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Kenji Kosaka and Masahiro Ogino (eds), A Quest for Alternative Sociology (paperback)
Category: Advanced Social Research Series
The twelve chapters are arranged in four sections - Unremedied Suffering, 'Taming' Suffering, Reciting Suffering and Multidimensional Happiness - and explore the effects of war, economic exploitation, transnational migration, ecological disaster and family arrangements on people's happiness. The various studies examine issues in Japan, the United States, the Netherlands, India, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. Through these diverse studies, the authors aim to define an intersected domain of sociological research through the examination of three sub-domains: Alternative social research, alternative society, and alternative sociology.
Kenji Kosaka (ed.), A Sociology of Happiness: Japanese Perspectives
Category: Japanese Society Series
Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa, INDEX GENERAL DE LA CORRESPONDANCE DE MARCEL PROUST (Hardcover)
Category: Other KUP Publications
Yoshisaburo Kiyose, JAPANESE GRAMMAR: A NEW APPROACH (Hardcover)
Category: Other KUP Publications
Fukuzo Yobe, THE EMERGENCE OF THE ABBASID AUTOCRACY (Hadcover)
Category: Other KUP Publications
Motoji Matsuda, URBANISATION FROM BELOW (Hardcover)
Category: Other KUP Publications
Subtitle: Creativity and Soft Resistance in the Everyday Life of Maragoli Migrants in Nairobi.
Mitsuhiko Akaboshi, THE ROLE OF RADIATION IN THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE (Hardcover)
Category: Other KUP Publications
T. Kawai, TOWARD THE EXACT WKB ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, LINEAR OR NON-LINEAR (Hardcover)
Category: Other KUP Publications
Hisao Furukawa, COASTAL WETLANDS OF INDONESIA: ENVIRONMENT, SUBSISTENCE, EXPLOITATION (Hardcover)
Category: Other KUP Publications
Koichi Akai, ANALYTICAL BACKGROUND OF GEOMETRICAL PHENOMENA (Hardcover)
Category: Other KUP Publications
Subtitle: A Treatise on Staring the Geo-Chaos.
Kyoji Sasa, LANDSLIDES OF THE WORLD (Hardcover)
Category: Other KUP Publications
Shoji Kato et al., BLACK-HOLE ACCRETATION DISKS (Hardcover)
Category: Other KUP Publications
Takuya Abe, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF SOIL COMMUNITIES (Hardcover)
Category: Other KUP Publications
Hiroya Kawanabe, et al., FISH COMMUNITIES IN LAKE TANGANYIKA (Hardcover)
Category: Other KUP Publications
Kenji Kosaka and Masahiro Ogino (eds), A Quest for Alternative Sociology (hardcover)
Category: Advanced Social Research Series
This is a hardcover edition.
Volume 1: 1945-1952
Category: Science and Technology Series
The Occupation Period
I. GHQ and Demilitarization Policy
II. Academic Research and its System under the Occupation
III. The Reorganization of Industrial and Social Systems
IV. Scientists and Engineers in the Postwar Democracy
Volume 2: 1952-1959
Category: Science and Technology Series
Road to Self-reliance
I. End of Prohibitions on Reseach into Nuclear, Aviation and Military Technology
II. Establishment of a Government and Business-Centered R&D System
III. New Attitudes among Scientists and Engineers
IV. Development of Key Industries and the Modernization of Manufacturing
V. Changing Lifestyles through Science and Technology
Volume 3: 1960-1969
Category: Science and Technology Series
High Economic Growth Period
I. Construction of R & D Infrastructure
II. Enrichment and Reorganization of the Academic Research System
III. The Emergence of New Industries
IV. Changes in Transportation and the Urban Environment
V. Cultural Change and the Growth in Technology
Volume 4: 1970-1979
Category: Science and Technology Series
Transformation Period
I. Pollution, Environment and Safety Problems
II. Energy and Resource Problems
III. Diversified Development of Science and Technology
IV. The Rise of Knowledge-intensive and High Technology Industries
Shisuke Tanabe and Annamalai Subramanian, Bioindicators of POPs: Monitoring in Developing Countries (Hardcover)
Category: Joint Publications with Kyoto Univ Press
The development of easier, cost-effective and quicker methods to evaluate POPs (persistent organic pollutants) in developing countries is long overdue. The easiest possible method is to use suitable bioindicators. All those who are involved in the monitoring of POPs - the policy makers, scientists, research students, laboratory technicians, university students and nongovernmental institutions - need a book such as this one at present. This timely book was designed primarily as a broad treatment of this discipline which would be accessible to almost all the people working on POPs. This will be the first book that is exclusively dedicated to 'Bioindicators of Pollution by POPs'.
Ken-ichi Abe and James E. Nickum (eds), Good Earths: Regional and Historical Insights into China's Environment
Category: Joint Publications with Kyoto Univ Press
China encompasses a wide range of national environments and human communities. Focusing upon specific regional changes over time, this book presents empirical studies that examine the diversity of interactions between peoples and their environments in China. Good Earths is organized around the themes of land, trees, water and grasses, as scholars from China and beyond assess particular regional environmental issues, drawing upon both contemporary and historical sources.
Wil de Jong, Lye Tuck-Po and Ken-ichi Abe (eds), The Social Ecology of Tropical Forests: Migration, Populations and Frontiers (Hardcover)
Category: Joint Publications with Kyoto Univ Press
An important contribution to understanding the relationship between migration and deforestation, this book brings together various analyses from the three major tropical regions: Southeast Asia, the Amazon basin, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The scope of the discussion is extensive, covering historical issues such as the impact of the slave trade on Sub-Saharan African forests and communities, and contemporary dilemmas like the over-exploitation of natural forest products in Vietnam. The analyses are spatially and temporally contextualized, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative data to provide a useful resource for studying the societies of tropical regions and their social ecology.
Kazuo Fujita and Shoji Itakura (eds), Diversity of Cognition: Evolution, Development, Domestication and Pathology (Hardcover)
Category: Joint Publications with Kyoto Univ Press
The book attempts to highlight the diverse aspects of cognition among a wide variety of organisms. Seventeen leading researchers in this field from seven countries illustrate the diverse aspects of cognition among various organisms ranging from insects to humans of different ages and pathological states. This volume will inspire scientists and students who strive to understand cognition and, in particular, those who aim at doing so from genetic and adaptive perspectives.
Susumu Shimazono, From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Japan (Hardcover)
Category: ebib
Itaru Ohta and Yntiso D. Gebre (eds), Displacement Risks in Africa: Refugees, Resettlers and Their Host Population (Paperback)
Category: Joint Publications with Kyoto Univ Press
This book analyzes the underlying causes of population displacements in Africa, identifies the various risk groups, explores the types of risks involved and discusses the strategies for countering the imminent challenges. The study also explores the commonalities and differences in displacement experiences. The identification of common interest is important for developing a broad conceptual framework and suggesting justified comprehensive policy treatments. The research will make a valuable contribution to the rapidly evolving literature on population displacement. African planners and policy makers will find the insights and analyses useful.
