Resilient Borders and Cultural Diversity - Internationalism, Brand Nationalism, and Multiculturalism in Japan

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 cross-border dialogue and engagement with multicultural questions within Japan are discouraged.

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

Product details

• Authors: Koichi Iwabuchi
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2015
• EAN: 9781498502252
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0225-2
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: New Studies in Modern Japan
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries