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The aim of this project is to bring together fifteen extensively
revised, peer-reviewed articles by international scholars covering
a diverse range of fields--from cinema to economics to history to
the social sciences--addressing issues in contemporary Japan. These
fifteen are all contributors to the first ten years of the
EJCJS--the Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies. The
principal strengths of this volume are its diversity of approaches
and its fundamentally interdisciplinary nature: it allows
researchers in different fields to contribute to an overall
understanding of Japan from the 1950s to the present. This
'understanding' is indeed comprehensive: chapters range from
economics to politics to theatre, literature, immigration issues,
religion, and multiculturalism. The chapters are uniformly precise
in their analyses, drawing on many different forms of research,
from textual analysis, historical documentation, linguistic
analysis, to participant interviews and media studies.The diverse
range of subject matter holds together very well, in that the
contributors operate within a set of similar central values: the
primacy of practical research over theory; the centrality of Japan
even in studies which situate that country internationally; clarity
of expression over jargon; and the desire to include readers
through rhetorical care rather than exclude through esoteric
applications of over-specialised terminology or assumptions. The
chapters, while academic and informed by current scholarship, are
accessible to general readers with interest in contemporary Japan.
In this, the volume distinguishes itself as a highly readable,
pertinent compendium of scholarship on contemporary Japan. It does
not aim to be 'all things for all readers' but rather demonstrates
to its readership the ways in which diverse aspects of contemporary
Japan interlock and influence each other. Thus, aspects of
contemporary religion show the influence of current economic
conditions, while questions of Japanese identity reflect
immigration issues and aspects of multiculturalism, while emerging
in contemporary Japanese forms of mobile communication and
linguistic change.Japan emerges as a complex, interwoven whole in
this volume, but a whole which, as the chapters demonstrate, is
amenable to scholarship from both insider and 'outsider' alike. The
international contributors all have equal merit and equal voice
here, to give a true multidisciplinary portrait of this intricate,
culturally, historically, and economically vital nation.
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