Japanese Culture

and Society

A ROUTLEDGE FREEBOOK

04:: Introduction

07:: Cuisine and Identity in Contemporary Japan

25:: Women and Work in Modern Japan

47:: What is the Rashomon Effect?

68:: Religion as Moral Infrastructure

85:: Towards a New Literary Trend

105:: Making Sense of the Lost Decades

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Chapter 1 - Cuisine and identity in Contemporary Japan taken from ?Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society?.

This chapter, taken from the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society, examines the vital role that cuisine plays in Japanese society. The Handbook provides a broad and comprehensive coverage of significant phenomena, institutions, and directions in Japan today, on issues ranging from gender and family, the environment, race and ethnicity, and urban life, to popular culture and electronic media. As such, the Handbook will be an invaluable reference tool for anyone interested in all things Japanese.

Victoria Lyon Bestor is Executive Director of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources. Theodore C. Bestor is Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies at Harvard University. Akiko Yamagata is a Museum Educator, focusing on East Asian art, at the Harvard Art Museums.

Chapter 2 - Women and Work in Modern Japan taken from ?Career Women in Contemporary Japan?.

This chapter, which appears as chapter 2 in Career Women in Contemporary Japan, introduces the reader to the identities of working women in Japan and the shaping of white-collar career trajectories. The book examines what motivates Japanese women to pursue professional careers in the contemporary neoliberal economy, and how they reconfigure notions of selfhood while doing so.

Anne Stefanie Aronsson holds a PhD in Anthropology from Yale University, USA.

Chapter 3 - What is the Rashomon effect? taken from ?Rashomon Effects?.

This chapter, which appears as chapter 7 in Rashomon Effects, tries to pinpoint exactly what is the Rashomon effect? The book addresses issues beyond the realm of Rashomon within film studies, and the Rashomon effect, which itself has become a widely recognized English term referring to significantly different perspectives of different eyewitnesses to the same dramatic event. The book addresses both the

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continuing and vibrant influence of Rashomon effects into the twenty-first century, as well as the director?s manifold legacies to cinema, its global audiences and beyond, and will be welcomed by those interested in Japanese studies, film studies and world cinema.

Robert Anderson is Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Blair Davis is an Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University in Chicago, USA. Jan Walls is a Professor Emeritus in the Humanities Department at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Chapter 4 - Religion as Moral Infrastructure: The Practice of Neo-Shintoism in Japan taken from ?Digital Culture and Re