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Diversity and Inclusion in Japanese Television Drama : Disability, Gender, Race, and Sexuality.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuwahara, Yasue.
- Series:
- New Studies in Modern Japan Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.
- Summary:
- Analyzes how Japanese dramas have portrayed gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and disability, revealing the cultural logics that shape who is included, how, and to what extent.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Imprint
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Introduction Diversity and Inclusion in Japan
- Diversity and Inclusion in Television Drama
- Compliance
- Sneak Preview
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- 1 Performing Diversity and Inclusion The Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics Ceremonies
- Diversity and Inclusion and the Preparation for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Scandals
- Tokyo Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies
- Tokyo Paralympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies
- Limited Diversity and Omitted Inclusion
- 2 Beyond the "Good Wife, Wise Mother" Gendered Expectations in Contemporary Japanese Drama
- Changes in the Dominant Images 1960-2010
- What's Going on With Men?
- Representations of Women Afer 2010
- Return of Home Drama Heroines
- Superwomen
- Lookism and Ageism
- Tokyo Dream vs. Rural Pessimism Dichotomy
- Bakarhythm Drama
- Conclusion
- Note
- 3 Queering the Home Negotiating LGBTQIA+ Identities in Japanese Media
- LGBTQIA+ Representation in Television Drama
- NHK
- Loveless Couple
- Prism
- She Wants to Cook, and She Wants to Eat
- Commercial Networks
- What Did You Eat Yesterday?
- Konya Sukiyaki Dayo
- Family Meal
- 4 The Reality of the "Other" Race, Multiculturalism, and Marginalization in Japan
- Japanese Perception of Race and Ethnicity
- Non-Japanese Representations in Television
- Kind-Hearted Cat
- Mixed Heritage in Mass Media
- Fence
- 5 Breaking the Medical Model Disability and the Pursuit of Futsu
- Disabilities in Japanese culture and media
- Supercrips
- Second disability drama boom
- Creation of ASD stereotypes
- A difcult world to live in
- Comparison with the 1990s
- NHK and social model
- The People I Loved Were My Family
- Conclusion.
- Notes
- Conclusion Updating Perceptions Diversity, Inclusion, and Compliance in Contemporary Japan
- Seken
- Family
- NHK vs. Commercial Networks
- Final Tought
- Appendix List of Television Dramas
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781978771833
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