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The acceleration of media culture globalization processes cross-fertilization and people's exchange beyond the confinement of national borders, but not all of them lead to substantial transformations of national identity or foster cosmopolitan outlook in terms of openness, togetherness and dialogue within and beyond the national borders. Whilst national borders continue to become more and more porous, the measures of border control are constantly reformulated to tame disordered flows and tightly re-demarcate the borders-materially, physically, symbolically and imaginatively. Border crossing does not necessarily bring about the transgression of borders. Transgression of borders requires one to fundamentally question how borders in the existing form have been socio-historically constructed and also seek to displace their exclusionary power that unevenly divide "us" and "them" and "here" and "there."
This book considers how media culture and the management of people's border crossing movement combine with Japan's cultural diversity to institute the creation of national cultural borders in Japanese millennials. Critical analysis of this development is a pressing matter if we are to seriously consider how to make Japan's national cultural borders more inclusive and dialogic.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Banal Inter-Nationalism and Its Others
Chapter 2: Cool Japan, Brand Nationalism and the Public Interest
Chapter 3: Lost in Trans-Nation: Post-Orientalism and Actually Existing Multicultural Reality
Chapter 4: Making It Multinational: Media Representation of Multicultural Japan
Chapter 5: The Korean wave and the Dis/empowering of Resident Koreans in Japan
Chapter 6: East Asian Media Culture Connections, Inter-Asian Referencing and Cross-border
About the author
Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University
Summary
This book discusses how the evolution of market-driven cultural globalization has reinforced the administration of national cultural borders in Japan. As a result of these processes, a particular kind of cross-border connectivity and exchange is embraced while dialog and engagement with multicultural questions within Japan are discouraged.
