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Komarov, Mikhail. "CIVILISATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PARTIES IN THE PROCESS OF THE ORGANIZING AND CONDUCTING THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN JAPAN." Eastern Analytics, no. 2 (2020): 79–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.31696/2227-5568-2020-02-079-084.

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The article considers the topical issue of the civilizational aspects of the interaction between parties in the process of the organizing and conducting the Olympic Games in Japan. This paper makes an attempt to consider these aspects from the perspective of two main concepts of civilization, while highlighting general civilizational trends and trends within the framework of local civilizations. The issue of deepening inter-civilization communication and understanding is analyzed. In addition, the place and potential impact of sport in resolving interstate political conflicts is considered. Specific examples of the influence of civilizational aspects on the global community within the framework of the Olympics are given. The topic of this article can be located at the interface of sociology and economics, therefore this paper may be relevant to researchers of various related scientific fields.

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Rashkovskii, E. "Japan: Civilization Paradoxes." World Economy and International Relations, no. 3 (2005): 64–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2005-3-64-70.

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Smith, Jeremy. "Japan as Dual Civilization." Thesis Eleven 61, no. 1 (May 2000): 107–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513600061000008.

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Kudinova, M. A., D. A. Ivanova, and A. V. Tabarev. "The Concept of Civilization in Modern Studies of the Neolithic in China and Japan." Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 51, no. 2 (July 13, 2023): 38–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2023.51.2.038-048.

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This paper presents a brief overview of studies exploring the origin of civilizations in modern archaeology of China and Japan and mostly concerning the Neolithic period. The analysis of publications shows that in Chinese and Japanese archaeology, original scholarly traditions have been developed, with their own methodological foundations and terminology. We outline the key ideas relating to the origin of civilization, elaborated by researches in China (Su Bingqi, Yan Wenming, Li Boqian, Xu Hong, Gao Jiangtao) and Japan (Harunari Hideji, Watanabe Hiroshi, Sasaki Fujio, Yasuda Yoshinori). We show that most Chinese scholars consider the formation of state a sine qua non of transition to the civilization stage. However, the problem of identifying criteria of civilization and state formation using archaeological data has not been resolved to date. Examples of archaeological markers of civilization proposed by Chinese specialists are listed. In the works by Japanese researchers, no connection between the emergence of the state and civilization has been revealed. Most Chinese archaeologists date the emergence of civilization and of the fi rst state formations to the Late Neolithic (Dawenkou, Hongshan, Liangzhu, Longshan, etc.), ca 3500–2000 BC. There are alternative hypotheses—the Early Bronze Age (Erlitou culture) and the Late Bronze Age (the Spring and Autumn period). In Japanese archaeology, there are two main positions regarding the time when civilization had formed—the Jōmon period (Neolithic) and the subsequent Yayoi period (Bronze Age). Scholarly and external (including political) factors that have infl uenced modern concepts of the origin of civilization require special historiographic research.

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Smith, Jeremy C. A. "Modernity and civilization in Johann Arnason’s social theory of Japan." European Journal of Social Theory 14, no. 1 (February 2011): 41–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431010394507.

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Johann Arnason’s exploration of the historical constellation of East Asia has helped reproblematize the conceptual framework of modernity and civilization. This article outlines Arnason’s innovations in civilizational analysis and social theory in the field of comparative studies of Japan. It sets out the terms on which a nuanced elaboration of Arnason’s framework could occur. Two areas warrant closer attention: state formation and the institution of capitalism. It is argued that there are signs of what might be termed a ‘tertiary’ phase of state formation, implicit in Arnason’s discussion of advanced modernity. Moreover, this phase brought Japan into close contact with the newly unfolding context of the West’s civilizational imaginary, particularly in its ideological expressions of evolutionism. The article ends on the problematic of capitalism, raising questions about further potential theoretical developments based on Arnason’s conclusions and other inventive studies of Japanese capitalism.

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Arnason, Johann P. "Is Japan a Civilization Sui Generis?" Japanstudien 14, no. 1 (January 2003): 43–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826889.

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Seifert, Wolfgang. "A Perspective for Japan: Fukuzawa Yukichi’s “Theory of Civilization”, 1875." HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE 13, no. 2 (November 29, 2021): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363525.2021.17.

