Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan

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.

Yumiko Iida

Chapter 1 Approaching the questions of Japanese identity and nationalism; Chapter 2 'Overcoming modernity'; Chapter 3 Uneasy with the modern; Chapter 4 The age of rapid economic growth and romantic resurgence; Chapter 5 Back to identity; Chapter 6 Japan in the 1990s and beyond; Chapter 7 Japanese nationalism in the late modern world;