a Normal Country Chapter 10: Japan and Its Neighbors: China, Russia and the Two Koreas Chapter 11: Japan and the Wider World: Public Diplomacy, Economic Relations and Overseas Development Aid Chapter 12: Japan: Reactionary State?

Political Science

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The United States and Asia Regional Dynamics and TwentyFirst-Century Relations

By Robert G. Sutter

October 2019 362 pages Hardback 9781538126448 $99.00

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Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this cogent book overviews the historical context and enduring patterns of US relations with Asia. Sutter provides a balanced analysis of post–Cold War dynamics in Asia and the growing US-China rivalry that now dominates regional dynamics in the Asia-Pacific and US policy in the region going forward.

Robert G. Sutter is professor of practice in international affairs at the Elliott School of George Washington University.

Political Science

Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Article II Mandate Forging a Stronger Economic Alliance between the United States and Japan

Edited by Luisa Marcela Ossa and Debbie Lee-DiStefano

November 2018 256 pp

Series: Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving Imprint: Lexington Books

9781498587082 I $95.00 I HB

By Matthew P. Goodman and Yoichi Funabashi Series: CSIS Reports December 2018 104 pp 9781442280953 I $45.00 I PB

Between Democracy and Technocracy Regulating Administrative Guidance in Japan

Imprint: Center for Strategic & International Studies

Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought ERIC VOEGELIN’S ASIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

By Franklin Barr Lebo

By Lee Trepanier Series: Political Theory for Today

Imprint: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books May 2018 176 pp

August 2020 254 pp

9781498562218 I $90.00 I HB

9781498598613 I $100.00 I HB

South Korea's Changing Foreign Policy

Speculative Bubbles and Monetary Policy

The Impact of Democratization and Globalization

A Theory Based on Japanese Experience

By Masayuki Otaki

By Wonjae Hwang Imprint: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books November 2018 142 pp

December 2018 140 pp

9781498531849 I $89.00 I HB 9781498531863 I $36.99 I PB

9781498549141 I $90.00 I HB

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Hidden Christians in Japan Breaking the Silence

By Kirk Sandvig

November 2019 204 pages Hardback 9781498591676 $90.00

This book examines the contemporary issues facing hidden Christian communities in Japan, looking at how these issues have resulted in the discontinuation of hidden Christian practices, and how these communities are adapting to their changing communities.

Kirk Sandvig is adjunct professor at Chapman University and Saddleback College Table of Contents Chapter 1: Coming to Terms with Hidden Christianity in Japan Chapter 2: The Introduction and Prohibition of Christianity in Japan Chapter 3: Christian Persecution Chapter 4: Maintaining Hidden Practices Chapter 5: Ancestors and Artifacts Chapter 6: Putting Hidden Christianity on Display Chapter 7: Financial and Familial Shifts Chapter 8: Modernity and Movement Chapter 9: Religions in Transition - A Negotiation of Identity

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Religion

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Pornography, Ideology, and the Internet A Japanese Adult Video Actress in Mainland China

By Zhang Mei

October 2018 242 pages Hardback 9781498560887 $95.00

This book investigates how a Japanese pornographic star can be treated as a cultural product and can be a window into the effects of the cross-cultural migration of cultural products. This in turn reveals that the transformative intermediaries play a significant role in the transformation of cultural products in China.

Zhang Mei is assistant professor at the Institute of Japanese Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Table of Contents Introduction 1. Sola in Japan: An “Ordinary” Girl and “Unordinary” Idol 2. Sola as a Weapon of Resistance for Chinese Internet Users 3. Two Chinese Agencies Repositioning Sola 4. A Case of Promotion: Negotiation between Commercial News Portals and the Two Agencies 5. Sola’s Image Transformation: Becoming a Site of Contestation 6. Sola’s Image Transformation and Chinese Youth’s Identity 7. Sola Going Back to Japan as “the Most Famous Japanese in China” Conclusion

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Single Mothers in Contemporary Japan Motherhood, Class, and Reproductive Practice

By Aya Ezawa

April 2019 156 pages

Based on life history interviews of single mothers in Japan, this detailed study examines the socioeconomic consequences of becoming a single mother and pursuing a lifestyle outside of the married mother and housewife norm in contemporary Japan.

Paperback 9781498529983 $36.99

Aya Ezawa is lecturer at Leiden University.

Hardback 9781498529969 $95.00

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Social Science

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Single Mothers and the Postwar Japanese Family Chapter 2: Educational Pioneers Chapter 3: The Bubble Generation Chapter 4: Becoming a Single Mother Chapter 5: Motherhood and Class

The City as Power Urban Space, Place, and National Identity

Dialectics of the Goddess in Japanese Audiovisual Culture

Edited by Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen

Edited by Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Imprint: Lexington Books

November 2018 328 pp

December 2017 184 pp

9781538118252 I $90.00 I HB 9781538118269 I $40.00 I PB

9781498570145 I $90.00 I HB

AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE LIVES OF JAPANESE AND JAPANESE BRAZILIAN MIGRANTS

An Ethnography of the Lives of Japanese and Japanese Brazilian Migrants

Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture

Childhood, Family, and Work

By Ethel V. Kosminsky

Edited by Irina Holca and Carmen S�punaru T�maş

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Lexington Books July 2020 390 pp

June 2020 316 pp

9781498522595 I $120.00 I HB

9781793623874 I $115.00 I HB

Organ Donation in Japan

Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production

A Medical Anthropological Study

Two Haiku and a Microphone

By Maria-Keiko Yasuoka

Edited by William H., IV Bridges and Nina Cornyetz

Imprint: Lexington Books

Series: New Studies in Modern Japan October 2019 242 pp

April 2019 302 pp

9781498515665 I $98.00 I HB 9781498515689 I $39.99 I PB

9781498505475 I $109.00 I HB 9781498505499 I $42.99 I PB

Imprint: Lexington Books

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