Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2023.2178884
Celeste L. Arrington, Mark R. Bookman
Abstract The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games provided Japanese stakeholders opportunities to pressure policymakers to pass reforms, including measures to improve accessibility. However, the Games alone are not sufficient to explain the scope and consequences of recent accessibility reforms. We argue that researchers must also consider the impact of historical contingencies such as decades of activism for accessibility by affected parties (tōjisha), the 3/11 ‘triple disaster,’ and Japan’s 2014 ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to understand how disabled persons’ organizations were able to leverage the Games to influence reforms. Drawing on government records, news media reports, and documents from disability advocacy organizations, we unpack several causal mechanisms that linked activism for accessibility to policy changes and thereby contribute to studies of minority social movements and policymaking in Japan. Our analysis of accessibility initiatives documents a ‘legalistic turn’ in Japanese governance, characterized by more formal rules and enforcement mechanisms. While the implementation of those initiatives was hampered by scarcity of human and material resources as well as the spread of COVID-19, they nevertheless improved accessibility for many individuals and encouraged conversations about equity and inclusion that persist into the present.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2023.2191839
Masaki Shibata
ABSTRACT Hard news is often assumed to be ‘objective’ and ‘factual’, with little or no trace of a ‘subjective’ authorial point of view. However, what is often forgotten is that journalists still choose what information to divulge, and how to communicate that information. This article explores how whaling news is presented in Japanese hard news reports, examining the types of ‘voices’ quoted and how these voices are presented. Analysing 176 quotations from 33 news articles published between 2014 and 2018 on news relating to controversies over Japan’s whaling policy in relation to the International Whaling Commission’s 2014 ban on whaling, this article found that in most cases, pro-whaling voices (43%) are quoted far more frequently than anti-whaling voices (24%). However, in news reports on Japan’s resumption of whaling in 2015, pro-whaling voices became completely absent, because the Japanese journalists chose to quote foreign external voices that reject a pro-whaling point of view. Japanese journalists also incorporated emotional statements from local residents and fishermen in order to dramatise the issue and seek sympathy for those whose livelihood was threatened by the whaling ban.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-31DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2022.2141215
D. Miyao
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2022.2138299
T. Aoyama, B. Hartley
This special issue examines representations and constructions of youth and democracy in literature, film, manga and other media aimed at, or featuring, children and young adults in the post-war period. How did the introduction of the new Constitution, freedom, equality, and democracy affect youth culture? How did writers, directors, artists, editors and readers or viewers deal with the defeat and the subsequent socio-economic and political changes? What kinds of media and activities were developed to disseminate the literature of the new era? Was there unambiguous discontinuity at the end of the war? Or is continuity evident in some aspects of the production, distribution, and reception of culture for young people? In other words, to what extent were the new policies – lauded by the post-war Constitution but often imposed in blunt-instrument fashion by Occupation authorities – resisted or at least modified for local hearts and minds by young and old alike? As Kenko Kawasaki and Laura Clark note in their contribution, furthermore, through disdain for popular culture – precisely the culture that appealed to the young – even ‘progressive intellectuals’ in the post-war era ‘failed to recognise’ those ‘elements of pre-war modernisation’ that were distinctly ‘separate from the post-war influence of the United States’ (Kawasaki and Clark, this issue). Each article in its own way scrutinises these critical issues of continuity and discontinuity, in addition to convention and innovation, while also considering the socio-cultural and political con-texts operating in the specific genres and texts presented. The project was initiated as a triple-panel for the 20th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia held at the University of Wollongong in 2017, the year that marked the seventieth anniversary of Japan’s post-war Constitution coming into effect. Under the conference theme of ‘Debating Democracy in Japan’, participants were invited to consider ‘the constitutional and legal system, democracy and civil society, the political economy of post-war Japan and the cultural imagining and reimagining of Japanese society over this period’. 1 As a group of researchers whose main field is literary studies, our panels aimed to contribute to the discussion of the