Itaru Ohta and Yntiso D. Gebre (eds), Displacement Risks in Africa (Hardcover)
Category: Joint Publications with Kyoto Univ Press
This is the hardcover edition of the above title.
Satoshi Yamagishi (ed.), Social Organization of the Rufous Vanga
Category: Joint Publications with Kyoto Univ Press
For a few decades, Yamagishi and his associates have studied. In this volume they summarize the findings of their long-term research on the ecological and social behavior of the rufous vangas, a unique species of birds in Madagascar, with specific observations about cooperative breeding, sex ratio manipulation, foraging and helper behavior. The authors demonstrate the implications of the study for theories of evolution, genetic inheritance and group formation.
Kazutake Kyuma, Paddy Soil Science
Category: Joint Publications with Kyoto Univ Press
This book is an important reference for those concerned with maintaining the sustainability of wet rice agriculture - the foundation for much of human life throughout Asia. Kazutake Kyuma draws on his long and broad-ranging experience with rice agriculture to clearly explain the interactions between many human, environmental, biological and chemical factors that protect the long-term productivity of rice paddy soils.
Tran Duc Vien, A. Terry Rambo and Nguyen Thanh Lam (eds), Farming with Fire and Water: The Human Ecology of a Composite Swiddening Community in Vietnam's Northern Mountains
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
The book offers a description of composite swiddening, a traditional Southeaster Asian agricultural system that combines shifting cultivation fields on the hillsides with irrigated paddy fields in the valleys. The book challenges the conventional belief that shifting cultivation inevitably causes deforestation. It describes this complex agro-ecosystem in terms of individual components, its adaptation to ongoing changes, and its wider use elsewhere in Vietnam's northern mountains. It will be of interest to Southeast Asian area scholars, agricultural ecologists, ethnologists and upland development policymakers.
Yoshifumi Tamada, Myths and Realities: The Democratization of Thai Politics (Paperback)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
This study traces the current instability of Thai politics back to the 1990s. The book challenges the prevailing view that the nation's democratization process in the decade was led by the active middle class and presents an alternative explanation focusing upon the appeasement of 'passive' forces. The Japanese original of the book won an Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Prize in 2003.
Takashi Shiraishi and Pasuk Phongpaichit (eds), The Rise of Middle Classes in Southeast Asia
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
The rise of the new middle classes in Southeast Asia brought about important transformations in various countries politically, socially, economically and culturally, while producing new 'East Asian lifestyles' that transcend national boundaries and causing the reorganization of urban space. Based on the framework of comparative politics, this study first examines the regional significance of the growth of the middle classes after the economic crisis in 1997–1998 and pays special attention to the conditions which led the fall of the Thaksin government as a consequence of a military coup. From the international relations point of view, this collective work by Southeast Asian specialists also uses abundant data to unravel the regionalization of the cultural industry across East Asia.
Shigeyuki Abe and Bhanupong Nidhipraba (eds), East Asian Economies and New Regionalism
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
In the face of the financial crisis of East Asia in 1997, Japan successfully pressed forth the Miyazawa Plan and other efficient rescue packages while the IMF and the World Bank failed to present effective programs. With its presence established, Japan kept playing a leading role in formulating the Chiang Mai Initiative which facilitated bilateral and regional economic cooperation in the area. Based on the analysis of this process, the book examines the ways in which East Asia has grappled with the regional integration of the economies of the area. The study focuses upon competing developmental models, the effects of FTA and EPA, the initiatives of ASEAN, investments and trades in the region. The contributors to the book then inquire what can be done in financial and monetary domains with a special attention paid to the effects of the depreciation of currencies and the consequences of the IMF emergency policies. The study also addresses the issues of productivity, problems of agrarian small states and difficulties of the socially weak in the region.
Toshihiro Nobuta, Living on the Periphery: Development and the Islamization of the Orang Asli
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
Using ethnographic data, this study reveals the way in which state-initiated development projects and the process of islamization influence the life world of the Orang Asli, the indigenous group in Malaysia.
Ryoji Soda, People on the Move: Rural-Urban Interactions in Sarawak
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
Based on a decade of observation and interviews in a Sarawak village, Ryoji Soda examines out-migration from the village. The themes include: the migrants' living strategies in urban areas; their frequent moves between rural and urban areas; and kinship relations between rural and urban residents. This is a fresh ethnographic perspective on human mobility, rural-urban interactions, development policy and family relations.
Takashi Shiraishi and Patricio N. Abninales (eds), After the Crisis: Hegemony, Technocracy and Governance in Southeast Asia
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
This book is about Southeast Asia - above all Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines - after the Asian financial crisis. It takes up the complex interactions and tensions among Southeast Asian states, markets and societies within the context of a regional order under American hegemony, with emphasis on individuals and collectivities whose thoughts and actions actively intervene in the shaping of relations between and among the three realms.
Patricio N. Abinales, Noboru Ishikawa and Akio Tanabe (eds), Dislocating Nation-States: Globalization in Asia and Africa
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
As much of the world turns its attention to questions of the role and even survival of the nation-state formation in an increasingly globalized world, the authors of this interdisciplinary volume shift the focus of the debate by examining various sites of social action where the nation-state is still in a formative stage even as it is increasingly under threat. Including micro level ethnographies, local histories and a macro-theoretical overview of the world-system, this volume directly engages with the complexities of globalization in marginal and troubled states; complexities that are themselves typically marginalized in debates all too often obsessed with the plight of the most powerful and developed nations.
Ichiro Kakizaki, Laying the Tracks: The Thai Economy and its Railways 1885-1935 (Hardcover)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
Published in January 2005. This economic history of the early development of Thailand's railways details the rail policies of the royal government, from the end of the 19th century to 1932, when the Constitutional Revolution overthrew it. It also assesses the role and impact of the railways on Thailand's economy in terms of the degree to which they reduced transport time and cost, as well as the extent to which they altered the flow of commodities and the transportation of passengers across the country.
Terry Rambo, Searching for Vietnam (Hardcover)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
This volume brings together within a single set of covers much of what the author has written about Vietnam over the past forty years. The book opens with an autobiographical account of his history as a Vietnam researcher that sets each of the selections into the context of the time and situation in which it was written. The writings are grouped into five topical sections. Each part includes a brief introduction that describes the selections it contains. Part I deals with cultural history, religion, and cultural ecology, Part II with the Vietnamese village, Part III with the impact of the war on South Vietnamese society, Part IV with Vietnam's development prospects in the its reform period, and Part V with problems of development in Vietnam's mountains.
