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7 February 2007

Housing and Social Transition in Japan

In the post-war period Japan has experienced radical social and economic transformations, asserting itself as the world’s second largest economy by 1968. Housing and construction have been at the heart of this revitalization, a key socio-economic policy, and a stabilizing factor during rapid modernization. ‘Housing and Social Transition’ in Japan explores the nature of the Japanese housing system, focusing on how it has been embedded in wider structures of social and economic change.

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4 December 2008

Book launch

A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day

‘A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors’, published by Stone Bridge Press, was launched at the Foundation with a presentation by Alexander Jacoby, chaired by David Robinson.

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20 November 2008

Book launch

Why Japan Can't Reform: Inside the System

At the start of the 1990s, Japan’s post war economic success came to an abrupt end and the country slid into a decade-long recession from which it has, on many levels, still not recovered.

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15 September 2008

Book launch

Asia's New Mothers: Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies

‘Asia’s New Mothers’ offers a comparative regional analysis of changing gender roles in East and Southeast Asia. Focusing on childcare, the authors employ in-depth researches of people’s everyday experiences in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore.

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17 July 2008

Book launch

The Diary of Charles Holme’s 1889 visit to Japan and North America with Mrs Lasenby Liberty’s Photographic Record

A key figure in Europe’s art world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and founder of the ‘The Studio’ magazine, Charles Holme was a significant disseminator of Japanese art and art goods in the West, notably through his business association with the designer Dr Christopher Dresser.

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9 July 2008

Book launch

RIVALS - How the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next decade

On Wednesday 9 July 2008, the Foundation launched the publication of Bill Emmott’s most recent book, ‘Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape our Next Decade’.

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10 June 2008

Book launch

Foreign Direct Investment in Japan - Multinationals' Role in Growth and Globalization

‘Foreign Direct Investment in Japan’ presents a detailed examination of recent trends of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and their impact on the Japanese economy. Historically much less open to foreign trade and investment than other major economies, Japan experienced an unprecedented jump in FDI inflows around the turn of the millennium.

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24 April 2008

Book launch

The Japanese Housewife Overseas: Adapting to Change of Culture and Status

Based on research over a six-year period into three age groups of women, this important new study offers an in-depth analysis for the first time of the experiences of expatriate Japanese wives living temporarily in the United Kingdom.

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4 March 2008

Book launch

Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan: sources, sentiment and society

Japan’s traditional folk songs (min’yō) have strong links with local identity and particular places. The growth of domestic tourism actually strengthened this trend: even the professionally-composed ‘new min’yō’ of the 1930s, commissioned by railway companies and the like, usually included local place names in their titles.

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7 February 2008

Book launch

Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty

One of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) in late-eighteenth-century Japan, Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?–1806) was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women.

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