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Intimate Encounters

Author : Lieba Faier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520944593
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Encounters written by Lieba Faier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars-where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners-came to be identified by the local residents as "ideal, traditional Japanese brides."Intimate Encounters, an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a "zone of encounters," showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. Intimate Encounters provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora.

Japan Encounters the Barbarian

Author : Emeritus Professor W G Beasley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300063240
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Japan Encounters the Barbarian written by Emeritus Professor W G Beasley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a hundred years the Japanese have looked to the West for ideas, institutions and technology that would help them achieve their goal of 'national wealth and strength'. In this book a distinguished historian of Japan discusses Japan's 'cultural borrowing' from America and Europe. W. G. Beasley focuses on the mid-nineteenth century, when Japan's rulers dispatched diplomatic missions to the West to discover what Japan needed to learn, sent students abroad to assimilate information and invited foreign experts to Japan to help put the knowledge to practical use. Beasley examines the origins of the decision to initiate direct study of the West at a time when western countries counted as 'barbarian' by Confucian standards. Drawing on many colourful letters, diaries, memoirs and reports, he describes the missions sent overseas in 1860 and 1862, in 1865-1867 and in the years after 1868, in particular the prestigious embassy led by Iwakura in 1871-1873. The book also tells the story of the several hundred students who went overseas in this period. It concludes by assessing the impact of the encounters on the subsequent development of Japan, first by examining the later careers of the travellers and the influence they exercised (they included no fewer than six prime ministers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), and then by considering the nature of the ideas they brought home.

Encounters with Japan

Author : Richard Tames
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780750900034
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encounters with Japan written by Richard Tames and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of British and Americans in Japan between its opening-up in 1850 and the ending of the Japanese/Anglo alliance in 1923, mostly told in the words of the visitors themselves.

Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan

Author : Yoko Yamasaki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317354389
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan written by Yoko Yamasaki and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan provides a critical analysis of educational initiatives, progressive ideas and developments in curriculum and pedagogy in Japan, from 1900 to the present day. Drawing on evidence of both cultural encounters and internal drivers for progressivism and reform, this book re-evaluates the history of Japanese education to help inform ongoing and future debates about education policy and practice worldwide. With contributions from Japanese scholars specialising in the history and philosophy of education and curriculum studies, chapters consider key collaborative improvements to teacher education, as well as group learning, ‘life education’, the creative arts and writing, and education for girls and women. The book examines Western influences, including John Dewey, Carleton Washburne and A. S. Neill, as well as Japan’s own progressive exports, such as holistic Zenjin education, Children’s Villages and Lesson Study, highlighting cultural encounters and progressive initiatives at both transnational and national levels. The chapters reflect on historical and political background, motivations, influences and the impact of Japanese progressive education. They also stimulate, through argument and critical discussion, a continuing discourse concerning principles, policy, politics and practices of education in an increasingly globalised society. A rigorous and critical study of the history of progressive education in Japan, this book will interest an international readership of academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of progressive education, comparative education, social and cultural history, history of education, Japanese studies, curriculum studies, and the history of childhood.

The African American Encounter with Japan and China

Author : Marc Gallicchio
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860689
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The African American Encounter with Japan and China written by Marc Gallicchio and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to focus on African American attitudes toward Japan and China, Marc Gallicchio examines the rise and fall of black internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. This daring new approach to world politics failed in its effort to seek solidarity with the two Asian countries, but it succeeded in rallying black Americans in the struggle for civil rights. Black internationalism emphasized the role of race or color in world politics and linked the domestic struggle of African Americans with the freedom struggle of emerging nations "of color," such as India and much of Africa. In the early twentieth century, black internationalists, including W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, embraced Japan as a potential champion of the darker races, despite Japan's imperialism in China. After Pearl Harbor, black internationalists reversed their position and identified Nationalist China as an ally in the war against racism. In the end, black internationalism was unsuccessful as an interpretation of international affairs. The failed quest for alliances with Japan and China, Gallicchio argues, foreshadowed the difficulty black Americans would encounter in seeking redress for American racism in the international arena.

Encounters with Japan

Author : Steven Wardell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Encounters with Japan written by Steven Wardell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Company and the Shogun

Author : Adam Clulow
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231535732
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Company and the Shogun written by Adam Clulow and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process. This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the Dutch were forced to retreat, compelled to abandon their claims to sovereign powers, and to refashion themselves again and again—from subjects of a fictive king to loyal vassals of the shogun, from aggressive pirates to meek merchants, and from insistent defenders of colonial sovereignty to legal subjects of the Tokugawa state. Within the confines of these conflicts, the terms of the relationship between the company and the shogun first took shape and were subsequently set into what would become their permanent form. The first book to treat the Dutch East India Company in Japan as something more than just a commercial organization, The Company and the Shogun presents new perspective on one of the most important, long-lasting relationships to develop between an Asian state and a European overseas enterprise.

