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Leaders and Leadership in Japan
Shows Japan's group-orientated society may have had fewer so-called 'leaders', but has excelled as a society of king-makers. On the other hand, the way leadership is expressed derives from different values and perceptions of hierarchy.
Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History
Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in both sophistication and volume. The new scholarship sees a higher reliance on primary documents, a shift away from the history of elites to broader exploration of social structures, and a reexamination of many of the key tenets which were once the received wisdom. Providing a primarily historiographical review, this handbook highlights the recent innovations and major themes that have developed in the study of premodern Japanese history. Covering Japanese history to 1600, The Routledge Handbook of Japanese History is an essential reference work for any student and researcher on Japanese, Asian and World History.
Rulers, Peasants and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Japan
This book provides new insights into the creation and use of written texts in medieval Japan. Drawing upon lawsuits from Ategawa no shō in central Japan between the early eleventh and early fourteenth centuries, the author analyses the use of writing by various social groups - temple priests, warriors and peasants. Though these social groups had different levels of literacy and accordingly followed different communicative traditions, their use of writing had common features. In the semi-literate society of medieval Japan the dissemination and reception of written texts took place primarily through speaking and hearing. Documents of the medieval period therefore had a distinctly oral characteristic. Priests, warriors and peasants all alluded to motifs in their legal pleas that were in essence given by the oral world of tales, legends and gossip. By showing that literacy was not in conflict but interacted with orality, the author uncovers an important aspect of the use of the written word in medieval Japan.
Public Opinion – Propaganda – Ideology
As early as prewar Japan, thinkers of various intellectual proveniences had begun discussing the most important topics of contemporary media and communication studies, such as ways to define the social function of the press, journalism and the formation of public opinion. In Public Opinion – Propaganda – Ideology, light is particularly shed on press scholar Ono Hideo, his disciple the sociologist and propaganda researcher Koyama Eizō, Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun and sociologist and postwar intellectual Shimizu Ikutarō. Besides introducing the different approaches of the aforementioned figures, this book also contextualizes the early discursive space of Japanese media and communication studies within global contexts from three perspectives of transnational intellectual history, i.e. adaptation reciprocities and parallels.
Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries
"This exceptionally rich set of essays substantially advances our understanding of the Heian era, presenting the period as more fascinating, multi-faceted, and integrated than it has ever been before. This volume marks a turning point in the study of early Japanese culture and will be indispensable for future explorations of the era." —Andrew Edmund Goble, University of Oregon "As a Japanese historian, I enthusiastically recommend Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries, the first multi-author English-language academic work to offer a synthetic treatment of the Heian period. Japan’s emperor system is the last remaining sovereignty of its kind in human history, and this volume is indispensab...
A History of Law in Japan Until 1868
Japan's modern written law is Western. However, this law operates in a society whose values are pre-Western. In order to understand the function of modern law one has to study older systems of law as well. The main phases of Japan's pre-modern legal development are first, the indigenous customary law of the Yamato state. Next, the import and adaptation of Chinese codes from the 7th century onwards. Third, the use of Chinese legal techniques to bring order to the indigenous feudal law, culminating in the thirteenth century, and leading to the independence of Japan's legal system from that of China. Fourth, the mature system of written law and custom of the Tokugawa state. It is owing to the existence of well-functioning channels of law that Japan was able to modernise rapidly.
Law in Japan
This volume explores major developments in Japanese law over the latter half of the twentieth century and looks ahead to the future. Modeled on the classic work Law in Japan: The Legal Order in a Changing Society (1963), edited by Arthur Taylor von Mehren, it features the work of thirty-five leading legal experts on most of the major fields of Japanese law, with special attention to the increasingly important areas of environmental law, health law, intellectual property, and insolvency. The contributors adopt a variety of theoretical approaches, including legal, economic, historical, and socio-legal. As Law and Japan: A Turning Point is the only volume to take inventory of the key areas of J...
Funktionale Differenzierung königlicher Herrschaft und die Bildung neuer Eliten im Japan des 12. bis 14. Jahrhunderts
Im frühen Mittelalter nimmt die Herrschaftsverfassung Japans zunehmend komplexe Züge an. Um die Machtzentren Hof und Shogunat gruppieren sich alte und neue Eliten. Parallel bilden sich komplex gestaffelte Rechte am Boden und seinen Erträgen heraus. Die wachsenden Konflikte zwischen und innerhalb dieser noch fluiden Figurationen resultieren in neuen Formen gerichtlicher oder gar militärischer Regelung durch Herrschaftsinstanzen, die ihrerseits unter fortwährendem Anpassungsdruck stehen. Zu den konfliktregulierenden Funktionen von Herrschaft treten solche einer Agrarpolitik auf verschiedenen Ebenen, die nicht nur den aus militärischen Konflikten entstandenen Schäden, sondern auch den la...
Core, Periphery, Frontier – Spatial Patterns of Power
Die Begriffe 'Zentrum' und 'Peripherie' sind im Diskurs von Macht und Herrschaft wesentlich. Aus einer breiten Palette methodisch wie regional unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen werden in diesem Band Einzelstudien präsentiert, die einem weiten Raum – von Mitteleuropa im Westen, Japan im Osten und Ägypten im Süden – entstammen. Davon ausgehend, dass die Betrachtung räumlicher Aspekte dazu beitragen kann, neue Erkenntnisse über die Phänomene 'Macht' und 'Herrschaft' zu gewinnen, werden die verschiedenen Weisen der Raumproduktion untersucht. Der gemeinsame Fokus aller Beiträge ist die Rolle einer Dichotomie von Zentrum/Kerngebiet und Peripherie/Grenzen in einem repräsentierten, vorge...
Macht und Herrschaft als transkulturelle Phänomene
›Macht‹ und ›Herrschaft‹ als prägende politisch-gesellschaftliche Organisationsformen sozialer Ordnung der Vormoderne werden in dieser kommentierten Zusammenstellung von Texten, Bildern und Artefakten anschaulich. Gut gewählte Fallbeispiele beleuchten die thematischen Felder ›Konflikt und Konsens‹, ›Personalität und Transpersonalität‹, ›Zentrum und Peripherie‹ sowie ›Idealisierung und Kritik‹ und stellen sie jeweils in einer Kombination aus europäischen und außereuropäischen Fachperspektiven vor. Um eine transkulturelle Vergleichbarkeit zu erleichtern, folgen alle Beiträge, soweit möglich und sinnvoll, einem gemeinsamen Muster. Dabei sichern Übersetzungen fr...
