Reading Japan

199 Pages·2019·4.324 MB·English

by  Teresa Castelvetere, Lidia Tanaka

Reading Japan
Reading Japan offers the student readings on geopolitics, education, language,
Japanese-ness and ethnicity, gender and history, with the dual aims of broadening
students’ understanding of Japan and of providing opportunities to read authentic
Japanese texts.
Each chapter contains an essay in English, a selection of readings in Japanese,
comprehensive vocabulary lists, discussion questions and a list of sources and
additional readings.
Pitched at Intermediate to Advanced and B1-C1 level, this reader is not simply
a language textbook; it offers students a chance to learn and think in depth about
Japan as they build confidence in reading real-world Japanese texts.
Teresa Castelvetere has a background in Japanese history and has taught Japanese
in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. She currently works as
a freelance translator and proofreader. Some of the titles that she has translated
for Trans Pacific Press include Japan’s Ultra-Right by Naoto Higuchi, Japan’s
Underclass by Hideo Aoki and Others in Japanese Agriculture by Kenichi
Yasuoka.
Lidia Tanaka is currently Honorary Associate in the Department of Languages
and Linguistics at La Trobe University, where she taught in the Japanese program
for more than twenty years. She is the author of Gender, Language and Culture: A
Study of Japanese Television Interview Discourse (2004) and Japanese Questions
(2015). Her research interests include language and gender, and language in
communicative interactions such as radio programs, television interviews,
parliamentary sittings and dyadic interactions. She is currently working on a
collaborative project based on ethnographic interview data that looks at language
changes in working-class women’s speech in the Kobe area from 1989 to 2019.
“This is a unique collection of Japanese texts on a variety of topics of Japanese
culture and society for those who are at the intermediate to advanced level of
Japanese language… and will be an excellent learning and teaching resource as a
reader of Modern Japanese texts, in various yet important major topics of Japanese
Studies area. Although the style of this book serves well for more disciplinary area
study than language learning, I am sure that students will learn Japanese grammar,
vocabulary and phrases by an exposure to the authentic academic texts in addition
to deepening the learners’ knowledge of Japanese culture and society.”
— Fumiko Narumi-Munro, Teaching Fellow in Japanese,
The University of Edinburgh, UK
“Reading Japan is a compilation of an excellent range of texts of various styles
and topics for advanced-level learners of Japanese language. Combined with an
academic essay on each topic, it provides an ideal starting point for students wish-
ing to further their reading skills or endeavoring on their research journey.”
— Yasuhisa Wantanabe, Lecturer in Japanese, Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts,
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Reading Japan
Teresa Castelvetere and
Lidia Tanaka
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Names: Castelvetere, Teresa, author. | Tanaka, Lidia, author.
Title: Reading Japan / Teresa Castelvetere, Lidia Tanaka.
Description: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019028241 (print) | LCCN 2019028242 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367150068 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367150105 (paperback) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Japanese language—Readers—Japan. | Japanese language—
Textbooks for foreign speakers—English.
Classification: LCC PL539.15.J35 C37 2019 (print) | LCC PL539.15.J35
