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  • Family-Run Universities in Japan

    Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992-2030

    by Jeremy Breaden, Roger Goodman ...
    Globally, private universities enrol one in three of all higher education students. In Japan, which has the second largest higher education system in the world in terms of overall expenditure, almost 80% of all university students attend private institutions. According to some estimates up to 40% of these institutions are family businesses in the sense that members of a single family have ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Case Studies on Human Rights in Japan

    by Roger Goodman, Ian Neary ...
    Japanese society is often referred to as an example of a homogeneous culture moderated by an ethos of groupism. Yet often enough homogeneity is its own worst enemy as norms are required and enforced at the centre of power to the detriment of individual and human rights. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • A Sociology of Japanese Youth

    From Returnees to NEETs

    Edited by Roger Goodman, Yuki Imoto, Tuukka Toivonen ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork, the authors of this volume set these issues in a clearly articulated ‘social constructionist’ ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Ageing in Asia

    Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography

    Edited by Roger Goodman, Sarah Harper ...
    The volume takes four key themes related to ageing – the experience of old age; intergenerational relations; economics of and social policy for ageing; longevity and the culture of ageing - and examines how these issues are emerging in different regions of Asia, specifically, the former Soviet Union, South Asia, China, Japan and South-East Asia. In placing these Asian cases studies in the broader ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Global Japan

    The Experience of Japan's New Immigrant and Overseas Communities

    Edited by Roger Goodman, Ceri Peach, Ayumi Takenaka, Paul White ...
    The Japanese have long regarded themselves as a homogenous nation, clearly separate from other nations. However, this long-standing view is being undermined by the present international reality of increased global population movement. This has resulted in the establishment both of significant Japanese communities outside Japan, and of large non-Japanese minorities within Japan, and has forced the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan

    Edited by Roger Goodman, Kirsten Refsing ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousness, and `uniqueness' in areas as diverse as body images and language patterns.In Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan the contributors examine these models and the ways in which they have sometimes ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The East Asian Welfare Model

    Welfare Orientalism and the State

    Edited by Roger Goodman, Huck-Ju Kwon, Gordon White ...
    For many politicians and observers in the West, East Asia has provided a broad range of positive images of the state's intervention in society. Neoliberals grew excited by popular welfare systems that cost little in expenditure and bureaucracy. Social-democrats thought they had found a model for social cohesion and equality. In fact the reality in East Asia is rather different from these ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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    This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These include a focus on the state, civil society, welfare and globalization. ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations

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  • Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific

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    Edited by Peter Dicken, Philip F. Kelly, Lily Kong, Kris Olds, Henry Wai-chung Yeung ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    Most books that analyse the crucial subject of globalisation only look at it from a western perspective. This is the first detailed study to look at globalisation specifically in the Asia-Pacific region. An impressive collection of leading, interdisciplinary scholars explore various dimensions of globalisation and their relationship to development processes in the region. ... Read more

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  • Japan Through the Looking Glass

    by Alan MacFarlane ...
    A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY THROUGH JAPAN'S MULTI-FACETED CUSTOMS AND CULTURE'An excellent book for anyone with an interest in Japanese culture' Sunday Telegraph'Takes in everything from the mythical roots of sumo to the ubiquity of Shinto shrines' The TimesAlan Macfarlane first encountered Japan full of certainty, confidence and unexamined assumptions. He soon found his preconceptions challenged on ... Read more

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  • Contemporary China

    Society and Social Change

    by Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson, Andrew B. Kipnis ...
    China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ... Read more

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