Japanese Studies History: Encyclopedias

Covers Buddhism, Confucianism, Shintō, Kokugaku, historical thought, warrior thought, Western learning, scientific thought, modern thought, the arts, linguistics, and folk religion. Includes ample cross-references and citations for every entry. Index at front is by type of thought, sources and people. Index at rear is alphabetical.

Written by 300 specialists from a variety of fields, the dictionary aims at a broad understanding of popular culture; it aims to make it as concrete as possible, by looking at events, things, people and situations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although it focuses on Japan, it is aware of the connections to Western and Asian popular culture. Each entry is signed and has suggestions for further reading and a link to a table at the end of the volume. Includes a bibliography of 8500 titles related to popular culture. Well illustrated.

Covers "buraku" and human rights issues throughout rural and urban Japan. Articles are signed and often have brief bibliographies. Appendices include laws, treaties and conventions (Japanese and international), selected documents from and leaders of Suiheisha and Buraku Kaiho associations, statistics, including estimates of burakumin, and a chronology from 107-2000 AD. A comprehensive index.

Covers trade and transportation of ideals, people and material goods of Japan to illuminate political, economic, social and legal history from ancient to modern times.

Covers a range of uprisings from petitions through ikki for the Tokugawa and early Meiji periods. Each entry is signed. Volume is arranged in gojuon order, but is indexed to account for variant names of the events.