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The Beatles¿ engagement with Japan, especially their 1966 tour, highlights a great deal about Japan¿s postwar cultural development and Japan¿s deepening relationship with the West. Up to the 1960s Japan¿s reconstruction phase was not fully completed, its ¿economic miracle¿ and the associated high level of self-confidence were not yet in place, and

The Beatles¿ engagement with Japan, especially their 1966 tour, highlights a great deal about Japan¿s postwar cultural development and Japan¿s deepening relationship with the West. Up to the 1960s Japan¿s reconstruction phase was not fully completed, its ¿economic miracle¿ and the associated high level of self-confidence were not yet in place, and Japan was not yet considered a fully-fledged partner of the West. All these potential development...

Despite the popular perception of homogeneity, wealth and cultural conformity, Japanese society has its own underclass living outside the mainstream. Stevens explores the lives of the outcasts, and the volunteers who help them.

Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the "other" to "normal" able-bodiedness. Most studies of disability consider disability in North American or European contexts, and studies of diversity in Japan consider ethnic and cultural diversity, but not the differences arising from disability. This book therefore breaks new ground, both for scholars of disability studies and for Japanese studies scholars. It...

Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the "other" to "normal" able-bodiedness. Most studies of disability consider disability in North American or European contexts, and studies of diversity in Japan consider ethnic and cultural diversity, but not the differences arising from disability. This book therefore breaks new ground, both for scholars of disability studies and for Japanese studies scholars. It...

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Japan is regarded as a society that provides "cradle to grave" security to those who conform to its standards. Carolyn Stevens' ethnographic study of social life in Kotobuki, an inner city district of Yokohama, documents the lives of those who have missed the Japanese economic miracle. Stevens closely examines the lives of those who live there, mostly the unemployed, elderly and disabled, as well as the small number of volunteers, middle-class...

Examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture. This book aims to find differences as well as similarities between the Japanese and Western pop music scenes. It shows how Japanese music has responded to Japan's relationship to the West.