Yoko Hayami, Between Hills and Plains: Power and Practice in Socio-Religious Dynamics among Karen (Hardcover)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
Located 'betwixt and between' the hills and the plains, 'tradition' and 'modernity', the peripheries and the mainstream of the modern nation-state, Hayami's study of the Karen in northwestern Thailand provides a window into the ways people adapt their practices and values in the face of encroaching social and economic forces. Re-examining the historical records while providing a detailed ethnographic account of customary rituals and practices, Hayami overturns previous interpretations of religious adaptation which suggested that the uptake of Christianity and Buddhism in the region has been 'superficially' concerned with embodied practices at the expense of doctrinal conformity. Arguing that such an interpretation is trapped within an ideological understanding of religion, Hayami demonstrates here that the Karen are active participants in seeking out, adapting and adopting new religious practices in ways that enable the maintenance of communal boundaries and cultural particularity at the same time as they integrate themselves into the broader stream of Thai society.
Hisao Furukawa, Mitsuaki Nishibuchi, Yusaku Kono and Yoshiro Kaida (eds), Ecological Destruction, Health and Development: Advancing Asian Paradigms (Hardcover)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
This title won the 2005 gold prize for the best translated or co-published academic books awarded by the Asian Pacific Publishers Association.
Uniquely interdisciplinary in orientation, experts in ecology, agriculture, medicine and development studies have joined forces to produce this large-scale study. The authors argue that a number of qualitatively different regional types exist in the world, each comprising its own homeostasis. The book presents a fresh perspective on environmental area studies and demonstrates that the globalizing process leads to the destruction of the co-existence of human beings and their environment.
Takashi Inoguchi and Matthew Carlson (eds), Governance and Democracy in Asia (Paperback)
Category: Modernity and Identity in Asia
'This is a remarkable new text on political life in Asia. It goes far beyond the standard variables that synoptic volumes on democratization normally cover, and opens a window onto actual public opinion about the quality of political life. Inoguchi and Carlson have assembled a team of prominent experts from around Asia to chart and explain what is happening and how people feel about it. This is a fresh and powerful perspective on politics in Asia. '
Andrew MacIntyre, Director, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University
Takashi Inoguchi and Matthew Carlson (eds), Governance and Democracy in Asia (Hardcover)
Category: Modernity and Identity in Asia
Hideshi Ogawa, Wily Monkeys: Social Intelligence of Tibetan Macaques (Hardcover)
Category: Joint Publications with Kyoto Univ Press
This book introduces the social behavior of Tibetan monkeys (Tibetan macaques) at Mt. Huangshan in China. Like other macaques, they live in multiple female and male groups with female philopatry and male dispersal. Unlike most other macaques, however, male Tibetan monkeys carry an infant to another male, hold up the infant, and suck the infant's penis together. Males show their penises to other males and suck the penises of other males. In antagonistic interactions, females form a coalition with unrelated females as well as with their mother and daughters. At night, they huddle and sleep on the ledge of a steep cliff.
Timothy J. Scrase, Todd Holden and Scott Baum (eds), Globalization, Culture and Inequality in Asia (Paperback)
Category: Modernity and Identity in Asia
Contemplating globalization from a sociological perspective, it is without doubt that a major site for social, political, economic and cultural change in the new millennium lies in the Asian region. The underlying theme of the book is the multi-dimensional way in which globalization - in the form of ideas, practices and technology - have introduced social inequalities in specific contexts. The book draws on studies from several countries in the region and covers such areas as gender, class, labor, media, identity, cities and urbanization.
Timothy J. Scrase, Todd Holden and Scott Baum (eds), Globalization, Culture and Inequality in Asia (Hardcover)
Category: Modernity and Identity in Asia
Albert Gomes, Looking for Money: Capitalism and Modernity in an Orang Asli Village (Paperback)
Category: Modernity and Identity in Asia
Joint publication with the Center for Orang Asli Concerns, Malaysia.
This book provides an illustration of the impact of capitalism and modernity on an indigenous people, the Semai of Malaysia. It is based on doctoral research conducted in the early eighties which documents in considerable ethnographic detail the extent of involvement of the Semai in commodity production and wage labour and the effects of these economic pursuits (referred by the people as 'looking-for-money' work) on their social and cultural lives. In the process, the study challenges the prevailing view of the Semai as subsistence-oriented people with weak links to the market economy and stresses the fact that development for the people must be based on correct conceptions of the economy of the people for it to succeed in improving the living standards of the beneficiaries. While the study was conducted about twenty years ago, the findings, analyses and issues presented are still relevant today and an introduction and a postscript to the original thesis provide an update to the theoretical and empirical aspects of the study.
Alberto Gomes, ed., Modernity and Identity: Asian Illustrations (Paperback)
Category: Modernity and Identity in Asia
The chapters of the book include: 'Subalternity and the construction of Malay identity' (J. Kahn), 'Desire and conquest: The politics of erotisim and repression in the construction of Chinese identity' (A. McLaren), 'Modernist anthropology's comparative project: The construction of Indian identity as tradition' (K. Ram), and ' Modern identity and social identity: Minority youth in school to work transition' (K. Okano). Published by La Trobe University Press.
Ueno, The Modern Family in Japan: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
This is an award-winning book that brings together Chizuko Uenofs groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall of the modern family in Japan. Combining historical, sociological, anthropological, and journalistic methodologies, Ueno, who is arguably the foremost feminist theoretician in Japan, delineates in vivid detail how the family has been changing in form and function in the last hundred years. In each chapter Ueno introduces the reader to a different facet of modern family life, ranging from children who fantasize being orphans to the elderly who confront 'pre-senescence.' The central focus is on the housewife: her history, her ever-changing responsibilities, her ways of surviving mid-life crisis. This is an indispensable book for students and scholars seeking to understand modern Japan.
Chizuko Ueno, The Modern Family in Japan: Its Rise and Fall (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Norito Kawakami, Yasuki Kobayashi and Hideki Hashimoto (eds), Health and Social Disparity: Japan and Beyond (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Do the rich live longer than the poor? To what extent do class and occupational positions affect onefs health? How does social capital relate to illness? In what ways do social structures influence health literacy? How about other variables such as place of residence, house ownership, educational level, population density and marriage status? Eleven experts collectively grapple with these and other questions in the Japanese and international contexts through empirical studies and comparative analysis. From the perspective of social epidemiology, the contributors to this novel study examine the webs linking social distribution and social determinants of health and present provocative conclusions. All three editors of this volume are Professors in the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo.
Yoko Hayami, Akio Tanabe and Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe (eds), Gender and Modernity: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific (Paperback)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic fieldwork, this anthology examines the complexities of identity formation and self-positioning in post-colonial contexts, ranging from the impact of Christian missionaries on the women of Aboriginal Australia to the re-masculinization of post-colonial subjects in Eastern India, from the negotiation of gendered spaces in Indonesia and Thailand to the ways in which Japanese popular culture 'plays' with gender identities. Focusing in particular on the negotiation of gender categories, these papers reveal that local actors are confronted with the competing values and rationalities of local traditions and global modernity.