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This paper discusses the thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi, probably the most influential Japanese intellectual of the late nineteenth century, with particular reference to his attempt to develop a theory of civilization. For him, the civilizational approach was a framework for reflection on Japan’s situation in the world after the great changes of the 1850s and 1860s. He saw the preservation of national independence and the reform of Japanese society as primary goals, but they necessitated extensive learning from the experience and achievements of more advanced societies, especially those of Western Europe and the United States. However, he did not advocate a purely imitative Westernization. Japan’s distinctive identity and autonomous international stance were to be maintained. To clarify the reasons for transforming Japan in light of Western models without capitulating to them, he outlined an evolutionary conception of social change, understood in terms of an advance towards civilization. That kind of progress was not only a matter of technical and organizational development; it also involved the mobilization of whole peoples. On this basis, Fukuzawa articulated a more democratic vision of Japan’s future than the road subsequently taken by the Meiji government.

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Morris-Suzuki, T. "Rewriting History: Civilization Theory in Contemporary Japan." positions: east asia cultures critique 1, no. 2 (September 1, 1993): 526–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1-2-526.

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Gvili, Gal. "The Woman Question and China-India Horizons in Xu Dishan's Shangren Fu." Comparative Literature Studies 58, no. 4 (November 1, 2021): 780–806. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.58.4.0780.

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Abstract In the 1921 short story Shangren fu, Xu Dishan challenges nineteenth century developmental thought, which saw the condition of women in certain societies as touchstone to these societies' level of civilization. The link between civilization and the “the woman question” circulated across Asia, disseminated by new disciplines such as folklore studies, and through missionary education, which enshrined female literacy as the first rung in the ladder of civilizational progress. Many Chinese writers portrayed female characters simultaneously as emblems of national backwardness and of hopes to rise from “savagery” to “civilization.” My reading of Xu Dishan's work reveals a radical alternative to this view. Xu Dishan drew upon ancient Indian folktales to imagine a nonlinear literary horizon in which women do not stand for the nation but embody transregional possibilities. Taking Xu Dishan's work as a key intervention in Chinese literary culture, this study seeks to move beyond the notion that modern knowledge “arrived” in China from Europe by way of Japan exclusively, by revealing India in particular to be a critical site through which Chinese fiction grappled with the woman question as part of a larger discussion about the meaning of civilization in the modern world.

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Kuzmin, Yaroslav V., J. A. Timothy Jull, and G. S. Burr. "Major Patterns in the Neolithic Chronology of East Asia: Issues of the Origin of Pottery, Agriculture, and Civilization." Radiocarbon 51, no. 3 (2009): 891–903. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200033968.

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General chronological frameworks created recently for the Neolithic complexes of China, Japan, Korea, and far eastern Russia allow us to reveal temporal patterns of Neolithization, origin of food production, and the emergence of civilizations. Pottery originated in East Asia, most probably independently in different parts of it, in the terminal Pleistocene, about 14,800–13,300 BP (uncalibrated), and this marks the beginning of the Neolithic. Agriculture in the eastern part of Asia emerged only in the Holocene. The earliest trace of millet cultivation in north China can now be placed at ∼9200 BP, and rice domestication in south China is dated to ∼8000 BP. Pottery in East Asia definitely preceded agriculture. The term “civilization,” which implies the presence of a state level of social organization and written language, has been misused by scholars who assert the existence of a very early “Yangtze River civilization” at about 6400–4200 cal BP. The earliest reliable evidence of writing in China is dated only to about 3900–3000 cal BP, and no “civilization” existed in East Asia prior to this time.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Japan – Civilization"

Urbain, Olivier. "Daisaku Ikeda's philosophy of peace : human revolution, dialogue and global civilization." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3354.

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Daisaku Ikeda is the Buddhist leader of one of the most visible religious movements today, the Soka Gakkai International (SGI). In this thesis, the main research question concerns the peace philosophy of Ikeda and its contribution to peace theory. Daisaku Ikeda and the SGI have been the subject of several scholarly studies in the fields of religious history and sociology. The focus of this research is on the significance of Ikeda's contributions in the field of peace studies, where his work has not yet been the subject of systematic investigation. It is argued that the originality of Ikeda's philosophy of peace resides in two main elements. First, the starting point is consistently human life and its potential for peace and happiness, not the omnipresence of conflict. Second, he offers a coherent system linking the individual, dialogical and global levels, which can be represented as a triangle made of three conceptual frameworks, that of Humanistic Psychology (Human Revolution), Communicative Rationality (Dialogue) and Cosmopolitan Democracy (Global Civilization). It is also argued that while being inspired by Ikeda's Buddhist spirituality and his loyalty to his mentor Josei Toda, this secular humanist approach to peace offers an effective and original way for all people to participate in the construction of a better world, regardless of their religious or ideological affiliation, social background or cultural practices.

