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Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019) provides a retrospective and multidisciplinary account of a society in flux. Featuring analyses from leading scholars around the globe, this textbook examines the evolving contexts of Japan throughout the Heisei era and how longstanding verities and values have been called into question. Asking what this holds for Japan's future relations with the world and within its own communities, chapters delve beneath the layers of a complex and increasingly diverse society, exploring topics including simmering ethnonationalism, economic torpor, political stagnation, and cultural dynamics. Features of this textbook include: Analysis of key social issues ranging from immigration, civil society, press freedom, politics, labour and the economy, to diversity, the marginalisation of women, Shinto, and Aum Shinrikyo Evaluation of the legacy of Emperor Akihito on war memory, the imperial institution, art, regional relations, and constitutional revision Multidisciplinary insights from both the social sciences and humanities Rich illustrations for visual analysis of developments in contemporary Japanese literature, film, art, and pop culture Providing students with dynamic analyses of how contemporary Japanese society continues to transform, this textbook is essential reading for students of Japanese Studies, including Japanese culture, society, history, and politics. The Introduction and Chapter 19 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019) provides a retrospective and multidisciplinary account of a society in flux. Featuring analyses from leading scholars around the globe, this textbook examines the evolving contexts of Japan throughout the Heisei era and how longstanding verities and values have been called into question. Asking what this holds for Japan's future relations with the world and within its own communities, chapters delve beneath the layers of a complex and increasingly diverse society, exploring topics including simmering ethnonationalism, economic torpor, political stagnation, and cultural dynamics. Features of this textbook include: Analysis of key social issues ranging from immigration, civil society, press freedom, politics, labour and the economy, to diversity, the marginalisation of women, Shinto, and Aum Shinrikyo Evaluation of the legacy of Emperor Akihito on war memory, the imperial institution, art, regional relations, and constitutional revision Multidisciplinary insights from both the social sciences and humanities Rich illustrations for visual analysis of developments in contemporary Japanese literature, film, art, and pop culture Providing students with dynamic analyses of how contemporary Japanese society continues to transform, this textbook is essential reading for students of Japanese Studies, including Japanese culture, society, history, and politics. The Introduction and Chapter 19 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors (listed alphabetically) and short bios -- Foreword: Where is Heisei? -- Introduction -- PART 1: Symbol emperor -- 1. The people's imperial couple -- 2. Contemporary goshin'ei: The Emperor, art, and the anus -- PART 2: Government and politics -- 3. The rightward shift of Japanese politics: Interest, reform, and identity -- 4. Prime ministers, power and leadership in Heisei Japan -- 5. Heisei Okinawa: What changed? -- 6. The fight for open government in the Heisei era -- PART 3: Civil society -- 7. Civil society and neoliberalism: Heisei's historic convergence -- 8. Still half free: The Japanese media in the Heisei era -- PART 4: Economy and work -- 9. The Heisei economy: Explaining the lost decades -- 10. Precaritization of work in Japan -- 11. Japan's immigration in the Heisei era: Population, policy, and the ethno-nationalist dilemma -- PART 5: Diversity -- 12. Women's leadership and gender equality -- 13. Preserving the status quo: Japan's laws and policies on ethnic and sexual minorities -- 14. From tiramisù to #MeToo: Triangulations of sex, gender, and sexuality in Heisei Japan -- PART 6: Religion -- 15. Shinto during the Heisei era -- 16. The life and death of a Heisei religious movement: What the Aum Shinrikyō affair revealed about Japanese society -- PART 7: Cool Japan? -- 17. Heisei high architecture as soft power -- 18. The Evangelion boom: On the explosion of fan markets and lifestyles in Heisei Japan -- 19. The genealogy of kawaii -- PART 8: Multivoiced narratives -- 20. A false peace: Literature in the age of Heisei -- 21. Cinema's uneasy social critique: The Heisei era onscreen -- PART 9: History and memory -- 22. Heisei historiography: Academic history and public commemoration in Japan, 1990-2020.