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Merleau-Ponty and Nishida
(October 2019)
Artistic Expression as Motor-Perceptual Faith
Adam Loughnane - Author
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Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida into dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers’ meditations on artistic expression.
In Merleau-Ponty and Nishida, Adam Loughnane initiates a dialogue between two of the twentieth century’s most important phenomenologists from the Eastern and Western philosophical worlds. He guides the reader through the comp...(Read More) |
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Help (Not) Wanted
(August 2019)
Immigration Politics in Japan
Michael Strausz - Author
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Shows how Japan’s immigration policy is shaped by the nature of Japan’s economy and elite debates about the country’s national identity.
In Help (Not) Wanted, Michael Strausz offers an original and provocative answer to a question that has long perplexed observers of Japan: Why has Japan’s immigration policy remained so restrictive, especially in light of economic, demographic, and international po...(Read More) |
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Age of Shojo
(May 2019)
The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls' Magazine Fiction
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase - Author
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Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase examines the role that magazines have played in the creation and development of the concept of shōjo, the modern cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Cloaking their ideas in the ...(Read More) |
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Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan
(March 2019)
Legends, Classics, and Historical Terms
Wai-ming Ng - Author
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Pioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies.
While current scholarship on Tokugawa Japan (1603–1868) tends to see China as either a model or “the Other,” Wai-ming Ng’s pioneering and ambitious study offers a new perspective by suggesting that Chinese culture also functioned as a collection of “cultural buildi...(Read More) |
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Nothingness in the Heart of Empire
(March 2019)
The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan
Harumi Osaki - Author
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Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School’s moral and political philosophy, based on the school’s founder Nishida Kitarō’s metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism.
In the field of philosophy, the common view of philosophy as an essentially Western discipline persists even today, while non-Western philosophy tends to be undervalued and not investigated seriously. In t...(Read More) |
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Inoue Enryo
(February 2019)
A Philosophical Portrait
Rainer Schulzer - Author
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The first comprehensive treatment of Inoue Enryō, a pioneer of modern Buddhism and a key figure in the reception of Western philosophy in East Asia.
Rainer Schulzer provides the first comprehensive study, in English, of the modern Japanese philosopher Inoue Enryō (1858–1919). Enryō was a key figure in several important intellectual trends in Meiji Japan, including the establishment of academic philosophy, th...(Read More) |
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The Journal of Japanese Philosophy - Annual
(September 2018)
Mayuko Uehara - Editor-in-Chief
Ching-yuen Cheung - Assistant editor
Leah Kalmanson - Assistant editor
John W. M. Krummel - Assistant editor
Curtis Rigsby - Book Review editor
Anton Luis Sevilla - Book Review editor
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The first international, peer-reviewed journal of Japanese philosophy.
Interest in Japanese philosophy has grown throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and this first international peer-reviewed journal serves to both develop these traditions of thought and enhance worldwide awareness of them and the resources they offer. The Journal of Japanese Philosophy is devoted to scholarly engagement with a wide r...(Read More) |
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