In Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese
have thought about waste—in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources—from …

This series focuses on the broad field of Japanese Studies, aimed at the worldwide English
language scholarly market, published in Tokyo in English. Each Handbook will contain an …

This essay considers the bushidō (Way of the Warrior) discourse of the nationalist ideologue
and theorist of Tōyō shisō (Oriental thought) Yasuoka Masahiro (1898–1983). As part of his …

A significant post-Cold War development in Japan's politics has been the rise of a group of
hawkish security elites with substantial political and institutional influence. A common …

In 1945, Japanese Confucianism appeared to be clinically dead, its status collapsing with
the fall of Japan's wartime regime. As an invented tradition promoted by Inoue Tetsujirō …

This chapter covers the short, but intense, period of the early Occupation (1945–1950) when
Tanaka served as the Minister of Education and as a legislator in the House of Councillors …