Power in Contemporary Japan
This book discusses Japanese conceptions of power and presents a complex, nuanced look at how power operates in society and in politics. It rejects stereotypes that describe Japanese citizens as passive and apolitical, cemented into a vertically structure
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JAPAN E D I T E D BY G I L L ST E E L
Power in Contemporary Japan
Gill Steel Editor
Power in Contemporary Japan
Editor Gill Steel The Institute for the Liberal Arts Doshisha University Japan
ISBN 978-1-137-60166-7 ISBN 978-1-137-59193-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59193-7
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank the scholars who contributed to this volume for participating in this project—of course, for writing chapters—but also for taking the time to get together for discussions and for making the project an enjoyable and productive experience. It was my great privilege to work with such exceptional scholars. I would also like to thank the participants at the Power in Contemporary Japan Symposium at Doshisha in July 2014 for their insightful comments: my sincere thanks to the discussants Ken’ichi Ikeda, Yoshitaka Nishizawa, Marie Thorsten, and Masahiro Yamada. I am grateful for the funding and administrative support from the Jinbunkagaku Kenkyujo (The Institute for the Study of Humanities and Social Sciences) at Doshisha University (Bumon grant, 2013–2015) that enabled many of the authors to get together for the Symposium and for workshops. Lastly, the idea for this project emerged from a conversation with Akiyoshi Mito, who mentioned the word “power” to connect our research in the summer of 2012 at Fuji Rock. We both felt that it was timely to bring together a group of researchers from across the social sciences to collaborate on this project.
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CONTENTS
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Power and Change Gill Steel and Marie Thorsten
Part I 2
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Contesting Children’s Citizenship Education: What Should
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