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{"title":"The women in men’s grooming: reproducing heteronormative gender relations through the body in contemporary Japan","authors":"Christopher Tso","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2021.1878256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2021.1878256","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article investigates the role women play in men’s everyday grooming practices in contemporary Japan. The past few decades have seen increasing scrutiny of men’s bodies with rising standards said to be in response to women’s supposed desires. Yet research has thus far focused primarily on cultural representations such as pop idols or models, leaving our understandings of men’s lived, everyday bodily experiences largely unexplored. Addressing this gap, I employ an ethnographic approach by drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with thirty-three heterosexual Japanese men of various marital statuses and ask how heteronormative imperatives of appealing to women inform men’s understandings of their bodies. Working under a common-sense assumption that women are particularly sensitive to men’s bodies, the single participants reported greater attention to bodily grooming in order to attract women in intimate, romantic situations. Meanwhile, married men rely on or are doted upon by their wives in relation to their grooming thus reinforcing orthodox gender roles. Although male grooming may appear to subvert orthodox gender norms according to which men should be disinterested in bodily care, these findings underscore how orthodox, heteronormative gender ideology is in fact reproduced through men’s bodies, thanks in large part to women’s role therein.","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"34 1","pages":"545 - 567"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09555803.2021.1878256","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41714652","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":"Towards a global copyright law: Japan’s involvement in the prewar international copyright negotiations","authors":"M. Hartmann","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2020.1866053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2020.1866053","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the mutual agency of Japanese state and non-state in shaping international copyright in the prewar period. Despite having joined the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in 1899, Japan’s state delegates – who were advised by publishers, translators and legal scholars – used the international revision conferences of the Convention to boycott the efforts of the international copyright community to harmonize global copyright protection and further extend the protection of rights. During the 1920s, the newly established League of Nations and its expert organizations became in charge of regulating copyright protection and provided a new platform for Japanese publishers and other private actors to share their demands with the international community and thereby to directly intervene in the process of expanding global copyright protection. The analysis of the cooperation between Japanese state and non-state actors demonstrate the crucial role that Japan’s private industry actors played as agents of change not only in Japan, but in the development of global copyright norms.","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"34 1","pages":"601 - 623"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09555803.2020.1866053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45625562","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":"Japanese peace diplomacy on Cambodia and the Okinawa reversion issue, 1970","authors":"Andrea Pressello","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2020.1863446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2020.1863446","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Why, in May 1970, did Japan participate – for the first time in the post-World War II era – in an international conference for the resolution of a conflict? Cold War-era Japan has often been described as shying away from involvement in international political affairs, especially in Asia, where memories of Japanese wartime aggression were still rankling. Yet, in 1970, when conflict erupted in Cambodia, Tokyo made its debut at a multilateral peacemaking endeavour: a conference bringing Asian and Pacific countries together in Jakarta to tackle the Cambodian problem. It is also puzzling that despite domestic opposition to the dispatch of a Japanese delegation to Jakarta, Prime Minister Eisaku Satō’s government went ahead with Japanese attendance there. This article draws on declassified diplomatic documents in its investigation of the circumstances behind that unprecedented development in Japanese diplomacy. The findings reveal that amid the changes in Asia triggered by Washington’s new policy of reduced engagement in the region, a more confident Japan was acting for peace in Cambodia, seeking not only to assume a larger regional role, but also to ensure the smooth realisation of two priority agendas of the Satō administration: the Okinawa reversion and the automatic extension of the Japan-U.S. security treaty.","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"35 1","pages":"218 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09555803.2020.1863446","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46201495","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":"Sustainability, accessibility, and community: a collaborative model of Japanese music in American higher education","authors":"Garrett Groesbeck","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2020.1861060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2020.1861060","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although Japan Studies have been widely established in American higher education, the field of Japanese music is a particular outlier, with the majority of ensembles established since the 1960s having eventually gone defunct. In contrast, other world music ensembles facing ostensibly similar challenges have flourished and grown in number, most notably various forms of Indonesian gamelan. Although this may appear to be the result of uniquely American factors, considerations of the peripheral status of traditional Japanese music within Japan itself indicate the complex and multifaceted nature of sustainability issues for such ensembles. Columbia University’s gagaku/hōgaku program provides a model for cooperative support of Japanese music education between area studies and music departments. Referring to Catherine Grant and Huib Schippers’ well-developed framework for considering sustainability issues in world music, and drawing from extensive experience teaching and observing traditional Japanese music education in a variety of contexts, this analysis of the model at Columbia provides a new lens for exploring Japanese cultural identity and its relationship to institutional structures. It also offers insight into the significance of broader cultural interest in students’ decisions to study the music of a particular area or time period.","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"34 1","pages":"181 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09555803.2020.1861060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47801697","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":"‘That’s really nonsense!’: The gendered ‘common sense’ of knowledge production in postwar Japan","authors":"C. Schieder","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2020.1849358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2020.1849358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09555803.2020.1849358","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42205122","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":"On more-than-human labor: revisiting Japan’s ecological modernity and the politics and ethics of interspecies entanglements","authors":"Keisuke Yamada","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2020.1857817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2020.1857817","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article