The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture

430 Pages·2009·2.79 MB·english

by  Yoshio Sugimoto

TheCambridgeCompanionto
ModernJapaneseCulture
ThisCompanionprovidesacomprehensiveoverviewoftheinfluences
thathaveshapedmodern-dayJapan.Coveringtopicssuchastechnology,
food,nationalismandtheriseofanimeandmangainthevisualarts,this
booktracestheculturaltransformationthattookplaceoverthecourseof
the20thcentury,andpaintsapictureofanationrichinculturaldiversity.
Withcontributionsfromsomeofthemostprominentscholarsinthefield,
TheCambridgeCompaniontoModernJapaneseCultureisan
authoritativeintroductiontothissubject.
YoshioSugimotoisProfessorEmeritusintheSchoolofSocialSciences,
LaTrobeUniversity,Melbourne,Australia.
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TheCambridgeCompanionto
Modern Japanese Culture
Editedby
Yoshio Sugimoto
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Contents
Listoffigures vii
Listoftables viii
Listofcontributors ix
Acknowledgements xii
Chronologyofmajorevents xiii
MapofJapan xvi
‘Japaneseculture’:Anoverview 1
yoshio sugimoto
1 ConceptsofJapan,JapanesecultureandtheJapanese 21
harumi befu
2 Japan’semicconceptions 38
takami kuwayama
3 Language 56
hugh clarke
4 Familyculture 76
anne e imamura
5 Schoolculture 92
kaori h okano
6 Workculture 113
ross mouer
7 Technologicalculture 130
morris low
8 Religiousculture 147
stephen covell
vi Contents
9 Politicalculture 166
takashi inoguchi
10 Burakuculture 182
hideo aoki
11 Literaryculture 199
toshiko ellis
12 Popularleisure 216
sepp linhart
13 Manga,animeandvisualartculture 236
craig norris
14 Musicculture 261
junko kitagawa
15 Housingculture 281
ann waswo
16 Foodculture 300
naomichi ishige
17 Sportsculture 317
miho koishihara
18 Globalisationandculturalnationalism 336
takashi inoguchi
19 ExportingJapan’sculture:Frommanagementstyletomanga 352
ross mouer and craig norris
Consolidatedlistofreferences 369
Index 401
Figures
0.1 Four-foldtypologyofcompetingculturalorientationstothestateand
themarket 17
3.1 ThemajordialectdivisionsofJapaneseandRyukyuan 64
10.1 BurakuminandethnicminoritiesinJapan 185
10.2 Formationofburakuminidentity 191
10.3 Transformationofburaku 194
13.1 OLShinkaron’ssimplefour-panellayoutandgagstructureistypicalof
theyonkomamangaform 245
13.2 Siddhartha’sdisarmingofBandakainTezuka’sBuddhashowsthegreater
layoutcomplexityofthestorymangaform 247
13.3 CutenessandmelodramacombineinTezuka’sJungeruTaitei 248
13.4 Shirato’sNinjaBugeicho¯ conveysthedarkeradultthemesofgekiga
manga 249
13.5 Toriyama’sDragonBallisanexcellentexampleofsho¯nenmanga’sability
todoactionandadventureperfectly 250
13.6 ThestoryofayounggirlcopingwiththedivorceofherJapaneseand
Frenchparentsformstheemotionalnexustypicalofsho¯jomangain
Tachikake’sHanaBurankoYurete 251
15.1 Aninternationalcomparisonofhousingspace,insquaremetres 286
16.1 Compatibilitybetweenmainandsidedishes 312
17.1 Exercises/sportspracticebysexandschoolstage 324
Tables
0.1 TwocompetingmodelsofJapaneseculture 3
0.2 Fourtypesofculturebytheagentsofproductionandappreciation 10
3.1 StructureoftheJapanesesentence 67
10.1 Regionaldistributionofburakucommunitiesandpopulation 192
10.2 Typesofburakucommunitiesbythreefactors 193
12.1 Dailyactionratesbykindofactivity,averagetimespent,2001 224
12.2 Participationrateinleisureactivitiesbytype,1995–2004 225
12.3 Participationrateindomesticandforeignsightseeingtravelbysexand
age(%) 229
13.1 Typologyofsixkeymangaforms 239
14.1 Conceptsofho¯gaku,yo¯gakuand‘Japanesemusic’inJapan 263
14.2 Musicalgenreandsocialstratum 273
15.1 Aninternationalcomparisonofhousingbyformoftenure 290
17.1 Changesinsportspracticebyage 322
19.1 Someindicatorsofchange,1986–2000 357
Contributors
hideo aoki, InstituteonSocialTheoryandDynamics,Hiroshima,isa
sociologistwhospecialisesinstudiesofurbanmiddleclassesand
homelessnessinJapanandthePhilippines.HehaspublishedJapan’s
Underclass:DayLaborersandtheHomeless(TransPacificPress
2006)and‘HomelessnessinOsaka:Globalization,yosebaand
disemployment,’UrbanStudies,40(2),2003,pp.361–78.
harumi befu, StanfordUniversity,iscurrentlyworkingintheareasof
globalisation,diaspora,kinshipandcommunity.Hispublications
includeHegemonyofHomogeneity:AnAnthropologicalAnalysisof
Nihonjinron(TransPacificPress2001)andIdeorog¯ıtoShiteno
NihonBunkaron(CulturalTheoriesofJapanasIdeology),third
edition(Shiso¯ noKagakusha1997).
hugh clarke, UniversityofSydneyandWasedaUniversity,
researchesJapaneselanguageandliteratureaswellasOkinawan
studies.Heco-authoredColloquialJapanese(Routledge2003)and
published‘Thegreatdialectdebate’inEliseTipton(ed.),Societyand
StateinInterwarJapan(Routledge1997),pp.193–217.
stephen covell, WesternMichiganUniversity,isaspecialistin
modernandcontemporaryJapaneseBuddhism.Hehaspublished
JapaneseTempleBuddhism:WorldlinessinaReligionof
Renunciation(UniversityofHawai’iPress2005)andco-editeda
specialissueon‘TraditionalBuddhismincontemporaryJapan’for
theJapaneseJournalofReligiousStudies,21(2),2004.
toshiko ellis, UniversityofTokyo,specialisesinmodernJapanese
literatureinthecontextofmodernismandmodernity.Her
publicationsincludeHagiwaraSakutaro¯:ShitekiIme¯jinoKo¯sei
(ThePoeticImageryofHagiwaraSakutaro¯)(Chu¯sekisha,1986)and
‘ThetopographyofDalianandthecartographyofFantasticAsiain