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2022.2134100
Kawasaki Kenko, Laura Emily Clark
Abstract Histories of democracy in modern Japan often position ‘democracy’ itself as an elite, introduced, inorganic facet of post-defeat Japan’s reconstruction by outside influences. However, analysis of discourses and texts prior to this revisionist narrative reveal a much more complex and continuous intellectual history at play. Ishizaka Yōjirō’s (1900–1986) run-away hit Aoi sanmyaku (Blue mountain range, 1947) was a timely and highly influential serialised work in The Asahi Shimbun, which was quickly republished as a novel and then adapted into a massively successful film in 1949. In this discussion the work both uses and challenges a feudalism versus democracy binary, and reveals strong intellectual continuities between prewar and post-war thinking regarding modernity. The work also challenges the positioning of relationships between school-age male and female students as a symbol of democracy and modernism in this era. Through Ishizaka’s use of debate and humour, this work is not an account of the failings of democracy, or its success, but rather an exploration of the tensions that emerge with attempts to implement these discourses.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2022.2136064
B. Sewell
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2022.2134099
B. Hartley
Abstract This article examines notions of democracy in the writing of post-war literary identity, Nakai Hideo (1922–1993). Although Nakai is known as a fantasy novelist, tanka poet/editor and essayist, the focus text here is Kanata yori (From afar), a diary produced during the final stages of the war. Entries were largely written while the future literary identity worked as a mobilised student in the Ichigaya offices of the Imperial Army General Staff Headquarters. Audaciously, given the writer’s war-time role, the work was scathingly critical of the military policies of the time. While written in wartime, the diary was not published until 1971. This situates the work squarely in the politico-literary space of the post-war era. Furthermore, the diarist undoubtedly longs for a future without the militarist authorities. Brief reference is also made to a 1969 fantasy text, 'Kokuchō-tan' (Odyssey of the Black Swan), which features a young twenty-something protagonist whom Nakai identified as his own young post-war self. Both works present as fertile territory for an investigation of youth and democracy in post-war Japan.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2022.2134097
T. Aoyama
Abstract Ishii Momoko (1907–2008) is arguably the most important and influential figure in Japanese children’s literature, not only as a prolific and award-winning writer and translator, but also as an editor of important series, a critic, and a pioneer of the children’s library movement. This article examines the significance of humour in her works, especially her acclaimed novel for children, Non-chan kumo ni noru (Little Non rides on the clouds, 1947), and its relationships with gender and democracy. The article first outlines Ishii’s activities in the pre-war, wartime, post-war and later periods, and the centrality of humour throughout her life. Despite the critical acclaim and popularity of her works, humour in Non-chan has been neglected in humour studies and studies of children’s literature. Through a detailed analysis of the quantity and quality of laughter in Non-chan, I argue that Ishii has skilfully depicted various functions of humour, including expression and sharing of merriment, consolation and diversion, healing, revelation, derision, protest and revolt. As Tsurumi Shunsuke (2001) theorised, humour has the potential to communicate with a diverse range of people and find democratic, non-violent solutions to what look like dark, desperate situations.
