Samurai, Darwin, the Poet Laureate and some very Curious Cures
13 Jan 2022 A year of wonder in store at Cambridge University Library during 2022.
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What next for Japan's women?
30 Jun 2020 Japan's women are experimenting with new femininities in challenging times, a new book reveals
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How Japan’s ‘salaryman’ is becoming cool
02 Feb 2018Japanese men are becoming cool. The suit-and-tie salaryman remodels himself with beauty treatments and 'cool biz' fashion. Loyal company soldiers are reborn as cool, attentive fathers. Hip-hop dance is as manly as martial arts. Could it even be cool for middle-aged men to idolise teenage girl popstars?
Earliest-known children’s adaptation of Japanese literary classic discovered in British Library
14 Jun 2017A chance discovery in the British Library has led to the discovery and reproduction of the earliest-known children’s adaptation of one of Japan’s greatest works of literature.
Opinion: As ARM enjoys a Japanese embrace, the lessons it can teach UK tech firms
19 Jul 2016Peter Williamson (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the sale of Cambridge-based technology firm ARM Holdings to Japan's Softbank for £24 billion.
Opinion: Five years after Fukushima, there are big lessons for nuclear disaster liability
11 Mar 2016Makoto Takahashi (Department of Geography) discusses the impact of the Fukushima disaster and Japan's nuclear-liability laws.
The speech that never was – Thatcher papers for 1984 open to the public
03 Oct 2014Papers opened to the public today reveal how the Brighton bombing stopped Margaret Thatcher from widening her infamous ‘enemy within’ rhetoric to include not only the striking miners but also the wider Labour movement and Party.
Chinese migrant workers in Japan: behind the headlines
26 Aug 2014Chinese migrant workers in Japan are more than passive victims of difficult work conditions and are able to use their own networks and provide mutual support, according to new research.
‘Herbivore boys’ and other fault lines in Japan’s gender crisis
21 Feb 2013A new book of student research into key areas of gender in modern Japan highlights emerging trends of redefinition between sexes, and the impact on its society.
Out of the ashes of Empire
12 Feb 2013The new identities and ideologies that emerged in East Asia after the fall of Japan’s Empire have rarely been studied. Now, as the region again becomes a major theatre in world politics, a new project aims to tell that history from the inside.