Japan  (tagged articles)

Trauma and Silence in No-No Boy: An Interdisciplinary Reading

Yuxin Zheng - Depicting the rugged reintegration of Ichiro Yamada, a no-no boy imprisoned during WWII, Japanese American author John Okada presents a traumatized and conflicted Japanese American community during the mid-1940s in his novel No-No Boy (1957). Applying Dan McAdams&rsquo... Keep Reading »
Photo: Chan-Ick Jeong ND-2

Discourse, Public Space, and the Politics of Korean "Comfort Women:" Implications for East Asian Relations

Ann W. Kim - The issue of “comfort women,” sex slaves utilized by the Japanese army during World War II, is treated in this paper as a collective memory in the consciousness of South Koreans. Differing narratives of this historical event, and the emphasis placed on... Keep Reading »
Photo: Pedro Szekely SA-2

Japan at Work in the 21st Century: An Analysis of Developing Labor Practices in Japan and Institutional Barriers to Reform

Gregory A. Fedorov - Devastated by an economic collapse at the end of the 20th century, Japan’s economy entered a decade long period of stagnation. Now, Japan has found stable leadership, but attempts at new economic growth have fallen through. A combination of public desire for... Keep Reading »

Alienating Ethnic Kin: Assessing Immigration Integration Policies for the Brazilian Nikkeijin in Japan and Joseonjok Marriage Migrants in South Korea

Kenneth Lee - In recent decades, Japan and South Korea have become hosts to ethnic return migrants who have returned to their ancestral homeland after once emigrating overseas. Since the 1980s, the Brazilian nikkeijin, or members of the Japanese diaspora, have returned to Japan... Keep Reading »

Women in Meiji Japan: Exploring the Underclass of Japanese Industrialization

Saarang Narayan - With the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the late 1860s, there emerged (or re-emerged) a new center for power in Japan—the Emperor Meiji. With a long drawn restoration of the imperial stronghold, a complete restructuring of the economy, polity and society followed... Keep Reading »
 
 

The keyword Japan is tagged in the following 17 articles.

