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New Frontiers in Japanese Studies
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ABSTRACT
Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from ‘demystifying the Japanese’, to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond.
Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Studies away from the West to the Asia-Pacific region, this book identifies topic areas in which research focusing on Japan will play an important role in global debates in the coming years. This includes the evolution of area studies, coping with aging populations, the various patterns of migration and environmental breakdown. With chapters from an international team of contributors, including significant representation from the Asia-Pacific region, this book enacts Yoshio Sugimoto’s notion of ‘cosmopolitan methodology’ to discuss Japan in an interdisciplinary and transnational context and provides overviews of how Japanese Studies is evolving in other Asian countries such as China and Indonesia.
New Frontiers in Japanese Studies is a thought-provoking volume and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese and Asian Studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |18 pages
Introduction
part I|70 pages
Rethinking Japanese area studies in the twenty-first century
chapter 1|12 pages
Rethinking the Maria Luz Incident
chapter 3|14 pages
Japanese language education and Japanese Studies as intercultural learning
part II|40 pages
Coping with an ageing society
chapter 6|13 pages
Discover tomorrow
chapter 7|12 pages
Foreign care workers in ageing Japan
chapter 8|13 pages
Immigrants caring for other immigrants
part III|78 pages
Migration and mobility
chapter 9|14 pages
Invisible migrants from Sakhalin in the 1960s
chapter 10|13 pages
Japanese women in Korea in the postwar
chapter 11|12 pages
Challenging the ‘global’ in the global periphery
chapter 12|12 pages
Dream vs reality
chapter 13|12 pages
Sending them over the seas
chapter 14|13 pages
‘Life could not be better since I left Japan!’
part IV|26 pages
The environment