Through Japanese Eyes

Author : Yohko Tsuji
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978819579
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Japanese Eyes written by Yohko Tsuji and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in America from a cross-cultural perspective. Comparing aging in America and in her native Japan, she discovers that notable differences in the panhuman experience of aging are rooted in cultural differences between these two countries, and that Americans have strongly negative attitudes toward aging because it represents the antithesis of cherished American values, especially independence. Tsuji reveals that American culture, despite its seeming lack of guidance for those aging, plays a pivotal role in elders’ lives, simultaneously assisting and constraining them. Furthermore, the author’s lengthy period of research illustrates major changes in her interlocutors’ lives, incorporating their declines and death, and significant shifts in the culture of aging in American society as Tsuji herself gets to know American culture and grows into senescence herself. Through Japanese Eyes offers an ethnography of aging in America from a cross-cultural perspective based on a lengthy period of research. It illustrates how older Americans cope with the gap between the ideal (e.g., independence) and the real (e.g., needing assistance) of growing older, and the changes the author observed over thirty years of research.

Author : Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824821449
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Eyes American Hearts written by Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Eyes... American Heart is a rare and powerful collection of personal thoughts written by the soldiers themselves, reflections of the men's thoughts as recorded in diaries and letters sent home to family members and friends, and other expressions about an episode that marked a turning point in the lives of many.

Author : Otto David Tolischus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Japanese Eyes written by Otto David Tolischus and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an effort to let the Japanese speak for themselves--to let them state their case, explain their aims, expound the political, emotional, and religious imponderables behind their action ... It does claim to give a true presentation of that Japanese ideology which dominates the national life ... And as a presentation of that ideology, the statements here collected, [are] not only of Japan's militarists but also of her statesmen and intellectuals." -- From Foreword.

Author : Richard H. Minear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780938960362
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Japanese Eyes written by Richard H. Minear and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers traditional and contemporary Japan and its economic, political, social and cultural life

Author : Yoshio Markino
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004220399
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edwardian London Through Japanese Eyes written by Yoshio Markino and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese artist Yoshio Markino enjoyed a successful career in early twentieth century London as an artist and author. This book examines his uniquely Asian perspective on British society and culture at a time when Japan eagerly sought engagement with the West.

Author : Gail R. Benjamin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814713343
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Lessons written by Gail R. Benjamin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin dismantles Americans' preconceived notions of the Japanese education system "Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one..."—The New York Times Book Review Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignance. We respect a system that produces higher literacy rates and superior math skills, but we reject the excesses of a system that leaves children with little free time and few outlets for creativity and self-expression. In Japanese Lessons, Gail R. Benjamin recounts her experiences as a American parent with two children in a Japanese elementary school. An anthropologist, Benjamin successfully weds the roles of observer and parent, illuminating the strengths of the Japanese system and suggesting ways in which Americans might learn from it. With an anthropologist's keen eye, Benjamin takes us through a full year in a Japanese public elementary school, bringing us into the classroom with its comforting structure, lively participation, varied teaching styles, and non-authoritarian teachers. We follow the children on class trips and Sports Days and through the rigors of summer vacation homework. We share the experiences of her young son and daughter as they react to Japanese schools, friends, and teachers. Through Benjamin we learn what it means to be a mother in Japan--how minute details, such as the way mothers prepare lunches for children, reflect cultural understandings of family and education.

Author : Mariko Fujita
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in Riverfront written by Mariko Fujita and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE IN RIVERFRONT is a unique case study that offers a fresh approach to ethnography because it looks at American culture as seen through the eyes of Japanese anthropologists. Every cultural anthropology student is introduced to papers on the "Nacirema," a very foreign culture with many daily rituals and a fanaticism for cleanliness, especially as they prepare themselves for work in the morning. In truth, the "nacirema" is American (spelled backwards), and the lessons learned from seeing one's own culture through the eyes of a 'stranger' illuminate the notion of ethnocentrism in a powerful way. While a major task of anthropology is to make the strange familiar and the exotic or enigmatic understandable, another task is to make the familiar strange so that one can see one's own culture in a new light. This case study accomplishes this and more.

Author : Richard H. Minear
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Japanese Eyes written by Richard H. Minear and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Japanese Eyes shows us Japanese history and society through the eyes of a wide variety of Japanese (and a few non-Japanese) observers -- male and female, young and old, novelists, poets, and journalists. With an emphasis on young people and their educations, this volume interweaves the historical and the contemporary, the laudatory and the critical, the domestic and the foreign. It demolishes all stereotypes of Japan and leaves students with a new appreciation of Japanese diversity. And it challenges students to ask the same questions of their own society that these Japanese are asking of Japan. Sections with four to seven readings each treat "Japan before 1850," "The War Years," and "Japan Today." Sections with somewhat tighter focus treat "Textbooks and the Teaching of History," "Nature and Pollution," "Gender." A concluding section introduces the topic of "Japanese Americans." The text is accompanied by many boxes, photos, and charts. It is suitable for seventh grade and up. Varied, non-stereotyped, fascinating.

Author : Richard H. Minear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Japanese Eyes written by Richard H. Minear and published by . This book was released on 1979* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wang Xiuli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000325881
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China in the Eyes of the Japanese written by Wang Xiuli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relation between China and Japan is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world but how did the Japanese view China in ancient times? How did views change throughout the course of history? How could China’s image be improved in Japanese people’s eyes? This book provides an analysis of the history of contact between China and Japan and surveys the present situation to understand general views of Japanese society toward China. Through scientific public opinion surveys as well as in-depth interviews, the book examines ordinary and elite Japanese people’s views of Chinese culture, society, politics, the economy, media and Sino-Japanese relations. In addition, it analyzes the main causes of the formation of such views, and makes suggestions on promoting positive public opinions of China. The authors hope that this title can deepen Japanese society’s understanding and comprehension of China, help promote Sino-Japanese non-governmental exchange, and lay the foundation for continuous development of Sino-Japanese relations. This title will appeal to students and scholars of cultural studies, international relations and Asian studies.