Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.
Mired in national crises since the early 1990s, Japan has had to respond to a rapid population decline; the Asian and global financial crises; the 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukus...(Read More)
Before Identity
(February 2021)
The Question of Method in Japan Studies Richard F. Calichman - Author
Aims to introduce a greater degree of theoretical rigor to the discipline of Japan studies as a whole.
Before Identity represents the first attempt to provide a comprehensive examination of the methodological ground of Japan studies. At its most basic level, the field presupposes the immediate empirical existence of an entity known as the “Japanese people” or “Japane...(Read More)
Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked.
The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices, and to read their work as Buddhist literature. Its distinctive contribution is its focus on modern literature ...(Read More)
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)
The Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Vol. #6, Issue #1 (3/2020) 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 Dennis Stromback - Editorial assistant
Urban Migrants in Rural Japan
(February 2020)
Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society Susanne Klien - Author
Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan.
2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Urban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-growth Japan. By exploring narratives and trajectories of indi...(Read More)
Merleau-Ponty and Nishida
(December 2019)
Artistic Expression as Motor-Perceptual Faith Adam Loughnane - Author
Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in 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 fascinating new dialogue between two of the twentieth century’s most important phenomenologists of the Eastern and Western philosophical worlds. Throughout the book, ...(Read More)
Help (Not) Wanted
(August 2019)
Immigration Politics in Japan Michael Strausz - Author
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, demograp...(Read More)
Age of Shojo
(May 2019)
The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls' Magazine Fiction Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase - Author
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 ...(Read More)
