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