MANAKO - 人文・思想・社会 1

The Heisei era saw gradual yet far-reaching transformations in Japanese society and culture. Globalization, shifting identities, evolving family structures, and changes in education and public discourse all reshaped everyday life, while popular culture-from manga and anime to foodways and sport-em……続きを見る

[About the Book] ーThe real-life experiences and piercing gaze of a man who staked his life on “knowing”- Even in his eighties, the “adventurer grandpa” continues to bravely journey across the globe. This book is a powerful collection of essays capturing his astonishing true stories, gathered over……続きを見る

仏教説話集『今昔物語』の英訳版 The Konjaku Monogatari Shu is a collection of tales from Buddhist and popular Japanese folklore that was compiled in the twelfth century. The stories in this book tell of fearsome demons, tengu goblins, kitsune fox spirits, flying hermits and gods who suddenly appea……続きを見る

In Japan, where the number of foreign residents is increasing rapidly, how are migrant children whose mother tongue is not Japanese learning their mother tongue and Japanese at school? We call them CLD (Culturally Linguistically Diverse) children (Cummins, 1991). This book is the result of the fir……続きを見る

日本のコミュニティのあり方についての議論がかまびすしい。しかし、その問題は、何も日本に限らず、世界各国で政策当局者、学識者、市民等にとっての根源的課題を投げかけている。その問題解決に当たって、人々の絆の強化、将来への不安を払拭する社会システムの希求が重要な視点と認識され、いまやグローバルレベルでの……続きを見る

My consistent concern has been how to change the fixed notion in society that regards art as something isolated and reserved for the "cultured" few. John Dewey's Art as Experience, a theory of art that sees the origin of art as a life-sustaining impulse, was precisely the answer to my concern. Art……続きを見る

The pre-scientific way of thinking was predominantly a way of thinking that combined ideas that floated in the human brain, rather than constructing facts. Humans have had those thoughts for a long time. There is no formation of the real world by precise thought, and many delusions appear, made on……続きを見る

IWC (International Whaling Commission) was organized in 1948 for the purpose of conserving whale resources. However, under the trend of natural animal preserving movement, US and some other members dominated the IWC with strong assertion of anti-whaling and decided to adopt 10 years of moratorium ……続きを見る

公民館・CLCを拠点とするESDの推進について包括的に解説した、英語版書籍です。続きを見る

The film Gunkanjima (Battleship Island) was first shown in Korea in August 2017, a work of fiction created to bash Japan and nothing else. Within a couple of weeks, around 6 million Koreans saw the film. The film was advertised in the US, for a week, with the help of the New York City Times Square……続きを見る

Gender History in China presents for the first time in English the work of leading Japanese scholars in the fields of archaeology, history, literature, sociology, and law who examine the gender dynamics that have shaped and changed Chinese society over several thousand years. The eighteen chapters……続きを見る