Johann Arnason, The Peripheral Centre: Essays on Japanese History and Civilization (Hardcover)

Yasunori Fukuoka, Lives of Young Koreans in Japan (Paperback)
In this highly important study, leading sociologist, Yasunori Fukuoka examines the life experiences and identity formation of young third-generation Korean migrants in Japan, using the results of one hundred and fifty in-depth interviews. His study shows that these young people are distinctively different from mainland Koreans and from majority Japanese alike.

LIVES OF YOUNG KOREANS IN JAPAN depicts their struggles to avoid and resist Japanese racism, the deep wounds and inner conflicts that result from those struggles, and the complex ethnic identity that emerges in the process.

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Yasunori Fukuoka, Lives of Young Koreans in Japan (Hardcover)

Shigeru Nakayama (ed.), A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan, Volume 1
This title is the first volume of a comprehensive, four-volume survey documenting the miraculous growth of Japanese science and technology from postwar devastation to attaining leading global status. Volume 1 deals with the Occupation period from 1945 to 1952. The team of more than fifty Japanese experts labored for ten years in assembling the unique materials into a monumental work of careful scholarship. The study won the prestigious Mainichi Publications Award in 1995. (Hardcover)

Shigeru Nakayama (ed.), A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan, volume 2

This is the second volume of a comprehensive study that documents the miraculous growth of Japanese science and technology from postwar devastation to its rise as a global leader. The volume deals with the period from 1952 to 1959 and is subtitled as 'Road to Self-reliance.'

J. S. Eades, Tom Gill and Harumi Befu (eds), Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan
This paperback collection is a bold attempt to come to terms with globalization and social change in contemporary Japan. Some studies look at macro phenomena such as patterns of international migration (Befu), business internationalization (Sedgwick), educational reform (McVeigh) and trends in values (Mohwald). Others examine ground-level change as experienced by particular social groupings: women in the workplace (Bishop), casual laborers (Gill), yakuza gangsters (Herbert) and members of the Burakumin community (Davis). Other papers focus on the craft of making Buddhist altars (Eades et al), the practice of ascetic mountain worship (Riessland) and theoretical models of interpretations of emotions (Clammer).

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Satoru Ito and Ryuta Yanase, Coming Out in Japan (Paperback)

This book gives a human focus to the nascent struggle for social acceptance and dignity being waged by homosexuals in Japan. It describes the authors' coming out to society and their subsequent appeals, on both a personal and public level, for the acceptance of homosexuality by the wider community.

Translated by F. Conlan.