Rethinking Japan Vol 2 | Social Sciences, Ideology and Thought | Adria

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Rethinking Japan Vol 2

ABSTRACT

These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part I|233 pages

Social Sciences

chapter 1|19 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|4 pages

Some Problems concerning Hasekura Tsunenaga’s Embassy to the Pope

chapter 2|7 pages

Japan and South-East Asia in Modern Japan

chapter 3|10 pages

Japan, Italy, Germany and the Anti-Comintern Pact

chapter 4|5 pages

Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Meiji Constitution, 1889

chapter 5|9 pages

A Cartel Model of Japanese Politics

chapter 6|4 pages

Religion and Politics of Contemporary Japan

chapter 7|10 pages

Japan as Occupying Power: The Revision of History

chapter 8|9 pages

Kita Ikki and Japanese Fascism

chapter 9|11 pages

Relations between the Japanese Government and the Pharmaceutical Industry – the historical background

chapter 10|7 pages

New Social Historical Research Methods into the History of Modern Education in Japan

chapter 11|9 pages

The Computer, Interpersonal Communication and Education in Japan

chapter 12|5 pages

The Survival of the Abacus in Modern Japan

chapter 13|6 pages

The Armour of Honorific Speech: some Lateral Thinking about Keigo

chapter 14|7 pages

Anthropology and Japanese Studies 1

chapter 15|8 pages

Empirical Status of Nihonjinron: How Real is the Myth?

chapter 16|12 pages

Changing Images: Japan and the Ainu as Perceived by Europe

chapter 17|18 pages

Rethinking the Purposes of Japanese Peasant Studies

chapter 18|10 pages

Rethinking Western Notions of Japanese Women: Some Aspects of Female Japanese Reality versus Sterotypes about Japanese Women

chapter 19|3 pages

Sociological Reflections on the Social Structure: Aspects of an Aging Society

chapter 20|9 pages

The Aging of Japanese Society – Consequences and Reactions

chapter 21|6 pages

Consumption and Consumerism in Japan

chapter 22|5 pages

Being in the Group: Spatio-temporal ‘Place’ in Japanese Social Organization

chapter 23|18 pages

New Japanese Mythologies: Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Housewife in Japan

chapter 24|6 pages

The Concept of Yume (Dreams) in Japanese Daily Life

chapter 25|8 pages

Old and New Sources of Japanese Progress

chapter 26|5 pages

Studying Material Culture as a Means to Understanding Japan

part II|158 pages

Ideology … Thought

chapter 27|5 pages

Rethinking the Study of Religion in Japan

chapter 28|8 pages

Popular Beliefs in Contemporary Japan

chapter 29|11 pages

In Search of a New Interpretation of Ascetic Experiences

chapter 30|10 pages

Is There a Religion Called Shinto?

chapter 31|12 pages

Upper-class Heian Society and Japanese Folk Religion

chapter 32|14 pages

The Meaning of Ideology in Modern Japan

chapter 33|7 pages

‘Restoration’, ‘Emperor’, ‘Diet’, ‘Prefecture’ or: How Japanese Concepts were Mistranslated into Western Languages

chapter 34|8 pages

Rethinking Tokugawa Thought

chapter 35|6 pages

Ideology and Cultural Arguments of Japan’s Distinctiveness: The Case of Japan’s Work Ethic

chapter 36|6 pages

The Vicissitudes of Bushidō

chapter 37|7 pages

Some Aspects of Inari, the God of Fushimi Inari in Kyoto

chapter 38|7 pages

The Religious Background of the Deification of Tokugawa leyasu

chapter 39|12 pages

Anthropological Aspects of the Japanese Meal: Tradition, Internationalization, and Aesthetics 1

chapter 40|43 pages

How Japanese is Japan in the 1980s?