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Contents
Readings viii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction to the reader and suggestions for users x
1 日本史：朝家と武家
Essay Japanese history: the imperial family and warriors 1
Reading 1 「建国の事情と万世一系の思想」、津田左右吉 7
Reading 2 「天皇社会、武家社会、産業社会－日本歴史の諸断面の社
会学的分析」、富永健一 16
Grammar notes 24
Questions 25
2 教育と近代日本の発展
Essay The development of education and modern Japan 27
Reading 1 「第１部日本の教育史の概観」、JICA報告書 30
Reading 2 「福翁自伝」、福沢諭吉 37
Reading 3 「第１部日本の教育史の概観」、JICA報告書 46
Grammar notes 50
Questions 50
3 日本語いろいろ：和製語と方言について
Essay Japanese language: waseigo and dialects 52
Reading 1 「方言について」、岸田國士 56
Reading 2 「カタカナ英語と和製英語：最近の傾向を中心と
して」、須部宗生 62
Reading 3 「翻訳と方言：映画の吹き替えに見られる日米の
方言観」からの抜粋 66
Grammar notes 70
Questions 70
vi Contents
4 ジェンダー について
Essay Gender issues in Japan 72
Reading 1「言葉を力に：市民と行政と学界のはざまで」、
丹羽雅代 76
Reading 2「投書とジェンダーをめぐって：大学生における
ジェンダー認識について」 からの 抜粋 80
Reading 3 ｢お笑いジェンダー論｣、瀬地山角 86
Grammar notes 89
Questions 89
5 笑いとは
Essay Humour in Japan 91
Reading 1 「近日息子」、今村信雄（編集) 96
Reading 2 「損はない」、「雨宿り」今村信雄（編集) 102
Reading 3 「長名：（寿限無）」 105
Grammar notes 114
Questions 114
6 日本人であることとエスニシティ
Essay Japanese-ness and ethnicity 116
Reading 1a「これでいいのか日本人論」、杉本良夫、
ロス・マオア 121
Reading 1b 「日本人は集団主義的か」、別府晴海 127
Reading 2 「国際平和人権国家日本への道」、友永健三 132
Reading 3 「グローバル化する世界における多文化主義 :
日本からの視点「多文化共生」の問題と課題 ─日本と西欧
を視野に─」、宮島喬 136
Grammar notes 143
Questions 143
7 東アジアの地政学
Essay Geopolitics in East Asia 145
Reading 1 「日本の領土をめぐる情勢－尖閣諸島に関する
Q＆A」、外務省 151
Reading 2 「眠れる「大宝」海底探査」、読売新聞 159
Reading 3 「歴史教科書問題」、日中韓３国共通歴史教材
委員会 164
Grammar notes 172
Questions 172
Contents vii
Appendices 173
Appendix 1 Timeline of dates and events mentioned in the chapters 175
Appendix 2 Map of places mentioned in chapters 177
Appendix 3 Map for Chapter 7 178
Appendix 4 Grammar index 179
Index 182
Readings
Reading passages in all chapters are preceded by the author’s name (著者) and the
title. The names of publishers (社), editors (編集者), and, where applicable, page
numbers for the extract (抜粋) are given at the end of each chapter.
Acknowledgements
We are indebted and grateful to the various authors who have allowed us to use
their material. We should like to express our sincere gratitude to the following
individuals and organisations who either granted us permission to use their work,
or made it freely available online: Aozora Bunko, Yoshiyuki Asahi, Daniel Long,
Nobuo Imamura, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japanese
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Keisōshobo, Kōbunken, Kunio Kishida, Seikyūsha,
Shigeko Kumagai, Takashi Miyajima, Masanori Kanbayashi, Nichūkan Sankoku
Kyōtsū Rekishi Kyōzai Iinkai, Masayo Niwa, Ross Mouer, Kaku Sechiyama,
Muneo Sube, Yoshio Sugimoto, Ken’ichi Tominaga, Kenzō Tomonaga and the
Yomiuri Shimbun. (In order to avoid confusion, all names in this section are given
as first name followed by family name.)
The following people kindly gave of their time to comment on drafts of various
parts of this reader, and we are extremely grateful to them: Stephen Large, Mark
Morris, Makiko Nishitani, Kaori Okano, Rajyashree Pandey, David Wells and
Sandra Wilson. While their comments improved this reader, the authors remain
responsible for any errors or shortcomings. Kyōko Tanaka generously gave her
time to proofread the Japanese text, and we are deeply grateful to her. We should
also like to thank Andrea Hill and Claire Margerison at Routledge for their profes-
sional support, patience and encouragement throughout the writing of this book.
We are also grateful to our families – Cristina, James, Marcel, Peter and Stuart –
for reading and commenting on various drafts and for their understanding during
the hectic phases of preparation. Our thanks go also to Peter Bertok for his help
with the maps.