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Mirei Shigemori, rebel in the garden : modern Japanese landscape architecture
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ISBN: 3035621764 Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser,

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Mirei Shigemori had a major impact on the development of Japanese landscape architecture in the twentieth century. Active from the 1920s, he founded the Kyoto Garden Society in 1932. In 1939 he designed his own first masterpiece, the garden at the main hall of the Tôfuku-ji temple. From then on he designed 240 gardens all over Japan until his death in 1975; amongst the most famous are the Tenrai-an tea garden (1969) and the Matsuo Taisha garden (1975). The main characteristic of his gardens is that they respect tradition and, at the same time, depart from conventional paradigms by opening up to the influence of Western modernism with its own language. The first part of the book covers Shigemori’s life and factors that influenced his work. The second part contains a detailed illustration of 17 gardens. The book is published as a new and revised edition. Mirei Shigemori prägte maßgeblich die Entwicklung der japanischen Landschaftsarchitektur im 20. Jahrhundert. Seit den 1920er Jahren tätig, gründete er 1932 die Kyotoer Gartengesellschaft und publizierte 1938 das 26-bändige Werk Illustrated Book on the History of the Japanese Garden. Ein Jahr später entwarf er sein erstes eigenes Meisterwerk, den Garten bei der Haupthalle des Tôfuku-ji Tempels. Von da an gestaltete er 240 Gärten in ganz Japan bis zu seinem Tod 1975; zu den berühmtesten gehören der Teegarten Tenrai-an (1969) und der Matsuo Taisha-Garten (1975). Kennzeichen seiner Gärten ist, dass sie die Tradition achten und sich zugleich – in der Öffnung gegenüber den Einflüssen der westlichen Moderne – von dem Althergebrachten durch eine eigene Sprache lösen. Der erste Teil des Buches setzt sich mit dem Leben Shigemoris und den Einflüssen auf sein Werk auseinander. Dabei spielt auch seine Auseinandersetzung mit Ikebana und Teezeremonien eine Rolle. Der zweite Teil stellt 17 Gärten ausführlich dar. Das Buch erscheint in einer überarbeiteten Neuausgabe.


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Exploring the Social Life of Japanese “Manchurian Immigrants”
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ISBN: 9811520852 9811520844 Year: 2020 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,

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The book studies the “Manchurian immigrants” from many important aspects such as agricultural operation, education, religion, and women’s issues. It contains the following features: first, readers can get deeper understanding on the “Manchurian immigrants” policies by investigating the agriculture-based social life of the “Manchurian immigrants” in Northeast China; second, studying the life conditions of the “Manchurian immigrants” can make up for the lack of researches in related field to some extent; third, readers are given chances by this book to learn Japanese society and Japanese people from another facet.


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Japan's Relations with Muslim Asia
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ISBN: 3030342808 3030342794 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book offers a useful and extensive account of Japan’s past discoveries and present interactions with Muslim states and societies across Asia. Bearing in mind the U.S.-led global meta-narrative of Islam spoken in tandem with security and threats, this book examines how this reconciles with Japan’s self-proclaimed “values-based” approach to diplomacy across Asia in the twenty-first century. The author considers Japan’s historic conceptualization and learning of Islam, and its acute needs for access to markets and energy from Muslim-majority states in Asia. He also argues that Japan securitizes Islam in a manner distinct from Western, Russian, or Chinese securitization today, but that Japan promotes itself as a model for human security and development across an Asia inclusive of Muslim states. Japan’s approach to Islam and Muslim societies today offers much from which other great powers can learn. B. Bryan Barber is Research Fellow at the Mohsin and Fauzia Jaffer Center for Muslim World Studies, Florida International University, USA, and Teaching Fellow at the Center for Preparatory Studies, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.


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Japan's foreign policy in the twenty-first century : Continuity and change
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ISBN: 9781498587952 149858795X Year: 2020 Publisher: Lanham Lexington Books

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This edited collection analyzes the innovative changes in Japan's foreign policy. Pursuing new relationships with South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe, Japanese initiatives include regional peace-building and human security activities, Asian multilateralism, and the Indo-Pacific concept. This collection focuses on these evolving international relationships through Japan's unique approach to political change and continuity.


