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- Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan
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- 2017
- Published by: University of California Press
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Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the “child crisis.” Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global conversations about the nature of children and how to raise them. Engaging both the history of children and childhood and the history of emotions, contributors to this volume track Japanese childhood through a number of historical scenarios. Such explorations—some from Japan’s early-modern past—are revealed through letters, diaries, memoirs, family and household records, and religious polemics about promising, rambunctious, sickly, happy, and dutiful youngsters.
Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the “child crisis.” Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global conversations about the nature of children and how to raise them. Engaging both the history of children and childhood and the history of emotions, contributors to this volume track Japanese childhood through a number of historical scenarios. Such explorations—some from Japan’s early-modern past—are revealed through letters, diaries, memoirs, family and household records, and religious polemics about promising, rambunctious, sickly, happy, and dutiful youngsters.
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- List of Illustrations and Table
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- 8. Outdoor Play in Wartime Japan
- pp. 160-180
- 13. Monju-kun: Children's Culture as Protest
- pp. 264-285
- Contributors
- pp. 286-290
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9780520968844
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9780520296275
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OCLC
1048153623
Pages
286
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2019-02-24
Language
English
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Yes
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CC-BY
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