ISBN:
9780415244121
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (285 p.)
Series Statement:
Nissan Institute / Routledge Japanese studies series
Parallel Title:
Print version Globalizing Japan : Ethnography of the Japanese Presence in Asia, Europe and
DDC:
305.8956
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence as an economic giant. Areas examined include Japanese multinational corporations, popular music and perceptions of Japan in France and Korea
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Series Editor's preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The global context of Japan outside Japan; Human dispersal; Objects, city, and wandering: the invisibility of the Japanese in France; Organizational transplant; Positioning ~globalization~ at overseas subsidiaries of Japanese multinational corporations; Japanese businesswomen of Yaohan Hong Kong: toward a diversified globalization of a Japanese ~ethnoscape~
Description / Table of Contents:
Neverland lost: judo cultures in Austria, Japan, and elsewhere struggling for cultural hegemony at the Vienna BudokanSoka Gakkai in Germany: the story of a qualified success; Cultural diffusion; Japanese comics coming to Hong Kong; Japanese popular music in Hong Kong: analysis of global/local cultural relations; Global culture in question: contemporary Japanese photography in America; Images; A collision of discourses: Japanese and Hong Kong Chinese during the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands crisis; Images of the Japanese welfare state
Description / Table of Contents:
Consuming the modern: globalization, things Japanese, and the politics of cultural identity in KoreaJapan through French eyes: ~the ephemeral~ as a cultural production; The Yamatodamashi of the Takasago volunteers of Taiwan: a reading of the postcolonial situation; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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