These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.

These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.

These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.

This volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese late modernity and national hegemony which examines the creative and academic works of a number of influential Japanese thinkers. The author situates the process of Japanese knowledge production in the interface between the immediate historical and the wider socio-economic and politico-cultural contexts accompanying the Japanese post-war experience of modernity. This book will be of great value to anyone interested in the history of contemporary Japanese culture and society.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.