Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present Book

Contents

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