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Sugawara, Yosei. "Silence and avoidance: Japanese expatriate adjustment." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/682.

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IWASA, Takuro. "West European academic images and stereotypes of Japan since the 1970s." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/10399.

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Defence date: 26 October 2007
Examining Board: Prof. Akira Kudo (University of Tokio) ; Prof. Willfried Spohn (Katholische Universität Eichstätt) ; Prof. Bo Stråth (Helsinki University and former EUI/Supervisor) ; Prof. Martin Van Gelderen (EUI)
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The aim of this thesis is to analyse the changes through the time of the West European academic images and stereotypes of Japan since the 1970s, and to study how Japan has been produced and constructed for Europe in some major academic disciplines, that is, economics, business management studies, social sciences, and across these disciplines. Therefore, it is a thesis to clarify the European imaginations and stereotypisations of Japan as reflected in the West European academic debate. It also aims to illuminate the European conceptualisation of Japan. How have the European academics perceived and interpreted the Japanese economy, its business management, society and historical backdrop since the 1970s? How have the images and stereotypes of Japan been constructed and developed for Europe as a model, as a threat or as the Other? Do any remarkable shared features or differences between images and stereotypes exist within each period or each academic discipline? These questions are addressed in the thesis. The thesis was born out of an academic interest in the development of the civilisational dialogue between Europe and Japan. Europe had always presented the models to emulate for the other non-Western nations, including - at least previously - Japan. After a century of Japanese interest in emulating European models of modernisation, in the 1970s influences started to operate in the reverse direction. It was during the 1970s that the West Europeans faced their serious economic, social and identity crises, and when the Europeans started to look to Japan for an alternative model with much more interest and close attention. Over the period since the 1970s Japan has provided itself to be the first non-Western nation in modern history that has demonstrated the alternative economic and social models from which Europe can learn or with which it can contrast itself for the first time.

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Vidović, Ferderbar Dragica. "In limine : writers, culture and modernity in interwar Japan." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27985.

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‘Everybody who writes history has a bone to pick with the past’ said George Wilson. Perhaps not so much with the past itself as with the images of the past created by other historians. The images and concepts are created, moulded not only by the practical needs and expectations of the time and place that produced them, but also coloured by the theory fashionable at the time. They seem to be useful for a period of time, but at a certain stage they become a hindrance rather than a help, as they tend to limit rather than expand our knowledge of the past. One such concept is that of nationalism. Although it is far from clear what exactly constitutes nationalism, the immediate association is that of some sort of selfish claim by a group which calls itself a nation or aspires to become one. If it is for the self, it must necessarily be against somebody else, so goes our reasoning. Anything that excludes has a particularly bad press right now and this is reflected in the amount of scholarship on nationalism. This renewed interest in the subject is due to the break-up of the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries in the last decade or so, because of the scale and viciousness of nationalist struggles between various ethnic groups. However, in Western studies of Japanese history the subject of nationalism never went out of fashion, so to speak. While most of modern Japan’s history is viewed, judged and understood, or misunderstood, through the prism of nationalism, this is particularly true of the interwar period. Not only are the military adventures on the continent seen as an example of nationalism, but most, if not all, intellectual discourse of the period is labelled ‘cultural nationalism’.

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Bazzocchi, Karl. "A westerner's journey in Japan : an analysis of Edward S. Morse's Japan day by day." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=101875.

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Japan Day by Day---the Western Zoologist Edward S. Morse's account of his stay in Japan from 1877 to 1883---is analyzed by first comparing it to other contemporary travelogues written by western travelers to Japan, and then by viewing it through a more theoretical framework, including Edward Said's theory on post-colonialism and Michel Foucault's theory of discourse and body experiences. Viewed through this framework, the goal of analysis is not to test the validity of Morse's writings, but to explore the formation of his interpretation of his experience in Japan.

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Squires, Todd Andrew. "Reading the Kōwaka-mai as Medieval myth story-patterns, traditional reference and performance in Late Medieval Japan /." Full text available online (restricted access), 2001. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/squires.pdf.

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De, Groot Henk W. K. "The Study Of The Dutch Language In Japan During Its Period Of National Isolation (ca. 1641-1868)." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Japanese, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1015.

