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Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties-and the attempts to contain them-as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance. Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompanied the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state. This fascination culminated in the early twentieth-century establishment of Japanese folklore studies and its attempts to record the spectral, sometimes violent, narratives of those margins. She then traces the obsession with the vanishing through a range of contemporary reconfigurations: efforts by remote communities to promote themselves as nostalgic sites of authenticity, storytelling practices as signs of premodern presence, mass travel campaigns, recallings of the dead by blind mediums, and itinerant, kabuki-inspired populist theater.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Fascism, Yet? -- Introduction: The Culture of Japanese Fascism -- Part I: Theories of Japanese Fascism -- Fascism Seen and Unseen: Fascism as a Problem in Cultural Representation -- The People's Library: The Spirit of Prose Literature versus Fascism -- Constitutive Ambiguities: The Persistence of Modernism and Fascism in Japan's Modern History -- Part II: Fascism and Daily Life -- The Beauty of Labor: Imagining Factory Girls in Japan's New Order -- Mediating the Masses: Yanagi Sōetsu and Fascism -- Fascism's Furry Friends: Dogs, National Identity, and Purity of Blood in 1930s Japan -- Part III: Exhibiting Fascism -- Narrating the Nation-ality of a Cinema: The Case of Japanese Prewar Film -- All Beautiful Fascists?: Axis Film Culture in Imperial Japan -- Architecture for Mass-Mobilization: The Chūreitō Memorial Construction Movement, 1939-1945 -- Japan's Imperial Diet Building in the Debate over Construction of a National Identity -- Expo Fascism?: Ideology, Representation, Economy -- The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Bride Dolls and Ritual Appropriation at Yasukuni Shrine -- Part IV: Literary Fascism -- Fascist Aesthetics and the Politics of Representation in Kawabata Yasunari -- Disciplining the Erotic-Grotesque in Edogawa Ranpo's Demon of the Lonely Isle -- Hamaosociality: Narrative and Fascism in Hamao Shirō's The Devil's Disciple -- Literary Tropes, Rhetorical Looping, and the Nine Gods of War: "Fascist Proclivities" Made Real -- Part V: Concluding Essay -- The Spanish Perspective: Romancero Marroquí and the Francoist Kitsch Politics of Time -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHILDREN AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE -- Introduction Children and the Politics of Culture in "Late Capitalism" -- PART ONE: CHILDREN AND CHILDHOODS AT RISK IN THE "NEW WORLD ORDER" -- Chapter One The Child as Laborer and Consumer: The Disappearance of Childhood in Contemporary Japan -- Chapter Two Have You Seen Me? Recovering the Inner Child in Late Twentieth-Century America -- Chapter Three Children's Rights in a Free-Market Culture -- PART TWO: CHILDREN, CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND THE STATE -- Chapter Four Children in the Examination War in South Korea: A Cultural Analysis -- Chapter Five Children's Stories and the State in New Order Indonesia -- Chapter Six Children, Population Policy, and the State in Singapore -- Chapter Seven Youth and the Politics of Culture in South Africa -- PART THREE: CHILDREN AND THE POLITICS OF MINORITY CULTURAL IDENTITY -- Chapter Eight "There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian": The Politics of Identity among British-Sikh Teenagers -- Chapter Nine Second-Generation Noncitizens: Children of the Turkish Migrant Diaspora in Germany -- Chapter Ten Children, Politics, and Culture: The Case of Brazilian Indians -- Chapter Eleven The "Cultural Fallout" of Chernobyl Radiation in Norwegian Sami Regions: Implications for Children -- PART FOUR: THE RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CHILDHOOD? -- Chapter Twelve Recovering Childhood: Children in South African National Reconstruction -- Appendix The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- About the Contributors -- Index