Dear friends:
We are pleased to announce that
Jeff Kingston, Director of Asian Studies at Temple University Japan Campus
(TUJ)
, recently published an edited volume, "Critical issues in contemporary Japan" (Routledge, 2013) with chapters written by TUJ faculty members and other well-known academics.

This book provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdisciplinary compendium written by a number of specialists on contemporary Japan.

It encompasses a range of disciplines in the social sciences and thus will be useful for a variety of courses as well as to anybody interested in learning more about Japan.

Key issues covered in this volume include:

* Rapidly Aging society
* Changing Employment system
* Energy policy-Nuclear and Renewable
* Gender discrimination
* Immigration
* Ethnic minorities
* Trade policy
* Civil society
* Rural Japan
* Okinawa
* Post-3.11 Tsunami, earthquake, nuclear meltdown developments
* Internationalization
* Sino-Japanese relations
* East Asia's divisive history

The volume is available in Kindle and paper at http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Issues-Contemporary-Japa
n-Kingston-ebook/dp/B00HF4WXPE/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-tex
t&ie=UTF8&qid=1388844983&sr=1-4

http://www.amazon.co.jp/Critical-Issues-Contemporary-Ja
pan-Kingston/dp/0415857457/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=13873
61594&sr=8-1

It is also available on iBooks on iTunes.

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Robert Dujarric
Director
Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies
Temple University, Japan Campus
http://www.tuj.ac.jp/icas/