Pageant of Japanese art

This chapter analyzes national press coverage of the feminist protest at the 1968 Miss America Pageant, the event that put women's liberation on the national media map and that wou...

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Step...

"This book introduces us to the world of contemporary Japanese music and it guides us towards a better understanding of their world."—Luciano Berio Yogakudiscusse...

Abstract Until recently, many Japanese believed that they lived in the richest country in the world, and in the early 1990s, they welcomed the end of one-party do...

A detailed look at Admiral Yi's four 1592 sorties that defeated the Japanese navy and established him as a national hero. In 1592, Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin plann...

The present volume endeavors to make a contribution to contemporary Whitehead studies by clarifying his axiological process metaphysics, including his theory of values, concept of ...

Abstract This book considers a key moment in the history of how disabilities are envisioned in Japan: the transition between two different understandings of what it ...

The chapter analyzes the sense of “Japanese” in the film Café Lumière, in other words, the fact that many of the Japanese audience felt that it was a “Japanese film.” The “Japanese...