This book examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan, investigating the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions are ascribed public recognition and political significance. Through detailed ethnographic and historical case studies, it analyses the social, economic, and even global political dimensions of cultural heritage. It shows how claims to heritage status in Japan stress different material qualities of objects, places and people - based upon their ages, originality and usage. Following on an introduction that thoroughly assesses the field, the...
This book examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan, investigating the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions are...
This work examines the complex relationship between gender and class among Japanese tea ceremony practitioners in Japan; it argues that chado has a cultural, economic, social and symbolic value and is used as a tool to improve gender and class equality.
This work examines the complex relationship between gender and class among Japanese tea ceremony practitioners in Japan; it argues that chado has a cu...
This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan's puppet state in Manchuria ended, and when most Japanese who has been based there returned to Japan. Many zanryu-hojin survived in Chinese peasant families, often as wives or adopted children; the Chinese government estimated that there were around 13,000 survivors in 1959, at the time when over 30,000 "missing" people were deleted from Japanese family registers as" war dead."
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This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria...