Norito Kawakami et al. (eds), Health and Social Disparity: Japan and Beyond (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Yoko Hayami, Akio Tanabe and Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe (eds), Gender and Modernity: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific (Hardcover)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
This is a hardcover version.
Hiroyuki Watanabe, Japan's Whaling: The Politics of Culture in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Hiroyuki Watanabe, a young researcher based in Kyoto University, investigates how the numerous relationships between people and whales in Japan become reduced to the single relationship of killing whales for their meat. He argues that from the introduction of Norwegian whaling technology at the end of the nineteenth century, through the Russo-Japanese War and Japan's windfall acquisition of the Korea-based Russian whaling fleet, to the end of World War II, Japanese whaling was closely bound to Japanese imperialism. He questions the assertion that whaling is 'traditional Japanese culture' and demonstrates how the same whaling discourse that in the past drove some whale species to the brink of extinction, today continues to fuel the rhetoric of the Japanese whaling debate.
Hiroyuki Watanabe, Japan's Whaling: The Politics of Culture in Historical Perspective (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Leonie Stickland, Gender Gymnastics: Performing and Consuming Japan's Takarazuka Revue
Category: Japanese Society Series
The artifice of gender performance - sometimes playful, mostly conscientious - as enthralled and entertained audiences of Japan’s all-female Takarazuka Revue for more than ninety years. The dashing male-role players in its musical theatre productions enjoy the adulation of a predominantly female audience for whom those handsome idols represent ideal masculinity, while those 'men' in turn are reflected and magnified by the overwrought femininity of their female-role counterparts.
This volume resounds with the voices of those closest to Takarazuka: the girls and women who have danced, sung and acted in its limelight. Using exclusive interviews, historical records, autobiographies and years of close-hand observation, former Revue translator and voice actor Leonie Stickland extensively explores the aspirations, endeavours and experiences of Takarazuka’s creators, performers and adoring fans, while simultaneously elucidating gender issues which have impacted upon the life-stages of women in Japan throughout the past century.
Masami Iwata and Akihiko Nishizawa (eds), Poverty and Social Welfare in Japan (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Poverty in Japan has been concealed in the chorus of admiration recognizing the nation becoming the worldfs second largest economy in the latter half of the twentieth century. This collection of papers by ten specialists in poverty research unravels the ways in which the poor have been socially excluded in contemporary Japan and how this reality derives from the structure of inequality in social resources, life chances and power relations. These studies scrutinize the extent to which Japan's social welfare policies have disseminated and consolidated particular types of understanding about poverty and reveals their contradictions by highlighting the lives of the homeless, new-comer foreign migrants, residents in poor housing and many other socially excluded groups.
Masami Iwata and Akihoko Nishizawa (eds), Poverty and Social Welfare in Japan (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Reiko Kosugi, Escape from Work: Freelancing Youth and the Challenge to Corporate Japan (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
ESCAPE FROM WORK is about an important evolution which has been occurring in the Japanese labor market over the past decade. As Japanese came to enjoy higher levels of affluence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, attitudes towards work and life course began to change. At the same time, globalization and heightened competition have accelerated the casualization of work in Japan. Kosugi documents the increase in the number of causal workers in Japan over the past two decades and looks at their demographics. Based on rich interview data and extensive surveys, Kosugi brings together the findings of a large research project carried out in the early years of this century. The study explores ways in which the furitaa, young persons falling outside the normal pattern in making the transition from school to employment, might better be incorporated into Japan's world of regular, full-time employment. At the same time, Kosugi calls for a reappraisal of the rather negative way in which those in the labor market for casuals have been traditionally conceived, and recommends acceptance of that market as a means of providing viable career and lifestyle options for Japanese in the twenty-first century.
Reiko Kosugi, Escape from Work: Freelancing Youth and the Challenge to Corporate Japan (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Kojun Furukawa, Social Welfare in Japan: Principles and Applications (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
SOCIAL WELFARE IN JAPAN is an important study of the historical development and fundamental characteristics of social welfare in Japan and beyond. Reviewing arguments about the welfare state and the conceptualization of the individual in society, Furukawa traces the emergence of social welfare as a domain of theory and practice that is at once interdisciplinary and unique. Focusing on the post-war era, Furukawa deftly interweaves discussions on the state of social welfare research, the nature of social welfare aid, policy, management and organization, and the historical antecedents to these factors.
Atsuko Suzuki (ed.), Gender and Career in Japan (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Gender has long been a major determinant of individualsf work-career and life trajectory in Japanese society. The complexity of this social phenomenon has inspired the five contributors to this volume, edited by Atsuko Suzuki, to probe the nature and ramifications of changing gender norms in Japan from a multidisciplinary perspective incorporating sociology, social psychology and economics. As they seek to elucidate the mutual interrelationship between the macro and micro dimensions of society and the individual, the various contributors also challenge the unfairness inherent in the association between career and gender, and promote a deeper understanding of the issues involved, in anticipation of their resolution. The specificity and universality of Japanfs situation is further highlighted by comparison with its near neighbor, Korea.
Atsuko Suzuki (ed.), Gender and Career in Japan (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Ryoji Ihara, Toyota's Assembly Line: A View from the Factory Floor (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Any dedicated Toyota driver and admirer of the Toyota Production System will be shocked to read of Ryoji Ihara's experience as a casual worker in a Toyota factory in Japan. As Toyota Motor Corporation continues its inexorable march to become the world's biggest and most profitable carmaker, workers on the factory floor are still making sacrifices under the appalling conditions.
Ihara's book is both a fearless expose and a meticulous academic study firmly situated within the context of the sociology of labor. Drawing on recent theoretical debates in Japan and internationally, the author challenges widely held views on the respective roles of skill, supervision and quality control in the car industry. Specialists in car industry research unable to access Japanese language sources should welcome this English translation of Ryoji Ihara's book, now with an additional chapter update.
Yet, belying its academic intent, the work is written in a relaxed, entertaining style that should appeal to any reader with an interest in car making, the sociology of work or Japanese society in general.
Ryoji Ihara, Toyota's Assembly Line: A View from the Factory Floor (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Akira Furukawa, Village Life in Modern Japan (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
From an environmentalist perspective, Furukawa examines the life world of villagers in modern Japan. This life world centers on their wisdom in daily life; with a focus on their religious life, preparation for natural disasters, irrigation systems, maintenance methods of forests and changing village structures. With extensive ethnographic illustrations, the author explores the potential of indigenous philosophy rooted in rural life and a new form of communalism in Japan.
Village Life in Modern Japan argues that the mainstream of environmentalism today remains trapped within the modernist paradigm that has led to the present global environmental malaise. Through a variety of case studies, Furukawa outlines the case for 'life-environmentalism' and shows that slogans such as 'think global, act local' remain problematic unless we also 'think local, act local'. The study is grounded in an ethnographic approach that recognizes that local, everyday-life knowledge offers our only hope of rectifying the global environmental crises.
