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Informationen zum Autor Satoshi Toyosaki is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale! USA. Shinsuke Eguchi is an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico! USA. Zusammenfassung Japan is heterogeneous and culturally diverse! both historically through ancient waves of immigration and in recent years due to its foreign relations and internationalization. However! Japan has socially! culturally! politically! and intellectually constructed a distinct and homogeneous identity. More recently! this identity construction has been rightfully questioned and challenged by Japan's culturally diverse groups. This book explores the discursive systems of cultural identities that regenerate the illusion of Japan as a homogeneous nation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and methodological approaches investigate the ways in which Japan's homogenizing discourses are challenged and modified by counter-homogeneous message systems. They examine the discursive push-and-pull between homogenizing and heterogenizing vectors! found in domestic and transnational contexts and mobilized by various identity politics! such as gender! sexuality! ethnicity! foreign status! nationality! multiculturalism! and internationalization. After offering a careful and critical analysis! the book calls for a complicating of Japan's homogenizing discourses in nuanced and contextual ways! with an explicit goal of working towards a culturally diverse Japan. Taking a critical intercultural communication perspective! this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies! Japanese Culture and Japanese Society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Intercultural Communication in JapanSatoshi Toyosaki and Shinsuke EguchiPart I: Gender! Sexuality! and the BodyThe Affective Politics of the Feminine: An Interpassive Analysis of Japanese Female ComediansSachi Sekimoto and Yusaku Yajima "It's a Wonderful Single Life.": Constructions and Representations of Female Singleness in Japan's Contemporary Josei DoramaEmi Kanemoto and Kristie CollinsThe Shifting Gender Landscape of Japanese SocietyJustin CharleboisPart II: Performance and QueernessJapanese Male-Queer Femininity: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Matsuko Deluxe as an One-Kei TalentShinsuke EguchiBleach in Color: Unpacking Gendered! Queered! and Raced Performances in AnimeReslie CortesPart III: Inclusiveness and OthernessThe Discursive Pushes and Pulls of J-pop and K-pop in Taiwan: Cultural Homogenization and Identity Co-OptationHsun-Yu (Sharon) Chuang'Hating Korea' (Kenkan) in Postcolonial JapanAndre Haag Japan's Internationalization: A Dialectics of Orientalism and HybridismSatoshi Toyosaki and Eric ForbushPart IV: Media and MovementIshihara Shintaro's Manga Moral Panic: The Homogenizing Rhetoric of Japanese Nationalism Lucy J. Millermixi and an Imagined Boundary of JapanRyuta KomakiPart V: Environment and MovementHistoricization of Cherry Blossoms: A Study of Japan's Homogenizing DiscoursesTakuya SakuraiAlternative vs. Conventional: Dialectic Relations of the Organic Agriculture DiscourseSaki Ichihara Fomsgaard? ...
