TY - BOOK AU - Ogawa,Akihiro AU - Ogawa,Akihiro AU - Seaton,Philip TI - New Frontiers in Japanese Studies SN - 9780367406806 PY - 2020/// PB - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint] KW - Anthropology KW - thema KW - Civilization KW - fast KW - Economic history KW - Interdisciplinary studies KW - Politics and government KW - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects KW - Regional / International studies KW - Social conditions KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General KW - Society and Social Sciences KW - Sociology and anthropology KW - Sociology KW - Japanese culture and society KW - Japanese politics KW - Japanese studies N1 - Free-to-read N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/40103 ER -