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2019 saw the most important and far-reaching changes to Japanese labor law in 70 years. What is being reformed and why? Will the reforms improve worker protections? This conference presentation points out contradictions in the reforms and... more
This paper explores the historical, religious, and social factors that have led to present-day discrimination of various ethnic minority groups in Japans. I will focus on how the Japanese maintain discrimination by promoting “otherness”... more
Comme les nombreuses catastrophes industrielles qui ont marqué l’histoire du Japon moderne et contemporain, la catastrophe nucléaire de mars 2011 a donné lieu à de nombreux procès. Les procès de Fukushima réunissent plusieurs milliers de... more
On this paper, the researcher will be studying the causes and effects of bullying in Japan among senior high school students. Bullying is considered as one major social problem in Japan, with a total of 70, 231 bullying cases reported to... more
A paper which analyses the significance of the relationship between employment and masculinity in post-war Japanese society, examining the hegemonic masculinity of the sarariiman (salaryman), and the alternative masculinities of furītā... more
In this essay I will discuss the shift into the moe period which came in the mid-1990’s by first examining two anime franchises: Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) and Neon Genesis Evangelion (1997). Secondly, I will observe the psychological... more
In the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 3/11, one disputed issue has been the acceptance of precedent nuclear energy policies among the wider population, despite Japan being a country of high seismic risk and a... more
A chapter examining changes in the practices of men and notions of masculinity in contemporary Japanese society, with particular focus on the phenomenon of so-called 'herbivore boys' (草食系男子). Originally submitted as an undergraduate... more
これは私の日本語の卒論です。ホラー映画を通して1980‘sから日本にある家父長制社会の存在について研究しました。 This is my Japanese thesis about the patriarchal society that came into existence during the 1980's and after. I used the genre of horror in order to explain a changing Japanese... more
This work analyze the basic objective of Japanese concept of amae. The Japanese term refers to the primary amae feeling that all children are home to her mother, a sense of dependency and desire to be loved passively. The Japanese... more
In the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 3/11, one disputed issue has been the acceptance of precedent nuclear energy policies among the wider population, despite Japan being a country of high seismic risk and a... more
Es bien sabido que en Japón ha existido durante largo tiempo una tradición de suicidios honorables. Conforme a la misma, quitarse la vida es percibido como una salida posible, que permite al suicida preservar su... more
Interview de Rotem Kowner au sujet de l'importation des théories scientifiques raciales occidentales au Japon au 19e siècle : esclavage et formes de discrimination antérieures au 19e siècle, intégration des idées racistes considérées... more
This essay explores representations of Japanese contemporary society in a trilogy of Hollywood films spanning a period of 46 years: Sayonara (1957), Black Rain (1989), and Lost in Translation (2003). By performing a close reading of the... more
Ca' Foscari Japanese Studies 1
edited by Marcella Mariotti, Toshio Miyake, Andrea Revelant
edited by Marcella Mariotti, Toshio Miyake, Andrea Revelant
Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (April 15, 2022), 72–3.
A Slight Derailment: The Shinkansen, the Japanese Public Transportation, and What
We Can Learn from Them
A Slight Derailment: The Shinkansen, the Japanese Public Transportation, and What
We Can Learn from Them
The terrorist attack at Israel's Lod airport in May 1972 claimed the lives of 26 people and changed the civil aviation forever. Fifty years on, the lone surviving terrorist, who expected to die and become a celestial body, is a free man... more
Kunci kesuksesan penerapan kaizen dan zen yang begitu menarik dibahas dalam makalah ini mengenai Matsushita yang termasuk dalam lima puluh perusahaan besar di dunia. Produk Matsushita dengan merek seperti Panasonic, Quasar dan Technic... more
This volume builds on the international conference of the same title held at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2013 with the support of the Japan Foundation, which discussed the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident of 11th March... more