{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Ann Heylen, E. Vickers, K. Taylor-Jones","doi":"10.1386/eapc_00011_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00011_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36135,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Journal of Popular Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48220835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55077-6
{"title":"Renegotiating Film Genres in East Asian Cinemas and Beyond","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-55077-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55077-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36135,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"249 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74355571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article analyses NHK’s 2013 hit morning drama (asadora) Amachan, exploring the subject of surviving through adversity as not just a common thread that it shares with almost all the asadora produced since 1961 but also as a theme analogous to the story of post-war Japan. Intimacy and connectivity, as well, are seen as key to understanding this series about a young girl learning to be a diver (ama). I argue that these strands are interwoven to depict a post-bubble and post-3/11 Japan in which a positive attitude and a willingness to learn from rural, traditional, values are seen as leading to happiness and success.
{"title":"Television and the ama: The continuing search for a real Japan in NHK’s morning drama Amachan","authors":"D. Martinez","doi":"10.1386/eapc_00005_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00005_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses NHK’s 2013 hit morning drama (asadora) Amachan, exploring the subject of surviving through adversity as not just a common thread that it shares with almost all the asadora produced since 1961 but also as a theme analogous to the story of post-war Japan. Intimacy\u0000 and connectivity, as well, are seen as key to understanding this series about a young girl learning to be a diver (ama). I argue that these strands are interwoven to depict a post-bubble and post-3/11 Japan in which a positive attitude and a willingness to learn from rural, traditional, values\u0000 are seen as leading to happiness and success.","PeriodicalId":36135,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Journal of Popular Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45717368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article shows how the interplay of local memories, the imagined worlds of media products and tourism can redefine the image of a particular place. Using the concepts of ‘places of memory’ (Nora) and ‘places of the imagination’ (Reijnders), the author analyses how NHK’s morning drama (asadora) Kazamidori (The Weather Vane) (1977–1978) had a significant impact on the development of Kobe’s Kitanochō district. The fusion of local memory and the world imagined in the series has resulted in the foreign settlers’ mansions (so-called Ijinkan) being developed into a tourism resource and declared a national cultural heritage. As the example of Kazamidori shows, certain aspects of local history are accentuated and others deliberately ignored in such processes of heritage building, while both the media and tourism can play an important role in placemaking.
{"title":"Tourism and local identity generated by NHK’s morning drama: The intersection of memory and imagination in Kobe","authors":"Kyungjae Jang","doi":"10.1386/eapc_00006_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00006_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article shows how the interplay of local memories, the imagined worlds of media products and tourism can redefine the image of a particular place. Using the concepts of ‘places of memory’ (Nora) and ‘places of the imagination’ (Reijnders), the author analyses\u0000 how NHK’s morning drama (asadora) Kazamidori (The Weather Vane) (1977–1978) had a significant impact on the development of Kobe’s Kitanochō district. The fusion of local memory and the world imagined in the series has resulted in the foreign settlers’ mansions\u0000 (so-called Ijinkan) being developed into a tourism resource and declared a national cultural heritage. As the example of Kazamidori shows, certain aspects of local history are accentuated and others deliberately ignored in such processes of heritage building, while both the media and tourism\u0000 can play an important role in placemaking.","PeriodicalId":36135,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Journal of Popular Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43965166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NHK’s morning dramas, commonly known as asadora, usually focus on the lives of female heroines who cheerfully persevere in the face of adversity. They depict how women have responded to changing times, especially during and after the Asia-Pacific War. Since 2010, asadora have achieved increased popularity, and many of the shows broadcast since 2011 – the year of the Great East Japan Earthquake – have returned to the traditional theme of women during war. This study investigates asadora that depict the war period, focusing on the representation of 15 August 1945 since the format’s earliest days in the 1960s. As this study of 15 August scenes in asadora shows, memory of the Asia-Pacific War in Japan changed considerably after the catastrophe of 3/11. By understanding the mechanisms of presenting this specific event in popular media, it is also possible to shed light on the general practices of collective memory in Japan.
