Böcker i Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies-serien

This book explores the myth, so abused by the mass media, that the Japanese are a grey, anonymous mass of efficient, obedient workers.

This book inquires what is meant when we say `local¿ and what `local¿ means in the Japanese context. Through the window of locality, it enhances an understanding of broader political and socio-economic shifts in Japan.

This book approaches the concept of tenko (political conversion) as a response to the global crisis of interwar modernity, as opposed to a distinctly Japanese experience in postwar debates.

This book approaches the concept of tenk¿ (political conversion) as a response to the global crisis of interwar modernity, as opposed to a distinctly Japanese experience in postwar debates.

Traces the principal currents in Japanese economic thought since the first half of the 19th century and shows how these currents have been influenced by the changing economic and social environment within Japan.

Credits Japan's industrial success to innovation and training, looking at the pre-War period and in depth at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard. The book has implications for industrial development worldwide.

An inspiring analysis of events surrounding two women's attempted assassination of the Emperor of Japan, and the separate penalties faced by these women both in terms of their death sentences and the wider context surrounding their lives.

This study provides a social anthropologist's perspective of the role of numbers and numeracy in Japanese popular culture. It explores the cultural roots of attitudes towards numbers and makes inferences about a culture in which numeracy is high but the level of academic maths relatively low.

While the US-Japan alliance has strengthened since the end of the Cold War Japan has, almost unnoticed, been building security ties with other partners, in the process reducing the centrality of the US in Japan¿s security; this book explains why this is happening.

Translation of: Gendai Nihon no jichikai, chonaikai / Tsujinaka Yutaka, Robato Pekkanen, Yamamoto Hidehiro.

While this text primarily reveals how academic nations are conceptualized through views of nature, culture and science, the author simultaneously identifies comparable problems concerning the relation between social science research and the development of the nation state.