Beyond Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Japan write by Peter J. Katzenstein. This book was released on 2018-07-05. Beyond Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Have Japan's relative economic decline and China's rapid ascent altered the dynamics of Asian regionalism? Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, the editors of Network Power, one of the most comprehensive volumes on East Asian regionalism in the 1990s, present here an impressive new collection that brings the reader up to date. This book argues that East Asia's regional dynamics are no longer the result of a simple extension of any one national model. While Japanese institutional structures and political practices remain critically important, the new East Asia now under construction is more than, and different from, the sum of its various national parts. At the outset of a new century, the interplay of Japanese factors with Chinese, American, and other national influences is producing a distinctively new East Asian region.
Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan
Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan write by Gill Steel. This book was released on 2019-01-23. Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do Japanese women enjoy a high sense of well-being in a context of high inequality? Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan brings together researchers from across the social sciences to investigate this question. The authors analyze women’s values and the lived experiences at home, in the family, at work, in their leisure time, as volunteers, and in politics and policy-making. Their research shows that the state and firms have blurred “the public” and “the private” in postwar Japan, constraining individuals’ lives, and reveals the uneven pace of change in women’s representation in politics. Yet, despite these constraints, the increasing diversification in how people live and how they manage their lives demonstrates that some people are crafting a variety of individual solutions to structural problems. Covering a significant breadth of material, the book presents comprehensive findings that use a variety of research methods—public opinion surveys, in-depth interviews, a life history, and participant observation—and, in doing so, look beyond Japan’s perennially low rankings in gender equality indices to demonstrate the diversity underneath, questioning some of the stereotypical assumptions about women in Japan.
Japanese Beyond Words
Japanese Beyond Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Beyond Words write by Andrew Horvat. This book was released on 2000. Japanese Beyond Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Learn language secrets that are the key to natural speech and winning Japanese.
Ōe and Beyond
Ōe and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ōe and Beyond write by Stephen Snyder. This book was released on 1999-04-01. Ōe and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are the works of contemporary Japanese novelists, as Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo has observed, "mere reflections of the vast consumer culture of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large"? Or do they contain their own critical components, albeit in altered form? Oe and Beyond surveys the accomplishments of Oe and other writers of the postwar generation while looking further to examine the literary parameters of the "Post-Oe" generation. Despite the unprecedented availability today of the work of many of these writers in excellent English translations, some twenty years have passed since a collection of critical essays has appeared to guide the interested reader through the fascinating world of contemporary Japanese fiction. Oe and Beyond is a sampling of the best research and thinking on the current generation of Japanese writers being done in English. The essays in this volume explore such subjects as the continuing resonances of the atomic bombings; the notion of "transnational subjects"; the question of the "de-canonization" (as well as the "re-canonization") of writers; the construction (and deconstruction) of gender models; the quest for spirituality amid contemporary Japanese consumer affluence; post-modernity and Japanese "infantilism"; the intertwining connections between history, myth-making, and discrimination; and apocalyptic visions of fin de siecle Japan. Contributors pursue various methodological and theoretical approaches to reveal the breadth of scholarship on modern Japanese literature. The essays reflect some of the latest thinking, both Western and Japanese, on such topics as subjectivity, gender, history, modernity, and the postmodern. Oe and Beyond includes essays on Endo Shusaku, Hayashi Kyoko, Kanai Mieko, Kurahashi Yumiko, Murakami Haruki, Murakami Ryu, Nakagami Kenji, Oe Kenzaburo, Ohba Minako, Shimada Masahiko, Takahashi Takako, and Yoshimoto Banana. Contributors: Davinder L. Bhowmik, Philip Gabriel, Van C. Gessel, Adrienne Hurley, Susan J. Napier, Sharalyn Orbaugh, Jay Rubin, Atsuko Sakaki, Ann Sherif, Stephen Snyder, Mark Williams, Eve Zimmerman.
Beyond National Borders
Beyond National Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond National Borders write by Kenʹichi Ômae. This book was released on 1988. Beyond National Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
