New Frontiers in Japanese Studies
Ogawa, Akihiro
New Frontiers in Japanese Studies - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2020 - 1 online resource (258 p.)
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Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from 'demystifying the Japanese', to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond. Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Studies away from the West to the Asia-Pacific region, this book identifies topic areas in which research focusing on Japan will play an important role in global debates in the coming years. This includes the evolution of area studies, coping with aging populations, the various patterns of migration and environmental breakdown. With chapters from an international team of contributors, including significant representation from the Asia-Pacific region, this book enacts Yoshio Sugimoto's notion of 'cosmopolitan methodology' to discuss Japan in an interdisciplinary and transnational context and provides overviews of how Japanese Studies is evolving in other Asian countries such as China and Indonesia. New Frontiers in Japanese Studies is a thought-provoking volume and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese and Asian Studies.
Open licence
eng
9780367406806 9780367821494
10.4324/9780367821494 doi
Anthropology
Civilization
Economic history
Interdisciplinary studies
Politics and government
Politics and government
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Regional / International studies
Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Society and Social Sciences
Sociology and anthropology
Sociology
Japanese culture and society Japanese politics Japanese studies
New Frontiers in Japanese Studies - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2020 - 1 online resource (258 p.)
Free-to-read
Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from 'demystifying the Japanese', to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond. Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Studies away from the West to the Asia-Pacific region, this book identifies topic areas in which research focusing on Japan will play an important role in global debates in the coming years. This includes the evolution of area studies, coping with aging populations, the various patterns of migration and environmental breakdown. With chapters from an international team of contributors, including significant representation from the Asia-Pacific region, this book enacts Yoshio Sugimoto's notion of 'cosmopolitan methodology' to discuss Japan in an interdisciplinary and transnational context and provides overviews of how Japanese Studies is evolving in other Asian countries such as China and Indonesia. New Frontiers in Japanese Studies is a thought-provoking volume and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese and Asian Studies.
Open licence
eng
9780367406806 9780367821494
10.4324/9780367821494 doi
Anthropology
Civilization
Economic history
Interdisciplinary studies
Politics and government
Politics and government
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Regional / International studies
Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Society and Social Sciences
Sociology and anthropology
Sociology
Japanese culture and society Japanese politics Japanese studies
