Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese Presence in Asia, Europe, and America

Harumi Befu, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis

Psychology Press, 2001 - 262

Globalizing Japan explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on an everyday basis. Both consciously and unconsciously, we regularly come into contact with Japan's industrial and cultural globalization, from cameras and automobiles to judo, cuisine or animation. Japan's presence in the popular imagination is heavily influenced both by the country's historical past and its global present. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Anthropology and Cultural Studies.

Spis treści

• The global context of Japan outside Japan: 3
• Human dispersal: 5
• Permanent sojourners: 6
• Exploiting the cultural capital: 9
• Organizational transplant: 10
• Cultural diffusion: 13
• Imagining Japan: 15
• Interrelationships among the four categories: 18
• centerperiphery: 19
• Human dispersal: 23
• Objects city and wandering the invisibility of the Japanese in France: 25
• A cultural migration: 29
• An individual and temporary migration: 30
• Organizational transplant: 41
• Positioning globalization at overseas subsidiaries of Japanese multinational corporations: 43
• The political economy of Japans glohalization: 44
• from the macro to the micro: 45
• Positioning globalization: 48
• Conclusion: 49
• Japanese businesswomen of Yaohan Hong Kong toward a diversilied globalization of a Japanese ethnoscape: 52
• The cultural model of Japanese female workers: 53
• Differences between supermarkets and department stores: 54
• Yaohan as a regional supermarket: 55
• Yaohans arrival in Hong Kong: 56
• Yaohans staff recruitment strategy: 57
• Yaohans female employees going overseas: 59
• Response of female workers: 60
• Conclusion: 65
• Neverland lost Judo cultures in Austria Japan and elsewhere struggling for cultural hegemony at the Vienna Budokan: 69
• Territorialization of Japanese judo culture: 71
• seeing the difference: 76
• the national and the transnational: 81
• Japan outside Japan?: 86
• The story of a qualified success: 94
• Who does the defining?: 97
• What is the purpose?: 100
• Parameters: 101
• Conclusion: 104
• Cultural diffusion: 109
• Japanese comics coming to Hong Kong: 111
• Some history of comics in Hong Kong: 113
• the politics of everyday life: 115
• The effect of Japanese comics on local comic culture: 118
• Conclusion: 119
• Japanese popular music in Hong Kong analysis of globallocal cultural relations: 121
• Globalization in Hong Kong popular music history: 126
• Global culture in question contemporary Japanese photography in America: 131
• Hiroshi Sugimoto: 133
• Toshio Shihata: 137
• Yasumasa Morimura: 141
• Conclusion: 144
• Images: 151
• A collision of discourses Japanese and Hong Kong Chinese during the DiaoyuSenkaku Islands crisis: 153
• Japanese tourists in the midst of the dispute: 156
• Japanese residents of Hong Kong in the midst of the dispute: 158
• Hong Kong Chinese activists in the midst of the dispute: 160
• A complex of motives: 162
• Positions interests cultures and discourses: 165
• Capitalism and nationalism as world discourses: 168
• the shadows of history: 170
• Images of the Japanese welfare state: 176
• The construction of positive views of Japanese welfare: 179
• Conclusion: 185
• Consuming the modern globalization things Japanese and the politics of cultural identity in Korea: 194
• the coexistence of desire and enmity in Korean perceptions of Japan: 195
• Globalization and the regulation of Japanese popular culture in Korea: 197
• Transnational public hybrid identity and the unfinished project of modernity in Korea: 200
• the Asian financial crisis regime change and the logical similarity in the debates on Comfort Women and Japanese popular culture: 202
• the perspectives of Koreans in Japan: 204
• Japan through French eyes the ephemeral as a cultural production: 209
• from origami to matsuri: 210
• Sister cities and international relations: 214
• Japan and the ephemeral as a cultural production: 216
• The Yamatodamashi of the Takasago volunteers of Taiwan a reading of the postcolonial situation: 222
• The last returning imperial soldier: 223
• Memories recalled and testimonies proffered: 225
• History texts and authors: 235
• reversal and elevation in the hierarchy: 240
• Postcolonial situation after dual colonialism forms of resistance: 242
• the reality and illusion of the Yamatodamashi: 245
• Index: 251

Informacje bibliograficzne

• Tytuł: Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese Presence in Asia, Europe, and America; Tom 51 z Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
• Redaktorzy: Harumi Befu, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis
• Wydanie: ilustrowane, reprint
• Wydawca: Psychology Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0415285666, 9780415285667
• Liczba stron: 262