Social Commentary on State and Society in Modern Japan

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Civil Religion and Second Modernity in Japan: A Sociological Analysis....Pages 7-30
Japan and the Rise of the Idea of Race: The Meiji Era Fusion of Foreign and Domestic Constructions....Pages 31-48
The 1922 Japanese Health Insurance Law: Toward a Corporatist Framework....Pages 49-65
Public Health in Occupied Japan Transformed by Statistical Quality Control....Pages 67-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
International Issues: Japanese Artists and the Problems with Borders....Pages 85-97
Discourses on Democracy and the (Re)Birth of Civil Society, 1945–1952: Mutual Aid and Cooperatist Modernity in Kitakyushu....Pages 99-116
Imagining America: The Origins of Japanese Public Opinion Toward the United States in the Cold War....Pages 117-139
Soft Powering Popular Culture: Discourse and Policy Making in Japan’s Content Industries....Pages 141-153
Blending Ethnicities: Perceptions of East Asian Identities Today....Pages 155-176
Back Matter....Pages 177-181