New Frontiers in Japanese Studies

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Notes on the text
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Envisioning new frontiers in Japanese Studies
	The history of Japanese Studies
	Going beyond methodological nationalism
	Structure of the book
	References
Part I: Rethinking Japanese area studies in the twenty-first century
	Chapter 1: Rethinking the Maria Luz Incident: Methodological cosmopolitanism and Meiji Japan
		Convergence: Japan in the world
		Transnational Japan
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2: Exporting theory ‘made in Japan’: The case of contents tourism
		Japanese universities in the neoliberal/rankings era
		Contents tourism
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: Japanese language education and Japanese Studies as intercultural learning
		The relation between Japanese language education and Japanese studies in the past
		Intercultural learning
		Classroom examples of intercultural learning in Japanese language teaching
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4: Japanese Studies in China and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1945–2018
		Sino-Japanese relations, 1945–2018
		Japanese language education in China from 1945 to 2018
		Japanese Studies in China from 1945 to 2018
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 5: Japanese Studies in Indonesia
		Postwar Indonesia–Japan diplomatic relations
		Japanese Studies in Indonesian higher education (1960s to 2010s)
		Critiques of Japanese Studies
		Critical thinking in Japanese Studies: Universitas Indonesia and Universitas Airlangga
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
Part II: Coping with an ageing society
	Chapter 6: Discover tomorrow: Tokyo’s ‘barrier-free’ Olympic legacy and the urban ageing population
		The Olympic Games and Tokyo
		Japan and barrier-free
		Elderly and the behind the scenes
		Conclusions
		Note
		References
	Chapter 7: Foreign care workers in ageing Japan: Filipino carers of the elderly in long-term care facilities
		Elderly care in Japan
		Long-term elderly care as an embodied experience
		Methodology
		Expanding cultural encounters of care in Japanese long-term care facilities
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: Immigrants caring for other immigrants: The case of the Kaagapay Oita Filipino Association
		Role of organisations in immigrants’ lives
		Ethnographic fieldwork
		Spiritual care: psychological effects of religious activities
		Health care: of being carers for each other
		Mourning and providing death care
		Conclusion
		References
Part III: Migration and mobility
	Chapter 9: Invisible migrants from Sakhalin in the 1960s: A new page in Japanese migration studies
		Types and periods of repatriation from Sakhalin
		Individual repatriation or returning home, 1960–1991
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 10: Japanese women in Korea in the postwar: Between repatriation and returning home
		The node of ethnicity, class and gender
		From repatriates to returnees
		From the Japan Women’s Association of Korea to Fuyo-kai
		Normalisation of diplomatic relations and the path to returning home
		The campaigns of Japanese women in Korea
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 11: Challenging the ‘global’ in the global periphery: Performances and negotiations of academic and personal identities among JET-alumni Japan scholars based in Japan
		The JET Programme as a symbol of ‘internationalisation’
		Methods and data
		The JET Programme as an entry to Japan
		Being privileged and finding comfort in Japan
		Negotiating marginalisation at the local level
		Attempting to impact the centre in the global periphery
		Area studies vs discipline
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12: Dream vs reality: The lives of Bangladeshi language students in Japan
		Migration and Bangladeshis in Japan
		The context of student migration in Bangladesh
		Language students’ lives in Japan
		Shaping the future
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 13: Sending them over the seas: Japanese judges crossing legal boundaries through lived experiences in Australia
		Japanese judges at the Melbourne Law School
		Melbourne Law School judicial alumni: questionnaire responses
		International experience: global mobility
		Training for judges: lessons for other jurisdictions?
		Conclusion: mobility and judicial training
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14: ‘Life could not be better since I left Japan!’: Transnational mobility of Japanese individuals to Europe and the post-Fordist quest for subjective well-being outside Japan
		Case 1: the ‘professional unemployed’ and personal fulfilment
		Case 2: ‘Wanting to leave something behind in a meaningless life’
		Case 3: ‘I think I would have died if I had stayed in Japan’
		Discussion
		References
Part IV: The environment
	Chapter 15: Japan’s environmental injustice paradigm and transnational activism
		Environmental injustice at home
		Concluding thoughts
		References
	Chapter 16: ‘Community power’: Renewable energy policy and production in post-Fukushima Japan
		Deregulating Japan’s electricity market
		Stories from Fukushima
		Ways of living sustainably
		References
	Appendix: Survey on Japanese-language education abroad
	Index