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From the middle of the seventeenth century until 1853, the Japanese shogunal government virtually isolated Japan from the rest of the world. Only the Chinese and the Dutch were allowed to maintain a trading post in the harbour of Nagasaki. All dealings with the Dutch traders were subject to strict controls, and the interpreters that were trained to liaise with them had to swear a blood oath to secrecy. Nevertheless, information regarding the scientific and technological advances that were made in the West during this period managed to penetrate this barrier, and eventually grew, to some extent with official sanction, into a popular branch of scholarship known as rengeku, literally 'Dutch learning'. Since nearly all of the academic knowledge that reached Japan from the West arrived in written Dutch, the Dutch language became the language of science in Japan during this period, and a necessary subject of study for allrangaku scholars. This thesis is the first study in English that examines the development of the study of the Dutch language in Japan during the period through an analysis of the textbooks and dictionaries that were produced in Japan. The works selected for this study are those considered to be representative of, or significant to, the development of the study of Dutch and attendant increase of awareness of Western linguistic concepts, many of which were imposed, for better or worse, on the Japanese language. Other, less influential documents, are occasionally also discussed, to demonstrate the false trails and misunderstandings that can emerge when a foreign language is presented to students without the benefit of demonstrated current and practical usage. Initially Dutch language study was restricted to the development of skills among the Dutch interpreters in Nagasaki, who compiled word lists for personal use. These lists developed from primitive and limited glossaries into relatively sophisticated Chinesestyle lexicons and finally evolved into the large-scale Haruma dictionaries of the early nineteenth century. Early attempts at understanding the structures of the Dutch language, both by interpreters and academics, failed to provide practical insights. An important i breakthrough was achieved when retired interpreter Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806) began to produce translations of Nederduytsche Spraakkonst('Dutch Grammar') by William Sewel, and applied Western linguistic concepts to the Japanese language. This new understanding gave rise to a consistent structural approach to the study of Dutch, as a result of which language study became more consistent and translations more sophisticated. Although the end of national isolation in the middle of the nineteenth century meant that the study of Dutch was soon abandoned in favour of other European languages, many words in the Japanese language, particularly in relation to science and technology, are of Dutch origin. More importantly, many of the principles and terminology the Japanese use to define the structures of their language stem from the insights into Western linguistics gained during those final decades of the period of national isolation.

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Sawada, Keiji. "From The floating world to The 7 stages of grieving the presentation of contemporary Australian plays in Japan /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/13213.

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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, 2005.
Bibliography: p. 274-291.
Introduction -- The emergence of "honyakugeki" -- Shôgekijô and the quest for national identity -- "Honyakugeki" after the rise of Shôgekijô -- The presentation of Australian plays as "honyakugeki" -- Representations of Aborigines in Japan -- Minorities in Japan and theatre -- The Japanese productions of translated Aboriginal plays -- Significance of the productions of Aboriginal plays in Japan -- Conclusion.
Many Australian plays have been presented in Japan since the middle of the 1990s. This thesis demonstrates that in presenting Australian plays the Japanese Theatre has not only attempted to represent an aspect of Australian culture, but has also necessarily revealed aspects of Japanese culture. This thesis demonstrates that understanding this process is only fully possible when the particular cultural function of 'translated plays' in the Japanese cultural context is established. In order to demonstrate this point the thesis surveys the history of so-called 'honyakugeki' (translated plays) in the Japanese Theatre and relates them to the production of Western plays to ideas and processes of modernisation in Japan. -- Part one of the thesis demonstrates in particular that it was the alternative Theatre movement of the 1960s and 1970s which liberated 'honyakugeki' from the issue of 'authenticity'. The thesis also demonstrates that in this respect the Japanese alternative theatre and the Australian alternative theatre of the same period have important connections to the quest for 'national identity'. Part one of the thesis also demonstrates that the Japanese productions of Australian plays such as The Floating World, Diving for Pearls and Honour reflected in specific ways this history and controversy over 'honyakugeki'. Furthermore, these productions can be analysed to reveal peculiarly Japanese issues especially concerning the lack of understanding of Australian culture in Japan and the absence of politics from the Japanese contemporary theatre. -- Part two of the thesis concentrates on the production of translations of the Australian Aboriginal plays Stolen and The 7 Stages of Grieving. 'This part of the thesis demonstrates that the presentation of these texts opened a new chapter in the history of presenting 'honyakugeki' in Japan. It demonstrates that the Japanese theatre had to confront the issue of 'authenticity' once more, but in a radically new way. The thesis also demonstrates that the impact of these productions in Japan had a particular Japanese cultural and social impact, reflecting large issues about the issue of minorities and indigenous people in Japan and about the possibilities of theatre for minorities. In particular the thesis demonstrates that these representations of Aborigines introduced a new image of Australian Aborigines to that which was dominant amongst Japanese anthropologists.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Howland, Douglas Roger. "Borders of Chinese civilization : geography and history at Empire's end /." Durham : Duke University Press, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37493304t.

