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Secrets, Sex, and Spectacleby Mark D. West
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 38.00A leader of a global superpower is betrayed by his mistress, who makes public the sordid details of their secret affair. His wife stands by as he denies the charges. Debates over definitions of moral leadership ensue. Sound familiar? If you guessed Clinton and Lewinsky, try again. This incident involved former Japanese prime minister Sosuke Uno and a geisha. In Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle, Mark D. West organizes the seemingly random worlds of Japanese and American scandal—from corporate fraud to baseball cheaters, political corruption to celebrity sexcapades—to explore well-ingrained similarities and contrasts in law and society. In Japan and the United States, legal and organizational rules tell us what kind... more...
A History of Japanby Richard Mason; John Caiger
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 18.95A fascinating look at Japan from its early pre-history through the post-cold War period to the collapse of the Bubble Economy in the early 1990's. Recent findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture. Also included here is an in-depth analysis of the religion, arts and culture of the Japanese people form the 6th century B.C.E. to the present. This contemporary classic, now updated and revised, continues to be an essential text in Japanese studies. more...
Interpreting Japanese Societyby Joy Hendry
Routledge 1998; US$ 64.95First published in 1986 Interpreting Japanese Society became something of a classic in its field. In this newly updated edition, the value of anthropology in understanding this ancient and complex nation is clearly demonstrated. more...
Japan's Minoritiesby Michael Weiner
Routledge 1996; US$ 59.95Provides clear historical introductions to the six principal ethnic minority groups in Japan, including the Ainu, Chinese, Koreans and Okinawans , and discusses their place in contemporary Japanese society. more...
Japanby David Williams
Routledge 1993; US$ 64.95Analyses the challenge that Japan's public policy presents to Western traditions of theory practice in political economy: an important discussion that confronts Fukuyama's 'end of history' thesis. more...
Business of Japanese Foreign Aidby Marie Soderberg
RoutledgeCurzon 1996; US$ 195.00This work focuses on the procedures, methodologies and business mechanisms of foreign aid that influence the process of policy-making in Tokyo. more...
Japan's Asia Policyby Wolf Mendl
Routledge 1997; US$ 59.95Wolf Mendl's lucid and scholarly analysis addresses and illuminates the problems of reconciling Japan's complex Asia policy with the pursuit of global interests in uncharted post Cold-War waters. more...
Factories of Deathby Sheldon H. Harris
Routledge 1995; US$ 49.95Fresh evidence from newly released sources clarifies the shocking story of Japanese human experiments in Manchuria during the War, and reveals the true extent of the subsequent US cover-up. more...
Japan, Race and Equalityby Naoko Shimazu
Routledge 1998; US$ 39.95Explores the Japanese motivations in raising the proposal for racial equality at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Offering new insights, this is the first comprehensive analysis of an historically significant event. more...
Japan's Economic Power and Securityby Christopher W. Hughes
RoutledgeCurzon 1999; US$ 195.00The first study to investigate, in depth, Japan's reaction to the recent diplomatic, military and economic security crisis generated by North Korea. more...