Books in the Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies series

Traces the principal currents in Japanese economic thought since the first half of the 19th century and shows how these currents have been influenced by the changing economic and social environment within Japan.

This study provides a social anthropologist's perspective of the role of numbers and numeracy in Japanese popular culture. It explores the cultural roots of attitudes towards numbers and makes inferences about a culture in which numeracy is high but the level of academic maths relatively low.

This book approaches the concept of tenk¿ (political conversion) as a response to the global crisis of interwar modernity, as opposed to a distinctly Japanese experience in postwar debates.

Credits Japan's industrial success to innovation and training, looking at the pre-War period and in depth at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard. The book has implications for industrial development worldwide.

An inspiring analysis of events surrounding two women's attempted assassination of the Emperor of Japan, and the separate penalties faced by these women both in terms of their death sentences and the wider context surrounding their lives.

This book explores the meanings and practices of "family" in Japan, and brings together research by scholars of literature, gender studies, media and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. The chapters examine key issues such as ageing, single households, non-heterosexual living arrangements and parenting. Employing both multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches, this book combines textual analysis of contemporary television, film, literature, manga, anime and other media with empirical and ethnographic studies of families in Japan and in transnational spaces.