Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima / by Tamaki Mihic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mihic, Tamaki, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public opinion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 163 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2020

Acton, Australian Capital Territory : ANU Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

This book started as a PhD project under the supervision of Dr Rebecca Suter at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, from 2013 to 2016... generously funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award and was also supported by two grants from the School of Languages and Cultures, through the Postgraduate Research Support Scheme.

Summary:

"The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster (collectively referred to as ‘3.11’, the date of the earthquake), had a lasting impact on Japan’s identity and global image. In its immediate aftermath, mainstream media presented the country as a disciplined, resilient and composed nation, united in the face of a natural disaster. However, 3.11 also drew worldwide attention to the negative aspects of Japanese government and society, thought to have caused the unresolved situation at Fukushima.Spurred by heightened emotions following the triple disaster, the Japanese became increasingly polarised between these two views of how to represent themselves. How did literature and popular culture respond to this dilemma? Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima attempts to answer that question by analysing how Japan was portrayed in post-3.11 fiction. Texts are selected from the Japanese, English and French languages, and the portrayals are also compared with those from non-fiction discourse. This book argues that cultural responses to 3.11 had a significant role to play in re-imagining Japan after Fukushima."

Contents:

Introduction

1. Japan after Fukushima

2. Sustainable Japan

3. Oppressive Japan

4. Heterogenous Japan

5. (Still) Cool Japan

6. Exotic Japan

Conclusion.

Notes:

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781760463540

176046354X

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access