Akira Furukawa, Village Life in Modern Japan (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Akira Furukawa, Village Life in Modern Japan (Hardcover)
Category: ebib
Masahiro Ogino, Scams and Sweeteners: A Sociology of Fraud (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Masahiro Ogino presents his sociological reflections on fraudulent acts, which are preformed in the space that is not governed by social norms. In this ambitious study, he attempts to develop a theory of what he calls a 'society of zero sociability' on the basis of Japanese, French, German, Swiss, Italian and American cases. He argues that 'there is no clear delineation between friendship and respect, and gift-giving and scams, in degree-zero society. There is no differentiation between a premeditated scam and the intention to give a gift, and one could easily become the other, so that a situation may seem like a scam but could easily seem like an example of gift giving. There is a need for sociological theory focusing on [this] primordial world.'
Masahiro Ogino, Scams and Sweeteners: A Sociology of Fraud (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Takashi Inoguchi, Japanese Politics: An Introduction (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
'This is both a path-breaking study of Japanese politics and a significant contribution to the general advancement of political science. Inoguchi skillfully weaves together an analysis of contemporary Japanese politics and the history of Japanese political and economic developments. He also illuminates a wide range of current scholarly debates about Japanese politics, political economy, and political culture.' Lucian W. Pye, M.I.T.
'Using both historical and international perspectives, the author provides a stimulating analysis of modern Japan. Broad in its dimensions, challenging in many of its propositions, this work warrants careful attention from students and specialists alike.' Robert A. Scalapino, University of California at Berkeley
Takashi Inoguchi, Japanese Politics: An Introduction (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Hideo Aoki, Japan's Underclass: Day Laborers and the Homeless (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Condemned by economic forces and the prejudices of others to remain forever in the underclass, the homeless and day laborers in present-day affluent Japan struggle to survive in its cities. This study provides a poignant portrait of the conditions endured by these people. Whether they can find work at all and the nature of any available work determines their fate. In this book we read of men who die on the streets, the efforts of volunteers, officialdom's lack of understanding and of passers-by pointing at these men to show their children where failure will lead. This research shows how it is not personal failure, but a variety of economic and life circumstances that has propelled these men into the underclass.
Hideo Aoki, Japan's Underclass: Day Laborers and the Homeless (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Kenji Kosaka (ed.), A Sociology of Happiness: Japanese Perspectives
Category: Japanese Society Series
This book explores issues of happiness from a wide variety of sociological perspectives. It includes: a meta-analysis of suffering; an axiomatic approach to constructing a disadvantage index; a proposal for a new qualitative methodology for social science research; a Nietzschean analysis of happiness; a proposal to codify linguistic rights drawing on notions of the universal right to pursue well-being; an analysis of the role of folklore in articulating a society's implicit understandings of happiness and suffering; a critical exploration of the impact of social surveillance on happiness; and a clinical sociological approach to happiness and unhappiness.
Osamu Soda, Philosophy of Agricultural Science: A Japanese Perspective (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Osamu Soda, one of the leading Japanese scholars in the philosophy of agricultural science, examines the relationship between human life, the natural environment, and agriculture. He argues that satisfying diverse human values requires a harmonious realization of three sometimes conflicting sets of values, and situates a reconceived agricultural science as the best means to realizing these ends. For Soda, this means rethinking the entrenched divisions between the natural, human and practical sciences to create an agricultural science that draws on the reductive empiricism of the natural sciences as well as the interpretative methodologies of the human sciences in its efforts to find applied solutions to real problems. It also entails rethinking the place of agriculture in the life-world, recognizing that its non-economic contributions to the community and environment are every bit as important as, if not more than, its economic values. Only through balancing diverse value objectives and synthesizing diverse research methodologies will modern societies avert further environmental damage and begin to rectify existing problems.
Osamu Soda, Philosophy of Agricultural Science: A Japanese Perspective (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Shigeru Nakayama and Kunio Goto (eds), A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan, volume 3, 1960-1969
Category: Japanese Society Series
This title is the third 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 3 deals with the high growth period from 1960 to 1969. 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.
Kimiko Kimoto, Gender and Japanese Management (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Using data from surveys conducted in a department store and a supermarket, this ground-breaking study discusses the forces shaping job segregation by gender. Kimiko Kimoto shows that the portrayal of women as necessarily disadvantaged participants in the labour market serves only to prevent one from seeing how gender norms and relations actually develop in workplaces. She lucidly demonstrates the reasons for women's difficulties in moving beyond the lower levels of management.
Kimiko Kimoto, Gender and Japanese Management (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Junsuke Hara and Kazuo Seiyama, Inequality amid Affluence: Social Stratification in Japan (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
The two leading sociologists of social stratification in Japan argue that most Japanese have attained a level of income in which they no longer suffer from poverty and starvation, a situation in which Japan has achieved an equalization of 'basic wealth.' However, at the same time, there has been no progress towards the equalization of 'upper wealth.' There is inequality in many areas including income, assets, academic background, occupation, gender and lifestyles.
Junsuke Hara and Kazuo Seiyama, Inequality amid Affluence: Social Stratification in Japan (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
J. S. Eades, Roger Goodman and Yumiko Hada (eds), The 'Big Bang' in Japanese Higher Education: The 2004 Reforms and the Dynamics of Change
Category: Japanese Society Series
On 1 April 2004, Japanese higher education experienced a 'big bang', a set of reforms that have been described as the most significant institutional changes for over a century. One of the main aims is to make Japanese universities more competitive internationally, by eliminating the differences between national, public and private schools, and by giving them greater autonomy from the state in day-to-day administration and decision-making. At the same time, these institutions are facing an increasing demographic crisis, as they compete for a declining number of potential students, thanks to the falling Japanese birthrate. The chapters of this book examine these changes and the background to them from a variety of perspectives, including those of the government, the teachers and the students. Issues examined include the history of Japanese universities, their relation with the state, university management, internationalization, the struggle to attract students, the problems of language teaching, the impact of information technology, and efforts to upgrade the level of research.
Review in the Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
Koichi Hasegawa, Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Based on four epoch-making case studies, this book offers an overview of contemporary Japan's changing attitudes and policies regarding environmental issues.
Beginning in the 1970s, the author traces the way the rapid growth of environmental politics and actions contributed to the development of a vibrant civil society. It is argued that recent environmental movements in Japan have created a new, more active public sphere, one that provides a guideline for a sustainable society. This book represents an important contribution to the growing field of environmental sociology.