American Literature
2019, Vol. 11 No. 10
Trauma and Silence in No-No Boy: An Interdisciplinary Reading
By Yuxin Zheng
Depicting the rugged reintegration of Ichiro Yamada, a no-no boy imprisoned during WWII, Japanese American author John Okada presents a traumatized and conflicted Japanese American community during the mid-1940s in his novel No-No Boy (1957). Applying... Read Article »
American History American Literature Trauma PTSD Japanese Americans Coping
South Korea
2019, Vol. 11 No. 02
Discourse, Public Space, and the Politics of Korean "Comfort Women:" Implications for East Asian Relations
By Ann W. Kim
The issue of “comfort women,” sex slaves utilized by the Japanese army during World War II, is treated in this paper as a collective memory in the consciousness of South Koreans. Differing narratives of this historical event, and the... Read Article »
Korea Comfort Women Public Space Memorialization Collective Memory Japanese-Korean Relations
Japanese Economy
2018, Vol. 10 No. 03
Japan at Work in the 21st Century: An Analysis of Developing Labor Practices in Japan and Institutional Barriers to Reform
By Gregory A. Fedorov
Devastated by an economic collapse at the end of the 20th century, Japan’s economy entered a decade long period of stagnation. Now, Japan has found stable leadership, but attempts at new economic growth have fallen through. A combination of... Read Article »
Japan Economic Policy Socioeconomics Cultural Anthropology Japanese Economy Workplace Culture
Human Migration
2017, Vol. 10 No. 2
Alienating Ethnic Kin: Assessing Immigration Integration Policies for the Brazilian Nikkeijin in Japan and Joseonjok Marriage Migrants in South Korea
By Kenneth Lee
Published by Cornell International Affairs Review
In recent decades, Japan and South Korea have become hosts to ethnic return migrants who have returned to their ancestral homeland after once emigrating overseas. Since the 1980s, the Brazilian nikkeijin, or members of the Japanese diaspora, have... Read Article »
Human Migration Immigration Ethnic Conflict Japan South Korea Social Integration Public Policy Migrant Workers
Japanese History
2016, Vol. 8 No. 02
Women in Meiji Japan: Exploring the Underclass of Japanese Industrialization
By Saarang Narayan
With the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the late 1860s, there emerged (or re-emerged) a new center for power in Japan—the Emperor Meiji. With a long drawn restoration of the imperial stronghold, a complete restructuring of the economy,... Read Article »
Japan Japanese History Meiji Era Women's History Industrialization Prostitution Women in Japan
Alternative Energy
2014, Vol. 4 No. 1
Opportunities and Challenges of Allocation of Alternative Energy Resources in Japan
By Karin Snyder
Published by Earth Common Journal
In the case of Japan, which lacks any significant fossil fuel reserves (Gasparatos & Gadda, 2009, pp. 4038-4048) some alternative forms of energy production have been implemented. Japan has implemented alternative energy options such as nuclear... Read Article »
Japan Energy Alternative Energy Nuclear Power Solar Power Natural Resources Sustainability
Pop Culture
2012, Vol. 3 No. 2
Anime: From Cult Following to Pop Culture Phenomenon
By Samantha Nicole Inëz Chambers
Published by Elon Journal of Undergraduate Research in Communications
This study examined the scope of influence that Japanese anime had on American people born in the '80s and '90s. Relying on secondary research and a survey using a convenience sample of 107 students and young adults, this study found that anime... Read Article »
Anime Japan Television Pop Culture Fansub Soft Power Japanese Popular Culture
Japan
2013, Vol. 9 No. 2
Overcoming Modernity in Yukio Mishima
By Joseph Verbovszky
Published by Discussions
The relationship between Japan and Western Civilization has often been one of ambivalence. Little characterizes this relationship better than the conflict between traditional Japanese values, principles and sensibilities, identified as animistic... Read Article »
Yukio Mishima Japan Modernity World War II
Media
2013, Vol. 4 No. 1
Visual Persuasion: The Media's Use of Images in Framing People Groups
By Caitlin O'Donnell
Published by Elon Journal of Undergraduate Research in Communications
This article compares the media's framing of five groups in response to a societal catalyst that propelled them into the public and media spotlight: Native Americans during the Indian Wars; women during the suffrage movement; African Americans during... Read Article »
Native Americans Women's Rights African Americans Muslim Americans Japanese Americans Pearl Harbor September 11th Suffrage Civil Rights Movement
Documentary
2012, Vol. 4 No. 05
Examining the Foundations of Documentary Film Through The Cove
By Lucien J. Flores
Directed by Louie Psihoyos, The Cove (2009) is an Oscar-winning documentary that follows Psihoyos and a crew of devoted dolphin activists as they fight to stymie and bring attention to dolphin hunting in the small coastal village of Taiji, Japan... Read Article »
The Cove Documentary Film Cinema Louie Psihoyos Japan
Number Systems
2011, Vol. 3 No. 05
The Japanese Number System
By Nicholas P. Leveillee
Borrowing heavily from the Chinese, Japan abandoned their own numerals many years ago and used the ones from China. When written and spoken, numbers are broken down into their key components, multiples of powers of ten. The Japanese combine the... Read Article »
Japan Number Systems Ethnomath
Japan
2010, Vol. 2 No. 10
The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan: Explaining the Party's Ability to Dominate Japanese Politics
By Michael J. Norris
The Liberal Democratic Party’s largely uninterrupted dominance of Japanese politics must be ascribed to processes which transverse electoral systems and periods of economic vigour. This essay proposes that clientelistic behaviour within the... Read Article »
Liberal Democratic Party Japan Clientelism Japanese Politics LDP
Ancient Japan
2010, Vol. 2 No. 09
Women in Ancient Japan: From Matriarchal Antiquity to Acquiescent Confinement
By Mallary A. Silva
The role of women in ancient Japan elicits inconsistencies due to different influences that were integrated at various time periods. The primary influence that contributed to these inconsistencies was religion. Integration of the two major religions... Read Article »
Japan Ancient Japan Women's History Women in Japan Meiji Era Japanese History Buddhism Shintoism Heian Women Tale Of Genji Samurai
Japan
2010, Vol. 2 No. 06
Japan's Multilateral Gambit: Leading the Charge Toward an East Asian Community
By Michael J. Norris
If Japan was a person, it would be an exceptionally wealthy yet rapidly aging individual, who, for two decades, had been struck by illness. One might therefore find it unexpected for this person to be busily working on constructing the new face... Read Article »
Japan East Asia Multilateralism ASEAN East Asian Community EAC Hatoyama
Japan
2010, Vol. 2 No. 05
Exploring Japanese Popular Culture as a Soft Power Resource
By Michael J. Norris
Power is the ability to achieve one’s purposes or goals.[1] Through the scholarship of Joseph Nye, the concept of power occupies two distinct spheres: ‘hard’ and ‘soft’. The former purports to have a coercive function... Read Article »
Japan Japanese Foreign Policy Japanese Soft Power Japanese Popular Culture Soft Power Anime
Human Trafficking
2010, Vol. 3 No. 2
Human Trafficking, the Japanese Commercial Sex Industry, and the Yakuza: Recommendations for the Japanese Government
By Amanda Jones
Published by Cornell International Affairs Review
Human trafficking is a global issue that is only recently being recognized with global action. The United Nations' Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (UNTIP), the first global initiative... Read Article »
Human Trafficking Sex Tourism Sex Industry Sex Work Prostitution Japan Yakuza Crimes Against Women
Japan
2009, Vol. 3 No. 1
For Japan, Better Late than Never
By William Gerding
Published by Cornell International Affairs Review
The Japanese general election on August 30, 2009 ousted the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had governed almost uninterrupted for 54 years. In its place rose the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and its leading man Yukio Hatoyama. What follows... Read Article »
Japan Japanese Economy Economic Policy U.S.-Japan Relations International Relations

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