Theories and methods in Japanese studies: current state and future developments

Ronald DORE Japan – Sixty Years of Modernization? .... 11 KUWAYAMA Takami Japanese Anthropology and Folklore Studies.... 25 ITŌ Abito The Distinctiveness and Marginality of Japanese Culture.... 43 FUKUTA AJIO How the Task of Studying Yanagita Kunio Has Developed.... 63 ISHIGE Naomichi Historical Survey of the Food Culture .... 75 Hans Dieter ÖLSCHLEGER The Cultural Turn in German Japanese Studies.... 91 Klaus ANTONI The Divine Country: On State and Religion in Modern Japan .... 101 Sepp LINHART The Study of Japanese Values .... 123 Axel KLEIN Studies on the Japanese Political System.... 141 Ralph LÜTZELER German Geographical Research on Japan .... 153 SASAKI Kōmei The Origins of Japanese Ethnic Culture – Looking Back and Forward.... 167 Patrick HEINRICH Casting Light on the Past: Lessons on the Origin and Formation of Japanese-Ryūkyūan.... 185 TAKARA Kurayoshi Mainstream and Future Tasks of Studies in Ryūkyūan History.... 205 Gregory SMITS Ryūkyū’s Relations with China and Japan.... 215 Rosa CAROLI Recent Trends in Historiography on Modern Okinawa .... 229 Ulrike SCHAEDE Japan’s Business Practices in the 21st Century.... 251 Karl August NEUHAUSEN Ultima Orientis Thule Reconsidered.... 271 Wolfgang MICHEL Medicine and Allied Sciences in the Cultural Exchange .... 285 Christian OBERLÄNDER Japan’s Deutschlandpolitik in the Postwar Period .... 303 Claudius C. MÜLLER Museums of Ethnology and Japanese Studies.... 313 Timon SCREECH An Iconography of Nihon-bashi.... 323 Justin STAGL Japan As the Other – A Personal Account .... 337 Harumi BEFU Consumer Nihonjinron.... 345