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Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region

Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region

Okano, Kaori
Sugimoto, Yoshio

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Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan

Asian American StudiesGeneral SociologyJapanese History

ISBN10: 0367272814
ISBN13: 9780367272814
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 21 2019
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Japanese Studies has provided a fertile space for non-Eurocentric analysis for a number of reasons. It has been embroiled in the long-running internal debate over the so-called Nihonjinron, revolving around the extent to which the effective interpretation of Japanese society and culture requires non-Western, Japan-specific emic concepts and theories. This book takes this question further and explores how we can understand Japanese society and culture by combining Euro-American concepts and theories with those that originate in Japan. Because Japan is the only liberal democracy to have achieved a high level of capitalism outside the Western cultural framework, Japanese Studies has long provided a forum for deliberations about the extent to which the Western conception of modernity is universally applicable. Furthermore, because of Japan's military, economic and cultural dominance in Asia at different points in the last century, Japanese Studies has had to deal with the issues of Japanocentrism as well as Eurocentrism, a duality requiring complex and nuanced analysis.

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