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Drawing on a 40-year career as a diplomat, this book demystifies Japanese culture. It is the first in English to examine the twin concepts of Japanese sensibility and Oriental wisdom, arguing for their vital role in fostering closer cooperation between East and West.
This book aims to provide a wider understanding of Japanese culture by showcasing Japan’s rich cultural and societal practices, which are often baffling for foreigners. Drawing on the author’s 40-year career as a diplomat, lecturer and writer, the volume takes a practical approach, offering unique insights into Japanese daily life for specialists and general readers alike. Featuring comparisons with Western cultural touchstones, this is the first book in English to propose a systematic examination of the twin concepts of Japanese sensibility and Oriental wisdom. It demystifies modern Japan, situating the Japanese in their historical, regional and philosophical contexts, with discussion ranging from the natural world to the linguistic and even culinary. The book makes an urgent argument for closer cooperation between East and West predicated on a greater role for Japanese sensibility and Oriental wisdom in tomorrow’s global world, providing valuable suggestions for a new lifestyle to match the new era.
This volume critically examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an Afrocentric perspective. It provides readers with a compilation of essays that evaluate the Africana experience from a methodological perspective.
This compilation of original case studies on communication and conflict resolution brings theory to life. Abstract concepts are presented as concrete characters, compelling you to think critically, apply principles, and analyze complex, real-world scenarios.
This book examines conflicts in Afghanistan, Palestine-Israel, and Kashmir through the prism of international law and the Islamic legal tradition. Using comparative analysis, it proposes an innovative theo-diplomatic model for brokering peace and reconciliation.
In a world torn apart by conflict, from families to nations, how do we build a culture of peace? This volume of essays presents multiple perspectives from scholars and practitioners on fostering hope and creating peace in a conflict-ridden world.
Is Manufacturing Consent still fit for purpose? This book argues that the 2016 election created a ‘year zero’ for journalism, requiring an overhaul of Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model. It is a radical intervention, offering a new model to understand media propaganda.
This volume explores how racism and nationalism are shaped by collective amnesia. Essays connect disparate genocides, from Belgian colonialism to Bosnia, to show how nation-states are built on practices of oblivion, demanding we critically rethink the past for a new future.
This volume examines the decolonization of communication studies. It shows that the discipline underwent a rapid paradigm shift after scholars were called upon to rethink the field in the face of a crisis.
In the “social laboratory” of Israeli and Palestinian societies, conflicting collective narratives often create obstacles to peace. This book presents a unique approach that transforms these narratives from barriers into powerful tools for promoting reconciliation.
This book explores borders as socio-political constructs and the formation of identity. A series of articles interrogates the border as a limitation where spatial borders become mental ones, and examines individualism as a paradoxical prison cell and fortress.
