10 February 2005
Today, the importance of hanging scrolls in Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines as well as in the tea ceremony remains strong, as does their place in the Japanese home, with scrolls selected according to the season; demonstrating how traditional culture is preserved and incorporated into everyday life in Japanese society
詳細26 September 2006
In May 2001, under the aegis of the British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS), a special collaborative research programme was initiated to enhance intellectual exchanges, fill gaps in the existing literature, and develop new academic networks between scholars in the United Kingdom and Japan. Professor Glenn Hook, Professor Mark Williams, and Dr Naoko Shimazu, took
詳細7 May 2008
The fourth edition of ‘Governing Japan’ is much revised and expanded to take into account developments in the new millennium. It argues against the view that Japanese politics is guided by consensus, revealing instead fundamental differences of opinion over many issues of substance.
詳細12 March 2008
This series of three volumes focuses on comparative politics and international relations in Asia and Europe from a citizen-based perspective. The speakers drew on themes and comparisons from these studies to highlight differences in attitudes and relationships in contemporary political life in Asia and Europe.
詳細21 July 2011
English-language newspapers such as the Japan Advertiser, North-China Daily News, Japan Chronicle, China Press, Japan Times, and Seoul Press occupied a vital segment of the public sphere in East Asia in the first half of the 20th century. As forums of opinion on Japanese, Chinese and Western interests in East Asia they also served as vehicles of propaganda, particularly during the crisis-ridden 1930s and the Pacific War.
詳細5 December 2006
Since the bursting of the ‘Bubble Economy’, and the decade and a half of stagnation which followed, work and employment in Japan have been said on many occasions to have undergone some profound changes. This has been matched with a renewed interest among scholars in the structures, processes and cultures of work in Japan.
詳細7 November 2006
Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–89) was a highly individualistic painter of the late Edo and early Meiji eras in Japan, his career spanning from the end of the feudal system to the beginnings of rapid modernisation. His first name meant ‘crazy studio’ and in the 1860s he developed a new genre of ‘crazy pictures’ (kyōga).
詳細2 November 2006
Offering a Japanese perspective for the first time, the book tracks the role of the Japanese navy as a silent partner and active participant in the war at sea against Britain and her allies prior to Japan’s entry into the Second World War at Pearl Harbor.
詳細5 July 2006
When Simon May took up a year-long post as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo, he was the first Briton to do so since 1882.
詳細11 May 2006
Based on over 800 letters written by a British army officer, Arthur Hart-Synnot, to Masa Suzuki in Tokyo in the early years of the twentieth century, this book not only tells the moving story of its protagonists but sets this against the rapid changes that were taking place in British and Japanese society, and the conflicts of the time.
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