Japanese History and Culture

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Common dualistic thinking in environmental design education adopts humans and the environment as separate entities, with the environment as raw material stock. This approach affects the intellectual development of landscape architects and limits their ability to create meaningful landscapes. Therefore, it is necessary…

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Chapter 6

Japan was one of the most powerful empires in world politics from 1905 to 1945. The Japanese imperial elites followed the Muslim World policies of the European empires while developing their own policies towards Muslim societies of Asia. There was an important debate among Japan’s government officers and intellectuals…

The Russo-Japanese War in 1905 was interpreted throughout the world as the first victory of an Asian nation belonging to the yellow race against a major white and Christian Western empire.1 In fact, the world-historical significance of the Japanese victory over Russia was noted by a wide array of contemporary observer…

One of the most striking aspects of the international history of the 1930s is the revival and official endorsement of a pan-Asian vision of regional world order in Japan. The pan-Asian discourse of East-West civilizational difference and comparison was influential in various intellectual circles in Asia. But during th…

This article introduces the Japanese concept of kodawari—meaning obession and a detailed personal aesthetic—as an analytical category to think about the process by which everyday foods are valorized as gourmet. I show that the kodawari of chefs and consumers influence each other and combine to create an aesthetic appr…

In the complex sphere of global television dramas, South Korea has emerged as a regional force in the last few decades, followed by Turkey in the 2000s. Turkish TV dramas are sold to over 140 countries throughout the world, demanding a constant supply of new content, met in part by remakes. While Korean productions re…

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In this study, interaction/relationship of Japanese people with Muslims from Meiji period to the present day will be illustrated. Japan in modern time, which became a regional power, began to have direct relations with Muslims and obtained more accurate information about Islam in a way quite different from its premode…

As Japan underwent rapid modernization and economic expansion after World War II, its cultural complex transformed into a postmodern mingling of Western and Eastern cultures, merging modern and antiquated tradition (Heine 1995:29). The Japanese have absorbed many Western traditions without immigrating, or living outsi…