Louella Matsunaga
Biographic Data
| ID | 4680311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louella Matsunaga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louella |
| FAMILY NAME | Matsunaga |
| SIGNATURE | MATSUNAGA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Jōdo Shinshū in the UK
This article outlines the history of Jōdo Shinshū in the UK , and asks why it has remained little known there despite being one of the largest schools of Buddhism in Japan, with sizable overseas branches in the Americas. I argue that this is due, at least in part, to the absence of a settled Japanese migrant population in Europe, in contrast to the Americas, where Jōdo Shinshū has been sustained historically by its ethnic Japanese base, although …
Dezaki, Miki. Shusenjo
Miki Dezaki's film addresses a topic that has become a major flashpoint between the South Korean and Japanese governments: that of the ‘comfort women’ (many of whom were Korean) who were forced into sexual servitude to the Japanese military during the Pacific War from 1931 to 1945 (see C.S. Soh, The comfort women, 2008). Words are important here: the term ‘comfort women’ is a translation of the Japanese euphemism for prostitute, ianfu; however, t…
Globalizing Asian Religions
Shin Buddhism (Jōdo Shinshū) in Europe
Women in Japanese Religions
Precarious Japan by Anne Allison (review)
Reviewed by: Precarious Japan by Anne Allison Louella Matsunaga (bio) Precarious Japan. By Anne Allison. Duke University Press, Durham, 2013. x, 246 pages. $84.95, cloth; $23.95, paper. Precarious Japan begins with a striking image: a 52-year-old man found starved to death in his apartment in Kita-Kyushu City in 2007. This story attracted widespread media attention in Japan at the time, and, as Anne Allison notes, a particularly shocking, and rep…
Bodies in question
Critical Buddhism
JAMES MARK SHIELDS, 2011 Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, VT: Ashgate 206 pp., £50.00, US$89.95 (hb) ISBN 978–1–4094–1798–9 (hb), ISBN 978–1–4094–1800–9 (eb) As has been well documented, the history o
The Changing Face of Japanese Retail
This book examines employment structure, working practice and recruitment strategies in Japanese retail in the 1990s through a case-study of one large chain store. Issues focused on include gender in the workplace, changing notions of corporate community and the impact of Japan's recent recession. In particular the research presented here challenges the view of part-time female staff as peripheral to the workforce and asks whether a rethink of th…
Peter B. Clarke
Nature's embrace
Office Ladies and Salaried Men
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Office Ladies and Salaried Men
The Changing Face of Japanese Retail
This book examines employment structure, working practice and recruitment strategies in Japanese retail in the 1990s through a case-study of one large chain store. Issues focused on include gender in the workplace, changing notions of corporate community and the impact of Japan's recent recession. In particular the research presented here challenges the view of part-time female staff as peripheral to the workforce and asks whether a rethink of th…
Peter B. Clarke
Nature's embrace
Critical Buddhism
JAMES MARK SHIELDS, 2011 Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, VT: Ashgate 206 pp., £50.00, US$89.95 (hb) ISBN 978–1–4094–1798–9 (hb), ISBN 978–1–4094–1800–9 (eb) As has been well documented, the history o
Bodies in question
Precarious Japan by Anne Allison (review)
Reviewed by: Precarious Japan by Anne Allison Louella Matsunaga (bio) Precarious Japan. By Anne Allison. Duke University Press, Durham, 2013. x, 246 pages. $84.95, cloth; $23.95, paper. Precarious Japan begins with a striking image: a 52-year-old man found starved to death in his apartment in Kita-Kyushu City in 2007. This story attracted widespread media attention in Japan at the time, and, as Anne Allison notes, a particularly shocking, and rep…
Women in Japanese Religions
Globalizing Asian Religions
Shin Buddhism (Jōdo Shinshū) in Europe
Dezaki, Miki. Shusenjo
Miki Dezaki's film addresses a topic that has become a major flashpoint between the South Korean and Japanese governments: that of the ‘comfort women’ (many of whom were Korean) who were forced into sexual servitude to the Japanese military during the Pacific War from 1931 to 1945 (see C.S. Soh, The comfort women, 2008). Words are important here: the term ‘comfort women’ is a translation of the Japanese euphemism for prostitute, ianfu; however, t…
Jōdo Shinshū in the UK
This article outlines the history of Jōdo Shinshū in the UK , and asks why it has remained little known there despite being one of the largest schools of Buddhism in Japan, with sizable overseas branches in the Americas. I argue that this is due, at least in part, to the absence of a settled Japanese migrant population in Europe, in contrast to the Americas, where Jōdo Shinshū has been sustained historically by its ethnic Japanese base, although …
Sociology (10 works) · History (8 works) · Japanese History and Culture (8 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Buddhism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)