ABSTRACT
While scholarly works on this topic have to date mainly concentrated on Japan's influences in economic and political terms, this volume examines Japanese influences in Asia from a broader perspective. The text takes into account human factors, such as the presence of Japanese people as workers, managers and visitors in Asian societies and the flow of Japanese goods in terms on their impact on popular culture. In addition, the book examines the feelings within other Asian nations such as India and Malaysia to the Japanese presence, looking at Japanese the people’s aspirations, expectations and at times disappointments.
Written by Asian and Western scholars from variety of academic perspectives, the essays in this volume analyze the topic at both macro- and micro-levels. They examine the variegated and highly differing influences and presences of Japan as seen from a number of view points, from street perspectives and the world of popular culture, to global political issues, to questions of regional investment and the cultural and economic aspirations of Chinese students in Japan.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|75 pages
Anthropological Perspectives
chapter 2|27 pages
Globalization, 'Folk Models' of the World Order and National Identity:
chapter 3|20 pages
Japanese Manufacturing in Thailand
part 2|34 pages
Economics and Investment
chapter 5|15 pages
Shifting Patterns in Japan's Economic Co-operation in East Asia
part 3|51 pages
Japanese Political Aspirations
chapter 6|23 pages
Post-Cold War Changes in Japanese International Identity
part 4|64 pages
Asian Aspirations and Attitudes