<p>Globalizing Japan explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on an everyday basis. Both consciously and unconsciously, we regularly come into contact with Japan's industrial and cultural globalization, from cameras and automobiles to judo, cuisine or animation. Japan's presence in the popular imagination is heavily influenced both by the country's historical past and its global present. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Anthropology and Cultural Studies.</p>

Globalizing Japan (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies)

Befu, Harumi

Reference

Routledge

Treats in considerable detail, the entire history of whaling in Japan and the nature of contemporary coastal whale fishery. It provides a useful context for a wide range of topics which include: the organization of small-type coastal whaling, the commercial and non-commercial distribution of whale meat, the importance of whales as a source of food, social integration, and whaling culture.

Small-Type Coastal Whaling in Japan: Report of an International Workshop (Occasional Publications Series (Inactive))

Politics & Social Sciences

Hardacre, Helen

Manderson, Lenore

Bestor, Theodore C.

Takahashi, Junichi

Freeman, Milton M.R.

Akimichi, Tomoya

Asquith, Pamela J.

Braund, Stephen R.

Iwasaki, Masami

Kalland, Arne

Moeran, Brian D.

Social Sciences

CCI Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press

Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese Presence in Asia, Europe, and America

<p>Much of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain stereotypes about the Japanese. Harumi Befu spearheaded the critique of the stereotypical and the essentialized characterization of the Japanese and their culture, often referred to as Nihonjinron. He now presents his summary statements in this book by reviewing the whole gamut of the Nihonjinron literature, ranging from ecology, rural community structure, personality, language, values and ethos. He shows the roles Nihonjinron plays for the identity formation of the Japanese and as the idealized norm of the society in orienting the public. Elaborating on the way in which Nihonjinron functions as a civil religion, the book outlines how a period of positive self-identity has alternated with a period of negative self-identity since the Meiji period.</p>

Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron

History

Asia

Trans Pacific Press

An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context (Japanese Society Series)

This is the first English version of Tadao Umesao's classic, published first in Japanese in 1957, with a full description of his "ecological theory" of civilizations of Eurasia. Dividing the Eurasian continent into three major ecological zones consisting of Western Europe, Japan, and the region between them, he shows how the first two are basically similar and demonstrates fundamental differences between Japan and China. In 1964 a jury of ten intellectuals chose this treatise as one of the 18 most influential treatises since 1945 from among more than a hundred which were considered. In 1998, when an influential monthly, Bungei Shunju, solicited "the ten most impactful books" in the twentieth century from more than 170 intellectuals in Japan, this book won the third highest vote among 67 books that were nominated.

Cary, Beth

Umesao, Tadao

Kreiner, Josef

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