The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture write by Mina Qiao. This book was released on 2023-09-01. The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is the first book-length collection on Japanese literary and popular cultural responses to the coronavirus pandemic in English. Disrupting the narrative of COVID-19 as a catastrophe without precedent, this book contextualizes the COVID-19 global public health crisis and pandemic-induced social and political turbulence in a post-industrial society that has withstood multiple major destructions and disasters. From published fiction by major authors to anonymous accounts on social media, from network TV shows to contents by Virtual YouTubers (VTubers), in both "high" and "low" culturescapes, timely representations of coronavirus and individual and social livings under its impact emerge. These narratives, either personal or top-down, all endeavor to fathom this unexpected disruption of modern linear progress. Exploring the paradoxes underlying the "new normal" of Japanese society of the present day, the book collectively demonstrates how the narratives of coronavirus are not "neo-" but "re-": returning to the past, revealing existing problems and reclaiming memories lost and lessons forgotten. This edited volume will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of Japanese culture and society, Japanese literature, and pandemic studies.
Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers
Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers write by Nina Cornyetz. This book was released on 2023-09-22. Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores desire through the work of a new generation of Japanese women writers, in response to the increased attention these writers have received following the release of their work in the English language. The contributions explore a wide range of theoretical approaches and psychoanalytic interpretations to "reading" a new generation of Japanese women writers’ relationships to identity, sex/gender, and desire. Through dealing with female spaces, maternal roles, gendered bodies, or resistant speech acts, the book uncovers the overarching theme of desire – desire for language, touch, and recognition. Focusing on authors who have previously been underrepresented in English-language scholarship, the book highlights the diverse nature and the important synergies of writing by women in the last few decades. Addressing experimental and nonconforming authors whose works challenge gender and culture expectation as well as Orientalist myths, this will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Asian literature, Japanese culture, and Asian studies.
COVID-19 and Three Japanese Cities
COVID-19 and Three Japanese Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook COVID-19 and Three Japanese Cities write by . This book was released on 2022. COVID-19 and Three Japanese Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. White-on-black collage-style images of Japanese nightlife and popular culture under the pall of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Origin of Japan’s Protectionist Agricultural Policy
The Origin of Japan’s Protectionist Agricultural Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origin of Japan’s Protectionist Agricultural Policy write by Hironori Sasada. This book was released on 2023-10-27. The Origin of Japan’s Protectionist Agricultural Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the origins of Japan’s protectionist agricultural policies through an in-depth historical analysis of Japanese agricultural policies between the Meiji period and the end of WWII. It offers a constructivist account for the rise of protectionism, examining the policies of prewar agricultural bureaucrats who played critical roles in the policymaking process. It argues that protectionist agricultural policy in Japan was not originally generated by the "iron triangle" (a political alliance consisted of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Agricultural Ministry, and farmers’ organizations) but by a prewar agricultural bureaucrats’ policy idea called shōnō ron (thoughts on small-scale farming). Ultimately the book reveals how, contrary to suggestions of previous scholarship, the protective measures based on shōnō ron forged the necessary conditions for the emergence of "iron triangle" after the end of WWII, which in turn institutionalized Japan’s subsequent protectionist agricultural regime. Examining such topics as the origin of protectionist policy, the formation of actors’ preferences, and the broader effects of agricultural policy ideas, this book will be a valuable reading for scholars and students of Japanese politics, agricultural policy, and political economy.
The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade
The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade write by Paul Dunscomb. This book was released on 2023-10-27. The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines Japan’s Heisei era through the lens of the crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004, challenging the narrative of decline which dominates the discourse on the period. The story of this crisis reveals much about the Japanese psyche during the “Lost Decade,” about the nature of change during Heisei Japan and of the nation’s resilience. The business of professional baseball provides crucial insights as it achieved its basic form at the same time as Japan's post-war political economy, and shared many characteristics with it, including systemic inefficiencies which post “bubble” Japan could no longer sustain. The book traces how the crisis unfolded and the cast of characters who appeared during it (including team owners, players, IT entrepreneurs, and ordinary fans) revealing much about the push and pull of continuity and change in Japan. Featuring an in-depth analysis or the key participants and developments of the crisis in baseball this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of sports management, Japanese history, and Japanese culture, particularly of the Heisei era.