Koichi Hasegawa, Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Susumu Shimazono, From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
One of Japan's foremost sociologists of religion, Susumu Shimazono deals with the development of popular religious and spiritual movements in Japan in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. At present, it is estimated that more than ten percent of Japan's total population are members of the so-called New Religions. Whilst Buddhist and Shintoist influences remain pronounced, there are many other features common to modern Japan's popular religious thinking. Through a careful study of these features, the author examines classical concepts and theories of religious studies, proposes alternative approaches, and reconsiders religion in modernity in the context of Japanese cultural heritage.
Susumu Shimazono, From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Robert Stuart Yoder, Youth Deviance in Japan: Class Reproduction of Non-Conformity (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Based on fieldwork spanning two decades, this book presents a rare longitudinal study of deviance and crime among youths in Kanagawa-ken, with a focus upon two groups of young people - a working class group and a middle-class group. The author, a long-term resident in Japan, has managed to keep in touch with his subjects for twenty years and offers vivid descriptions of nonconformity among Japanese youngsters and an in-depth analysis of the way in which youth deviance is reproduced along class lines.
Robert Stuart Yoder, Youth Deviance In Japan: Class Reproduction of Non-Conformity (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Masami Nomura and Yoshihiko Kamii (eds), Japanese Companies: Theories and Realities (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
This book challenges Masahiko Aoki's influential J-firm theory, which explains the behavior of Japanese firms in terms of game theory. Demonstrating the theory's methodological and empirical shortcomings, the authors, a group of Japanese economists, offer an alternative theoretical framework for understanding Japanese business culture and present a series of empirical studies of Japanese companies, which focus on skill formation, information sharing, subcontracting and the role of labor unions.
Masami Nomura and Yoshihiko Kamii (eds), Japanese Companies: Theories and Realities (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Takami Kuwayama, Native Anthropology: The Japanese Challenge to Western Academic Hegemony (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
In terms of the academic world system, Japan exists on the periphery. The Japanese are anthropological natives in the sense that although they have long been objects of Western representation, their voices have seldom been heard by those at the center. The frequent neglect of Japanese scholarship on Japan by Japanologists in the Anglophone community attests to this point. The central objective of this book, then, is to reveal the global power dynamics involved in the structure of anthropological knowledge.
Takami Kuwayama, Native Anthropology: The Japanese Challenge to Western Academic Hegemony (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Chizuko Ueno, Nationalism and Gender (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
This title is Chizuko Ueno's first English-language book. One of Japan's foremost feminist theorists here employs her typically lucid, hard-hitting style to confront head on the various actors in the debate surrounding the issue of 'comfort women'. While skillfully dismantling the neo-nationalist argument of the 'historical revisionists,' Ueno is no less biting in her treatment of her traditional political and intellectual allies - left-wing historians and feminist supporters of the 'comfort women' - a fact that has made the book highly controversial in Japan.
Translated by Beverley Yamamoto
Chizuko Ueno, Nationalism and Gender (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
John Clammer, Japan and Its Others (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
The book explores Japan's relationship with Asia and the world, examines contemporary Japanese thinking about Japan's 'others' and how this impacts on local discourses about uniqueness, modernity, internal minorities and 'postmodern' conceptions of Japanese culture, religion and psychic makeup.
JAPAN AND ITS OTHERS attempts to take local knowledge seriously, pursue the 'centrality of the emotions' as a viable avenue for understanding Japanese society and enrich the scope of cultural studies and sociology of Japanese capitalism by presenting a comparative and non-Western perspective.
Review in the Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
Tadao Umesao, An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
This is the first English version of the author's classic published first in Japanese in 1957, with a full description of his ecological theory of civilizations of Eurasia. Dividing the Eurasian continent into three major ecological zones, consisting of Western Europe, Japan, and the region in between, he shows how the first two are basically simiar and demonstrates fundamental differences between Japan and China.
In 1998, when an influential monthly, BUNGEI SHUNJU, solicited the ten most impactful books in the twentieth century from more than 170 intellectuals in Japan, this book won the third highest voting among 67 books that were nominated.
Edited by Harmi Befu and translated by Beth Cary.
Lye Tuck-po, Wil de Jong and Ken-ichi Abe (eds), The Political Ecology of Tropical Forests in Southeast Asia (Paperback)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
Published in February 2003. Following an interdisciplinary approach to debates about the future of tropical forests in Southeast Asia, the authors - each experts in their field - unravel the extent to which the interests of local inhabitants, nation-states and international environmental movements are intertwined. The volume investigates the highly politicized context in which local forestry problems intersect with global market forces and emphasizes the importance of examining local issues in their own right.
Tadao Umesao, An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Lye Tuck-po, Wil de Jong and Ken-ichi Abe (eds), The Political Ecology of Tropical Forests in Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
This is a hardcover version.
Kenji Hashimoto, Class Structure in Contemporary Japan (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Based on data collected in 1995 for the Social Stratification and Mobility Project, this book posits four major classes in Japanese society - capitalist, working, new and old middle. It investigates the characteristics and mobility patterns of each class in terms of income, work, social network, leisure activity, gender relations and voting behavior.
Kenji Hashimoto, Class Structure in Contemporary Japan (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Eiji Oguma, A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
This book is an English translation of Tan'itsu Minzoku Shinwa no Kigen, which won the Suntory Culture Award in 1996. Eiji Oguma examines the ethnic self-identity of the Japanese as represented by a vast and diverse range of authors dating from the mid-Meiji period through to the postwar years.The book presents a counter-argument to the widely held view that the Japanese have believed that they are a homogeneous nation since the Meiji period. Oguma demonstrates that the myth of ethnic homogeneity was not established during the Meiji period, nor during the Pacific War, but only after the end of World War II. The study covers a large range of areas, including archaeology, ancient history, linguistics, anthropology, ethnology, folk law, eugenics and philosophy, to obtain an overview of how a variety of authors dealt with the theme of ethnicity. It also examines how the peoples of the Japanese colonies, Korea and Taiwan, were viewed in the prewar literature on ethnic identity. The book was translated by David Askew.
Eiji Oguma, A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Machiko Sato, Farewell to Nippon: Japanese Lifestyle Migrants in Australia
Category: Japanese Society Series
This book presents an ethnographic account of a fresh breed of emigrants who have left Japan to settle in Australia in pursuit of a better quality of life. They differ from 'economic migrants' who went overseas before the 1970s for economic reasons but represent new types of 'lifestyle migrants' who seek to enjoy a more easygoing, carefree life abroad. Based on some 200 interviews, the study attempts to portray the participants' joy and sorrow, felicity and frustration as seen through their own eyes and expressed with their own words and phrases. The Japanese version of the book won the Asia-Pacific Publication Award in 1995.
