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Intercultural Communication in Japan: Theorizing Homogenizing Discourse book cover

1st Edition

Intercultural Communication in Japan Theorizing Homogenizing Discourse

Edited By Satoshi Toyosaki, Shinsuke Eguchi Copyright 2017
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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Japan is heterogeneous and culturally diverse, both historically through ancient waves of immigration and in recent years due to its foreign relations and internationalization. However, Japan has socially, culturally, politically, and intellectually constructed a distinct and homogeneous identity. More recently, this identity construction has been rightfully questioned and challenged by Japan’s... Read more

Introduction: Intercultural Communication in Japan

Satoshi Toyosaki and Shinsuke Eguchi

Part I: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body

    1. The Affective Politics of the Feminine: An Interpassive Analysis of Japanese Female Comedians

      2. Sachi Sekimoto and Yusaku Yajima

    2. "It’s a Wonderful Single Life.": Constructions and Representations of Female Singleness in Japan’s Contemporary Josei Dorama

      3. Emi Kanemoto and Kristie Collins

    3. The Shifting Gender Landscape of Japanese Society

      4. Justin Charlebois

      Part II: Performance and Queerness

    4. Japanese Male-Queer Femininity: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Matsuko Deluxe as an Onē-Kei Talent

      5. Shinsuke Eguchi

    5. Bleach in Color: Unpacking Gendered, Queered, and Raced Performances in Anime

      6. Reslie Cortes

      Part III: Inclusiveness and Otherness

    6. The Discursive Pushes and Pulls of J-pop and K-pop in Taiwan: Cultural Homogenization and Identity Co-Optation

      7. Hsun-Yu (Sharon) Chuang

    7. ‘Hating Korea’ (Kenkan) in Postcolonial Japan

      8. Andre Haag

    8. Japan’s Internationalization: A Dialectics of Orientalism and Hybridism

      9. Satoshi Toyosaki and Eric Forbush

      Part IV: Media and Movement

    9. Ishihara Shintaro’s Manga Moral Panic: The Homogenizing Rhetoric of Japanese Nationalism

      10. Lucy J. Miller

    10. mixi and an Imagined Boundary of Japan

      11. Ryuta Komaki

      Part V: Environment and Movement

    11. Historicization of Cherry Blossoms: A Study of Japan’s Homogenizing Discourses

      12. Takuya Sakurai

    12. Alternative vs. Conventional: Dialectic Relations of the Organic Agriculture Discourse

Saki Ichihara Fomsgaard

　

Biography

Satoshi Toyosaki is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.

Shinsuke Eguchi is an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico, USA.

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