A Roadmap to Millennial Japan
A Roadmap to Millennial Japan
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千禧一代日本的路线图
DOI:
10.1215/00382876-99-4-629
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发表时间:
2000
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通讯作者:
Tomiko Yoda
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作者:
Tomiko Yoda
This introductory essay aims to provide an overview of the context that brings together the articles in this issue: the ongoing discursive construction of Japan during the long economic downturn of the s. A huge volume of commentaries on the malaise afflicting Japan, unleashed particularly from the neoliberal and neonationalist camps, has fed into and shaped the impression of overall national doom. Against this backdrop, the present essay points out a significant degree of complicity between the Japanese neoliberals and neonationalists, despite their apparent disagreements on their attitudes toward economic globalization and the role of nation-states today. I examine some of the representative claims made by the two sides, analyzing the politics involved in their discursive manufacturing of the ‘‘crisis.’’ In the latter half of the essay I explore some theoretical frameworks through which to make sense of s Japan that counters the widespread tendency to isolate it both spatially and temporally. Instead of defining the s through the recession and its effects, I suggest examining the decade in relation to the