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Yipu, Zen. "Selling props, playing stars:virtualising the self in the Japanese mediascape." Thesis, View Thesis, 2005. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/589.

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In the so-called postmodern era, when networked media are increasingly ubiquitous in everyday life, where the ‘real’ and the ‘simulation’ become ever more indistinguishable; the physical and virtual intertwine; machines and man merge, and audience and stars transpose. To understand consumption in a time when realness and authenticity are no longer relevant, this thesis draws attention to the consumption and production of media content through case studies of consumer participation and social trends in Japan. The work begins in a themed shopping mall, Venus Fort in Tokyo Bay; continues with the reproduction of Audrey Hepburn‘s image; expands to the dramatised ‘realness’ of television; and finally moves to the omnipresent mobile phone and the impact of networked personal media on our idea of the ‘real’. First, through an analysis of a themed consumption environment, it is suggested that a transition is taking place in consumption from objects to experiences, services and spectacle. Secondly, by showing Audrey Hepburn‘s transition from a Hollywood star to a virtualised idol, technologically-aided illusions are shown to make hierarchical realness irrelevant. Thirdly, via Reality TV dating programs, the focus shifts to the role of audience participation in the consumption of media content. These themes are demonstrated individually, then merged into the last example – the social and cultural evolution induced by the mass consumption of networked media, that promise to revolutionise the way we consume, communicate and connect between people, machines and consumer goods.The thesis grounds its analysis of contemporary trends in the culture of consumption in Japan in theories of commodity and culture, the real and the simulation, speed and reality, the spectacle and the self in mediated spaces, and probes further into the collapse of demarcations between the virtual and the real, the event and the everyday and media and the self in the network society

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Books on the topic "Japan – Civilization"

Kathe, Roth, ed. Japan Encyclopedia. S. l: Harvard University Press, 2002.

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Hardyman, Robyn. Japan. London: Franklin Watts, 2009.

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(Edinburgh), Japan 2001 (Festival). Japan 2001. Edinburgh: City of Edinburgh Council, 2001.

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B, Davis Malcom, Vilhar Gorazd, and Eu Geoffrey, eds. Japan. Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994.

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Masao, Miyoshi, and Harootunian Harry D. 1929-, eds. Postmodernism and Japan. Durham: Duke University Press, 1989.

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Rossetti, Gabriele. Japan underground. Roma: Castelvecchi, 2006.

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Rossetti, Gabriele. Japan underground. Roma: Castelvecchi, 2006.

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Kalman, Bobbie. Japan. Toronto: Crabtree Pub. Co., 1993.

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Bunce, Vincent J. Japan. New York: Franklin Watts, 1994.

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Mente, Boye De. Discovering cultural Japan. Lincolnwood, Ill., U.S.A: Passport Books, 1988.

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Parker, Ian. "Civilization and its Contents: ‘Buddhistic cyberspace in Kyoto’." In Japan in Analysis, 48–69. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230593954_4.

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Mehl, Margaret. "4. From Rites and Music to National Music." In Music and the Making of Modern Japan, 127–38. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0374.04.

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Chapter 4, ‘From Rites and Music to National Music’, shows how both in Europe and in the Sinosphere (East Asian Cultural Sphere), of which Japan was a part, concepts of music were intimately linked to concepts of civilization. When Japan embarked on re-inventing itself as a modern nation, modelled on the most powerful Western nations, Eastern and Western conceptions of civilization became intertwined. A remarkable example of this process is Konakamura Kiyonori’s book Kabu ongaku ryakushi (A concise history of singing, dancing and music in Japan, 1888), the first work of its kind. It includes two prefaces, one written in Sinitic (kanbun) – unlike the work itself –, by a leading scholar of Chinese learning, and one in English by Basil Hall Chamberlain, recently appointed the first professor of Japanese philology at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Together with these, the work, in effect, straddles two epistemes. Most significantly, it served to both elevate the music of the common people of Japan to a national asset while simultaneously legitimizing musical borrowing, whether from China in the past or the West in the present.

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Wittner, David G. "The Mechanization of Japan’s Silk Industry and the Quest for Progress and Civilization, 1870–1880." In Building a Modern Japan, 135–59. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403981110_7.

