Nanyo-orientalism
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Publisher: Cambria Press
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Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1621968685
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Japan and the Pacific Rim
Author: Dean Walter Collinwood
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780070249486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition includes country reports, statistics, and background essays on the Pacific Rim, the Pacific Islands, and Japan. It also features articles from newspapers and magazines from around the world, and an annotated list of World Wide Web sites, guiding students to additional resources.
Japan and the Pacific Rim
Author: Dean Walter Collinwood
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780072432961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes country reports, statistics, and background essays on the Pacific Rim, the Pacific Islands, and Japan. This book features a wide selection of articles from newspapers and magazines from around the world, and an annotated list of World Wide Web sites that guides students to additional resources.
Japan's Modern Divide
Author: Hiroshi Hamaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1606061321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1930s the history of Japanese photography evolved in two very different directions: one toward documentary photography, the other favoring an experimental, or avant-garde, approach strongly influenced by Western Surrealism. This book explores these two strains of modern Japanese photography through the work of two remarkable figures: Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto. Hiroshi Hamaya (1915-1999) was born and raised in Tokyo and, after an initial period of creative experimentation, turned his attention to recording traditional life and culture on the coast of the Sea of Japan. In 1940 he began photographing the New Year's rituals in a remote village, which was published as Yukiguni (Snow country). He went on to record cultural changes in China, political protests in Japan, and landscapes around the world. Kansuke Yamamoto (1914-1987) became fascinated by the innovative approaches in art and literature exemplified by such Western artists as Man Ray, Ren Magritte, and Yves Tanguy. He promoted Surrealist and avant-garde ideas in Japan through his poetry, paintings, sculptures, and photographs. Along with essays by the book's coeditors, Judith Keller and Amanda Maddox, are essays by Kotaro Iizawa, Ryuichi Kaneko, and Jonathan M. Reynolds, life chronologies, and a selection of poems by Yamamoto translated by John Solt. This book, which features more than one hundred images, accompanies an exhibition of the same name on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 26 to August 25, 2013.
Global Studies: Japan and the Pacific Rim
Author: Dean Collinwood
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Published: 2007-04-16
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13:
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Japan
Author: Patrick Smith
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1998-05-25
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780006386162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“…a new, startlingly clear-sighted vision of the often misunderstood Japanese.” ' Publishers Weekly (starred review) “…An astute, accessible, and absorbingly original appreciation of a nation whose true colors have been exaggerated or misrepresented…”' Kirkus Reviews (featured review) “…an excellent primer on post-cold war Japan.”' Time “…Smith has a discerning eye for the conflicted nature of ordinary Japanese.”' Business Week Patrick Smith has produced a landmark book – timely, authoritative and completely engrossing – that shows how Japan is engaged in a fundamental and far-reaching redefinition of itself. At the same time, Smith says, Westerners must also take a hard look at long-held myths and assumptions about Japan's historical, political, social and psychological development. In the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Japan: A Reinterpretation is destined to become a classic work on a powerful, yet still enigmatic country and its people.
Rethinking Japanese Studies
Author: Kaori Okano
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-08-04
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1351654969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapanese Studies has provided a fertile space for non-Eurocentric analysis for a number of reasons. It has been embroiled in the long-running internal debate over the so-called Nihonjinron, revolving around the extent to which the effective interpretation of Japanese society and culture requires non-Western, Japan-specific emic concepts and theories. This book takes this question further and explores how we can understand Japanese society and culture by combining Euro-American concepts and theories with those that originate in Japan. Because Japan is the only liberal democracy to have achieved a high level of capitalism outside the Western cultural framework, Japanese Studies has long provided a forum for deliberations about the extent to which the Western conception of modernity is universally applicable. Furthermore, because of Japan’s military, economic and cultural dominance in Asia at different points in the last century, Japanese Studies has had to deal with the issues of Japanocentrism as well as Eurocentrism, a duality requiring complex and nuanced analysis. This book identifies variations amongst Japanese Studies academic communities in the Asia-Pacific and examines the extent to which relatively autonomous scholarship, intellectual approach or theories exist in the region. It also evaluates how studies on Japan in the region contribute to global Japanese Studies and explores their potential for formulating concrete strategies to unsettle Eurocentric dominance of the discipline.
Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War
Author: W. Puck Brecher
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2019-10-31
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0824881370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess conventional understanding of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in theme and method, are united in their goal to recover a measured historicity about the conflict by either introducing new areas of knowledge or reinterpreting existing ones. Collectively, they cast doubt on the war as familiar and recognizable, compelling readers to view it with fresh eyes. Following an introduction that problematizes timeworn narratives about a “unified Japan” and its “illegal war” or “race war,” early chapters on the destruction of Japan’s diplomatic records and government interest in an egalitarian health care policy before, during, and after the war oblige us to question selective histories and moral judgments about wartime Japan. The discussion then turns to artistic/cultural production and self-determination, specifically to Osaka rakugo performers who used comedy to contend with state oppression and to the role of women in creating care packages for soldiers abroad. Other chapters cast doubt on well-trod stereotypes (Japan’s lack of pragmatism in its diplomatic relations with neutral nations and its irrational and fatalistic military leadership) and examine resistance to the war by a prominent Japanese Christian intellectual. The volume concludes with two nuanced responses to race in wartime Japan, one maintaining the importance of racial categories while recognizing the “performance of Japaneseness,” the other observing that communities often reflected official government policies through nationality rather than race. Contrasting findings like these underscore the need to ask new questions and fill old gaps in our understanding of a historical event that, after more than seventy years, remains as provocative and divisive as ever. Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War will find a ready audience among World War II historians as well as specialists in war and society, social history, and the growing fields of material culture and civic history.
Poisoning the Pacific
Author: Jon Mitchell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1538130343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this devastating exposé, investigative journalist Jon Mitchell reveals the shocking toxic contamination of the Pacific Ocean and millions of victims by the US military. For decades, US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and VX nerve agent. Hundreds of thousands of service members, their families, and residents have been exposed—but the United States has hidden the damage and refused to help victims. After World War II, the United States granted immunity to Japanese military scientists in exchange for their data on biological weapons tests conducted in China; in the following years, nuclear detonations in the Pacific obliterated entire islands and exposed Americans, Marshallese, Chamorros, and Japanese fishing crews to radioactive fallout. At the same time, the United States experimented with biological weapons on Okinawa and stockpiled the island with nuclear and chemical munitions, causing numerous accidents. Meanwhile, the CIA orchestrated a campaign to introduce nuclear power to Japan—the folly of which became horrifyingly clear in the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima Prefecture. Caught in a geopolitical grey zone, US territories have been among the worst affected by military contamination, including Guam, Saipan, and Johnston Island, the final disposal site of apocalyptic volumes of chemical weapons and Agent Orange. Accompanying this damage, US authorities have waged a campaign of cover-ups, lies, and attacks on the media, which the author has experienced firsthand in the form of military surveillance and attempts by the State Department to impede his work. Now, for the first time, this explosive book reveals the horrific extent of contamination in the Pacific and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.
Japan's Aid Diplomacy and the Pacific Islands
Author: Sandra Tarte
Publisher: Asia Pacific Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFactors that have motivated and shaped Japan's official development assistance towards the pacific islands are explored. Also examined is how Japan has responded to these criticisms and challenges, the impact of competing interests and objectives on Japan's aid policies.
