Assembling Japan

Griseldis Kirsch is Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her most recent publications include ‘Next-Door-Divas: Japanese Tarento, Television and Consumption’ (2014, in Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema) and Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen: A History, 1989–2005 (2015). Dolores P. Martinez is Emeritus Reader in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and a research associate at the University of Oxford. Her most recent publications include Remaking Kurosawa (2009) and Gender in Japanese Society (2014). Merry White is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University and a research associate at Harvard University’s E. O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Her most recent publications include Coffee Life in Japan (2013) and a cookbook, Cooking for Crowds (2014).

Contents: Griseldis Kirsch/Dolores P. Martinez: Japan as an Assemblage - Merry White: Cafe Society in Japan: Global Coffee and Urban Space - Christine R. Yano: «A Japanese in Every Jet»: Globalism and Gendered Service in the Jet Age - Joy Hendry: Rewrapping the Message: Museums, Healing and Communicative Power - Wolfram Manzenreiter/John Horne: Football in the Community: Global Culture, Local Needs and Diversity in Japan - Griseldis Kirsch: Relocating Japan? Japan, China and the West in Japanese Television Dramas - Bruce White: Japanese Reggae and the Def Tech Phenomenon: Global Paths to Intra-cultural Pluralism - Heung-wah Wong/Hoi-yan Yau: The More I Shop at Yaohan, the More I Become a Heung Gong Yahn (Hongkongese): Japan and the Formation of a Hong Kong Identity - Dolores P. Martinez: Global Technologies, Local Interventions: Or Musings on Japanese Film - Hirofumi Katsuno: Branding Humanoid Japan - Griseldis Kirsch/Wolfram Manzenreiter/John Horne/Merry White/Hirofumi Katsuno/Dolores P. Martinez: Afterword: Reassembling after 3/11.