摘要石井莫莫子（1907–2008）可以说是日本儿童文学中最重要、最有影响力的人物，他不仅是一位多产、获奖的作家和翻译家，还是重要系列的编辑、评论家和儿童图书馆运动的先驱。本文探讨了幽默在她的作品中的意义，尤其是她广受好评的儿童小说《Non-chan kumo ni noru》（《小Non骑在云端》，1947），以及它与性别和民主的关系。文章首先概述了石井在战前、战时、战后和后期的活动，以及幽默在她一生中的中心地位。尽管她的作品在评论界广受好评，但在幽默研究和儿童文学研究中，《农》中的幽默却一直被忽视。通过对《Non-chan》中笑的数量和质量的详细分析，我认为石井巧妙地描绘了幽默的各种功能，包括欢乐的表达和分享、安慰和消遣、治愈、启示、嘲笑、抗议和反抗。正如Tsurumi Shunsuke（2001）所理论的那样，幽默有可能与各种各样的人交流，并为看似黑暗、绝望的情况找到民主、非暴力的解决方案。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2022.2138297
B. Thornbury
writing in this style of poetry in early post-war era publications as a means of atoning for Japan’s aggression in China and elsewhere. Some of them had prewar connections with China, which illustrates again the through-line common to all of the contributions to this volume. Prewar Japanese appear in the early post-war histories of all the countries of East and Southeast Asia, as do former colonial subjects in post-war Japan’s history, and the ironic dynamics and often ephemeral connections that emerged make for interesting or titillating classroom asides. Yet assembling some of these histories together into a single volume throws a spotlight on the chaos and wonder of this milieu, even if this volume only scratches the surface. More was going on, and only some are mentioned in the volume’s footnotes. Kushner is right – as the Japanese imperial state collapsed, a host of local and regional initiatives did emerge, leading not only to a winding down of the war, but to a ramping up of widespread and individual efforts to seize the new day, seeking to take advantage of aid from distant lands in order to help cement their gains, whatever the cost. In the introduction’s conclusion, Kushner goes so far as to suggest that this volume helps explain how the efforts outlined here ‘set the stage for unexpected intraregional alliances and relations, as well as animosities, in the early years of the Cold War’ and asserts that it ‘will put postimperial history and the process of decolonization back at the forefront of the postwar narrative’ (22). The former is certainly true, and, given the growing interest in transwar and transnational studies in general of late, the latter assertion is likely to prove correct as well. As the varied initiatives in the wake of empire’s fall across this region merit closer scrutiny, this is a book that libraries should have on their shelves if their curriculum includes courses on modern Asian history, along with other work stemming from the European Research Council funded project awarded to Dr Kushner that enabled this publication.
以这种风格的诗歌在战后早期的出版物中写作，作为日本对中国和其他地方的侵略的一种赎罪手段。他们中的一些人在战前与中国有联系，这再次说明了本卷所有贡献的共同之处。战前的日本人出现在所有东亚和东南亚国家的战后早期历史中，就像战后日本历史上的前殖民地一样，具有讽刺意味的动态和经常出现的短暂联系使得课堂上的趣谈有趣或令人兴奋。然而，将这些历史汇集成一本书，即使这本书只触及表面，也能让人们关注到这个环境的混乱和奇迹。更多的事情正在发生，只有一些在该书的脚注中被提及。库什纳是对的——随着日本帝国的崩溃，一系列地方和地区倡议确实出现了，不仅导致了战争的逐渐结束，而且导致了广泛的和个人的努力，以抓住新的一天，寻求利用来自遥远国度的援助，以帮助巩固他们的成果，不惜一切代价。在引言的结论中，库什纳甚至暗示，本书有助于解释这里概述的努力是如何“在冷战初期为意想不到的区域内联盟和关系以及敌意奠定了基础”，并断言它“将把后帝国历史和非殖民化进程重新置于战后叙事的最前沿”(22)。前者当然是正确的，而且，鉴于最近人们对跨国界和跨国研究的兴趣日益浓厚，后一种说法很可能也被证明是正确的。随着帝国的衰落，该地区的各种举措值得更仔细地审视，如果图书馆的课程中包括现代亚洲历史课程，以及欧洲研究理事会(European Research Council)资助的库什纳博士项目的其他研究成果，那么这本书就应该放在书架上。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2022.2136063
P. Altbach
Minister to dissolve Parliament, and the issue of human rights in the Japanese Constitution are still relevant today. The Japanese Prime Minister must still act with caution in the light of sensitive party factional balances in considering when to go to an election. The human rights issues, notably freedom of speech, remain a problem more generally in Japanese society today (see Stockwin & Ampiah, 2017, for insights into this contemporary issue). The volume tells us much about David Sissons, the man and the scholar. A gentle and shy person, who did not chase personal fame or reputation, he was nevertheless dogged in his pursuit of the facts which would help answer the research problems he had posed. Probably best known today for this path-breaking historical research on the Australia–Japan relationship in its many avenues, Sissons was a familiar face at the Australian Archives reading room in Canberra for many years, where he would always provide advice to those who were trying to find their way around government documents and the associated complexities of the bilateral Australia–Japan relationship. Sissons’ important research, which has been brought to the light again in these volumes, reminds us of the quiet influence he had within the discipline over the many years when he was at the ANU, the relevance his research continues to have for scholars today, and the further impact that his collected papers at the National Library are likely to have into the future as they are accessed by other scholars.
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