{"title":"The war’s end: 15 August 1945 in NHK’s morning dramas from 1966 to 2019","authors":"Sachiko Masuda","doi":"10.1386/eapc_00004_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00004_1","url":null,"abstract":"NHK’s morning dramas, commonly known as asadora, usually focus on the lives of female heroines who cheerfully persevere in the face of adversity. They depict how women have responded to changing times, especially during and after the Asia-Pacific War. Since 2010, asadora have\u0000 achieved increased popularity, and many of the shows broadcast since 2011 – the year of the Great East Japan Earthquake – have returned to the traditional theme of women during war. This study investigates asadora that depict the war period, focusing on the representation of 15\u0000 August 1945 since the format’s earliest days in the 1960s. As this study of 15 August scenes in asadora shows, memory of the Asia-Pacific War in Japan changed considerably after the catastrophe of 3/11. By understanding the mechanisms of presenting this specific event in popular media,\u0000 it is also possible to shed light on the general practices of collective memory in Japan.","PeriodicalId":36135,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Journal of Popular Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45121982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Japan Now North festival report","authors":"K. Taylor-Jones","doi":"10.1386/eapc_00009_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00009_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36135,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Journal of Popular Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45682999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NHK’s morning drama (asadora) has been an important institution on Japanese television since the 1960s and is also known as ‘national drama’. This article discusses this media format in the context of rituals and nationhood: watching asadora has become an everyday ritual that can convey a sense of national unity, and the series functions as a ‘media ritual’ that naturalizes the concept of the Japanese nation, thereby also strengthening the symbolic power of the public broadcaster NHK. As the example of Hiyokko (2017) shows, the producers of this series evoke collective memory and nostalgia by depicting everyday culture and large, nationally charged events such as the 1964 Olympic Games. Reflecting on asadora can shed light on the political and ideological dimensions of seemingly ‘banal’ media products as well as provide more general insights into the development of television in times of social media and the disappearance of the ‘national’ TV audience.
{"title":"An everyday glimpse of the nation: NHK’s morning drama (asadora) and rituality","authors":"Elisabeth Scherer","doi":"10.1386/eapc_00003_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00003_1","url":null,"abstract":"NHK’s morning drama (asadora) has been an important institution on Japanese television since the 1960s and is also known as ‘national drama’. This article discusses this media format in the context of rituals and nationhood: watching asadora has become an everyday\u0000 ritual that can convey a sense of national unity, and the series functions as a ‘media ritual’ that naturalizes the concept of the Japanese nation, thereby also strengthening the symbolic power of the public broadcaster NHK. As the example of Hiyokko (2017) shows, the producers\u0000 of this series evoke collective memory and nostalgia by depicting everyday culture and large, nationally charged events such as the 1964 Olympic Games. Reflecting on asadora can shed light on the political and ideological dimensions of seemingly ‘banal’ media products as well as\u0000 provide more general insights into the development of television in times of social media and the disappearance of the ‘national’ TV audience.","PeriodicalId":36135,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Journal of Popular Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45994815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place, Youjeong Oh (2018) Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 252 pp., ISBN 978-1-50173-071-9, h/bk, $42.95
{"title":"Review","authors":"CedarBough T. Saeji","doi":"10.1386/eapc_00010_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00010_5","url":null,"abstract":"Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place, Youjeong Oh (2018) Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 252 pp., ISBN 978-1-50173-071-9, h/bk, $42.95","PeriodicalId":36135,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Journal of Popular Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49404921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The story of NHK’s morning drama (asadora) Massan (2014–2015) is loosely based on real events. It depicts the lives of the Japanese whisky pioneer Massan and his Scottish wife Ellie in pre- and post-war Japan. Ellie assimilates and grows into the role of a perfect Japanese ‘good wife and wise mother’, while Massan fulfils his dream and succeeds in producing the first authentic whisky made in Japan. Approaching the series’ narrative from the perspective of multiculturalism, I argue that the series falls into the trap of representing the heroine as a stereotypical foreigner, resembling figures who perform their otherness in Japanese TV shows. Furthermore, when one considers Massan’s whisky entrepreneurship as a symbol for Japan’s postwar economic success, the series reflects several tropes of national ideology such as the belief in a unique Japaneseness. Thus, I suggest that this morning drama establishes an imagined and exclusive national community for its audience, in which a serious discussion of multiculturalism and foreigners living in Japan remains absent.
{"title":"The Japanization of wife and whisky in NHK’s morning drama Massan","authors":"Timo Thelen","doi":"10.1386/eapc_00007_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00007_1","url":null,"abstract":"The story of NHK’s morning drama (asadora) Massan (2014–2015) is loosely based on real events. It depicts the lives of the Japanese whisky pioneer Massan and his Scottish wife Ellie in pre- and post-war Japan. Ellie assimilates and grows into the role of a perfect Japanese\u0000 ‘good wife and wise mother’, while Massan fulfils his dream and succeeds in producing the first authentic whisky made in Japan. Approaching the series’ narrative from the perspective of multiculturalism, I argue that the series falls into the trap of representing the heroine\u0000 as a stereotypical foreigner, resembling figures who perform their otherness in Japanese TV shows. Furthermore, when one considers Massan’s whisky entrepreneurship as a symbol for Japan’s postwar economic success, the series reflects several tropes of national ideology such as\u0000 the belief in a unique Japaneseness. Thus, I suggest that this morning drama establishes an imagined and exclusive national community for its audience, in which a serious discussion of multiculturalism and foreigners living in Japan remains absent.","PeriodicalId":36135,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Journal of Popular Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42398221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In-between with Kimberley Pace","authors":"S. Sommers","doi":"10.1386/eapc_00008_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00008_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36135,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Journal of Popular Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43342062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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