Between banality and effervescence?: a study of Japanese youth nationalism

Fukuoka, Kazuya

doi:10.1111/nana.12276

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“…35 As they distanced themselves from right-winger, revisionist narratives, it may be the case that they were just following the "feeling rule" (Hochschild, 1979) so that they could look level-headed (as opposed to irrational and/or emotional). 36 This also similarly corresponds to Fukuoka's (2017) analysis on youth nationalism where his interviewees stressed the Japanese fans' "more civilized manners" (as opposed to the Korean people's emotional demeanors) in international sporting events (pp. 359-360).…”

Section: Judging the Past: College Student Interviewmentioning

confidence: 60%

“…Five informants opted for "do not know / cannot decide"; one said he could not understand the meaning of the concepts. 20 This paper builds upon a series of studies conducted by Barry Schwartz and his colleagues that analyze national shame and pride by referring to socio-cultural and historical contexts in various societies, including the United States, Germany, Korea, and Japan (Fukuoka, 2017;Fukuoka and Schwartz, 2010;Schwartz et al, 2005;Schwartz and Heinrich, 2004;Schwartz and Kim, 2001). By replicating this so-called Judging the Past framework, McDonnell and Fine (2011) investigates pride and shame in national imagining among the youth in Ghana.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Judging the past: Memory, others, and intergenerational responsibility among the Japanese youth

Fukuoka

Takita‐Ishii

2021

Memory Studies

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The past continuously haunts Japan. It has been more than 75 years since the end of the last war and Japan has never fully reconciled with its Asian neighbors, especially China and South Korea, over the question of how to commemorate Japan’s past wrongs and atone for the physical as well as the psychological wounds it caused in Asia. In this context, also problematized is the question of intergenerational responsibility. Can the members of current generations feel responsibility and obligation to make restitution for wrongs perpetrated before they were born? If so, how? If not, why not? As it is reported that the Japanese public’s sense of affinity toward China and South Korea greatly deteriorated in the 2010s due to a series of memory disputes, it seems imperative to delve into the Japanese youth’s sense of the past. In this exploratory study, by following Barry Schwartz and his colleagues’ Judging the Past framework, we conducted college student surveys (N = 320) in 2017/2018 and interviews (N = 31) in 2017 and explored the cognitive connection between the Japanese youth’s sense of nation and their perceptions of moral responsibility for Japan’s militaristic past.

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Section: Judging the Past: College Student Interviewmentioning

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Judging the past: Memory, others, and intergenerational responsibility among the Japanese youth

Fukuoka

Takita‐Ishii

2021

Memory Studies

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“…Through the collective emotion fostered at these concerts, these symbols are charged with a certain narrative or a national mythology (Zubrzycki, 2011). While these symbols do not make them nationalistic in a political sense, it redefines and reproduces feelings of national fellowship (Fukuoka, 2017).…”

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‘Wear Clogs and just Act Normal’: Defining Collectivity in Dutch Domestic Music Concerts

2020

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The last few decades have seen a surge in the consumption of locally produced popular music in the West. Domestic music – music made by national artists and sung in the national language – has gained increasing popularity, specifically within the lower to middle-class segments of the native population. This article uses the Dutch music genre levenslied to explore this growing trend. From a neo-Durkheimian perspective, we can assume the presence of collective effervescence – a shared intensified mood drawn from collective assembly. However, it is less clear how this collectivity is brought about and experienced. In other words, what are the requirements for this state of effervescence to occur? Looking not only at the totems these concertgoers celebrate but also the established symbolic boundaries, can help us understand how the group defines itself, adding to our knowledge of the rise in popularity of domestic music. We interviewed 20 concertgoers about their experience of these concerts. The analysis finds that the establishment of collectivity is influenced by three symbolic boundaries: (1) intercultural, (2) interclass, and (3) intraclass. Through the negative othering of ethnic monitories – those considered socially higher, and those considered morally lower than themselves – the audiences of these concerts glorify a very narrow image of Dutchness, obtaining a sense of self-worth through the celebration of an idealized national image rooted in nostalgia. The increasing popularity of levenslied concerts (and domestic music more generally) can, therefore, be understood in relation to broader societal changes and connected with a ‘squeezed middle’ class, clinging to tradition and their declining social position.

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“…However, the decoupling of nation and politics is not absolute. Fukuoka (2017) finds that young Japanese who willingly display their nationalism by waving the hinomaru national flag at sporting events are perfectly aware of the flag's historical military associations, but they can consciously disavow these associations. This disavowal does not entirely strip the flag of its historical significance for these young people.…”

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“…Several writers have noted the rise in Japan of various forms of nationalism, including forms that decouple nationalism from Japan's military history and even from contemporary political issues (e.g. Fukuoka 2017;Kayama 2002;Kitada 2005;Sakamoto 2008;Sasada 2006).…”

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The contradictions of pop nationalism in the mangaGate: Thus the JSDF Fought There!

Martín

2018

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

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Though Japan's postwar constitution forbids maintaining the means of waging war, the Japanese Self Defense Force (JSDF) is one of the most powerful militaries in the world. This contradiction has become increasingly important in recent years as the JSDF has expanded its role and public profile, and as the state has moved closer to rewriting the constitution to allow for a more robust military policy. Alongside this military contradiction is a nationalistic one. The hypernationalism of the Pacific War left a general suspicion of overt nationalism amongst Japan's population, but in recent years casual forms of nationalism have emerged that decouple pride in national identity from political commitment. This article focuses on the manga Gate: Thus the JSDF Fought There! to unpack the relationship between nationalism and the JSDF's ambiguous position. In this manga Japan is invaded through a mysterious portal from a fantasy world, allowing the manga to depict the JSDF in combat. While the manga hews close to official JSDF self-representations, in attempting to show the JSDF at war the manga's images, characters and narrative foreground contradictions inherent in the JSDF and in Japanese forms of nationalism.

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Between banality and effervescence?: a study of Japanese youth nationalism

Cited by 11 publications

References 49 publications

Judging the past: Memory, others, and intergenerational responsibility among the Japanese youth

Judging the past: Memory, others, and intergenerational responsibility among the Japanese youth

‘Wear Clogs and just Act Normal’: Defining Collectivity in Dutch Domestic Music Concerts

The contradictions of pop nationalism in the mangaGate: Thus the JSDF Fought There!

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