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Men in metal
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ISBN: 9789004414433 9004414436 9004441514 9789004441514 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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In his pioneering study, Men in Metal , Sven Saaler examines Japanese public statuary as a central site of historical memory from its beginnings in the Meiji period through the twenty-first century. Saaler shows how the elites of the modern Japanese nation-state went about constructing an iconography of national heroes to serve their agenda of instilling national (and nationalist) thinking into the masses. Based on a wide range of hitherto untapped primary sources, Saaler combines data-driven quantitative analysis and in-depth case studies to identify the categories and historical figures that dominated public space. Men in Metal also explores the agents behind this visualized form of the politics of memory and introduces historiographical controversies surrounding statue-building in modern Japan.


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On a collision course : the dawn of Japanese migration in the nineteenth century
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ISBN: 081792356X 0817923586 0817923551 Year: 2020 Publisher: Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University,

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"Essays on Japanese migration to the United States from an international and historical perspective, considering impacts from social and political events on both sides of the Pacific"--


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Japan's imperial house in the postwar era, 1945-2019
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ISBN: 1684176166 0674244478 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Harvard University Asia Center,

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With the ascension of a new emperor and the dawn of the Reiwa Era, Kenneth J. Ruoff has expanded upon and updated The People's Emperor, his study of the monarchy's role as a political, societal, and cultural institution in contemporary Japan. Many Japanese continue to define the nation's identity through the imperial house, making it a window into Japan's postwar history. Ruoff begins by examining the reform of the monarchy during the U.S. occupation and then turns to its evolution since the Japanese regained the power to shape it. To understand the monarchy's function in contemporary Japan, the author analyzes issues such as the role of individual emperors in shaping the institution, the intersection of the monarchy with politics, the emperor's and the nation's responsibility for the war, nationalistic movements in support of the monarchy, and the remaking of the once-sacrosanct throne into a "people's imperial house" embedded in the postwar culture of democracy. Finally, Ruoff examines recent developments, including the abdication of Emperor Akihito and the heir crisis, which have brought to the forefront the fragility of the imperial line under the current legal system, leading to calls for reform. -- Publisher


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Towards Japan : a personal journey
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ISBN: 1912961113 1912961105 9781912961115 9781912961108 Year: 2020 Publisher: Folkestone, Kent : Renaissance Books,

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Former Professor of Modern Japanese Studies at Oxford, Arthur Stockwin explores his personal journey from being the son of medical/dental parents in Birmingham, England, to becoming a specialist in the politics and modern history of Japan, while reflecting on his personal experiences of Japan and assessing its current and possible future condition.


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Hayao Miyazaki : exploring the early work of Japan's greatest animator
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ISBN: 1501335952 1501335979 1501335960 1501335944 1501361643 9781501361647 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York: Bloomsbury,

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Hayao Miyazaki's career in animation has made him famous as not only the greatest director of animated features in Japan, the man behind classics as My Neighbour Totoro (1988) and Spirited Away (2001), but also as one of the most influential animators in the world, providing inspiration for animators in Disney, Pixar, Aardman, and many other leading studios.However, the animated features directed by Miyazaki represent only a portion of his 50-year career. Hayao Miyazaki examines his earliest projects in detail, alongside the works of both Japanese and non-Japanese animators and comics artists that Miyazaki encountered throughout his early career, demonstrating how they all contributed to the familiar elements that made Miyazaki's own films respected and admired among both the Japanese and the global audience.


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Urban migrants in rural Japan
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ISBN: 9781438478050 1438478054 9781438478067 1438478062 9781438478074 1438478070 Year: 2020 Publisher: Albany

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2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleUrban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-growth Japan. By exploring narratives and trajectories of individuals who relocate from urban to rural areas and seek new modes of working and living, this multisited ethnography reveals the changing role of rurality, from postwar notions of a stagnant backwater to contemporary sites of experimentation. The individual cases presented in the book vividly illustrate changing lifestyles and perceptions of work. What emerges from Urban Migrants in Rural Japan is the emotionally fraught quest of many individuals for a personally fulfilling lifestyle and the conflicting neoliberal constraints many settlers face. In fact, flexibility often coincides with precarity and self-exploitation. Susanne Klien shows how mobility serves as a strategic mechanism for neophytes in rural Japan who hedge their bets; gain time; and seek assurance, inspiration, and courage to do (or further postpone doing) what they ultimately feel makes sense to them.

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