The Self-made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought
Author: Earl H. Kinmonth
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13:
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Modern Japanese Thought
Author: Bob T. Wakabayashi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-03-28
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780521588102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive intellectual history describing the forces that made Japanese thinkers both receptive and hostile to Western ideas and values.
Patterns of Time
Author: Donald Kirihara
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780299132446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonald Kirihara examines in extraordinary detail the brilliant early works of one of the world's great film directors, offering an in-depth analysis of his career. Kirihara's exploration of Mizoguchi within his national and cultural context marks a new step forward in the integration of film theory, historical research, and auteur criticism.
A World of Crisis and Progress
Author: Jon Thares Davidann
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780934223430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican YMCA missionaries reacted with their own sense of nationalism, recognizing that failure to enact the American Protestant vision of Christianity in Japan would represent a setback for their role as God's "chosen people.".
Seeing Stars
Author: Dennis J. Frost
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1684175046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In Seeing Stars, Dennis J. Frost traces the emergence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. Frost explores how various constituencies have repeatedly molded and deployed representations of individual athletes, revealing that sports stars are socially constructed phenomena, the products of both particular historical moments and broader discourses of celebrity. Drawing from media coverage, biographies, literary works, athletes’ memoirs, bureaucratic memoranda, interviews, and films, Frost argues that the largely unquestioned mass of information about sports stars not only reflects, but also shapes society and body culture. He examines the lives and times of star athletes—including sumo grand champion Hitachiyama, female Olympic medalist Hitomi Kinue, legendary pitcher Sawamura Eiji, and world champion boxer Gushiken Yokoō—demonstrating how representations of such sports stars mediated Japan’s emergence into the putatively universal realm of sports, unsettled orthodox notions of gender, facilitated wartime mobilization of physically fit men and women, and masked lingering inequalities in postwar Japanese society. As the first critical examination of the history of sports celebrity outside a Euro-American context, this book also sheds new light on the transnational forces at play in the production and impact of celebrity images and dispels misconceptions that sports stars in the non-West are mere imitations of their Western counterparts."
A Medicated Empire
Author: Timothy M. Yang
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2021-06-15
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1501756265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceutical industry in the early twentieth century through a close account of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, one of East Asia's most influential drug companies from the late 1910s through the early 1950s. Focusing on Hoshi's connections to Japan's emerging nation-state and empire, and on the ways in which it embraced an ideology of modern medicine as a humanitarian endeavor for greater social good, Yang shows how the industry promoted a hygienic, middle-class culture that was part of Japan's national development and imperial expansion. Yang makes clear that the company's fortunes had less to do with scientific breakthroughs and medical innovations than with Japan's web of social, political, and economic relations. He lays bare Hoshi's business strategies and its connections with politicians and bureaucrats, and he describes how public health authorities dismissed many of its products as placebos at best and poisons at worst. Hoshi, like other pharmaceutical companies of the time, depended on resources and markets opened up, often violently, through colonization. Combining global histories of business, medicine, and imperialism, A Medicated Empire shows how the development of the pharmaceutical industry simultaneously supported and subverted regimes of public health at home and abroad.
Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880-1930
Author: Satoru Saito
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1684175216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, Satoru Saito sheds light on the deep structural and conceptual similarities between detective fiction and the novel in prewar Japan. Arguing that the interactions between the two genres were not marginal occurrences but instead critical moments of literary engagement, Saito demonstrates how detective fiction provided Japanese authors with the necessary frameworks through which to examine and critique the nature and implications of Japan’s literary formations and its modernizing society. Through a series of close readings of literary texts by canonical writers of Japanese literature and detective fiction, including Tsubouchi Shoyo, Natsume Soseki, Shimazaki Toson, Sato Haruo, Kuroiwa Ruiko, and Edogawa Ranpo, Saito explores how the detective story functioned to mediate the tenuous relationships between literature and society as well as between subject and authority that made literary texts significant as political acts. By foregrounding the often implicit and contradictory strategies of literary texts—choice of narrative forms, symbolic mappings, and intertextual evocations among others—this study examines in detail the intricate interactions between detective fiction and the novel that shaped the development of modern Japanese literature.
Japan's Love-Hate Relationship with the West
Author: Sukehiro Hirakawa
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-22
Total Pages: 569
ISBN-13: 9004213821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroductory chapters cover Japan’s historic love-hate relationship with China, then an in-depth analysis of three themes: Japan’s turn to the West; Japan’s return to the East; from war to peace. The book explains why Japanese modern writers oscillate between East and West.
State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan
Author: Andrew E. Barshay
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0520337778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
Modern Japan
Author: Elise K. Tipton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-03-19
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1134113234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thoroughly updated second edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, the book charts the country's evolution into a modernized, economic and political world power. Dealing with a broad and stimulating range of topics in an engaging style that will appeal to university students and the general reader, this book weaves social and political developments and balances a micro with a macro approach, introducing details about everyday lives that shed light on the bigger picture of major historical changes. Its systematic attention to gender issues, minorities and popular culture distinguishes this history and contributes to a sense of the complexity and diversity of modern Japanese society. Completely up-to-date and including many new images and a timeline that charts important events, this highly accessible and comprehensive textbook is an essential resource for students, scholars and teachers of Japanese history, politics culture and society.