America encounters Japan

Author : William L. Neumann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book America encounters Japan written by William L. Neumann and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paris in Japan

Author : Shūji Takashina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Paris in Japan written by Shūji Takashina and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encounters with Aging

Author : Margaret M. Lock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520916623
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Encounters with Aging written by Margaret M. Lock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-20 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly detailed account of Japanese women's lives. The result offers irrefutable evidence that the experience and meanings—even the endocrinological changes—associated with female midlife are far from universal. Rather, Lock argues, they are the product of an ongoing dialectic between culture and local biologies. Japanese focus on middle-aged women as family members, and particularly as caretakers of elderly relatives. They attach relatively little importance to the end of menstruation, seeing it as a natural part of the aging process and not a diseaselike state heralding physical decline and emotional instability. Even the symptoms of midlife are different: Japanese women report few hot flashes, for example, but complain frequently of stiff shoulders. Articulate, passionate, and carefully documented, Lock's study systematically undoes the many preconceptions about aging women in two distinct cultural settings. Because it is rooted in the everyday lives of Japanese women, it also provides an excellent entree to Japanese society as a whole. Aging and menopause are subjects that have been closeted behind our myths, fears, and misconceptions. Margaret Lock's cross-cultural perspective gives us a critical new lens through which to examine our assumptions.

Japan's Imperial Underworlds

Author : David R. Ambaras
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108470114
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Japan's Imperial Underworlds written by David R. Ambaras and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Sino-Japanese relations through encounters that took place between each country's people living at the margins of empire.

The Forgotten Japanese

Author : Tsuneichi Miyamoto
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1933330805
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Japanese written by Tsuneichi Miyamoto and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look into the hearts of the Japanese people and at rural lifestyles that have all but disappeared, in a long-awaited translation of a classic text by one of Japan's great folklore scholars.

America Encounters Japan

Author : William Louis Neumann
Publisher : Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book America Encounters Japan written by William Louis Neumann and published by Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Japanese Encounters

Author : Eyal Ben-Ari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351680080
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Encounters written by Eyal Ben-Ari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the multiplicity of special times and spaces in Japan within which people get together to decide, celebrate or play, in gatherings such as organizational meetings, community festivities, preschool games or drinking bouts. It analyzes these gatherings in relation to the theoretical model of sociocultural frames, examining how such occasions are put together, their unfolding stages, interactive encounters, and relations between participants and the wider social and cultural contexts. It considers the cognitive, emotional and behavioural dimensions, the scope for manipulation and the effects, intentional and unintentional, on participants and the connections to the ways in which in society and culture change. Overall, besides describing specific rites and ceremonies in Japan, the book provides great insights into the process whereby the interactions, feelings and action of individuals and groups shape popular culture.

Mirror in the Shrine

Author : Robert A. Rosenstone
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674576414
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Mirror in the Shrine written by Robert A. Rosenstone and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the travels of Griffis, Morse, and Hearn in the late 1800s, these stories evoke the immediacy of daily experience in Meiji, Japan, a nation still feudal in many of its habits yet captivating to Westerners for its gentleness, beauty, and pure charm. Illustrated.

Japan on the Silk Road

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004274316
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Japan on the Silk Road written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan on the Silk Road provides for the first time the historical background indispensable for understanding Japan's current perspectives and policies in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Japanese diplomats, military officers, archaeologists, and linguists traversed the Silk Road, involving Japan in the Great Game and exploring ancient civilizations.The book exposes the entanglements of pre-war Japanese Pan-Asianism with Pan-Islamism, Turkic nationalism and Mongolian independence as a global history of imperialism. Japanese connections to Ottoman Turkey, India, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, and China at the same time reveal a discrete global narrative of cosmopolitanism and transnationality. The global team of scholars brings to light Japan’s intellectual and political encounters with the peoples and cultures of Asia, in particular Turks and Persians, Hindus and Muslims of India, Mongolians and the Uyghur of Inner Asia, and Muslims in China. Contributors include: Ian Nish, Christopher Szpilman, Sven Saaler, Selcuk Esenbel, Li Narangoa, Komatsu Hisao, Brij Tankha, Erdal Küçükyalcın, A. Merthan Dündar, Katayama Akio, Miyuki Aoki Girardelli, Klaus Röhborn, Mehmet Ölmez, Banu Kaygusuz, Oğuz Baykara, and Satō Masako.

Civilization and Empire

Author : Shogo Suzuki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134063660
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Empire written by Shogo Suzuki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International Society as a progressive, linear process, this book contends that imperialism – along with an ideology premised on ‘civilising’ ‘barbarous’ peoples – played a central role in its historic development. Considering how these elements of International Society affected China and Japan’s entry into it, Shogo Suzuki contends that such states envisaged a Janus-faced International Society, which simultaneously aimed for cooperative relations among its ‘civilized’ members and for the introduction of ‘civilization’ towards non-European polities, often by coercive means. By examining the complex process by which China and Japan engaged with this dualism, this book highlights a darker side of China and Japan’s socialization into International Society which previous studies have failed to acknowledge. Drawing on Chinese and Japanese primary sources seldom utilized in International Relations, this book makes a compelling case for revising our understandings of International Society and its expansion. This book will be of strong interest to students and researcher of international relations, international history, European studies and Asian Studies.