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Author: Richard Donovan Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527544141 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 186
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This anthology presents a survey of recent scholarship on Japanese literature—classical, postwar, and contemporary—and Japan studies from both established and up-and-coming academics based in the West and East. This collection of cutting-edge scholarship offers a snapshot of the current state of Japan studies in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The first section of the book considers the Heian period and its literature from the perspective of female authors and their works. The second part explores postwar prose and poetry, as well as the writing of contemporary author Haruki Murakami, relating them all to issues present in Japan’s wider society. Finally, the third section puts Japan and its writings within the global context, comparing them with other historical, cultural and linguistic milieus, and considering the role of translation in representing Japanese literature to the world.
Author: Richard Donovan Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527544141 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 186
Book Description
This anthology presents a survey of recent scholarship on Japanese literature—classical, postwar, and contemporary—and Japan studies from both established and up-and-coming academics based in the West and East. This collection of cutting-edge scholarship offers a snapshot of the current state of Japan studies in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The first section of the book considers the Heian period and its literature from the perspective of female authors and their works. The second part explores postwar prose and poetry, as well as the writing of contemporary author Haruki Murakami, relating them all to issues present in Japan’s wider society. Finally, the third section puts Japan and its writings within the global context, comparing them with other historical, cultural and linguistic milieus, and considering the role of translation in representing Japanese literature to the world.
Author: Steven J. Ericson Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501746936 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 146
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With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan overturns widely held views of the program carried out by Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi. As Ericson shows, rather than constituting an orthodox financial-stabilization program—a sort of precursor of the "neoliberal" reforms promoted by the IMF in the 1980s and 1990s—Matsukata's policies differed in significant ways from both classical economic liberalism and neoliberal orthodoxy. The Matsukata financial reform has become famous largely for the wrong reasons, and Ericson sets the record straight. He shows that Matsukata intended to pursue fiscal retrenchment and budget-balancing when he became finance minister in late 1881. Various exigencies, including foreign military crises and a worsening domestic depression, compelled him instead to increase spending by running deficits and floating public bonds. Though he drastically reduced the money supply, he combined the positive and contractionary policies of his immediate predecessors to pull off a program of "expansionary austerity" paralleling state responses to financial crisis elsewhere in the world both then and now. Through a new and much-needed recalibration of this pivotal financial reform, Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan demonstrates that, in several ways, ranging from state-led export promotion to the creation of a government-controlled central bank, Matsukata advanced policies that were more in line with a nationalist, developmentalist approach than with a liberal economic one. Ericson shows that Matsukata Masayoshi was far from a rigid adherent of classical economic liberalism.
Author: Travis Senzaki Publisher: Travis Senzaki ISBN: Category : Study Aids Languages : en Pages : 208
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How do you earn the MEXT scholarship for graduate studies in Japan? Mastering the MEXT Scholarship Application: The TranSenz Guide is your step-by-step guide to the scholarship application process and maximizing your chances of success. Regardless of whether you're hearing about the scholarship for the first time or if you have experience applying in the past, this series will take you from being just one more applicant hoping to get lucky to creating and applying a deliberate approach to maximize your chances of success. How to Apply for the MEXT Scholarship will help you begin that process, test your eligibility and competitiveness, and set you up with the strategy and mentality you need to stand out from the competition. You will learn: 1. What the MEXT Scholarship offers plus where, when, and how to apply 2. The mindset you need to set yourself apart from other applicants and win the scholarship 3. The difference between the embassy- and university-recommended application processes, and how to get started with each 4. How competitive the application is and why you need to develop an application strategy 5. How to perform an eligibility self-evaluation - including checking to see if you have the grades to apply 6. How to establish your application strategy and position yourself to overcome the competition and become one of the few, elite scholarship winners Throughout the book, you will find optional exercises and downloadable worksheets, to help you determine your eligibility and create your application strategy to maximize your application's potential. Distilled Expertise from Thousands of Applicants Travis Senzaki has spent seven years working in international student recruiting and acceptance for Japanese universities, including three years as the direct point of contact for all MEXT scholarship inquiries and applications at a large, private university. He has personally processed hundreds of applications and has used his experience to help over 5000 MEXT scholarship applicants through the process through the TranSenz Blog, one of the world's leading independent sources of information and advice on the MEXT scholarship. Travis' Mastering the MEXT Scholarship Application: The TranSenz Guidebuilds on his blog articles and well over 2000 questions submitted through the blog, as well as exhaustive research of successful applicants'approaches and experiences to bring you the best practices for every step of the application process. Get started today! This is a long application process - over a year in most cases - and you want to give yourself months to prepare in advance. Download and start reading today!
Author: William M. Tsutsui Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1405193395 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 633
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A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies
Author: Akihiro Ogawa Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000054209 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 385
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Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from ‘demystifying the Japanese’, to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond. Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Studies away from the West to the Asia-Pacific region, this book identifies topic areas in which research focusing on Japan will play an important role in global debates in the coming years. This includes the evolution of area studies, coping with aging populations, the various patterns of migration and environmental breakdown. With chapters from an international team of contributors, including significant representation from the Asia-Pacific region, this book enacts Yoshio Sugimoto’s notion of ‘cosmopolitan methodology’ to discuss Japan in an interdisciplinary and transnational context and provides overviews of how Japanese Studies is evolving in other Asian countries such as China and Indonesia. New Frontiers in Japanese Studies is a thought-provoking volume and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese and Asian Studies. The Introduction and Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author: Helen Hardacre Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004644865 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 453
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This volume of twelve essays with useful bibliographies, in the fields of history, art, religion, literature, anthropology, political science, and law, documents the history of United States scholarship on Japan since 1945.
Author: Helen Hardacre Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004109810 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 462
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This volume of twelve essays with useful bibliographies, in the fields of history, art, religion, literature, anthropology, political science, and law, documents the history of United States scholarship on Japan since 1945.
Author: Joseph A. Seeley Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501777408 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 141
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Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's seasonal patterns of freezing, thawing, and flooding shaped colonial efforts to control who and what could cross the border. Joseph A. Seeley shows how the unpredictable movements of water, ice, timber-cutters, anti-Japanese guerrillas, smugglers, and other borderland actors also spilled outside the bounds set by Japanese colonizers, even as imperial border-making reinforced Japan's wider political and economic power. Drawing on archival sources in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English, Seeley tells the story of the river and the imperial border haphazardly imposed on its surface from 1905 to 1945 to show how rivers and other nonhuman actors play an active role in border creation and maintenance. Emphasizing the tenuous, environmentally contingent nature of imperial border governance, Border of Water and Ice argues for the importance of understanding history across the different seasons.
Author: Richard Donovan
Author: Richard Donovan
Author: Steven J. Ericson
Author: Travis Senzaki
Author: William M. Tsutsui
Author: James William Morley
Author: Akihiro Ogawa
Author: Helen Hardacre
Author: Helen Hardacre
Author: Joseph A. Seeley
Author: Evarts Boutell Greene