Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

UP Asian Center Library, Recipient of Japan Foundation Headquarters Grant

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The UP Asian Center has been selected as one of the recipients of books and materials by the Japan Foundation Grant Program 2023. Under the Japan Foundation Grant Program for Japanese Studies Projects (Library Support), a total of 39 books were donated to the UP Asian Center Library on 1 April 2024.
Check out some of the materials below:
Andrews, William. 2016. Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima. London: Hurst & Company.
Bowen-Struyk, Heather, and Norma Field, eds. 2016. For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution: An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
Daliot-Bul, Michal, and Nissim Otmazgin. 2019. The Anime Boom in the United States: Lessons for Global Creative Industries. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center.
Foster, Michael Dylan, and Shinonome Kijin. 2015. The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Fraser, Andy, R.H.P. Mason, and Philip Mitchell. 1995. Japan’s Early Parliaments, 1890-1905: Structure, Issues and Trends. New York, USA: Routledge.
Janotta, Joseph E., Jr. 2015. Extraordinary Leaders: World War II Memoirs of an American Naval Officer and an Imperial Japanese Naval Officer. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.
McLelland, Mark, and Romit Dasgupta, eds. 2005. Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan. USA and Canada: Routledge.
Nakamura, Karen. 2006. Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Wood, Christopher. 2006. The Bubble Economy: Japan’s Extraordinary Speculative Boom of the ‘80s and the Dramatic Bust of the ‘90s. United States: Equinox Publishing.
 

LIST OF ALL BOOKS DONATED:

Andrews, William. 2016. Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima. London: Hurst & Company.
Beasley, William G. 2011. The Rise of Modern Japan. USA and Canada: Routledge.
Bowen-Struyk, Heather, and Norma Field, eds. 2016. For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution: An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
Clark, Donald N. 2012. Korea in World History. Key Issues in Asian Studies, No 10. USA: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Corbett, Rebecca. 2018. Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
Crissey, Etsuko Takushi. 2017. Okinawa’s GI Brides: Their Lives in America. Translated by Steve Rabson. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i.
Cronin, Michael P. 2017. Osaka Modern: The City in the Japanese Imaginary. Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London: Harvard University Asia Center.
Cunningham, Eric. 2011. Zen Past and Present. Key Issues in Asian Studies, No 8. USA: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Daliot-Bul, Michal, and Nissim Otmazgin. 2019. The Anime Boom in the United States: Lessons for Global Creative Industries. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center.
Dunscomb, Paul E. 2014. Japan Since 1945. Key Issues in Asian Studies, No 15. USA: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Foster, Michael Dylan, and Shinonome Kijin. 2015. The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Fowler, Edward. 1988. The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishōsetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press.
Foxwell, Chelsea. 2015. Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hōgai and the Search for Images. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Fraser, Andy, R.H.P. Mason, and Philip Mitchell. 1995. Japan’s Early Parliaments, 1890-1905: Structure, Issues and Trends. New York, USA: Routledge.
Funao, Osamu. 2015. Japanese Remnants of War in Philippines. Japan: TOSEI-SHA Publishing Co., Ltd.
Germer, Andrea, Vera Mackie, and Ulrike Wöhr. 2014. Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan. Asian Studies Association of Australia Women in Asia Series. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Guattari, Félix. 2015. Machinic Eros: Writings on Japan. Edited by Gary Genosko and Jay Hetrick. Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing.
Hashimoto, Akiko. 2015. The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory and Identity in Japan. United States of America: Oxford University Press.
Janotta, Joseph E., Jr. 2015. Extraordinary Leaders: World War II Memoirs of an American Naval Officer and an Imperial Japanese Naval Officer. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.
Kan, Naoto. 2018. The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster and the Future of Renewable Energy. Translated by Brett De Bary. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Kano, Ayako. 2016. Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
Leheny, David. 2018. Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Marcus, Marvin. 2015. Japanese Literature: From Murasaki to Murakami. Key Issues in Asian Studies, No 16. USA: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Marra, Michael F., ed. 2001. A History of Modern Japanese Aesthetics. Translated by Michael F. Marra. USA: University of Hawai’i Press.
Masuda, Hiroshi. 2009.  MacArthur in Asia: The General and His Staff in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea. Translated by Reiko Yamamoto. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
McLelland, Mark, and Romit Dasgupta, eds. 2005. Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan. USA and Canada: Routledge.
Murphy, R. Taggart. 2014. Japan and the Shackles of the Past. New York, USA: Oxford University Press.
Nakamura, Karen. 2006. Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Neuman, W. Lawrence. 2014. East Asian Societies. Key Issues in Asian Studies, No 14. USA: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Oguma, Eiji. 2002. A Genealogy of ‘Japanese’ Self-images. Translated by David Askew. Melbourne, Australia: Trans Pacific Press.
Ortiz, Ezequiel L., and James A. McClure. 2012. Don Jose: An American Soldier’s Courage and Faith in Japanese Captivity. Sunstone Press.
Stavros, Matthew Gerald. 2014. Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan’s Premodern Capital. United States of America: University of Hawai’i Press.
Tokuhiro, Yoko. 2010. Marriage in Contemporary Japan. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. USA and Canada: Routledge.
Tsutsui, William M. 2010. Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization. Key Issues in Asian Studies, No 6. USA: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Walker, Gavin. 2016. The sublime perversion of capital: Marxist theory and the politics of history in modern Japan. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
West, Mark D. 2011. Lovesick Japan: Sex, Marriage, Romance, Law. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Wood, Christopher. 2006. The Bubble Economy: Japan’s Extraordinary Speculative Boom of the ‘80s and the Dramatic Bust of the ‘90s. United States: Equinox Publishing.
Yoda, Tomiko, and Harry D. Harootunian, eds. 2006. Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
Zhu, Zhiqun. 2016. Understanding East Asia’s Economic “Miracles”. Key Issues in Asian Studies, No 3. USA: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.

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