Review in the Elecronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
Koichi Hasegawa and Naoki Yoshihara (eds), Globalization, Minorities and Civil Society: Perspectives from Asian and Western Cities (Paperback)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
One effect of globalization has been urban restructuring in various cities of Asia, increasing migration from Asia to European cities and the intensification of debates about citizenship. The multi-dimensional constellations of ethnic minorities in Asian and European cities have become increasingly divided, stratified and segmented. The post-colonial legacy permeates these phenomena. This book examines developments in Asia and Europe on the basis of fieldwork surveys, examining anti-globalization movements and minority group dissent at the local level, and their effects on civil society. Chapters include studies of the homeless in Manila, Thai-Chinese residents in Bangkok, Islam in Bali and the Bangladesh community in London.
Harumi Befu, Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
In spite of rapid changes taking place in Japan, the dominant identity discourse of Japan, Nihonjinron, has not vacated its hegemonic position in the ideological landscape of common people. Japanese intellectuals have been producing and continue to produce a massive and ever increasing literature on the subject with no end in sight. In Hegemony of Homogeneity, Harumi Befu, a bilingual anthropologist who has dedicated his past 40 years working on Japan, dissects, analyzes, and interprets this discourse by consultinghundreds of original sources in Japanese. Nihonjinron discourse is argued, among others, as a civil religion of the Japanese and a creature responding to Japan's changing geopolitical and geoeconomic environment.
Mutsuhiko Shima (ed.), Status and Stratification: Cultural Forms in East ans Southeast Asia (Paperback)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
Exploring the myriad ways that status and stratification manifest in different cultural contexts, this collection presents in-depth studies of a variety of cultural forms in Asia. The first of its three parts focuses upon status concepts among the Japanese, providing case studies that examine the special professional status of doctors in feudal Japan, the offspring of fugitive warrior clans in agrarian communities today, ten centuries later, and personal accounts of celebrity sports figures reflecting upon how they are regarded by their fans. The second part shifts the focus to East Asia, presenting cases of late imperial China, contemporary Taiwan and Korea to investigate how different kinship groups define statusand stratification. The third part then turns to Southeast Asia, including Jakarta, Bali and Hanoi, examining the cultural forms of status in local health care services, public security activities, and the interactions between labourers and their employers. All of these studies are based upon culturally-sensitive qualitative fieldwork and thus offer a much deeper understanding of these phenomena than conventional quantitative studies.
Hiroshi Komai, Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
This book overviews the situation of foreign migrants in Japan based on the latest and most comprehensive available data and presents necessary policy recommendations. Hiroshi Komai, a foremost scholar in the foreign residents in Japan, demonstrates the progress of settlement and the formation of ethnic communities. Special attention is given to workers under the economic recession, along with the condition of non-workers such as pseudo-exiles, self-actualization seekers and marriage/family oriented people. The study presents an analysis of deprivation and discrimination against migrants and examines human rights violations in a wide range of areas, including subsistence, residence, liberty and freedom, social life, culture and political participation.
Review in the Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
Atsuko Suzuki (ed.), Gender and Career in Japan (Paperback)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
Gender has long been a major determinant of individualsf work-career and life trajectory in Japanese society. The complexity of this social phenomenon has inspired the five contributors to this volume, edited by Atsuko Suzuki, to probe the nature and ramifications of changing gender norms in Japan from a multidisciplinary perspective incorporating sociology, social psychology and economics. As they seek to elucidate the mutual interrelationship between the macro and micro dimensions of society and the individual, the various contributors also challenge the unfairness inherent in the association between career and gender, and promote a deeper understanding of the issues involved, in anticipation of their resolution. The specificity and universality of Japanfs situation is further highlighted by comparison with its near neighbor, Korea.
Atsuko Suzuki (ed.), Gender and Career in Japan (Hardcover)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
This is a hardcover edition.
Johann Arnason, The Peripheral Centre: Essays on Japanese History and Civilzation (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
The main theme of this title is the complex relationship between the patterns of Japanese modernity and civilizational legacy on which they continue to draw. The book discusses the East Asian regional context of Japanese civilization, deals with the dynamics of state formation and the attendant cultural transformations in premodern Japan, and suggests ways of comparing the Japanese experience to the West. Presenting Japan as a test case for relating the emerging problematic of multiple modernities to civilizational perspectives, Arnason examines the economic foundations as well as philosophical self-interpretations of Japanese modernity.
Ken-ichi Ohbuchi (ed.), Social Justice in Japan: Concepts, Theories and Paradigms (Paperback)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
Fairness has steadily emerged as an important pivotal point of evaluation among the Japanese when examining social issues. Until now, however, there was insufficient investigation into issues relating to the Japanese view of justice, such as the criteria the Japanese use to judge fairness, the cognitive processes of fairness-judgement, or how evaluating a certain social event as fair or unfair alters peoplefs responses to that event. This book is a compilation of papers by Japanese scholars who are grappling with these very issues.
The authors are researchers from the fields of social psychology and sociology, and they approach the question of the Japanese view of fairness through diverse methods, including theoretical analysis, mathematical analysis, laboratory experimentation, survey research, and field studies.
Johann Arnason, The Peripheral Centre: Essays on Japanese History and Civilization (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Ken-ichi Ohbuchi (ed.), Social Justice in Japan: Concepts, Theories and Paradigms (Hardcover)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
This is a hardcover edition.
Yasunori Fukuoka, Lives of Young Koreans in Japan (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
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.
Yoshimichi Sato (ed.), Deciphering Stratification and Inequality: Japan and Beyond (Paperback)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
Opening with a theoretical discussion of social stratification and inequality, this volume presents several case studies that examine such issues as migration, class identification, employment practices and status homogeny. The book also contextualizes the Japanese examples with international comparisons.
Yasunori Fukuoka, Lives of Young Koreans in Japan (Hardcover)
Category: Japanese Society Series
Yoshimichi Sato (ed.), Deciphering Stratification and Inequality: Japan and Beyond (Hardcover)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
This is a hardcover edition.
Shigeru Nakayama (ed.), A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan, Volume 1
Category: Japanese Society Series
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)
Yoshimichi Sato, Intentional Social Change: A Rational Choice Theory (Paperback)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
Why do some efforts to implement social change succeed while others fail? Sato observes that existing theories focus on social action at either the micro or the macro level, and are therefore unable to explain the transitions between these levels. In this book, Sato argues that efforts to effect social change at the macro level stimulate responses at the micro level. The accumulation of these micro-level social actions determines the macro level social outcomes. It is therefore the hitherto neglected multi-level transitions that require explanation if we are to understand the factors that lead to the success or failure of intentional social changes. Sato turns to rational choice theory and game theory to analyze such transitions, in the process mounting a defense of methodological individualism. Through an intricate combination of theoretical and empirical explorations, he concludes that intentional social change is successful when change agents anticipate and control for the possible range of responses available to micro-level social actors such that the latter's responses to the change agent's endeavors accumulate towards the desired outcome.
Yoshimichi Sato, Intentional Social Change: A Rational Choice Theory (Hardcover)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
This is a hardcover edition.
Shigeru Nakayama (ed.), A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan, volume 2
Category: Japanese Society Series
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
Category: Japanese Society Series
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).
