New addition to Routledge JAWS Series
Home and Family in Japan Continuity and Transformation
Edited by Richard Ronald, Allison Alexy
In the Japanese language the word ‘ie’ denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within. The traditional family and family house – often portrayed in ideal terms as key foundations of Japanese culture and society – have been subject to significant [...]
New Book Announcement
Dealing With Disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 CrashChristopher P. Hood
Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash involved the largest loss of life for any single [...]
New Keith Brown / Mizusawa DVDs
The Can’t Go Native project has issued two new DVDs complementing the “Can’t Go Native?” documentary film shown at the Austin, Texas meeting last year. “More About Mizusawa” has 90 minutes of illustrated discussions with Keith Brown on topics including the samurai heritage, Mizusawa in Japan’s history, everyday Buddhism, and naked fieldwork. “Conversations in Mizusawa”, [...]
New Release: Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society
New book release: The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society, edited by Victoria Lyon Bestor and Theodore C. Bestor, with Akiko Yamagata.
The book is intended to be a general reference book for non-specialists, college students, and others seeking succinct overviews of various realms of contemporary Japan, in line with the general format of Routledge [...]