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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"contemporary japan"”.
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Everyday Fascism in Contemporary Japan
… fascism in order to examine the socio-culture of contemporary Japan. Defined in terms of its commodity structure, fascism turns out to be a relevant concept to Japan not only prior to and during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945) but also from the postwar days to date. Against various forms of …
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Motherhood, Family, and Inequality in Contemporary Japan
… of family and motherhood are reinforced in contemporary Japan, and give rise to significant social distinctions between families and mothers. Based on documentary research and forty life history interviews with single mothers conducted in Tokyo, I examine how norms of family and motherhood …
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The Masculine Ideal: Achieving Masculine Legitimacy in Contemporary Japan
… can achieve masculine legitimacy, or success, in contemporary Japan. Since the economic rise of the postwar period, the salaryman has been deemed the epitome of masculine success in Japan, but recent studies have highlighted the challenges to achieving this ideal, mainly because of economic and …
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Secondary residential demand trends in contemporary Japan and North Asia
… in North Asia, with specific geographic focus on Japan first through an analysis of national and regional consumption, tourism and real estate trends, followed by examination of similar successful developments in the surrounding region and lastly, application of research findings to assess the …
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Associative activism : organizing support for foreign workers in contemporary Japan
Japan is a country known for its suspicion of foreigners, but Japanese citizens have established non-government organizations to support illegal foreign migrants. The problems and conditions of illegal foreign workers are rooted in Japanese government policies. The 1990 Immigration Control Law …
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The Crisis of Language in Contemporary Japan: Reading, Writing, and New Technology
… of the crises of reading and writing in contemporary Japan. Each of the five chapters examines concrete instances of reading and writing practices that have been problematized in recent decades. By calling attention to underlying moral assumptions, established sociocultural protocols, and …
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Groomed For Business: Constructing the White-Collar Man’s Body in Contemporary Japan
Over the past few decades in Japan, the male body has been subject to increasing scrutiny and pressures to groom, trends that have been analysed as a counter to the orthodox ‘salaryman’ figure, thus largely excluding him from debates about the male body. Yet, the white-collar man, who remains an …
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Cooperation over conflict : the women's movement and the state in contemporary Japan
Progress on women's equality in Japan is found to be constrained by state intervention in the women's movement. This intervention takes the form of regulations that limit the independence of women's group, as well as resources that aid and influence their activities. The result is a relationship …
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Spiritual business? A critical analysis of the spiritual therapy phenomenon in contemporary Japan
… (supirichuaru) has become a buzzword in Japanese popular culture. A look at the shelves of every bookstore reveals that by now, in Japan, almost anything can be ―"spiritual" (for example, spiritual spot, spiritual money, spiritual motherhood or spiritual cuisine). This "spiritual boom" …
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Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015
… was the largest act of terrorism in post-war Japan. I combine qualitative methods of media analysis, interviews, and participant observation to analyse how different stakeholders have narrated and commemorated the Aum Affair. I propose ‘collective trauma’ as a revised theory of ‘cultural …
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VOCALOID NATIONALISM: VOCALOID, IDENTITY, AND NATIONALISM IN CHINA AND JAPAN
… Nationalism (Puchi Nashonarizumu) termed by Japanese Psychiatrist Kayama Rika, I will argue that Vocaloid characters and its derivative products are under the framework of Petit Nationalism. Such Petit Nationalism in Vocaloid scene, which i will be calling the Vocaloid Nationalism, is common …
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A Critique of Critical Race Theory: a Textual Analysis of the ‘Mr. Gaijin’ Mask
… is (re)produced in the specific context of contemporary Japan. Sold as a gig gift in Japan, the mask, consisting of two stickers for blue-eyes and a prominent plastic nose, embodies the popularized image of whiteness in Japan, and presents it as a source of fascination as well as ridicule …
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LA FUNZIONE TERAPEUTICA DELLE ARTI PER L'ESPRESSIONE DELL'IDENTITÀ INDIVIDUALE NEL GIAPPONE ODIERNO
… art and music to express individual identity in contemporary Japan, and their potential to promote psychophysical well-being. The work is developed based on the case studies of two famous contemporary Japanese artists: Kusama Yayoi (b. 1929) for visual art and Sakamoto Ryuichi (1952-2023) for …
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Contemporary Art in Japan and Cuteness in Japanese Popular Culture
… thesis is an art historical study focussing on contemporary Japan, and in particular the artists Murakami TakashL Mori Mariko, Aida Makoto, and Nara Yoshitomo. These artists represent a generation of artists born in the 1960s who use popular culture to their own ends. From the seminal exhibition …
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Šintoizmo vaidmuo šiuolaikinėje Japonijoje: Shinkai Makoto kūrybos analizė /
… this work is to analyze the role of Shintoism in contemporary Japan, and its purpose in these three works of Shinkai Makoto. The main objectives are: to determine the development of Shintoism and its main ideas, to analyze the role of Shintoism in contemporary Japanese society through its …
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Gender, Family, and New Styles of Fatherhood: Modernization and Globalization in Japan
… involved in childrearing are a new phenomenon in contemporary Japan, despite the prevalent images of patriarchic and absent fatherhood. But why and how did yesterday's notorious company soldiers turn into today's ikumen? This dissertation interrogates this supposedly drastic shift in the view and …
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The Figure of the Widow in the Hebrew Bible
… anthropological work on widows from a range of contemporary global contexts underpins this study. Ethnographic accounts of the lives of widows in contemporary Japan, India and Apartheid South Africa simulate questions of Biblical texts that focus on widows which have not been asked before. Part …
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Historical regimes of socio-natures in farmlands: practices of conventional farming in Fukuoka, Japan
… with farmland, especially rice paddy, nature in contemporary Japan? To answer this question, I examine multiple ways in which they practice their relationships with “socio-natures” and how those practices have historically and transnationally developed, especially since the end of the Japanese …
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Varieties of Transnational Life: Brazilian <i>Nikkeis</i>’ Changing Cross-border Ties with Two Homelands
… explores the varieties of Brazilian Nikkei’s – Japanese emigrants to Brazil and their descendants – transnational lives throughout a century of their migration history. I propose an interactive process approach to migrant transnationalism to understand the divergence of Brazilian Nikkeis’ …
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Place-making under Japan's neoliberal regime: ethics, locality, and community in rural Hokkaido
How should people live in rural Japan today? And how can they live together in declining communities? As counter-urbanization and the trend of rural revitalization have become a major scene of cultural politics in contemporary Japan, these fundamental questions become more and more important. To …
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