Review in the Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
Junsuke Hara and Kazuo Seiyama, Inequality amid Affluence: Social Stratification in Japan (Paperback)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
The two leading sociologists of social stratification in Japan argue that most Japanese have attained a level of income in which they no longer suffer from poverty and starvation, a situation in which Japan has achieved an equalization of 'basic wealth.' However, at the same time, there has been no progress towards the equalization of 'upper wealth.' Inequalities exist in many areas including income, assets, academic background, occupation, gender and lifestyles.
Junsuke Hara and Kazuo Seiyama, Inequality amid Affluence: Social Stratification in Japan (Hardcover)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
This is a hardcover edition.
Satoru Ito and Ryuta Yanase, Coming Out in Japan (Paperback)
Category: Japanese Society Series
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.
Yukio Hayashi, Practical Buddhism among the Thai-Lao: Religon in the Making of a Region (Paperback)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
Published in February 2003. Based on long-term fieldwork, Hayashi presents the local history of Thai-Lao religion and society, up to and including its present-day dynamics. The volume clarifies the position of the Lao as a people as well as the social composition and changes in Lao village society. Working from the analytical premise that concepts such as Buddhism and magic are intrinsic to the multi-faceted statements of the people who live in the particular locality, Hayashi describes the diachronic process and the dynamics of indigenous religious 'knowledge' in this regional context. The study reveals how religious practices, and associated knowledge of the dynamic local world, take diverse forms across the generations.
Koichi Hasegawa, Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements (Paperback)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
Based on four epoch-making case studies, this book offers an overview of contemporary Japan's changing attitudes and policies regarding environmental issues. Beginning in the 1970s, the author traces the way the rapid growth of environmental politics and actions contributed to the development of a vibrant civil society. It is argued that recent environmental movements in Japan have created a new, more active public sphere, one that provides a guideline for a sustainable society. This book represents an important contribution to the growing field of environmental sociology.
Yukio Hayashi, Practical Buddhism among the Thai-Lao: Religon in the Making of a Region (Hardcover)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
This is a hardcover version.
Koichi Hasegawa, Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements (Hardcover)
Category: Stratification and Inequality Series
This is a hardcover edition.
Akira Furukawa (ed.), Frontiers of Social Research: Japan and Beyond (paperback)
Category: Advanced Social Research Series
In this collection, thirteen essays by Japanese and Korean sociologists and anthropologists explore a variety of methods of social inquiry. They include: urban research, wartime anthropology, folklore studies, the studies of local knowledge of villagers, visual methodologies in fieldwork and description, and research and practice in social work.
Akira Furukawa (ed.), Frontiers of Social Research: Japan and Beyond (hardcover)
Category: Advanced Social Research Series
This is a hardcover version.
A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan (complete set)
Category: Science and Technology Series
This is a complete set of the four volume series.
Kenji Kosaka (ed.), A Sociology of Happiness: Japanese Perspectives (paperback)
Category: Advanced Social Research Series
Published as the first volume of the Advanced Social Research Series, this book explores issues of happiness from a wide variety of sociological perspectives. It includes: a meta-analysis of suffering; an axiomatic approach to constructing a disadvantage index; a proposal for a new qualitative methodology for social science research; a Nietzschean analysis of happiness; a proposal to codify linguistic rights drawing on notions of the universal right to pursue well-being; an analysis of the role of folklore in articulating a society's implicit understandings of happiness and suffering; a critical exploration of the impact of social surveillance on happiness; and a clinical sociological approach to happiness and unhappiness.
Shozo Kojima, A Search for the Origins of Human Speech (Paperback)
Category: Joint Publications with Kyoto Univ Press
Published in February 2003. An unrivalled world authority in the area, Shozo Kojima presents a detailed overview of chimpanzees' auditory sense and vocalization in an attempt to demonstrate how human speech has evolved. Based on unique longitudinal studies over a few decades, Kojima has collected his theories and findings into a single volume, making them available to an international audience for the first time.
Kasian Tejapira, Commodifying Marxism: The Formation of Modern Thai Radical Culture (Paperback)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
This study reveals a process of cultural and political interaction resulting in a mutual transformation of exogenous Marxism and indigenous Thai culture. Tejapira traces the introduction of Sino-Vietnamese communism into Siam during the absolute monarchy in the late 1920s until the late 1950s when, under the military regime, it emerges as a particularly Thai cultural phenomenon. Marxism/communism entered the post-war Thai cultural market in the form of printed commodities, whose demand, supply and reproduction ebbed and flowed with the volatile and violent tide of international and domestic events. It was paradoxically diffused but dissolved by capitalist publishing, censored yet promoted by anti-communist authoritarian regimes. Through this process some Thai radical intellectuals translated Marxism/communism into the Thai language and rhyming verse.
Kenji Kosaka (ed.), A Sociology of Happiness: Japanese Perspectives (hardcover)
Category: Advanced Social Research Series
This is a hardcover version.
Kasian Tejapira, Commodifying Marxism (Hardcover)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
This is the hardcover edition of the above title.
Shozo Kojima, A Search for the Origins of Human Speech (Hardcover)
Category: Joint Publications with Kyoto Univ Press
Published in February 2003.
Tohru Nakashizuka and Nigel Stork, Biodiversity Research Methods: IBOY in Western Pacific and Asia
Category: Joint Publications with Kyoto Univ Press
Developed from extensive preliminary research for IBOY (International Biodiversity Observation Year) conducted throughout the Western Pacific and Asian regions, BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH METHODS includes detailed research methodologies for forests, freshwater and coastal marine environments. It aims to ensure that the results of research at different study sites are meaningfully comparable, thereby enhancing our understanding of biodiversity distribution and its role in ecosystem function.
Yoshihiro Tsubouchi, One Malay Village: A Thirty-Year Community Study (Paperback)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
In a society recognized for its multi-racial constitution, the relative homogeneity of Kelantan has inspired numerous researchers to seek the 'essence' of 'Malay-ness' in the traditional ethnic events and distinctive form of Islam practiced there. Drawing on the research conducted during more than ten site-visits to the Kelantan community over a 30 year period, One Malay Village is a comparison of Tubouchi's initial and final surveys. Through the juxtaposition of two 'snap-shots' taken twenty years apart he reveals a process of change occurring in the community which even the locals are at risk of over-looking. The rapid changes experienced by this Malay community expose the limitations of analytic frameworks such as urban-rural community, modernization, and urbanization.
Yoshihiro Tsubouchi, One Malay Village: A Thirty-Years Community Study (Hardcover)
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
This book is the hardcover version of the above title.
Kunio Yoshihira, The Nation and Economic Growth: Korea and Thailand
Category: Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
The book urges economists to pay greater attention to the nation as the context of economic growth. By taking Korea and Thailand as a pair of contrasting nations, the author shows how a nation's economic growth is influenced by the culture and institutions imbedded in it.