Books in the Routledge Focus on Asia series

This book examines the local, national, and international significance of convict labour during the colonization of Hokkaido between 1881 and 1894. Based on the analysis of archival, it uses a framework of global prison studies to trace the historical origins of prisons and forced labour in early modern Japan.

This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare.

This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic and political challenges facing contemporary Japan.

This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic and political challenges facing contemporary Japan.