220 research outputs found
THE DYNAMICS OF A DUO: PERCEPTIONS AND REFLECTIONS OF GENDER, NATIONALITY, AND IDENTITY IN YAMAMURA MISA
No full textWriting throughout the 1970s and 80s, Japanese detective author Yamamura Misa represents an important transitional moment in the renaissance of female detective writers. Her works anticipate progressive ideas of gender and the critical power of detective fiction found in later authors such as Miyabe Miyuki and Kirino Natuso. Yamamura uses an American protagonist in her Katherine series to examine how the rhetoric of nihonjinron is consciously applied and unconsciously absorbed both within literature and by those who consume it. By examining how characters use social norms to manipulate one another, Yamamura encourages the reader to consider how nationalistic and sexists ideologies operate unseen in Japanese society, and she offers particular insight into shifting Japanese social norms during an era of increasing globalization and cultural influence. I discuss how Yamamura's depictions of an American girl in Japan encourage readers to justify and perhaps modify their own perceptions of gender and nationality on both sides of the Pacific, and demonstrate that Yamamura represents a generation of female detective authors that have the potential to expand our understanding of the development of Japanese detective fiction as a whole
Yamamura Bochō: Of Prisms and Clouds
No full textMainly remembered as an author of poetry in non-traditional forms (shi)—his most famous effort being a highly experimental (and controversial) collection titled The Holy Prism (Seisanryōhari 聖三稜玻璃, 1915)—Yamamura Bochō (1884–1924) was a writer of aphorisms, novels, and children’s literature. He was also a Christian minister and missionary, another aspect that sets him apart from contemporary Japanese practitioners of poetry. Despite their relatively low canonization, Bochō’s works appear, in the context of Japanese modern poetry, as exemplary in many ways. They reflect some of the tensions that traversed the Japanese cultural feld in the early decades of the twentieth century: between art and religion, symbolism and naturalism, urban centers and provincial peripheries, and “Western” and “Oriental” aesthetics and thought
Dynamite Against the Bundan: Fantasies of Empowerment and Violence in the Writings of Yamamura Bochō
No full textThis study investigates the strategies of empowerment within the literary field that were adopted by Yamamura Bochō (1884-1924), an author of shi
(poetry in non-traditional forms) who ephemerally came to the fore of the Japanese literary scene (bundan) with the collection "Seisanryōhari"
(The Holy Prism), published in 1915. It is focused on Bochō's articulation of a fantasy of empowerment by destruction and regeneration: such tropes are similar to the rhetorical strategies adopted by the European avant-garde movements, and, in evoking such categories as ‘terrorism’ or ‘anarchism’, they border the domains of early 20th century political discourse. These tropes are analyzed focusing on a genealogical perspective that involves both intertextual and historical research. It is argued that the rhetoric of antagonism and destruction can be a relevant
focus in order to appreciate the modalities of construction of a modernist discourse from both a Japanese and comparative perspective.
Summary
1. Introduction. — 2. Yamamura Bochō. — 3. The Rhetoric of Antagonism in Bochō’s Writings. — 4. Pereat mundus... Dynamite as a Means to Artistic Self-assertion. — 5. Adding a Reactionary Flavour: Against the Blind Populace. — 6. Conclusion. — 7. Appendix. Arguments, et clairon, et coups de poing: A Dubious Futurist Genealogy
The Incorporation of Scientific Discourse in Yamamura Bochō's "Prismist" Poetry (1914-1916)
No full textYamamura Bochō (1884-1924) is mainly remembered as the author of "Seisanryōhari" (The Sacred Prism, 1915), a collection of "shi" (modern poetry in non-traditional forms) that represents the culmination of his experiments in diction and imagery. One of the most striking elements of his ‘prismist’ poetry is the presence of scientific language, coming from the domains of geology, botany, biology, and medicine. In this paper, I adopt a historical and textual perspective to attempt an analysis of the incorporation of scientific discourse in Bochō’s poetry. Particular emphasis is placed on the European and Japanese debate on the ‘new science’ and on the similarities to the treatment of this topic by Bochō and the discourses of the historical European avant-garde (especially Italian Futurism)
Dynamics of social trust and human capital in the learning process: The case of the Japan garment cluster in the period 1968-2005
No full textThis paper examined how and the extent to which human capital and social trust are associated with the learning process of a manager in making operations decisions through experience. To this end, using a data set originally and purposively constructed by the author, I investigate the development and transformation of the garment industry cluster region of Kojima, Japan. The major findings through statistical estimations are as follows. (1) In the cluster development stage, the social trust of an enterprise and its manager’s experiences in firm operations could be regarded as forming a complimentary association. (2) In the stage following cluster development, however, a manager’s human capital as accumulated through schooling and personal experience becomes complimentary instead of social trust.Social trust, Human capital, Bayesian learning
Modernization and Industrialization. (Essays presented to Yoshitaka Komatsu on his 60th birthday). Tokyo: Ichijō Shoteh, 1968. Pp. xiv, 539.
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A Model Descriptive of Gregariousness of Colonial Insect Larvae (Mathematical Problems in Biology-'80)
No full textThe Discovery of Samsca® (Tolvaptan): The First Oral Nonpeptide Vasopressin Receptor Antagonist
No full textCooperation Between Anime Producers and the Japan Self-Defense Force : Creating Fantasy and/or Propaganda?
No full textThis paper presents examples of collaboration between anime producers and the Japan Self-Defense Force. By situating the transitions within the context of the broader trends in collaboration between anime producers and locations (namely, the development of contents tourism), the key turning point in anime producer - JSDF collaboration is be identified and explained. Then, the reasons why in recent years JSDF has been actively collaborating with the production of pop culture contents in the realms of fantasy and fiction with an anime fanbase will be discussed. What is happening in Japan today is a fantasization (= contentsization) and consumption of the military, rather than a 'drift to the right' or resurgence of militarism. The pressures to produce military or 'moe military' anime are driven by the market rather than the military
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