Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society

This Handbook is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Auteur

Victoria Lyon Bestor is Executive Director of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources.

Theodore C. Bestor is Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies at Harvard University.

Akiko Yamagata is a Museum Educator, focusing on East Asian art, at the Harvard Art Museums.

Résumé
The aim of this book is to construct a framework of understanding for those coming to the field of recreational land management from a non-land management discipline.

Contenu

Introduction Victoria Lyon Bestor, Theodore C. Bestor, and Akiko Yamagata Part 1: Social Foundations: Showa-Era Japan and Beyond: From Imperial Japan to Japan Inc. - Peter Duus Four Cultures of Japanese Politics David Leheny The Cultures and Politics of Language in Japan Today Nanette Gottlieb Japanese Education and Education Reform Roger Goodman Religion in Contemporary Japanese Lives Mark R. Mullins Law and Society in Japan Lawrence Repeta The Urbanization of the Japanese Landscape Paul Waley *Part 2: Class, Identity, and* Status: Social Class and Social Identity in Postwar Japan - David Slater The Politics of Gender in Japan Robin M. LeBlanc Change and Diversity in the Japanese Family Merry White Japan's Queer Cultures Mark McLelland Race, Ethnicity, and Minorities in Japan Richard Siddle Life on the Margins in Japan: Homeless, Migrant Day Laborers, and People with Disabilities Carolyn S. Stevens Aging and Social Welfare in Japan Leng Leng Thang The New Prominence of the Civil Sector in Japan Akihiro Ogawa Part 3: Cool Japan: Contemporary Architecture in Japan - William H. Coaldrake Japanese Film and Television Aaron Gerow Manga and Anime: Entertainment, Big Business, and Art in Japan Susan Napier Popular Music in Japan Ian Condry The Sportscape of Contemporary Japan William Kelly Cultural Flows: Japan and East Asia Koichi Iwabuchi Cuisine and Identity in Contemporary Japan Theodore C. Bestor