Examines modern Japanese antisemitism, and discusses the seeming admiration of the Japanese for the worst anti-Jewish stereotypes

Jews in the Japanese Mind

History

Goodman, David G.

Miyazawa, Masanori

Asia

Free Press

Sim Off Filing Procedures, Bus Rcrd Cntrl

Thomson/South-Western

This text is an excellent introduction to the increasingly comprehensive field of records management and acquaints students with filing rules as well as changing trends..

Business Records Control

Business & Money

Ginn, Mary Lea

Fosegan, Joseph S.

Processes & Infrastructure

South-Western Pub.

Shortly before releasing deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway in March 1995, the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult published a vicious 95-page antisemitic tract that declared war on its Jewish archenemy. The gassing of the Tokyo subway was the culmination of a century of Japanese theorizing about Jews, an important part of which has been antisemitic. In recent years, books blaming Jews for everything from the designs on Japanese currency to the 1995 Kobe earthquake have appeared, and some have sold millions of copies. What explains this virtual obsession with Jews in Japan―a country that has no Jews? In this highly original cultural and intellectual history, David G. Goodman and Masanori Miyazawa show that present-day Japanese attitudes toward Jews are the result of a process of accretion that began nearly 200 years ago. Skillfully tracing the historical development of Japanese images of Jews against the background of the development of modern Japanese culture, they describe how these images reflect the great themes of modern Japanese intellectual life. Spanning fields ranging from politics to poetry, the authors demonstrate how Japanese attitudes toward Jews have had real political and cultural consequences, culminating in the 1995 subway gassing and resonating into the twenty-first century.

Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype (Studies of Modern Japan)

Lexington Books

Land of Volcanic Ash: A Play in Two Parts (Cornell East Asia Series No. 40)

Literature & Fiction

Sakae, Kubo

Dramas & Plays

Cornell Univ East Asia Program

Angura: Posters of the Japanese Avant-Garde documents the extraordinary posters created for a group of experimental Japanese theatre groups during the 1960s and 70s. Ranging from the vivid and sexually explicit images of sixties psychedelia to the subtle refinement of traditional Japanese printmaking, the posters represent a tumultuous period both in Japanese graphic arts and in Japanese society as a whole. Silkscreened with up to twenty different colors and printed in limited editions, the posters were ostensibly meant as advertisements for the theatre productions of a thriving counterculture. But the designers focused such lavish care on the posters that they were rarely finished before the productions opened, eliminating their commercial function and making them objects of art. Author David G. Goodman illuminates these arresting images, describes the context in which they were created, and provides a brief history of modern Japanese graphic design. In the foreword, Ellen Lupton discusses the relevance of these images for the contemporary designer. Angura will appeal to anyone interested in Japanese anime graphics.

Angura: Posters of the Japanese Avant-Garde

Arts & Photography

Lupton, Ellen

Graphic Design

Princeton Architectural Press

First published in 1988 and now available in a photo-reprint paperback edition, this book provides an important perspective on the theatre, culture, and politics of Japan in the 1960s. It contains translations of five plays representative of the period, with analytical commentary by a leading authority on postwar Japanese drama. The author's central thesis is that the 1960 demonstrations against the renewal of the U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty was a major turning point in Japanese intellectual life, one characterized by disillusionment with the old left and the legacy of prewar left-wing formulations and by a quest for an alternative to the dominant Hegelian-Marxist system. The book argues that the 1960s were a period of eschatological reflection in which profound questions about ultimate ends were being asked.

The Return of the Gods: Japanese Drama and Culture in the 1960s (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 116)

History & Criticism

Cornell East Asia Series

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