{"title":"Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan\u003c\/strong\u003e series offers readers insightful explorations into Japan's evolving cultural, social, and intellectual landscapes. This collection spans diverse fields such as philosophy, finance, history, and business, providing nuanced perspectives on Japan’s modern challenges and transformations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on scholarly depth and interdisciplinary analysis, these works engage with themes from economic investment theories to contemporary psychological thought. 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As Okinawa’s base politics is a problem deeply rooted in the context of East Asia, so is the history of the people’s protest movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe issue examined in this book is the arbitrary distinction of scale between 'local', which tends to be employed for a particular territory demarcated by a cohesive culture, and 'regional', a larger area that consists of myriad localities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLocality, Shinnosuke Takahashi argues, is neither self-evident, fixed nor homogenous but is established through historical processes that involve interaction, conflict and negotiation of individuals and communities across territorial and cultural boundaries. This book reveals the novel concept of Okinawa as a translocal island, which offers a way to understand locality in the context of Okinawan activism as a product of multiple cultural and human flows. 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Murakami has mentioned that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy, though he has not elaborated much on what drove him to seek this self-therapy. This book proposes that understanding why Murakami writes, alongside how he writes, allows readers to gain deeper insights into what he writes. In essence, Murakami’s fiction can be read as a quest for self-therapy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the course of five chapters, which delve into Murakami’s fourteen novels to date, this book suggests that there are four significant therapeutic threads woven through his fiction. These threads trace back to his personal traumas—most notably his estrangement from his late father and the passing of a former girlfriend. Importantly, these personal experiences have been transformed into literary fiction that transcends their origins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first thread examines how melancholia must be navigated for mourning and healing to occur. The second thread considers how symbolic acts of sacrifice can contribute to healing intergenerational trauma. The third thread explores how individuals with avoidant attachment styles can begin to open themselves to love once more. The fourth thread discusses how individuation can serve as a response to nihilism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeticulously researched and written with sensitivity, \u003cem\u003eHaruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy\u003c\/em\u003e offers a sophisticated examination of Murakami’s published novels as an evolving therapeutic project. 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