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Worringer, Renée. "The Young Turk Regime and the Japanese Model after 1908: “Eastern” Essence, “Western” Science, Ottoman Notions of “Terakkî” and “Medeniyet” (Progress and Civilization)." In Ottomans Imagining Japan, 153–82. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137384607_6.

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Takekoshi, Yosaburo. "Economic Feudalism." In The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, 449–71. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315017075-19.

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Takekoshi, Yosaburo. "Catholic Rebellion in Shimabara." In The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, 84–103. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315017075-5.

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Takekoshi, Yosaburo. "The Gold and Silver Recoinage in Genbun Era." In The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, 431–48. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315017075-18.

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Takekoshi, Yosaburo. "The Rise of the Tonya (Middleman)." In The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, 489–504. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315017075-21.

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Takekoshi, Yosaburo. "From the Slave System to the Wage System of Economics." In The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, 40–65. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315017075-3.

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Takekoshi, Yosaburo. "Power of Tokugawa Family Established." In The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, 1–29. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315017075-1.

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Conference papers on the topic "Japan – Civilization"

Zabiyako, Anna. "Image Of Japan In Chinese Literary Thought In The Early 20Th Century." In International Scientific Congress «KNOWLEDGE, MAN AND CIVILIZATION». European Publisher, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2021.05.232.

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Li, Zhengwang, and Hui Liu. "The Fiscal Policy of Promoting the Development of Ecological Civilization in Japan and Its Enlightenment to China." In 2017 4th International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology (ICEMCT 2017). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icemct-17.2017.49.

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DISSANAYAKE, Ishini Samadhi. "HAPPINESS THROUGH THE CONFUCIUS’S PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY." In Proceedings of The Third International Scientific Conference “Happiness and Contemporary Society”. SPOLOM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31108/7.2022.13.

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Confucius was born over 2,500 years ago and Confucius died at the age of 72 in 479 BCE (Rainey 2010: 21). Though he is called Confucius throughout most of the world, that name is actually the Latinized form of his Chinese name, Kong Fuzi, or Master Kung (Dorothy & Hoobler 2009: 10).Confucianism became the ascendant philosophical system of China for more than 2,000 years. It is a system of thought based on the teachings of Confucius, who lived from 551 to 479 BCE (Dorothy & Hoobler 2009: 10). It has been imbued in every aspect of Chinese life which steeps through its history, state affairs and social life. Most importantly, its ethics aided immensely to shape society and remarkably impacted on daily lives. Consequently, still on any given day one can see hundreds and hundreds of people, most in family groups or tour groups visit Confucius’ birthplace in the Chinese city of Qufu which is considered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Confucianism elements also can be seen in Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese cultures due to the expansion of Chinese civilization. Thus, the majority of the three million tourists who visit Confucius’ birthplace within a year are from China, Korea or Japan. Even though in the past decades East Asia has had a blistering phase of modernization, one can still see that Chinese, Korean, or Japanese remnants contending with the ancient morals of Confucius. “Confucius, then, ranks with Abraham, Jesus, Muhammad, and Siddhartha Gautama (better known as the Buddha), and Aristotle and Plato, as one of the founders of modern civilization” (Schuman 2015: 14).

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Tong, Ling. "THE MANUSCRIPT CULTURE OF CONFUCIANISM AND BUDDHISM IN THE WEI, JIN, NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN DYNASTIES, SUI AND TANG CHINA." In 10th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2022)". St. Petersburg State University, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288063770.18.

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The Medieval China is a “Manuscript era”. The four divisions of Jing, Shi, Zi, Ji, and the documents of Buddhism and Taoism, all have to be considered based on this general background. For the first part of this paper, the keyword used in the comparison with “Buddhism” in the Medieval China is “Confucianism” rather than “Confucian classics”. Then, the concept and classification of Jiyi (collection of the lost parts of classics) are explained. The second part, starting from the newly published Lunyu Yi shu in Japan in 2020 and integrating with Jiang Zhou yi shulunjia yi ji and other manuscripts, is to analyze some Buddhist factors in the study of Confucianism Yi shu. The third part, from the East Asian Civilization sphere, explores the academic significance of Chinese Buddhism under the perspective of the integration of the Three teachings in the Middle Ages. Special attention will be paid to the Japanese written Guketsu getensho, and how the text form absorbed the Confucian thought will be analyzed. Through these cases, a preliminary conclusion about the relationship between the manuscript culture of Confucianism and Buddhism in the medieval China will be made.

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