contributes to the discussion of the concept of ecological modernity in the context of Japanese studies. This concept generally describes modern political tactics to draw a distinction between the human and the nonhuman, reconfiguring the former’s place in and relationship with the natural world. My study focuses on the human-silkworm relation and different forms of labor in the Japanese sericulture industry from the late nineteenth century to the present. Looking closely at this specific form of interspecies relationality, I explore the extent to which the physical labor of jokō (female workers) and the metabolic labor of silkworms are together controlled and maintained by political means at a national level. Revisiting Japan’s ecological modernity from this perspective, I argue, helps reveal the state’s exploitative attitude toward both human and natural resources in more nuanced ways. The ethical and political dimension of my genealogical work also includes an attempt to raise ecological awareness about our symbiotic coexistence, as we are ineluctably bound up or entangled with others, human and nonhuman alike.","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"34 1","pages":"624 - 648"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09555803.2020.1857817","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44249518","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":"The eugenic border control: organized abortions on repatriated women, 1945–48","authors":"Y. Matsubara","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2020.1831575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2020.1831575","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aim of this article is to provide a fuller picture of the organized abortions on Japanese female repatriates that took place within the repatriate medical relief under occupation of the GHQ. It also analyzes how the government carried out illegal abortions prior to the de facto legalization of abortion by the Eugenic Protection Law of 1948. This article suggests that the government justified abortions for societal reasons, such as rape, or for eugenic reasons, which were illegal at the time, by broadening the interpretation of caring for the mother’s health and treating societal and eugenic reasons as medical reasons. In so doing, the paper examines the issues of historical continuity and discontinuity in Japan’s modern history.","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"33 1","pages":"318 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09555803.2020.1831575","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42690492","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":"Book review","authors":"Christopher P. Hood","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2020.1776754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2020.1776754","url":null,"abstract":"Too few academics study sports. As I know from my own experience of writing an undergraduate dissertation about the creation of the J.League and the plans to host the 2002 World Cup in Japan, many are happy to deride sports as not a serious subject, and that is part of the reason why I have yet to return to doing much work in this area. Yet, as Kelly (p.1) notes, ‘sports are far more than fun and games’. Kelly’s study, therefore, is a very welcome addition to the field. The first thing to consider in relation to the book, is who is it for? Is it for academics (and if so, which discipline)? Is it for sports fans? Is it specifically for Hanshin Tigers fans? Of course, these three readerships (and there may be others) are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, as an academic who likes a variety of sports and who has been supporting Hanshin Tigers for nearly 30 years, the book particularly appealed to me. I have been looking forward to its publication since I was aware of its development, having heard Kelly give a presentation at Oxford Brookes back in 2011. It’s been a long wait and the issue of timing is one of the issues that any reader needs to be aware of when reaching for this book. Even when Kelly gave that paper, some 8 years had passed since he had completed the last of eight main fieldwork trips to Japan, having started the work in 1996. Does this mean that the book is out of date, therefore? I would say most certainly not – so long as you approach it in the right frame of mind. After all, the reality is that many academic studies can become dated in some form soon after publication, regardless of when fieldwork has been done. But most will have lessons for readers, even if there have been some significant changes (as applies in this study, which Kelly addresses in the final chapter which based on additional research done in the years since 2003). During much of the time that Kelly conducted his fieldwork, and most of the years prior to that, Hanshin Tigers were not a successful team. In fact, they often finished bottom of the League. Kelly admits (p.21) that when he began his research he was ‘fixated on and somewhat blinded by this apparent thematic of failure’. But, Kelly, through his fieldwork, came to appreciate that Hanshin Tigers is more than a matter of performance in the Central League standings. Given how many times Kelly presses home the poor performance of the Tigers over the decades, I find it somewhat ironic that in years I have been supporting them, the Tigers have been the most successful of the three professional sports teams I support (Cincinnati Bengals have only been to one Super Bowl, which they lost, and","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"33 1","pages":"445 - 447"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09555803.2020.1776754","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45147568","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":"War in the camphor zone: Indigenous resistance to colonial capitalism in upland Taiwan, 1895–1915","authors":"Toulouse-Antonin Roy","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2020.1794931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2020.1794931","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Between 1895 and 1915, Japanese police and military forces invaded Taiwan’s Indigenous highlands for control of camphor. At the dawn of the twentieth century, camphor crystals were a vital natural resource used in the production of celluloid, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals. The consequences of this single commodity were far-reaching, as Japanese pacification armies shelled and burned Indigenous villages to the ground, forcibly relocated tens of thousands, and killed both resistance fighters and innocent civilians. This article examines patterns of frontier warfare in upland Taiwan, with a focus on the Japanese colonial state’s confrontations with the northeastern Atayal peoples (also spelled ‘Dayan’). Despite severe material disadvantages and continuous assaults on their communities, Atayal peoples fought back against the violence of dispossession, frustrating the economic designs of a major empire with numerically superior armies and advanced firepower. In revisiting this history, this article hopes to shed light on the dynamics of resistance, strategic accommodation, and conquest that defined relations between expanding capitalist states, their industries, and Indigenous peoples at the height of the imperialist era.","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"34 1","pages":"333 - 354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09555803.2020.1794931","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41375040","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":"The pleasure of dark places: heterotopia in Mishima Yukio’s Inochi urimasu (Life for Sale)","authors":"Stephen Dodd","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2020.1791229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2020.1791229","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09555803.2020.1791229","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49481088","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}