3 May 2005
Book launch
New Paradigm in Macroeconomics
‘New Paradigm in Macroeconomics’ is published by Palgrave Macmillan. It is both a powerful and important book, which challenges both much received wisdom and the role of the Bank of Japan.
Events category: Book launch
23 March 2005
Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School and Co-Prosperity
‘Political Philosophy in Japan’ is published by Routledge and is the first in the series ‘The Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics and History’.
10 February 2005
Book launch
Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle: the case of the cotton textile industry, 1945-1975
Today, the importance of hanging scrolls in Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines as well as in the tea ceremony remains strong, as does their place in the Japanese home, with scrolls selected according to the season; demonstrating how traditional culture is preserved and incorporated into everyday life in Japanese society
26 September 2006
Book launch
BAJS Research Project:Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature
In May 2001, under the aegis of the British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS), a special collaborative research programme was initiated to enhance intellectual exchanges, fill gaps in the existing literature, and develop new academic networks between scholars in the United Kingdom and Japan. Professor Glenn Hook, Professor Mark Williams, and Dr Naoko Shimazu, took
7 May 2008
Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Resurgent Economy
The fourth edition of ‘Governing Japan’ is much revised and expanded to take into account developments in the new millennium. It argues against the view that Japanese politics is guided by consensus, revealing instead fundamental differences of opinion over many issues of substance.
12 March 2008
Book launch
Citizens and the State; Political Cultures in Asia and Europe; Globalisation, Public Opinion and the State
This series of three volumes focuses on comparative politics and international relations in Asia and Europe from a citizen-based perspective. The speakers drew on themes and comparisons from these studies to highlight differences in attitudes and relationships in contemporary political life in Asia and Europe.
21 July 2011
The English-Language Press Networks of East Asia, 1918-1945
English-language newspapers such as the Japan Advertiser, North-China Daily News, Japan Chronicle, China Press, Japan Times, and Seoul Press occupied a vital segment of the public sphere in East Asia in the first half of the 20th century. As forums of opinion on Japanese, Chinese and Western interests in East Asia they also served as vehicles of propaganda, particularly during the crisis-ridden 1930s and the Pacific War.
5 December 2006
Book launch
Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan
Since the bursting of the ‘Bubble Economy’, and the decade and a half of stagnation which followed, work and employment in Japan have been said on many occasions to have undergone some profound changes. This has been matched with a renewed interest among scholars in the structures, processes and cultures of work in Japan.
7 November 2006
A Japanese Menagerie: animal pictures by Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–89) was a highly individualistic painter of the late Edo and early Meiji eras in Japan, his career spanning from the end of the feudal system to the beginnings of rapid modernisation. His first name meant ‘crazy studio’ and in the 1860s he developed a new genre of ‘crazy pictures’ (kyōga).
2 November 2006
Mrs Ferguson’s Tea-set, Japan and the Second World War: The Global Consequences Following Germany’s Sinking of the SS Automedon in 1940
Offering a Japanese perspective for the first time, the book tracks the role of the Japanese navy as a silent partner and active participant in the war at sea against Britain and her allies prior to Japan’s entry into the Second World War at Pearl Harbor.