03417nam 22005175 450 991025335070332120200704005411.0981-10-2395-610.1007/978-981-10-2395-8(CKB)3710000000832243(DE-He213)978-981-10-2395-8(MiAaPQ)EBC4648894(PPN)224431366(EXLCZ)99371000000083224320160818d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSocial Commentary on State and Society in Modern Japan /edited by Yoneyuki Sugita1st ed. 2016.Singapore :Springer Singapore :Imprint: Springer,2016.1 online resource (XI, 181 p. 9 illus.) 981-10-2394-8 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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.This anthology analyzes societal and cultural aspects of modern Japan. It identifies the dynamic trend and undercurrent in Japan by addressing three key areas: modernization, internationalization, and memory and imagination. Using interdisciplinary and multi-language approaches, it discusses topics such as religion, ethnicity, civil society, art, public health, popular culture, war, identity and education. It is a valuable resource for scholars and graduate students with an interest in cutting-edge research analyses of Japanese / Asian studies.Area studiesCulture—Study and teachingCultural studiesArea Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22045Regional and Cultural Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411000Cultural Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22040Area studies.Culture—Study and teaching.Cultural studies.Area Studies.Regional and Cultural Studies.Cultural Studies.302-307Sugita Yoneyukiedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910253350703321Social Commentary on State and Society in Modern Japan2500251UNINA