Handbooks on Japanese Studies
About the Book Series
The Handbook on Japanese Studies series focuses on the broad field of Japanese Studies, aimed at the worldwide English language scholarly market, to be published in English. The aim is to publish an average of six such volumes per annum initially. Each Handbook will contain an average of 20 newly written contributions (not exceeding about 8,000 words each) on various aspects of the topic, which together will comprise an up-to-date survey of use to scholars and students. The focus will be on Humanities and Social Sciences.
Handbook of Higher Education in Japan
1st Edition
By Paul Snowden
December 01, 2025
Just as higher education (HE) in Europe had its beginnings in religious training for the priesthood, HE in feudal Japan, too, provided instruction for a religious life. But while the evolution to secular instruction was gradual in Europe, in Japan it came with a big bang: the opening of the country...
Handbook of Japan-Russia Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Kazuhiko Togo, Dmitry Streltsov
December 01, 2025
The history of official relations between Russia and Japan encompasses a period of a little more than one hundred and fifty years, but stretch back unofficially for at least double that amount of time. But for both Russia and Japan, these relations have never been a key element of foreign policy, ...
Handbook of Japanese Christian Writers
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Williams, Van Gessel, Yamane Michihiro
December 01, 2025
Although a century and a half of Christian proselytizing has only led to the conversion of about one percent of the Japanese population, the proportion of writers who have either been baptized or significantly influenced in their work by Christian teachings is much higher. The seventeen authors ...
Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Forum Mithani, Griseldis Kirsch
December 01, 2025
The Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition brings together new research and perspectives on popular media phenomena, as well as shining a spotlight on texts that are less well known or studied. Organized into five thematic sections, the chapters span a diverse range of ...
Handbook of Japanese Public Administration and Bureaucracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Mieko Nakabayashi, Hideaki Tanaka
December 01, 2025
This Handbook focuses on Japan's public administration and bureaucracy at its national level, and the effects of national politics on administrative decision-making and outcomes. It also provides in-depth analysis and description of the Japanese politics-civil service relationship. As the Japanese ...
Handbook of Japanese Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Leszek Buszynski
December 01, 2025
Japan has risen in stature to become an important player not only in the Western Pacific, but the wider Indo-Pacific. From a defeated nation that adopted a pacifist constitution and demilitarization, Japan has been provoked by unwelcomed external events to ensure its security. It has faced a ...
Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Copeland
December 01, 2025
The Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers offers a comprehensive overview of women writers in Japan, from the late 19th century to the early 21st. Featuring 24 newly written contributions from scholars in the field—representing expertise from North America, Europe, Japan, and ...
Handbook of Sport and Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Helen Macnaughtan, Verity Postlethwaite
December 01, 2025
The Handbook of Sport and Japan presents a fascinating collection of established and new scholarship, a valuable text for readers who want to use sport as lens to look more closely into a nation. The handbook draws on a diversity of perspectives, disciplines and experiences all of which respond to ...
Reconsidering Postwar Japanese History: A Handbook
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Avenell
December 01, 2025
After war defeat in 1945, Japan underwent historic political, economic and social transformations resulting in the country’s rebirth as an economic powerhouse and exemplar of liberal democracy in East Asia. This handbook expands and enriches our understanding of this tumultuous contemporary era in ...
Teaching Japan: A Handbook
1st Edition
Edited
By Ioannis Gaitanidis, Gregory Poole
December 01, 2025
This book aims to offer ideas and examples of pedagogy in the undergraduate classroom. The basic premise taken by the authors begins with a question: What if stereotypes surrounding Japan were not pushed to the margins in teaching but took center stage and were exposed for the multiple ways that ...
The Annotated Constitution of Japan: A Handbook
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin Jones
December 01, 2025
The Annotated Constitution of Japan: A Handbook for the first time makes the entirety of Japan’s constitution accessible in English. The book consists of a historical and contextual overview of how the constitution came into being, followed by descriptions of each of its 103 articles; the meaning ...
Handbook of Feminisms in Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Germer, Ulrike Wöhr
May 20, 2025
The Handbook of Feminisms in Japan seeks to give a broad and, even without prior knowledge of Japan, easily accessible introduction to a range of feminisms in this non-Western context. With a useful comparative framework, it aims to advance transnational and international perspectives on feminisms ...