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Listening to the Voices of the Dead

The 3-11 Tohoku Disaster Speaks

By Jun'ichi Isomae
Translated by Lynne E. Riggs & Manabu Takechi
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An incisive observation of the traumas of loss and marginalization brought to the surface by the 2011 Tōhoku Disaster

Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan

By Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall, Fumiko Miyazaki, and Noriko SUGANO
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Women's Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Writing women back into Japan’s nineteenth-century history, enriching our understanding of the period

The Era of Great Disasters

Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes

By Makoto Iokibe
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Nature/Environment, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Uncovering the humanity and wisdom within the tragedy of Japan’s disaster responses to three major earthquakes

Gendered Power

Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court

By Mamiko Suzuki
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the contributions of three powerful Meiji women and how their own education and ideas about Japanese women’s potential shaped how females were to participate in modern society

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

The Female as Subject

Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan

Edited by P.F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, G. Rowley, and Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early 20th century

Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan

By William Wayne Farris
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores the daily life of the citizens of the lost periods of ancient Japan

The Bluestockings of Japan

New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seito, 1911–16

By Jan Bardsley
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Introduces English-language readers to a formative chapter in the history of Japanese feminism by presenting for the first time in English translation a collection of writings from Seitō (Bluestockings), the famed New Women’s journal of the 1910s

Engendering Faith

Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan

Edited by Barbara Ruch
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A monumental and pioneering study on women and Buddhism.

Confluences

Postwar Japan and France

Edited by Doug Slaymaker
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores the relationship between Japan and France and the development of postwar national and individual identities

Individual Dignity in Modern Japanese Thought

The Evolution of the Concept of <em>Jinkaku </em>in Moral and Educational Discourse

By Kyoko Inoue
Subjects: Political Science, Criminology, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Law, International Law, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Traces the development of jinkaku (moral character) in modern Japanese discourse

Essays on the Modern Japanese Church

Christianity in Meiji Japan

By Aizan Yamaji
Translated by Grahan Squires & Graham Squires
Subjects: Religion, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Argues that Christianity played a critical role in the development of modern Japan

Women and Class in Japanese History

Edited by Hitomi Tonomura, Anne Walthall, Wakita Haruko, and Haruko Wakita
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Offers critical insights into gender and social class in Japan from Japanese and Western scholars

When We Say “Hiroshima”

Selected Poems

By Sadako Kurihara
Translated by Richard Minear
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Compelling poetry that constitutes a major legacy of the nuclear age

Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly

Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry

By Steve Rabson
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Translations and readings of some of the most important modern Japanese poems written for and against war

The Cult of Kasuga Seen Through Its Art

By Susan Tyler
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Art, Photography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A detailed and animating study of the syncretic cult of Kasuga Shrine at its height in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries

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