Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia
This cutting edge collection considers how the Japanese language functions as a key element of Japanese soft power in Asia. Within Japanese culture itself, the promotion of language has been an area of ambivalence. This interdisciplinary book looks across the fields of language policy, language teac...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Palgrave Macmillan
2018, 2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Why language matters in soft power
- Part I Cool Japan and Japan’s soft power
- Cool Japan versus the China threat: Does Japan’s popular culture success mean more soft power?
- Cool Japan and Japanese language: Why does Japan need “Japan fans”?
- Part II Japanese language and the historical construction of Asia
- Japanese language education in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and the kokuji mondai (National Script Problem)
- Media and cultural policy and Japanese language education in Japanese-occupied Singapore, 1942-1945
- Part III Japanese language teaching in Asia
- Japanese language for trainee nurses from Asia: the EPA scheme as a missed opportunity
- The roles of native Japanese speaker in Japanese language programs at high schools in South Korea, Indonesia and Thailand
- Japanese pop culture as a motivating factor for Japanese language learners in Qatar
- Part IV Japanese language and learners’ empowerment
- Japanese Language in the wake of Hong Kong’s Umbrella movement: Is it a form of soft power?
- Accessing the soft power of Japanese language in Australia: Young Korean migrants studying Japanese as a foreign language