Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 115 |
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Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia.
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Contents |
1. Biologizing the meaning of suicide (1880s-1930s) -- 2. Culturalizing the meaning of suicide (1930s-1945) -- 3. Humanizing the meaning of suicide (1945-1960) -- 4. The triumph of the 'suicide nation' (1960-1985) |
Summary |
Japan's suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded in the debate on suicide have remained unaddressed in the existing literature, including the assumption that Japan is a "Suicide Nation". This tendency causes common misconceptions about the suicide phenomenon and its features. Aiming to redress the situation, this book explores how the idea of suicide in Japan was shaped, reinterpreted and reinvented from the 1900s to the 1980s. Providing a timely contribution to the underexplored history of suicide, it also adds to the current heated debates on the contemporary way we organize our thoughts on life and death, health and wealth, on the value of the individual, and on gender. The book explores the genealogy and development of modern suicide in Japan by examining the ways in which beliefs about the nation's character, historical views of suicide, and the cultural legitimation of voluntary death acted to influence even the scientific conceptualization of suicide in Japan |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Suicide -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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Seppuku -- History -- 20th century
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Suicide -- Sociological aspects.
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National characteristics, Japanese.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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National characteristics, Japanese
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Seppuku
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Suicide
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Suicide -- Sociological aspects
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Japan
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781317384298 |
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1317384296 |
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9781315676142 |
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1315676141 |
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9781317384281 |
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1317384288 |
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9781317384274 |
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131738427X |
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