Overview
This book explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on an everyday basis. Both consciously and unconsciously, we regularly come into contact with Japan's industrial and cultural globalization, from cameras and automobiles to judo, cuisine or animation. Japan's presence in the popular imagination is heavily influenced both by the country's historical past and its global present. The book's panel of expert contributors use thorough ethnographic accounts to examine the country's influence and image abroad. They examine areas including: Japanese multinational corporations; Consumption of its popular music in Hong Kong; Japanese photography in America; Perceptions of Japan in France and Korea; A much needed corrective to the ethnocentrism of a great deal of the existing literature on globalization, this unique and fascinating ethnography is essential reading for students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Anthropology and Cultural Studies.
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Author: Harumi Befu , Sylvie Guichard-Anguis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 21.00cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 28.00cm
Weight: 0.620kg
ISBN: 9780415244121
ISBN 10: 0415244129
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 09 August 2001
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Series Editor’s preface, Preface, Acknowledgments, PART I Introduction, PART II Human dispersal, PART III Organizational transplant, PART IV Cultural diffusion, PART V Images, Index
Reviews
This volume assembles fascinating accounts of the passages and contacts of Japanese dispersals - Japan outside Japan. The volume breaks open the 'black box' of globalization and illustrates that the flows of cultures and persons are shaped by historical, institutional and ideological forces at least as much as by politics and economics. --Merry Isaacs White, Boston University. <br> For anyone with a strong interest in JApanese cultur and its extension into other countries, I would recommend this collection of academic essays... [R]epresents yet another important contribution to the body of work which effectively argues for a more open reading of globalizing processes, aone which doesn't employ an ethnocentric view as the West as its sole center, but multiple centers and peripheries with a globalization that unfolds in local contexts. READ Magazine, Summer/Fall 2002. <br> This collection of articles is a solid addition to the expanding bookshelf of works that are not satisfied with reducing 'globalization' to a mere synonym for 'Americanization.'. <br>-Pacific Affairs, Winter 2003 <br>
Author Information
Harumi Befu is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University and Visiting Research at the National University of Ethnology, Japan. Sylvie Guichard-Anguis is a researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research, France and Administrator for the Centre for Research on the Far-East, Paris-Sorbonne.
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