This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan.
What happens when history is interpreted and disseminated by movies, TV and comic books?
Through travels that range from Geneva to Pyongyang, this book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War the return of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward.
Traces the principal currents in Japanese economic thought since the first half of the 19th century and shows how these currents have been influenced by the changing economic and social environment within Japan.
A collection of critical Marxian analyses by Japanese economists assessing aspects of the Japanese economy. Considered to be an important contribution to Japanese economic literature, these opinions on Japanese capitalism have not been available in Engish until now.