The Japanese Nation
Author | : John Fee Embree |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Fee Embree |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nitobé Inazo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136215840 |
This is an important document in the history of Japanese-American relations. In 2002, President Bush spoke of the great Japanese scholar and statesman Inazo Nitobe, who envisioned a future of friendship between the two nations. This book is one of the means by which Nitobe sought to bridge the Pacific. Writing before World War I, he presents a detailed account of Japan and the Japanese in terms easily understandable to western readers, emphasising points of similarity rather than difference, often citing the work of western historians and philosophers in order to explain Japanese practices, always searching for common aims and goals. He deals with the effect of the past on the present, national characteristics, religious beliefs, morals and moral ideals, education, economic conditions, Japan as coloniser, relations between the United States and Japan, and America’s influence in the Far East, concluding with the hope that wherever else war may break out, lasting peace would reign over the Pacific. In this he was disappointed, but the fact that Nitobe is cited today as the architect of Japanese-American friendship makes this volume essential reading for the historian.
Author | : William Elliot Griffis |
Publisher | : New York : T.Y. Crowell |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Fee Embree |
Publisher | : New York : Rinehart |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Inazō Nitobe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John S. Brownlee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joachim Nijs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9789462086135 |
A new history of modern Japanese architecture, from an environmental perspective Joachim Nijs' Japan: Nation Building Natureis the first book to map out the views of nature that have shaped the widely acclaimed but often misunderstood modern architecture of Japan. By connecting the dots between philosophy, design, geopolitics and an earnest quest for a greener tomorrow, this book explains how Japanese culture can shed new light on our understanding of ecology, and vice versa. Using a distinctive blend of academic research and personal experience, Nijs draws on architectural history to navigate Japan's complex and unique ecological ethic through the lens of four typological phenomena: earthquakes, monsoon climates, nuclear erasure of life and insularity. This imaginative and refreshing book offers key insights and references for anyone wishing to deepen their knowledge of Japan and its architecture.
Author | : Jennifer Robertson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0520283198 |
Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in mass and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourse of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots—humanoids, androids, and animaloids—are “imagineered” in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether “civil rights” should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the “normal” body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of the Uncanny Valley.
Author | : Inaz? Nitobe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : 9780415666206 |
Author | : Sayaka Chatani |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2018-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501730770 |
By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial youth become passionate supporters of Japanese imperial nationalism? And what happened to these youth after the war? Nation-Empire investigates these questions by examining the long-term mobilization of youth in the rural peripheries of Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. Personal stories and village histories vividly show youth’s ambitions, emotions, and identities generated in the shifting conditions in each locality. At the same time, Sayaka Chatani unveils an intense ideological mobilization built from diverse contexts—the global rise of youth and agrarian ideals, Japan’s strong drive for assimilation and nationalization, and the complex emotions of younger generations in various remote villages. Nation-Empire engages with multiple historical debates. Chatani considers metropole-colony linkages, revealing the core characteristics of the Japanese Empire; discusses youth mobilization, analyzing the Japanese seinendan (village youth associations) as equivalent to the Boy Scouts or the Hitler Youth; and examines society and individual subjectivities under totalitarian rule. Her book highlights the shifting state-society transactions of the twentieth-century world through the lens of the Japanese Empire, inviting readers to contend with a new approach to, and a bold vision of, empire study.