Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present

Published by Duke University Press 2006

Japan After Japan

Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present

Edited by: Tomiko Yoda , Harry Harootunian , Rey Chow and Masao Miyoshi

In the series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388609

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About this book

Scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and film explore the transformations in Japanese politics, culture, and society since Japans recession of the early 1990s.

Author / Editor information

Tomiko Yoda is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature, Program in Literature, and Department of Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Construction of Japanese Modernity, published by Duke University Press.

Harry Harootunian is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at New York University. His many books include Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies (with Masao Miyoshi), also published by Duke University Press.

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Introduction Harry Harootunian and Tomiko Yoda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
A Roadmap to Millennial Japan Tomiko Yoda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
The University and the ‘‘Global Economy’’: The Cases of the United States and Japan Masao Miyoshi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
The University, Disciplines, National Identity: Why Is There No Film Studies in Japan? Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Japan’s Long Postwar: The Trick of Memory and the Ruse of History Harry Harootunian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
National Subjectivity and the Uses of Atonement in the Age of Recession Victor Koschmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
‘‘Give Me Japan and Nothing Else!’’: Postcoloniality, Identity, and the Traces of Colonialism Leo Ching Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
‘‘You Asians’’: On the Historical Role of the West and Asia Binary Naoki Sakai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Revenge and Recapitation in Recessionary Japan Marilyn Ivy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
The ‘‘Wild Child’’ of 1990s Japan Andrea Arai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
The Rise and Fall of Maternal Society: Gender, Labor, and Capital in Contemporary Japan Tomiko Yoda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Representation, Reality Culture, and Global Capitalism in Japan Eric Cazdyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Monsieur le Capital and Madame la Terre Do Their Ghost-Dance: Globalization and the Nation-State Yutaka Nagahara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
New-Age Fetishes, Monsters, and Friends: Pokémon Capitalism at the Millennium Anne Allison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Otaku Movement Thomas LaMarre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
A Drifting World Fair: Cultural Politics of Environment in the Local/Global Context of Contemporary Japan Yoshimi Shunya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Angelus Novus in Millennial Japan Sabu Kohso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 456

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Published: October 4, 2006
ISBN: 9780822388609