Japans Renaissance

Author : Andrew L. Oros
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542593
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan’s Security Renaissance written by Andrew L. Oros and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades after World War II, Japan chose to focus on soft power and economic diplomacy alongside a close alliance with the United States, eschewing a potential leadership role in regional and global security. Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since the rise of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's military capabilities have resurged. In this analysis of Japan's changing military policy, Andrew L. Oros shows how a gradual awakening to new security challenges has culminated in the multifaceted "security renaissance" of the past decade. Despite openness to new approaches, however, three historical legacies—contested memories of the Pacific War and Imperial Japan, postwar anti-militarist convictions, and an unequal relationship with the United States—play an outsized role. In Japan's Security Renaissance Oros argues that Japan's future security policies will continue to be shaped by these legacies, which Japanese leaders have struggled to address. He argues that claims of rising nationalism in Japan are overstated, but there has been a discernable shift favoring the conservative Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party. Bringing together Japanese domestic politics with the broader geopolitical landscape of East Asia and the world, Japan's Security Renaissance provides guidance on this century's emerging international dynamics.

Author : Erich Pauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912961009
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan written by Erich Pauer and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a valuable selection of new research on the subject of the generation, dissemination and application of technical knowledge in Japan.

Author : Kenneth Alan Grossberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684172330
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan’s Renaissance written by Kenneth Alan Grossberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan’s Renaissance is a detailed and exhaustively researched account of the regime of Japan’s second shogunate, and also an agile comparative analysis of the political economy of the period with other Renaissance systems. The book argues that the development of shogunal power in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Japan was similar to the evolution of monarchic power in France and England during the same period. Contrary to the received wisdom that the government of the Ashikaga shoguns was the low point of premodern Japan, this book demonstrates that it was the incubator for many developments and the administrative technology which reached their maturity in the Tokugawa period. Applying the ideas of political economy to medieval Japanese history makes this book an essential companion for all Japan and East Asia specialists, students of comparative feudalism and monarchical development, as well as educated generalists who are interested in premodern Japan. The book is illustrated with antique maps and Japanese paintings of the period which add to the reader's understanding of this dramatic age in Japan’s history.

Author : John Breen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781898823926
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kyoto's Renaissance written by John Breen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on a significant archive of primary sources and critical writings, 'Kyoto’s Renaissance' is the first volume in English to take an in-depth look at Kyoto’s modern transformation – how it came to reinvent itself after its ‘collapse’ at the time of the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and relocation of the imperial court to Tokyo. Following a contextualised introduction, which also includes a scholarly appraisal of recent and contemporary studies on the city - in both English and Japanese – nine chapters focus on the most notable historical elements that sustain Kyoto as a quintessentially modern ‘ancient capital’ today. The topics examined are the Emperor System, Festivals and Pageants, Buddhism, the Reorganization of Urban Space, Celebrating Heian, Kyoto’s Forest Policy, Industrialization, Nihonga and trends in Modern Pottery. 'Kyoto’s Renaissance' represents current Japanese scholarship at its best and will be welcomed both as an informed reference book on today’s city and as a benchmark reference for further wide-ranging research."--taken from publisher web site.

Author : Kōetsu Hon'ami
Publisher : Philadelphia Museum (PA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arts of Honʼami Kōetsu written by Kōetsu Hon'ami and published by Philadelphia Museum (PA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth P. Kirkwood
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462912095
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance in Japan written by Kenneth P. Kirkwood and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance in Japan is a superb survey of Japan's literary giants—forerunners of today's modern Japanese writers. Called the "Kyoto epoch," the age in which these writers lived was the period in which Japanese cultural development made many of its greatest advances. In these years of the early Tokugawa era, the old aristocratic culture was confronted with the new plebeian awakening, giving rise to dynamic social developments, in effect a peaceful revolution. The humanistic movement that emerged during this period is epitomized in and popular arts and letters by such famous figures as Basho, the pilgrim poet; Saikaku, novelist of the gilded age, and Chikamatsu, Japan's greatest playwright. In that stirring period Basho wrote such undying poetry as: "The lark sings through the long spring day, but never enough for its heart's content." Saikaku noted that "love is darkness, but in the land of love the darkest night is bright as noon." Chikamatsu wrote wisely that "art is something which lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal." In Japan it was the beginning of the end of the feudal Dark Ages—even though the political ramifications would not be manifest until the advent of the Meiji Restoration.

Author : K. Wetmore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230611281
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre written by K. Wetmore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that tradition with that in European Renaissance drama. Why are the two great plays of each tradition, plays regarded as defining their nations and eras, Kanadehon Chushingura and Hamlet, both revenge plays? What do the revenge dramas of Europe and Japan tell us about the periods that produced them and how have they been modernized to speak to contemporary audiences? By interrogating the manifestation of evil women, ghosts, satire, parody, and censorship, contributors such as Leonard Pronko, J. Thomas Rimer, Carol Sorgenfrei, Laurence Kominz explore these issues.

Author : Romulus Hillsborough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ryoma written by Romulus Hillsborough and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Meivi Restoration Era (mid-19th century Japan) during the last years of Tokugawa Shogunate, this is the first English language literary biography of samurai Sakamoto Ryoma, a founder of modern Japan.

Author : Kenneth A. Grossberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan's Renaissance written by Kenneth A. Grossberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Renaissance Books
Publisher : Renaissance Books
ISBN 13 : 9781912961061
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Japanese Trade, Administration and Interactions with the West written by Renaissance Books and published by Renaissance Books. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his academic career Louis Cullen's main research interest has been foreign trade - originally that of England, Ireland and France, but from the mid-1990s, his focus turned to Japanese history resulting in his critically acclaimed A history of Japan 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds. Subsequently, he concentrated on the analysis of archival sources and of the problems they pose for the interpretation of Japanese history: papers on some of these themes and their associated statistical dimensions have appeared in Nichibunken's Japan Review and are republished here together with a collection of other papers including interpreting Tokugawa history and the knowledge and the use of Japanese by the Dutch on Dejima island.