JICPASでは、日本人と日本文化の国際的分析の場として英文誌「Review of Japanese Culture and Society」を制作しています。本誌は、日本の文化や社会についての国際認識を高めることを意図して制作され、相互理解の促進と文化論の方法の見直しをめざしています。

Design and Society in Modern Japan

Design and Society in Modern Japan: An Introduction
(with a Bibliography by Tsuji Yasutaka and Kikkawa Hideaki)

Ignacio Adriasola, Sarah Teasley, and Jilly Traganou

Economic and Ideological Arguments for Design’s Social Role in Prewar Japan

Japan’s Industrial Arts: Present and Future (1917) (translated by Penny Bailey)

Yasuda Rokuzō

Industrial Arts and the Development of Japan’s Industry (1932)
(translated by Penny Bailey)

Kunii Kitarō

What Is Modernology (1927) (translated by Ignacio Adriasola)

Kon Wajirō

Conclusion to Introduction to Commercial Art (1930) (translated by Magdalena Kolodziej)

Hamada Masuji

“Believe in socialism ...”:
Architect Bedřich Feuerstein and His Perspective on Modern Japan and Architecture

Helena Čapková

Postwar Recovery, Affluence, and Its Critique

Rethinking the Social Role of Architecture in the Ideas and Work of the Japanese Architectural Group NAU

Kuroishi Izumi

A Testimony from the Postwar Period (2008) (translated by Kim Mc Nelly)

Nakai Kōichi

Roundtable: Young Women Designers Speak (1956) (translated by Haley Blum)

Kon Wajirō, Moderator

“Good Design” and “Good Quality” for the Consumer (1965) (translated by Penny Bailey)

Toyoguchi Katsuhei

The City of the Future (1960) (translated by Ignacio Adriasola)

Kawazoe Noboru

An Introduction to the World of Tools (1969) (translated by Frank Feltens)

Ekuan Kenji

The 1968 Social Uprising and Advertising Design in Japan:
The Work of Ishioka Eiko and Suzuki Hachirō

Ory Bartal

The Emergence of Social Design in Response to the 3.11 Triple Disaster

Place-Making Before and After 3.11: The Emergence of Social Design in Post-Disaster,
Post-Growth Japan

Christian Dimmer

Ba of Emptiness: A Place of Potential for Designing Social Innovation

Yoko Akama

Atomic Bomb Literature

Masks of Whatchamacallit: A Nagasaki Tale (Nanjamonja no men, 1976)
(translated by Kyoko Selden)

Hayashi Kyōko

Art in Focus
“Archival Considerations”
From the PoNJA-GenKon 10th Anniversary Symposium (2014)

Introduction
Program Summary
Abstracts

Reiko Tomii, Section Editor

Lost in the Archive: Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s Four Thoughts

Kevin Concannon

From Design to Environment:
“Art and Technology” in Two 1966 Exhibitions at the Matsuya Department Store
(Translated by Nina Horisaki-Christens with Reiko Tomii)

Tsuji Yasutaka

 

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