03438namaa2200685uu 4500 oapen40103 oapen 20251217011850.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240424s2020a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 1133663901 OCoLC 9780367406806 9780367821494 10.4324/9780367821494 doi (OCoLC)1133663901 oapen oapen eng dc G thema GT thema GTM thema J thema JH thema JHB thema JHM thema JP thema Ogawa, Akihiro aut New Frontiers in Japanese Studies Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2020 1 online resource (258 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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 https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Anthropology thema Civilization fast Economic history fast Interdisciplinary studies thema Politics and government fast Politics and government thema Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects thema Regional / International studies thema Social conditions fast SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General bisacsh Society and Social Sciences thema Sociology and anthropology thema Sociology thema Japanese culture and society Japanese politics Japanese studies Ogawa, Akihiro edt Seaton, Philip edt OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/40103 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 37108 37108