Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese presence in Asia, Europe, and America

by Befu,Harumi

• ISBN13: 9780415285667
• ISBN10: 0415285666
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-12-23
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

Globalizing Japanexplores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on an everyday basis. Both consciously and unconsciously, we regularly come into contact with Japan's industrial and cultural globalization, from cameras and automobiles to judo, cuisine or animation. Japan's presence in the popular imagination is heavily influenced both by the country's historical past and its global present. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Anthropology and Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

List of figures	xii
List of tables	xiii
List of contributors	xiv
Series Editor's preface	xvii
Preface	xix
Acknowledgments	xxii
PART I Introduction	1	(22)
1 The global context of Japan outside Japan	3	(20)
HARUMI BEFU
Human dispersal	5	(1)
Nonpermanent sojourners	5	(1)
Permanent sojourners	6	(3)
Exploiting the cultural capital	9	(1)
Organizational transplant	10	(3)
Cultural diffusion	13	(2)
Imagining of Japan	15	(3)
Interrelationships among the four categories	18	(1)
Conclusion: center periphery	19	(4)
PART II Human dispersal	23	(18)
2 Objects, city, and wandering: the invisibility of the Japanese in France	25	(16)
KAZUHIKO YATABE
A cultural migration	29	(1)
An individual and temporary migration	30	(11)
PART III Organizational transplant	41	(68)
3 Positioning "globalization" at overseas subsidiaries of Japanese multinational corporations	43	(9)
MITCHELL W. SEDGWICK
Coping with complexity on a large scale	43	(1)
The political economy of Japan’s globalization	44	(1)
The "globalization" of Japanese managers: from the macro to the micro	45	(3)
Positioning globalization	48	(1)
Conclusion	49	(3)
4 Japanese businesswomen of Yaohan Hong Kong: toward a diversified globalization of a Japanese "ethnoscape"	52	(17)
DIXON HEUNG WAH WONG
The cultural model of Japanese female workers	53	(1)
Differences between supermarkets and department stores	54	(1)
Yaohan as a regional supermarket	55	(1)
Yaohan's arrival in Hong Kong	56	(1)
Yaohan 's staff recruitment strategy	57	(2)
Yaohan's female employees going overseas	59	(1)
Response of female workers	60	(6)
Conclusion	66	(3)
5 Neverland lost: judo cultures in Austria, Japan, and elsewhere struggling for cultural hegemony at the Vienna Budokan	69	(25)
SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK AND WOLFRAM MANZENREITER
Territorialization of Japanese judo culture	71	(5)
Self-colonization: seeing the difference	76	(5)
Universalization: the national and the transnational	81	(5)
Conclusion: Japan outside Japan?	86	(8)
6 Soka Gakkai in Germany: the story of a qualified success	94	(15)
SANDA IONESCU
Who does the defining?	97	(3)
What is the purpose?	100	(1)
Parameters	101	(3)
Conclusion	104	(5)
PART IV Cultural diffusion	109	(42)
7 Japanese comics coming to Hong Kong	111	(10)
CHERRY SZE-LING LAI AND DIXON HEUNG WAH WONG
Comics in Japan	111	(2)
Some history of comics in Hong Kong	113	(2)
The general images of comics in Hong Kong: the politics of everyday life	115	(1)
Japanese comics coming to Hong Kong	116	(2)
The effect of Japanese comics on local comic culture	118	(1)
Conclusion	119	(2)
8 Japanese popular music in Hong Kong: analysis of global/local cultural relations	121	(10)
MASASHI OGAWA
Hong Kong pop music history	121	(5)
Globalization in Hong Kong popular music history	126	(5)
9 Global culture in question: contemporary Japanese photography in America	131	(20)
JULIA ADENEY THOMAS
Hiroshi Sugimoto	133	(4)
Toshio Shibata	137	(4)
Yasumasa Morimura	141	(3)
Conclusion	144	(7)
PART V Images	151	(100)
10 A collision of discourses: Japanese and Hong Kong Chinese during the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands crisis	153	(23)
GORDON MATHEWS
The Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute: a brief history	153	(3)
Japanese tourists in the midst of the dispute	156	(2)
Japanese residents of Hong Kong in the midst of the dispute	158	(2)
Hong Kong Chinese activists in the midst of the dispute	160	(2)
A complex of motives	162	(3)
Positions, interests, cultures, and discourses	165	(3)
Capitalism and nationalism as world discourses	168	(2)
Conclusion: the shadows of history	170	(6)
11 Images of the Japanese welfare state	176	(18)
ROGER GOODMAN
The construction of positive views of Japanese welfare	179	(6)
Conclusion	185	(9)
12 Consuming the modern: globalization, things Japanese, and the politics of cultural identity in Korea	194	(15)
SEUNG-MI HAN
Learning from the enviable enemy: the coexistence of desire and enmity in Korean perceptions of Japan	195	(2)
Globalization and the regulation of Japanese popular culture in Korea	197	(3)
Transnational public, hybrid identity, and the "unfinished project" of modernity in Korea	200	(2)
Postscript: the Asian financial crisis, regime change, and the logical similarity in the debates on Comfort Women and Japanese popular culture	202	(1)
Postscript 2: the perspectives of Koreans in Japan	202	(7)
13 Japan through French eyes: "the ephemeral" as a cultural production	209	(13)
SYLVIE GUICHARD-ANGUIS
Japanese Days, Japanese Weeks, or Year of Japan in France: from origami to matsuri	210	(1)
Sister cities and international relations	211	(5)
Japan and "the ephemeral" as a cultural production	216	(6)
14 The Yamatodamashi of the Takasago volunteers of Taiwan: a reading of the postcolonial situation	222	(29)
CHIN-HUET HUANG
The last returning imperial soldier	223	(2)
Memories recalled and testimonies proffered	225	(10)
History, texts, and authors	235	(5)
Battlefield trick: reversal and elevation in the hierarchy	240	(2)
Postcolonial situation after dual colonialism - forms of resistance	242	(3)
Conclusion: the reality and illusion of the Yamatodamashi	245	(6)
Index	251