Japan in the Heisei Era (1989-2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367221652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 356 str.

Noriko Murai; Jeffrey Kingston; Tina Burrett

Opis

Japan in the Heisei Era (1989-2019) provides a retrospective and multidisciplinary account of a society in flux. Featuring analyses from leading scholars around the globe, this textbook examines the evolving contexts of Japan throughout the Heisei era and how longstanding verities and values are being called into question.

Recenzje

'...Japan in the Heisei Era is a terrific read. The quality of the contributions is very high; the writing is clear and engaging throughout; the balance between survey and detail is superb; and the book succeeds in providing the multidimensional but not all-encompassing overview of contemporary Japan it promises. Newcomers to and specialists in Japanese studies alike will learn much from it.'

Derek Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo

Spis treści

Part 1: Symbol Emperor  1. The People's Imperial Couple  2. Contemporary Goshin’ei: The Emperor, Art, and the Anus  Part 2: Government and Politics  3. The Rightward Shift of Japanese Politics: Interest, Reform, and Identity  4. Prime Ministers, Power and Leadership in Heisei Japan  5. Heisei Okinawa: What Changed?  6. The Fight for Open Government in the Heisei Era  Part 3: Civil Society  7. Civil Society and Neoliberalism: Heisei’s Historic Convergence  8. Still Half Free: The Japanese Media in the Heisei Era  Part 4: Economy and Work  9. The Heisei Economy: Explaining the Lost Decades  10. Precaritization of Work in Japan  11. Japan's Immigration in the Heisei Era: Population, Policy and the Ethno-nationalist Dilemma  Part 5: Diversity  12. Women’s Leadership and Gender Equality  13. Preserving the Status Quo: Japan’s Laws and Policies on Ethnic and Sexual Minorities  14. From Tiramisù to #MeToo: Triangulations of Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Heisei Japan  Part 6: Religion  15. Shinto During the Heisei Era  16. The Life and Death of a Heisei Religious Movement: What the Aum Shinrikyō□Affair Revealed about Japanese Society  Part 7: Cool Japan?  17. Heisei High Architecture as Soft Power  18. The Evangelion Boom: The Explosion of Fan Markets and Lifestyles in Heisei Japan  19. The Genealogy of Kawaii  Part 8: Multivoiced Narratives  20. A False Peace: Literature in the Age of Heisei  21. Cinema’s Uneasy Social Critique: The Heisei Era Onscreen  Part 9: History and Memory  22. Heisei Historiography: Academic History and Public Commemoration in Japan, 1990-2020  23. Implicated Photographs: Wartime Postmemory and the Photographic Unconsciousness in the Heisei Era  24. The Loss of Nostalgia, not The Nostalgia of Loss: Or, What Happens in Heisei Stays in Heisei  25. The Tumultuous Finale: 2009-2019