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The Postmodern and Mass Images in Japan
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Public Culture (1989) 1 (2): 8–25.
Published: 01 May 1989
...Yoshimoto Mitsuhiro Copyright © 1989 by the Project For Transnational Cultural Studies 1989 The Postmodern and Mass Images in Japan
Yoshimoto Mitsuhiro
Let us begin with a question: how can we discuss postmodernism and
Japan together? On the one hand, if postmodernism...
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The “End” of the Postwar: Japan at the Turn of the Millennium
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 1997
...Carol Gluck Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 The “End” of the Postwar:
Japan at the Turn of the
Millennium
Carol Gluck
e seem, in the 1990s, to be obsessed...
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Playing through the Apocalypse: Preparing Children for Mass Disasters in Japan and Chile
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 239–259.
Published: 01 May 2021
... disaster experts and government officials from other countries have now implemented the Caravan in their own contexts. Based on ethnographic research in Japan and Chile, this article shows how playful methods in disaster preparedness orient children, and by proxy their families, to accept an apocalyptic...
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in Archipelagic Archives: Media Geology and the Deep Time of Japan's Settler Colonialism
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Published: 01 September 2021
figure 2 A Geological Sketch Map of the Island of Yesso, Japan (1876). Courtesy of Geological Survey of Japan, CC BY-ND.
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Aerial view of Minami-Tori Island, Japan. Photo by Chief Master Sergeant Do...
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in Archipelagic Archives: Media Geology and the Deep Time of Japan's Settler Colonialism
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Published: 01 September 2021
figure 3 Aerial view of Minami-Tori Island, Japan. Photo by Chief Master Sergeant Don Sutherland, US Air Force; public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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in Playing through the Apocalypse: Preparing Children for Mass Disasters in Japan and Chile
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Published: 01 May 2021
figure 1 The Namazu no Gakkō game at a Caravan in Japan (photograph by the author).
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Intimate Ideologies: Transnational Theory and Japan's “Yellow Cabs”
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (3): 465–478.
Published: 01 September 1994
.... Eyal , Ben-Ari. , Brian Moeran, and James Valentine, eds. 1990 . Unwrapping Japan: Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective . Honolulu: University of Hawaii press. Gupta , Akhil . 1992 . “The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space...
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On the Downtown Side of Japan's Old Capital: Higashi-kujo
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 433–440.
Published: 01 September 1999
... of recession in Japan, a book written by a a Movable Chair
young man born without arms or legs has gained a steady place in the bestseller
lists. The book is titled Gotai Fumanzoku, meaning something like “totally unsat-
isfactory body,” a virtual parody of the phrase gotai manzoku, used often in
claiming...
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Archipelagic Archives: Media Geology and the Deep Time of Japan's Settler Colonialism
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 417–440.
Published: 01 September 2021
...figure 2 A Geological Sketch Map of the Island of Yesso, Japan (1876). Courtesy of Geological Survey of Japan, CC BY-ND. ...
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Restless Reconciliation: Unsettling Victimhood and Perpetration
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Public Culture 11714193.
Published: 19 March 2025
... that came out of a series of lawsuits filed within Japan since the mid-1990s by survivors against the Japanese government and the corporations that enslaved them in the 1940s. News headlines announcing the successful signing of settlements after decades of legal battle cannot capture the emotional labor...
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Published: 01 May 2015
Figure 1 Han Feng, Floating City (2013). Installation, color inkjet and parchment paper. Aichi Triennale 2013, Japan
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Plasmatic Nature: Environmentalism and Animated Film
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 301–318.
Published: 01 May 2014
... affinities with environmentalist perspectives that attribute value, animatedness, and agency to the natural world. Such affinities emerge even in nonenvironmentalist animated films in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. 3 The Dada and Surrealist movements produced particularly striking examples...
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An “Eventful” History of Hind Swaraj : Gandhi between the Battle of Tsushima and the Union of South Africa
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 299–319.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Jonathan Hyslop This article argues that Gandhi's book Hind Swaraj was centrally concerned with undermining the influence of the violent “terrorist” wing of nationalism on Indian political militants. In particular he sought to question the inspiration that Japan's military defeat of Russia in 1905...
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Tradition and Difference in the Japanese Mass Media
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Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 21–29.
Published: 01 January 1988
... of a purer, more pristine Japan.
Whereas the history of this interest in origins can be traced back in ever-re-
ceding loops, it is in the postwar era that it became a truly national, perva-
sive, mass phenomenon. Only with Japan's 'economic miracle' of the
1960's and the development of its...
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Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 233–257.
Published: 01 January 2000
... Eastern particularism, and thwart-
ing an expansionist modernity. Such an ideology, however, is endemic not to
Japanese national monology but to a larger interrelational structure that ambigu-
ously situates Japan with the West and within Asia...
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Japanese No-Noh: The Crosstalk of Public Culture in a Rural Festivity
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 65–81.
Published: 01 May 1990
... Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan , 1949-1986 . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Dale , Peter 1987 The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness . New York St. Martin's Press. Dominguez , Virginia R. 1986 “The Marketing of Heritage,” American...
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Miscellany
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 135–143.
Published: 01 May 1990
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The Constitution of Japan in the
Age of Internationalization4
TOKYO - In February, 1989, one hundred years will have passed since the Constitu-
tion of the Empire of Japan was promulgated. Whenever I read that earlier constitution, I
realize once more how wonderful it is that we changed to our...
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Death and History: An Emperor's Funeral
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 33–40.
Published: 01 May 1990
... the blood-shot center; or, it is the
gravitational center which suspends the space in a state of unified tension.
The sun symbolized in Japan's national flag is a solitary floating center
in a white expanse of undefined or mutable space. But the space cannot be
defined without the center...
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Memory Matters: Hiroshima's Korean Atom Bomb Memorial and the Politics of Ethnicity
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (3): 499–527.
Published: 01 September 1995
... -19. Lauretis , Teresa de . 1990 . “Eccentric Subjects: Feminist Theory and Historical Consciousness.” Feminist Studies 16 , no. 1 (Spring): 115 -150. Lee , Changsoo Lee , and George De Vos. 1981 . Koreans in Japan: Ethnic Conflict and Accommodation . Berkeley: University...
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Margaret Lock: Interviewed by Eugene Raikhel
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 311–331.
Published: 01 May 2017
... off to Japan for the 1964 Olympics, and eventually I joined him there. I was still working in a lab at that point, but I began to realize that I wanted out of lab work, which I was finding very tedious. I either had to do a PhD in biochemistry or switch into something else, and that trip to Japan...
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