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Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy
Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as much is what he needed self-therapy …
Empire and Constitution in Modern Japan
Since the beginning of the Meiji period when Japan evolved into a modern and powerful nation-state, ideas of empire and constitution imbued Japanese rule and progress. In Empire …
The Translocal Island of Okinawa
The Translocal Island of Okinawa reveals the underrepresented memories, visions and actions that are involved in the making of Okinawan resistance against its subordinated status …
Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan
The Great East Japan Disaster – a compound catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that began on March 11, 2011 – has ushered in a new era of cultural production …
Japan's Empire of Birds
As a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology focuses on the political aspects of highly mobile Japanese …
The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga
This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in …
Transwar Asia
This volume considers the possibilities of the term ‘transwar’ to understand the history of Asia from the 1920s to the 1960s. Recently, scholars have challenged earlier studies …
Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia
This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of …
Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan's Empire
Ongoing arguments over how histories are honoured – as evidenced by the conflict between South Korea and Japan over the opening of Tokyo’s Heritage Information Centre in June 2020 …
A History of Economic Thought in Japan
This ground-breaking book provides the first English-language survey of economic thought in modern Japan. Significantly, it offers both a detailed study of economic thought from …