4 March 2008
Japan’s traditional folk songs (min’yō) have strong links with local identity and particular places. The growth of domestic tourism actually strengthened this trend: even the professionally-composed ‘new min’yō’ of the 1930s, commissioned by railway companies and the like, usually included local place names in their titles.
7 February 2008
One of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) in late-eighteenth-century Japan, Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?–1806) was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women.
22 January 2008
The book launch of Santō Kyōden’s famous early nineteenth-century novel ‘The Straw Sandal, or The Scroll of the Hundred Crabs’ was a celebration of Carmen Blacker’s career as scholar and writer.
10 December 2009
What happens to the traditional work practices of Japanese firms when they are taken over by European and American firms? How do the employees react? What lessons can be learned from examples of successful and unsuccessful acquisitions?
26 November 2009
Japan’s Showa era began in 1926 when Emperor Hirohito took the throne and ended on his death in 1989. It was undoubtedly the most momentous, calamitous, successful and glamorous period in Japan’s recent history.
30 September 2009
‘The Transformation of the Japanese Left’ examines the transition within the Japanese party system that has seen the demise of ‘the old socialists’, the Japan Socialist Party, and in its place, the emergence of the Democratic Party of Japan as the leading opposition party.
6 March 2009
‘Japanese Society at War’ was launched on 5 March 2009 with a presentation by Dr Naoko Shimazu, chaired by Dr Stephen Large.
19 May 2011
In the period 1946-48, as a member of the British Occupation Force in Japan, which formed part of the Allied Occupation following the Asia-Pacific War of 1941-45, Ian Nish collected a number of documents which throw light on the attitudes of the Japanese people in the latter part of the war and the equally critical first two years of the peace.
27 January 2009
This study examines how Japanese policy toward Middle East security issues is shaped by the need to both maintain Japan’s security alliance with the US and its oil relationship with states in the Middle East. Yukiko Miyagi introduces the historic roots of Japan’s policy, and then focuses on the major contemporary cases – the Iraq war, the Iranian nuclear crisis, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, to expose and explain how clashing interests and dilemmas were negotiated to arrive at policy outcomes.
27 January 2010
This book casts new light on the struggle for Buraku liberation, the international peace movement and the left wing in Japan between 1945-1966.
