Private Academies of the Tokugawa Period

Private Academies of the Tokugawa Period
Author: Richard Rubinger
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1400856728

Widening the focus of previous studies of Japanese education during the Tokugawa period, Richard Rubinger emphasizes the role of the shijuku, or private academies of advanced studies, in preparing Japan for its modern transformation. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Tokugawa Confucian Education

Tokugawa Confucian Education
Author: Marleen Kassel
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780791428078

Presents the philosophy and values of Hirose Tanso, a scholar, educator, and poet whose well-articulated educational program was partly responsible for the relative ease with which Japan emerged from hundreds of years of self-imposed isolation and became a powerful modern nation.

Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan

Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan
Author: Margaret Mehl
Publisher: NIAS Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9788791114946

A study of Japan's traditional Confucian schools, this book contributes to an understanding of education in the Meiji period and is of relevance to the reform of Japan's public education system. The establishment of a national education system soon after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 is recognized as a significant factor in Japan's modernization."

Education in Tokugawa Japan

Education in Tokugawa Japan
Author: R. P. Dore
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520321626

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

Tokugawa Confucian Education

Tokugawa Confucian Education
Author: Marleen Kassel
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1996-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780791428085

Presents the philosophy and values of Hirose Tanso, a scholar, educator, and poet whose well-articulated educational program was partly responsible for the relative ease with which Japan emerged from hundreds of years of self-imposed isolation and became a powerful modern nation.

Japanese Confucianism

Japanese Confucianism
Author: Kiri Paramore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316666581

For more than 1500 years, Confucianism has played a major role in shaping Japan's history - from the formation of the first Japanese states during the first millennium AD, to Japan's modernization in the nineteenth century, to World War II and its still unresolved legacies across East Asia today. In an illuminating and provocative new study, Kiri Paramore analyses the dynamic history of Japanese Confucianism, revealing its many cultural manifestations, as religion and as a political tool, as social capital and public discourse, as well as its role in international relations and statecraft. The book demonstrates the processes through which Confucianism was historically linked to other phenomenon, such as the rise of modern science and East Asian liberalism. In doing so, it offers new perspectives on the sociology of Confucianism and its impact on society, culture and politics across East Asia, past and present.

Family-Run Universities in Japan

Family-Run Universities in Japan
Author: Jeremy Breaden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-07-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019260872X

Globally, private universities enrol one in three of all higher education students. In Japan, which has the second largest higher education system in the world in terms of overall expenditure, almost 80% of all university students attend private institutions. According to some estimates up to 40% of these institutions are family businesses in the sense that members of a single family have substantive ownership or control over their operation. This book offers a detailed historical, sociological, and ethnographic analysis of this important, but largely under-studied, category of private universities as family business. It examines how such universities in Japan have negotiated a period of major demographic decline since the 1990s: their experiments in restructuring and reform, the diverse experiences of those who worked and studied within them and, above all, their unexpected resilience. It argues that this resilience derives from a number of 'inbuilt' strengths of family business which are often overlooked in conventional descriptions of higher education systems and in predictions regarding the capacity of universities to cope with dramatic changes in their operating environment. This book offers a new perspective on recent changes in the Japanese higher education sector and contributes to an emerging literature on private higher education and family business across the world.

The Book in Japan

The Book in Japan
Author: Peter Kornicki
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2021-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004488685

This study deals with all aspects of the history of the book in Japan, from the production of manuscripts and printed books to book-collecting, libraries, censorship and readership. It also sets books in the context of Japan's cultural ties with China, Korea and Parhae. The focus is on the history of both texts and physical books. This encompasses not only books in Japanese but also books in Chinese by Chinese and Korean authors, and some Western books as well. It is an essential reference tool and bibliographic guide for all those interested in book studies, and particularly of importance for historians of Japanese culture. It is illustrated with examples taken from various collections of early Japanese books in Europe.

Japan Emerging

Japan Emerging
Author: Karl Friday
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429979169

Japan Emerging provides a comprehensive survey of Japan from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Incorporating the latest scholarship and methodology, leading authorities writing specifically for this volume outline and explore the main developments in Japanese life through ancient, classical, medieval, and early modern periods. Instead of relying solely on lists of dates and prominent names, the authors focus on why and how Japanese political, social, economic, and intellectual life evolved. Each part begins with a timeline and a set of guiding questions and issues to help orient readers and enhance continuity. Engaging, thorough, and accessible, this is an essential text for all students and scholars of Japanese history.