This book includes: The Power of Renewal; Fight or Fit; Bushido: A Cultural History; Businessmen and Bushi; Birth of the Modern Corporate Samurai; Sword-Wielding; Hierarchical; Loyal; Eudeminic;...
Traces the history of the Ise shrines from the 7th century until today, focusing on the many episodes of crisis that transformed the social landscape around the shrines.
This book focuses on Japan's modernization as a long-term process that is reliant on changing technology and that has led to the nation's full engagement with the global system. Some chapters examine...
An examination of the relationship of overseas Japanese and their descendents (Nikkei) with their home and host nations, focusing on their political, social and economic struggles. The authors...
This book seeks to describe how Japan manipulated existing diplomatic channels to ensure national security. Rather, far from aiming at seclusion, Japan's diplomacy in the seventeenth century was...
This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Japan’s international relations from the end of the Pacific War to the present. Written by leading Japanese authorities on the subject,...
This book provides an analysis and interpretation of Japannese politics, as it has evolved over the past half century, and focuses particularly on the 1990s, a decade of economic troubles and...