Overview
- Demonstrates cutting-edge research outcomes in Japanese cultural and social studies
- Discusses 20th-century Japan from cultural and social perspectives
- Uses interdisciplinary and multi-language approaches
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Modernization and Japan
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Identity and Globalization
Keywords
- Modernization and globalization of Japan
- Cultural and Social Perspectives of Japan
- Civil Religion in Japan
- Ethnicity in Japan
- Japanese Health Insurance Law
- Civil Society in Japan
- Arts in Japan
- Public Health in Japan
- Popular Culture in Japan
- Japan’s and the Asia-Pacific War
- History and Japan
- the U.S. and Japan
- area studies
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Yoneyuki Sugita is professor of history at Osaka University, Japan. His major works include “The Symbiotic Relationship between Japan’s Status in the World and Changes in the Nature of Medical Insurances from the 1920s to the Early 1940s,” in Yoneyuki Sugita ed., Japan Viewed from Interdisciplinary Perspectives: History and Prospects (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015);“The Beveridge Report and Japan,” Social Work in Public Health 29:1 (2014); and "Japan's epoch-making health-insurance reforms, 1937–1945," Japan Forum, Vol. 25, Issue 1 (2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Commentary on State and Society in Modern Japan
Editors: Yoneyuki Sugita
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2395-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2394-1Published: 26 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9604-4Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2395-8Published: 18 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 181
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Area Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies