Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan

✍ Scribed by Hiroko Takeda (editor), Mark Williams (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 533
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan presents a synthesized, interdisciplinary study of contemporary Japan based on up-to-date theoretical models designed to provide readers with a comprehensive and full understanding of the dynamics of contemporary Japan. In order to achieve this, the Handbook is organized into two parts. Part I, ‘Foundations’, clarifies the state of contemporary Japan topic by topic by referring to the latest theoretical developments in the relevant disciplinary fields of politics, international relations, economy, society, culture and the personal. Part II, ‘Issues’, then offers a series of concrete analyses building upon the theoretical discussions introduced in Part I to help undergraduate and postgraduate students learn how to conduct independent analysis.

Locating Japan in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, this Handbook is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in Japanese studies, Asian studies and global studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
List of figures
List of tables
Introduction: the contemporariness of contemporary Japan
Part I Foundations
1 History: war memory and Japan’s ‘postwar’
2 Politics: after the demise of ‘the 1955 system’
3 The law in Japan
4 The Japanese economy
5 Work and employment: inside, outside and beyond the lifetime employment model
6 Civil society in Japan
7 Structures and dynamics of Japan’s urban-rural relationship
8 Japan’s new immigration: gap in admission policy and diversity in socio-economic integration
9 The discursive politics of gender in Japan
10 Family and demographic issues in Japan
11 Popular imagination in Japan
12 Japan’s international relations
Part II Issues
13 Democracy in Japan
14 Japan’s territorial problems: continuing legacies of the San Francisco System
15 The politics of nationalism and identity in contemporary Japan
16 Employment regulation and practices: the production and consumption of non-regular work
17 Energy issues in Japan
18 Japan and the environment: industrial pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change
19 Japan’s post-catch-up modernity: educational transformation and its unintended consequences
20 University reform in Japan
21 Studying Japan’s generations
22 Gender equality in Japan
23 Femininity and masculinity
24 LGBT
25 Consumerism
26 Food
27 Tourism
28 Young urban migrants in the Japanese countryside between self-realization and slow life?: the quest for ‘small-scale happiness’ and alternative lifestyles in post-growth Japan
29 The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games: the political economy of Tokyo hosting the world
30 Social malaise in Japan
31 Media in Japan
32 Mobile reflections: rethinking digitality in a post-3/11 Japan
33 Okinawa: rooting and routing of Uchinānchu and Shimā
34 The Great East Japan Earthquake and post-disaster Japan
Index