Japan's Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism

ISBN-13: 9780367558284 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 210 str.

Jeffrey J. Hall

Opis

Japan’s nationalist right have used the internet to organise offline activism in increasingly visible ways. Hall investigates the role of internet-mediated activism in Japan’s ongoing historical and territorial disputes.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. The Landscape of Post-War Japanese Nationalist Activism 3. Channel Sakura Takes Flight - Creating a Grassroots Internet Media Organization for Japan’s Conservative Right 4. Rallying Around the Flag: Heroes, Symbolism, and Rituals 5. The 2009 Anti-NHK Protest Campaign 6. Conservative Activism and Historical Remembrance of the Battle of Okinawa: The Case of the 32^nd Army Headquarters 7. The Senkaku Islands, Protest Marches, and Crowdfunded Boat Activism 8. Epilogue

O autorze

Jeffrey J. Hall is Assistant Professor and Junior Researcher at the Waseda University’s Organization for Regional and Inter-Regional Studies in Tokyo, Japan