The most comprehensive study on Japanese representation in American music to date
Explores Japanese exoticism and representation in virtually every musical genre over the past 150 years
Archiva ... 続きを読む
Provides an in-depth historical, sociological, and ethnographic analysis of Japanese higher education from the standpoint of the private sector which, despite being numerically dominant in Japan, i ... 続きを読む
First full-length scholarly work on Goze in English
Unique intersection of social history, ethnomusicology, and disability studies
Offers a historical perspective on visual disability and Japan ... 続きを読む
The international story behind the development of the atom bomb
Goes beyond the controversy over the rights and wrongs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to show how the bomb was 'the world's bomb' - in b ... 続きを読む
The first volume to take a broad overview of religious and cultural exchange in early-modern Japan
Offers insights into the histories of Christianity, Buddhism, Shinto, and particularly Neo-Confu ... 続きを読む
Inventing the Way of the Samurai examines the development of the 'way of the samurai' - bushido - which is popularly viewed as a defining element of the Japanese national character and even the 'soul ... 続きを読む
The only book-length academic study of bushido, an important subject for anyone with an interest in Japan
Provides an overview of modern Japanese history through the lens of a single concep ... 続きを読む
Includes multiple voices and perspectives: women, peasants, novelists and short-story writers, dissenters, officials, business leaders, samurai
Each chapter contains 20 to 30 quotations from primar ... 続きを読む
The first anthology on the subject of Japanese environmental philosophy
Breaks new ground in the fields of Asian and comparative philosophy, environmental ethics, environmental aesthetics, religi ... 続きを読む