Paradoxes of Japan's Cultural Identity

Prof. Roy Starrs, PhD (UBC) teaches Japanese studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His publications include Modernism and Japanese Culture, When the Tsunami Came to Shore: Culture and Disaster in Japan, and Politics and Religion in Modern Japan: Red Sun, White Lotus.

• Foreword, Introduction, Part One: Japanese Politics, Religion and Society 1. Politics and Religion in Japan 2. The Kojiki as Japan’s National Narrative 3. Prince Sh.toku and Japan’s ‘China Complex’ 4. Japan’s Perennial New Man: The Liberal and Fascist Incarnations of Masamichi R.yama 5. From Mishima to Aum: Religiopolitical Violence in Late Twentieth-Century Japan Part Two: Japanese Literature and Art 6. Japanese Poetry and the Aesthetics of Disaster 7. In Search of the Great Meiji Novel: From Ukigumo to Yoake mae 8. Nation and Region in the Work of Dazai Osamu 9. Ink Traces of the Dancing Calligraphers: Zen-ei Sho in Japan Today 10. Mishima, Bowie and the Anti-Metaphysics of the Mask 11. D.T. Suzuki’s Theory of Inspiration and the Challenges of Cross-Cultural Transmission 193 Part Three: Selected Reviews 12. Ninomiya Masayuki, La pensée de Kobayashi Hideo: Un intellectuel japonais au tournant de l’histoire 13. Doug Slaymaker, Confluences: Postwar France and Japan 14. Alex Bates, The Culture of the Quake: The Great Kant. Earthquake and Taish. Japan 15. Alan Tansman, The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism 16. Japanese Literature as a Modern Invention: a review of Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki (eds.), Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature 17. Haruo Shirane, Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts 18. Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright (eds.), Zen Masters Bibliography of Roy Starrs Publication, Notes, Index.