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{"title":"Re-Imagining Shakespeare in Contemporary Japan: A Selection of Japanese Theatrical Adaptations of Shakespeare","authors":"B. Thornbury","doi":"10.1080/10371397.2022.2138297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2022.2138297","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":44839,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"361 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48529425","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":"Patriarchal Traces in Japanese Girls’ Fiction: Beyond the Loss of the Father to Patriarchal Mothers and Resistant Daughters","authors":"Yoriko Kume, Helen Kilpatrick","doi":"10.1080/10371397.2022.2143334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2022.2143334","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As World War II ended and a new democratic society was beginning in Japan, significant changes were made to the patriarchal system, changes such as the recognition of women’s rights and the dismantling of the Japanese family system which in turn affected youth culture. Against this backdrop, particularly within the genre of shōjo shōsetsu (girls’ fiction), new representations of the father, mother and shōjo (girl) emerged. Portrayals reflected not only the loss of power experienced by patriarchal figures after the defeat, but also the rise of new patriarchal mothers and resistant daughters. This article traces how changes in depictions of patriarchal authority in the genre reflect not only masculine humiliation around the war defeat, but also a contemporaneous rise in mothers whose intervention in their daughters’ life decisions saw an increase in less compliant daughters. It demonstrates how, although post-war shōjo fiction was founded on the loss of the autocratic patriarch and has since struggled to depict a more co-operative family man, as reflected through the genre, the loss of the father figure also helped sow the seeds of new forms of womanhood, and of girlish resistance and independence. These elements reveal a continued fight for democratic freedoms in post-war Japan.","PeriodicalId":44839,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"227 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42855029","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":"Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea","authors":"Chizuko T. Allen","doi":"10.1080/10371397.2022.2138298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2022.2138298","url":null,"abstract":"fundraising campaign to establish the company. The launch of the project coincided with a sabbatical year Shimodate spent in England at the University of Cambridge, where he studied how to produce and direct Shakespearean plays. A principal feature of Shimodate’s translations and adaptations (including The new Romeo and Juliet) is his use of the local Tohoku (northeast Japan) dialect – and a feature of his productions is ‘actors who [can] speak both standardized Japanese and the Tohoku dialect’ (31). For Shimodate, using Tohoku speech is necessary ‘to express a deeper and broader interpretation of Shakespeare’s world’ and ‘to create a new slant on Shakespeare’s plays both in Japan and abroad’ (32). The new Romeo and Juliet was staged for the first time beginning in November 2012 at various locations in northeast Japan that had yet to recover from the March 2011 triple disasters. The play was part of Shimodate’s newly conceived ‘Hot Spring Trilogy’, three adaptations of Shakespeare ‘whose main purpose’, as translator Fumiaki Konno writes, ‘was to bolster through entertainment the spirits of people in the areas devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake . . . [T]he three adaptations share three features: they are comedies, depict no death and are located in a hot spring setting’ (223). The two other plays in the trilogy were based on King Lear and The merchant of Venice. The translated adaptations and supporting material that make up Re-imagining Shakespeare in contemporary Japan amply fulfill the book’s aim ‘to introduce, contextualize and also reconsider the history and current practice of translating and adapting Shakespeare in Japan’ (1). As the example of The Shakespeare Company Japan’s The new Romeo and Juliet vividly illustrates, innovative approaches to the presentation of Shakespearean dramas are neither limited to artists working in major urban centers nor to artists working in circumstances that are ideal for cultural production. When asked about the future of his northeastJapan-based theatre company, Shimodate has movingly said: ‘I would like to build a theatre in Tohoku and . . . I would like to give children the chance to learn about the lingua franca that is Shakespeare and about dialects. Theatres in Tokyo have an urban character; I would like [my] theatre in Tohoku to be down-to-earth and filled with human warmth’ (234).","PeriodicalId":44839,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"363 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49276107","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":"Death, Dreams and Democracy: A Shōjo-Ecofeminist Lens on Awa Naoko’s Post-War Fiction","authors":"Helen Kilpatrick","doi":"10.1080/10371397.2022.2136632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2022.2136632","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Awa Naoko’s (1943–1993) folkloric fantasy for young people arose during a time of rapid post-war industrial and economic development in Japan. The pollution arising from this development generated an awareness of environmental degradation at the same time as there was a growing consciousness of the failed promises of gender equality. While Awa’s fantasies represent an instinctively eco-conscious rejection of the urban material world, their girl protagonists imaginatively subvert the systems which implicitly operate to marginalise them (and nature). As Awa’s animistic stories on nature and death mostly involve girls, my investigation combines ecofeminist and shōjo (girl) studies’ perspectives to explore these elements in two particular narratives, Shiroi ōmu no mori (The forest of white cockatoos) and Nagai haiiro no sukāto (The long grey skirt). Taking the narratives as a prescient denunciation of anthropocentric dualisms whose concepts and structures oppress both nature and women, it indicates how the behaviour of girl protagonists exposes both the tragedy of humanity’s separation from the natural world and constraints upon feminised concepts. It also reads the narratives as a shōjo-esque resistance to real-world restrictions, and demonstrates this resistance as an eco-conscious ethic of care against a more socially-inscribed (masculinist) utilitarian ethic.","PeriodicalId":44839,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"277 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44539383","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":"Shōjo Sexuality in Post-War