Japanese Studies – August 2021

Virtual Exhibit for the

16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies

24 – 28 August 2021

Special conference discount

Order any Japanese Studies title through the CAP website with the below code for an exclusive 30% discount

Discount code valid until 30 September 2021. Please note we only ship to the UK, EMEA & APAC


From the Blog

Author Q&A with Nana Okura Gagné

Describe your book

Reworking Japan examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms have challenged Japan’s corporate ideologies, gendered relations, and individual employees. My book analyzes Japan’s fraught and problematic transition from the postwar ideology of “companyism” to the emergent ideology of neoliberalism along with large-scale economic restructuring, and how Japanese companies and employees have resisted and actively responded to such changes. By juxtaposing Japan’s economic transformation…

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New & Recent Highlights in Japanese Studies

Making Meaningful Lives

Tales from an Aging Japan

£45.00

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Reworking Japan

Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism

£43.00

Cornell University Press

Immigrant Japan

Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society

£38.00

Cornell University Press

Mobilizing Japanese Youth

The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation

£38.00

Cornell University Press

A Medicated Empire

The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan

£52.00

Cornell University Press

From Country to Nation

Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan

£52.00

Cornell University Press

Legacies of Fukushima

3.11 in Context

£45.00

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Coed Revolution

The Female Student in the Japanese New Left

£22.99

Duke University Press Books

Drawing the Sea Near

Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa

£22.99

University of Minnesota Press

Radiation and Revolution

£21.99

Duke University Press Books

Intimacy across the Fencelines

Sex, Marriage, and the U.S. Military in Okinawa

£52.00

Cornell University Press

Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema

£22.99

Duke University Press Books

Flash of Light, Wall of Fire

Japanese Photographs Documenting the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

£45.00

University of Texas Press

Bringing Whales Ashore

Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan

£25.99

University of Washington Press

Contesting Precarity in Japan

The Rise of Nonregular Workers and the New Policy Dissensus

£26.99

Cornell University Press

Marriage and Marriageability

The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China

£38.00

Cornell University Press

Overcoming Isolationism

Japan’s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism

£72.00

Stanford University Press

The Business Reinvention of Japan

How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why It Matters

£34.00

Stanford University Press

The Metabolist Imagination

Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction

£22.99

University of Minnesota Press

Yumeji Modern

Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan

£58.00

University of Washington Press

The Fascist Effect

Japan and Italy, 1915–1952

£21.99

Cornell University Press

Revolution Goes East

Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism

£26.99

Cornell University Press

Paradox and Representation

Silenced Voices in the Narratives of Nakagami Kenji

£45.00

Cornell University Press

These Islands Are Ours

The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia

£67.00

Stanford University Press

Dynasties and Democracy

The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan

£25.99

Stanford University Press

Uniquely Okinawan

Determining Identity During the U.S. Wartime Occupation

£27.99

Fordham University Press

Healing Labor

Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy

£23.99

Stanford University Press

Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan

The Impact of the Matsukata Reform

£47.00

Cornell University Press

Invisibility by Design

Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy

£22.99

Duke University Press Books

Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan

£24.99

Duke University Press Books

Into the Field

Human Scientists of Transwar Japan

£29.99

Stanford University Press

Special Duty

A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community

£27.99

Cornell University Press

More Than Medals

A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan

£38.00

Cornell University Press

Anti-Japan

The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia

£21.99

Duke University Press Books

Jesus Loves Japan

Return Migration and Global Pentecostalism in a Brazilian Diaspora

£25.99

Stanford University Press

Empire of Dogs

Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World

£27.99

Cornell University Press

Thought Crime

Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan

£24.99

Duke University Press Books

The Platform Economy

How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet

£22.99

University of Minnesota Press

Alegal

Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life

£26.99

Fordham University Press

Nation-Empire

Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies

£55.00

Cornell University Press

Taming Japan's Deflation

The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy

£47.00

Cornell University Press

Waste

Consuming Postwar Japan

£51.00

Cornell University Press


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