Japan in the Heisei era (1989-2019) : multidisciplinary perspectives /: multidisciplinary perspectives. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Noriko Murai, Jeffrey Kingston, Tina Burrett.
• Editors: (Art historian), Murai, Noriko; Kingston, Jeff, 1957-; Burrett, Tina
• Contents: Part 1: Symbol Emperor 1. The People's Imperial Couple Kenneth J. Ruoff 2. Contemporary Goshin’ei : The Emperor, Art, and the Anus Maki Kaneko Part 2: Government and Politics 3. The Rightward Shift of Japanese Politics: Interest, Reform, and Identity Koichi Nakano 4. Prime Ministers, Power and Leadership in Heisei Japan Tina Burrett 5. Heisei Okinawa: What Changed? Alexis Dudden 6. The Fight for Open Government in the Heisei Era Lawrence Repeta Part 3: Civil Society 7. Civil Society and Neoliberalism: Heisei’s Historic Convergence Simon Avenell 8. Still Half Free: The Japanese Media in the Heisei Era David McNeill & Tanaka Akira Part 4: Economy and Work 9. The Heisei Economy: Explaining the Lost Decades Richard Katz 10. Precaritization of Work in Japan Machiko Osawa & Jeff Kingston 11. Japan's Immigration in the Heisei Era: Population, Policy and the Ethno-nationalist Dilemma Gracia Liu-Farrer Part 5: Diversity 12. Women’s Leadership and Gender Equality Mari Miura Chapter 13. Preserving the Status Quo: Japan’s Laws and Policies on Ethnic and Sexual Minorities Tin Tin Htun 14. From Tiramisù to #MeToo: Triangulations of Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Heisei Japan Jennifer Robertson Part 6: Religion 15. Shinto During the Heisei Era Helen Hardacre 16. The Life and Death of a Heisei Religious Movement: What the Aum ShinrikyōAffair Revealed about Japanese Society Mark R. Mullins Part 7: Cool Japan? 17. Heisei High Architecture as Soft Power Alice Y. Tseng 18. The Evangelion Boom: The Explosion of Fan Markets and Lifestyles in Heisei Japan Patrick W. Galbraith 19. The Genealogy of Kawaii Noriko Murai Part 8: Multivoiced Narratives 20. A False Peace: Literature in the Age of Heisei Matthew C. Strecher 21. Cinema’s Uneasy Social Critique: The Heisei Era Onscreen Kyoko Hirano Part 9: History and Memory 22. Heisei Historiography: Academic History and Public Commemoration in Japan, 1990-2020 Sven Saaler 23. Implicated Photographs: Wartime Postmemory and the Photographic Unconsciousness in the Heisei Era Ayelet Zohar 24. The Loss of Nostalgia, not The Nostalgia of Loss: Or, What Happens in Heisei Stays in Heisei David Leheny 25. The Tumultuous Finale: 2009-2019 Jeff Kingston
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 952.049; Japan -- History -- Heisei period, 1989-; Japan -- Politics and government -- 1989-; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1989-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000521818; 9781000521726; 9780429273575
• Related ISBNs: 9780367221652; 9780367221676
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