Social Commentary on State and Society in Modern Japan

Book Overview

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Modernization and Japan.- Chapter 2: Civil Religion and Second Modernity in Japan: A Sociological Analysis.- Chapter 3: Japan and the Rise of the Idea of Race: The Meiji-Era Fusion of Foreign and Domestic Constructions.- Chapter 4: The 1922 Japanese Health Insurance Law: Toward a Corporatist Framework.- Chapter 5: Public Health in Occupied Japan Transformed by Statistical Quality Control.- Part II: Identity and Globalization.- Chapter 6: International Issues: Japanese Artists and the Problems with Borders.- Chapter 7: Discourses on Democracy and the (Re)birth of Civil Society, 1945-1952: Mutual Aid and Cooperatist Modernity in Kitakyushu.- Chapter 8: Imagining America: The Origins of Japanese Public Opinion toward the United States in the Cold War.- Chapter 9: Soft Powering Popular Culture: Discourse and Policy Making in Japan's Content Industries.- Chapter 10: Blending Ethnicities: Perceptions of East Asian Identities Today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 981109604X
• ISBN13: 9789811096044
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"