Through Japanese Eyes
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Author | : Yohko Tsuji |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2020-11-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1978819579 |
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In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in America from a cross-cultural perspective. Comparing aging in America and in her native Japan, she discovers that notable differences in the panhuman experience of aging are rooted in cultural differences between these two countries, and that Americans have strongly negative attitudes toward aging because it represents the antithesis of cherished American values, especially independence. Tsuji reveals that American culture, despite its seeming lack of guidance for those aging, plays a pivotal role in elders’ lives, simultaneously assisting and constraining them. Furthermore, the author’s lengthy period of research illustrates major changes in her interlocutors’ lives, incorporating their declines and death, and significant shifts in the culture of aging in American society as Tsuji herself gets to know American culture and grows into senescence herself. Through Japanese Eyes offers an ethnography of aging in America from a cross-cultural perspective based on a lengthy period of research. It illustrates how older Americans cope with the gap between the ideal (e.g., independence) and the real (e.g., needing assistance) of growing older, and the changes the author observed over thirty years of research.
Author | : Otto David Tolischus |
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Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Japan |
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"This book is an effort to let the Japanese speak for themselves--to let them state their case, explain their aims, expound the political, emotional, and religious imponderables behind their action ... It does claim to give a true presentation of that Japanese ideology which dominates the national life ... And as a presentation of that ideology, the statements here collected, [are] not only of Japan's militarists but also of her statesmen and intellectuals." -- From Foreword.
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Release | : 1999 |
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Author | : Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824821449 |
Download Japanese Eyes American Hearts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Japanese Eyes... American Heart is a rare and powerful collection of personal thoughts written by the soldiers themselves, reflections of the men's thoughts as recorded in diaries and letters sent home to family members and friends, and other expressions about an episode that marked a turning point in the lives of many.
Author | : Richard H Minear |
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Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : Gail R. Benjamin |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1998-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814723403 |
Download Japanese Lessons Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Benjamin dismantles Americans' preconceived notions of the Japanese education system "Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one..."—The New York Times Book Review Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignance. We respect a system that produces higher literacy rates and superior math skills, but we reject the excesses of a system that leaves children with little free time and few outlets for creativity and self-expression. In Japanese Lessons, Gail R. Benjamin recounts her experiences as a American parent with two children in a Japanese elementary school. An anthropologist, Benjamin successfully weds the roles of observer and parent, illuminating the strengths of the Japanese system and suggesting ways in which Americans might learn from it. With an anthropologist's keen eye, Benjamin takes us through a full year in a Japanese public elementary school, bringing us into the classroom with its comforting structure, lively participation, varied teaching styles, and non-authoritarian teachers. We follow the children on class trips and Sports Days and through the rigors of summer vacation homework. We share the experiences of her young son and daughter as they react to Japanese schools, friends, and teachers. Through Benjamin we learn what it means to be a mother in Japan--how minute details, such as the way mothers prepare lunches for children, reflect cultural understandings of family and education.
Author | : L. E. Clark |
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Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Gregory Golley |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
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Download When Our Eyes No Longer See Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
For the writers and poets of early-20th-century Japan, literary modernism was a crisis of perception before it was a crisis of representation. When Our Eyes No Longer See portrays an extraordinary moment in the history of this perceptual crisis and in Japanese literature during the 1920s and 1930s.
Author | : Richard H. Minear |
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Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Sheila K. Johnson |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804719599 |
Download The Japanese Through American Eyes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Largely based on the information conveyed by bestselling novels, magazines, cartoons, movies and television shows, this is an illuminating look at American attitudes and stereotypes about Japan since World War II. The book is illustrated with one photograph and sixteen cartoons.