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Japanese Science Fiction : A View of a Changing Society - Robert Matthew

Japanese Science Fiction

A View of a Changing Society

By: Robert Matthew

Hardcover | 6 April 1989 | Edition Number 1

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After the Meiji Restoration of 1868 Japan modernized rapidly, transforming itself perhaps more quickly than any other country in history. However, the change was not without its conflicts, many of them still unresolved as the pleasures of modern society vie with a respect for the traditional Japanese lifestyle. As the literature of change and of the young, science fiction acts as a window to the modern mind and the uneasy alliance of the old and new. This book, filled with detailed reference to numerous stories, traces the origin and development of the genre from the mid-nineteenth century to today, thus exploring unique insights into Japanese attitudes to commercialism, spirituality, the media, war and international relations.
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"In "Japanese Science: From the Inside, the American anthropologist Samuel Coleman provides a profound and insightful critique of scientific organizations in Japan." -"Nature

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