Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan

2020-10-15 History

Author : Mire Koikari
Release : 2020-10-15
Genre : History
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Download or read book Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan written by Mire Koikari. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great East Japan Disaster – a compound catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that began on March 11, 2011 – has ushered in a new era of cultural production dominated by discussions on safety and security, risk and vulnerability, and recovery and refortification. Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan re-frames post-disaster national reconstruction as a social project imbued with dynamics of gender, race, and empire and in doing so Mire Koikari offers an innovative approach to resilience building in contemporary Japan. From juvenile literature to civic manuals to policy statements, Koikari examines a vast array of primary sources to demonstrate how femininity and masculinity, readiness and preparedness, militarism and humanitarianism, and nationalism and transnationalism inform cultural formation and transformation triggered by the unprecedented crisis. Interdisciplinary in its orientation, the book reveals how militarism, neoliberalism, and neoconservatism drive Japan's resilience building while calling attention to historical precedents and transnational connections that animate the ongoing mobilization toward safety and security. An important contribution to studies of gender and Japan, the book is essential reading for all those wishing to understand local and global politics of precarity and its proposed solutions amid the rising tide of pandemics, ecological hazards, industrial disasters, and humanitarian crises.

Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State

2021-11-01 Political Science

Author : Sebastian Maslow
Release : 2021-11-01
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State written by Sebastian Maslow. This book was released on 2021-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mired in national crises since the early 1990s, Japan has had to respond to a rapid population decline; the Asian and global financial crises; the 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown; the COVID-19 pandemic; China’s economic rise; threats from North Korea; and massive public debt. In Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State, established specialists in a variety of areas use a coherent set of methodologies, aligning their sociological, public policy, and political science and international relations perspectives, to account for discrepancies between official rhetoric and policy practice and actual perceptions of decline and crisis in contemporary Japan. Each chapter focuses on a distinct policy field to gauge the effectiveness and the implications of political responses through an analysis of how crises are narrated and used to justify policy interventions. Transcending boundaries between issue areas and domestic and international politics, these essays paint a dynamic picture of the contested but changing nature of social, economic, and, ultimately political institutions as they constitute the transforming Japanese state.

Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan

2019 Japan

Author : Jeff Kingston
Release : 2019
Genre : Japan
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Download or read book Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan written by Jeff Kingston. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new 2nd edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japanprovides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdisciplinary textbook written by a number of leading specialists on contemporary Japan. Students will gain the analytical insights and information necessary to assess the challenges that confront the Japanese people, policymakers and private and public sector institutions in Japan today. This book encompasses a range of disciplines in the social sciences and thus will be useful for a variety of courses including Comparative Politics, Media Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Asian Studies, International Relations, Public Policy, Healthcare, Education, Judicial Reform, Gender and Minority Studies. Key issues covered include: * Rapidly Aging society * Changing Employment system * Energy policy-Nuclear and Renewable * Gender discrimination * Immigration * Ethnic minorities * Trade policy * Civil society * Rural Japan * Okinawa * Post-3.11 Tsunami, earthquake, nuclear meltdown developments * Internationalization * Sino-Japanese relations * East Asia's divisive history The probing analysis of key debates and issues confronting Japan make this ideal for college courses and an essential reference work on contemporary Japan and Asia more generally.

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