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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Japanese identity"”.
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Playing the Nation: 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics and Japanese Identity
… the performance and consumption of a reinvented Japanese national identity surrounding the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. This event marked an important psychological turning point for many Japanese, who saw it as marking their reemergence into the world community. National identity is often hidden …
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Playing the Nation: 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics and Japanese Identity
… the performance and consumption of a reinvented Japanese national identity surrounding the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. This event marked an important psychological turning point for many Japanese, who saw it as marking their reemergence into the world community. National identity is often hidden …
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Mariko Mori and Takashi Murakami and the crisis of Japanese identity
In the mid-1990s, Japanese artists Mariko Mori (b. 1962) and Takashi Murakami (b. 1967) began creating works that referenced Japanese popular culture tropes such as sexuality, technology and the idea of kawaii, or cute. These tropes were associated with emerging youth cultures instigating a “soft …
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Son of Samurai, Daughter of Butterfly: fashioning Japan in the sartorial culture of the United Kingdom, 1980-2006
… addresses the reception and consumption of Japanese fashion in the U.K. between 1980 and 2006 and concomitant constructions of Japanese identity in the critical discourses surrounding fashion. It examines the impacts of the sartorial traffic emanating from the Japanese fashion system, the …
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The philosophical and historical dynamics of Watsuji Tetsuro's cultural phenomenology
… study will examine one of the greatest modern Japanese philosophers, Watsuji Tetsuro. In a long and prodigious life Watsuji produced some of the most insightful works now extant in ethics, cultural identity, and intellectual history. This work will explicate two pillars of Watsuji's philosophy: …
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In Search of Identity: Hafus in Japan
… attempts to analyze the status of mixed-race Japanese, commonly called “hafu.” Hafus are a minority in Japan who often face discrimination as they try to identify to the Japanese community and to this day, there is still little literature on this topic. I argue that the Japanese majority …
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Japanese Cinema as Mass Art: An Export of Mass Cinema
… the distribution and consumption of contemporary Japanese cinema in the UK. Through the study of aesthetics it seeks to identify the ways in which content and current distribution methods suit different markets. Noël Carroll’s definition of cinema and contemporary media as ‘mass art’ has informed …
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An Analysis of Japan’s Immigration Policy on Migrant Workers and Their Families
… in exploring the interactions between the Japanese government and foreigners during 1960-2014. I have three research questions: (1) What is the Japanese government policy for migrant workers? (2) What is the education status for the children of migrant workers to assimilate into Japanese …
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The social agency of postage stamps : Japanese postage stamps in a global context
… 1937-1988 it identifies various messages about Japanese identity implied by the symbolism used by Japanese Governments in their postage stamp designs and by their choice of special issues. It explores the extent to which those messages have been received by both Japanese and British collectors …
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Japonų kolonijinio švietimo įtaka Taivano etninėms grupėms /
… of the bachelor's thesis is the reforms of Japanese colonial education in Taiwan and their influence on the ethnic groups of the island. The primary goal of the work is to find out what changes in the education system were made during the period of Japanese colonization in Taiwan and to …
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Modernity's children : generational change, identity and global citizenship in Japan
… movement in the conception and creation of Japanese collective identity - to understand its precedents and consequences. From an examination of how Japan's early 20th century agricultural majority saw themselves in the world around them throughout Japan's period of industrialisation, to …
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The construction of a war-time national identity : the Japanese Pavilion at New York's World's Fair, 1939/40
… was a result of the political strategy of the Japanese government in apprehension of World War II. The pavilion is not the work of an acclaimed architect, and has been considered of little significance in the history of modem Japanese architecture. This thesis explores the reasons for this …
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Making Victims: History, Memory, and Literature In Japan's Post-War Social Imaginary
… This paper seeks to examine the ways in which Japanese people were forced to re-identify what it meant to be Japanese, not only internally, but also internationally, and the struggles and conflicts that arise from the attempt to reconstruct the social imaginary of an entire nation. This paper …
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Hegemony, Habitus and Identity in Japanese University Men's Rowing
… the intersections between sport, education, identity and culture provides insight into commonsense understandings of the social world and hence hegemony at play. Education in Japan is highly valued and is a site of not only academic learning but also explicit and implicit moral and social …
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A History and Development of the Intercultural Communication Field in Japan (1950-Present)
… of a population struggling to navigate a new identity and way forward. Both Japanese and American scholars contributed to the establishment and development of the Intercultural Communication field over the decades. Three research questions were posed for this study: one, why did the …