... in 2011 Apocalyptic Memories and Subjective Movements: Differentiation by Political Power in Postwar Japan Toshio Ochi The Consummation of the Polity In order to make sense of the organization of postwar Japanese poli- tics...

... in postcrisis Japan. In what has become a trend toward singular living and solitary existence—sometimes called Japan's “relationless society” ( muen shakai )—those without human or economic capital are put at risk. The precarity of living/dying without a safety net of others is one sociological fact examined...

... to make sense of the sacrifices that a nation demands of its subjects. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 violence sacrifice Japan memory representation Listening to the Bones: The Rhythms of Sacrifice in Contemporary Japan Christopher T...

...Gabriella Lukacs This essay investigates women's photography and its critical reception in recessionary Japan. Drawing on the observation that women's photography centered on portraying relationships, critics—who were predominantly men—interpreted the genre as a project that aimed to reconnect...

...; wrongly, because the past that one would like to evade is still very much alive. — Theodor Adorno, “The Meaning of Working through the Past” This dossier collects four essays on David Peace's Tokyo Trilogy written by scholars of modern Japan—three historians and one anthropologist—as well...

...Harry Harootunian Abstract While David Peace's epic Tokyo Trilogy concentrates on the years after Japan's defeat in 1945 and the city of Tokyo as a classic crime scene, this essay proposes that the traditional pursuit of detection recedes in importance compared to the time of the “postwar,” a new...

... of his first film in Japan after years of imprisonment in Lebanon and Japan. Adachi's career and activities spanned the crucial decades of the 1950s and 1960s, perhaps the most intense period of radical protest in Japan's postwar period. His experimental work constituted a significant intervention...

...Tom Looser For some time now, Japan has been teetering on the point of fundamental, historical transformation. Neoliberalist contractions, natural catastrophes, and the nuclear disaster have contributed to an era of crisis that is local to Japan, while they are also an ongoing bellwether of global...

... was recorded on August 14, 1945, and broadcast over the radio waves in Japan and its former colonies on August 15, 1945. In the wake of the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, never had capitalism in Japan experienced such an acute expression of crisis. This essay explores the relationship...

...—primarily between China and Japan—made this endeavor difficult. The “contemporary” in this context is simultaneously a critical (or postcolonial) modernity that embraces notions of multiculturalism for “rethinking” Asia and a fractured modernity that does not quite manage to be a break from modern East...

...William Marotti Late 1967 witnessed a conjunctural moment in Japan, in which a shift in activist tactics inaugurated a public debate ultimately addressing the legitimacy of force and state violence in support of strategic US objectives, and triggering mass politicization, inaugurating Japan's “1968...

...Takushi Odagiri Various elements of the everyday have been suspended, interrogated, and redefined in the estranged experience of the crisis that occurred in Japan shortly after March 2011. This complex transformation of quotidian consciousness gives renewed meaning to Miki Kiyoshi's philosophy...

...Tomiko Yoda A much-publicized crime that occurred in 1997, the so-called Tōden OL murder case, has served as a significant node in the discussions on gender, sexuality, and work in postbubble-economy Japan. Critics have pointed to the female victim of the murder as an icon of feminine malaise...

... run by Chinese students in Japan). In many ways it is the most extraordinary of the essays of his Japan period, in that it defends a number of markedly unpopular positions. Lu Xun begins by painting a dark vision of the intellectual and political climes in China at the time of this writing, depicting...

...Anne Allison; Harry Harootunian; Christopher T. Nelson The essays collected in this dossier focus on the diverse ways that temporalization is rescued, remade, or renounced in the crises and catastrophes that have transformed everyday life in contemporary Japan. As a rhythmanalysis of both crisis...

...Sabu Kohso This essay is an attempt to understand what has been happening after Fukushima 3/11 in Japan, in terms of capital's accumulation and sociopolitical formation, from the vantage point of global anticapitalist struggles. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 radiation antinuclear...

... intellectual upbringing that shapes Japan as the most advanced modern power in Asia rather than an archenemy to be defeated. “End of the Day” is examined as a tale that reveals the second postwar generation’s ambivalence toward corrupted politicians that emerged after the collapse of the authoritarian rule...