Japan: Parody and Subversion in Kurahashi Yumiko’s Divine Maiden","authors":"Letizia Guarini","doi":"10.1080/10371397.2022.2134098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2022.2134098","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Love, sex and marriage are recurrent themes in Kurahashi Yumiko’s literature, especially in her early works. In the novel Divine maiden (1965) she approached those topics from a different perspective, through the form of shōjo shōsetsu (girl’s fiction): she even went so far as to define Divine maiden as ‘the last shōjo shōsetsu’. The protagonist of this novel is a young girl, Miki: the story revolves around Miki’s incestuous relationship with her father, as it is depicted in her three diaries, read by a male narrator. Even though incest is a recurrent theme in Kurahashi’s work, it has been pointed out that the incestuous relationship between father and daughter could be considered shōjo shōsetsu’s grand finale. However, not much attention has been paid to the relationship between Divine maiden and shōjo shōsetsu as a literary genre; moreover, the meaning of love, sex and marriage in the novel has been left unexplored. This paper aims to analyse the girl’s sexuality depicted in Divine maiden in the context of post-war Japan’s junketsu kyōiku (‘purity education’); through an analysis of Miki’s diaries, I will explore the way Kurahashi has parodied the concept of ‘democracy’ in relation to the ideal of ‘pure love’.","PeriodicalId":44839,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"339 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43282019","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":"Graph Youth and the Japanese Communist Party Youth Movement circa 1960: The Image of ‘Democracy’","authors":"T. Shimamura","doi":"10.1080/10371397.2022.2117689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2022.2117689","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1950, Cominform (the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers’ Parties) criticised the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) for promoting ‘peaceful revolution’ under the Allied Occupation. The critique led to the so-called ‘1950 issue’, a period beset by ideological divisions, in which the JCP split, with one faction continuing to support ‘peaceful revolution’ and the other siding with Cominform’s views. Nuyama Hiroshi founded the magazine Gurafu wakamono (Graph Youth) in 1958 after a temporary respite to the 1950 issue. The magazine was aimed at the young people of Japan, and ran until 1971. Nuyama was regarded as an authority on cultural issues within the JCP and, in addition to being the first editor-in-chief of Gurafu wakamono, he led the ‘Dance for Dance’s Sake’ movement, sometimes referred to as the ‘Singing and Dancing Communist Party’. In 1966, during the lifetime of the magazine, Nuyama’s ideological differences regarding the Cultural Revolution in China led to his excommunication from the Communist Party. Drawing on material from the magazine itself, this article examines the democratic ideology promulgated by Gurafu wakamono and its successor magazine, also edited by Nuyama, with particular emphasis on editions published in the late 1950s and early 1960s.","PeriodicalId":44839,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"323 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44895185","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 Relationship between Yakyū (Baseball) and Militarism: Baseball Discourse in Japanese Shōnen (Boys’) Culture","authors":"Takayuki Ōhashi","doi":"10.1080/10371397.2022.2110048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2022.2110048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyses the popular post-war boys’ baseball manga Kyojin no Hoshi, to highlight how pre-war militaristic values were carried over into post-war Japanese sports. Militarism in pre-war Japan was underpinned by bushidō, a set of beliefs that idealised the values upheld by samurai, and which greatly influenced Japan’s pre-war physical education system. While post-war Japan achieved democratisation in many ways, the democratic transformation in sports after the war was much slower. For this reason, elements of military training that were included in sports training prior to the war continued to be emphasised in the post-war era. This article uses examples taken from Star of the Giants to highlight this phenomenon, as well as the broader connection between manga and cultural context. It also touches upon cultural representations of fathers and the male gender in post-war Japanese boys’ fiction.","PeriodicalId":44839,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"243 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41709365","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 Language Learning and Teaching During COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities","authors":"Levi Durbidge, Gwyn McClelland","doi":"10.1080/10371397.2022.2072821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2022.2072821","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44839,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47015680","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":"Dis/Embodying Fieldwork in Japan","authors":"Erika R. Alpert","doi":"10.1080/10371397.2022.2072820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2022.2072820","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44839,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42253541","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":"International Sports Diplomacy in Action – An Investigation of AUS+RALLY: An Australian Sports Diplomacy Campaign in Japan","authors":"Alexander. R. Best, Ian Austin","doi":"10.1080/10371397.2022.2096581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2022.2096581","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As exercised by the recent Tokyo 2020 Olympics and 2020 Paralympics, both delayed until 2021 due to COVID-19 conditions, sports diplomacy is shifting, from emergence as a concept, toward empirical legitimacy. Extant literature has allowed scholars to clearly establish the factors constituting sports diplomacy, which has culminated in the sports diplomacy model proposed by Abdi and colleagues. This study examines the sports diplomacy model through a qualitative investigation of an operational Australian sports diplomacy campaign, AUS+RALLY, within the context of Japan. The evident conformity of the extant sports diplomacy model with the AUS+RALLY campaign represents an important step for sports diplomacy scholarship, and the case utilised provides critical insights into the conduct of sports diplomacy activities and suggests enhancements to the extant sports diplomacy model.","PeriodicalId":44839,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"111 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41805175","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}