14 EXHIBITIONISM
On Japanese public opinion concerning the San Francisco Peace Treaty, see James McClain, Japan: A Modern History (W. W. Norton & Company, 2002). On the Lucky Dragon 5 incident, military bases and the US–Japan relationship, see Aya Homei, ‘The Contentious Death of Mr Kuboyama: Science as Politics in the 1954 Lucky Dragon Incident’, Japan Forum, 25:2 (2013); J. M. Miller, ‘Fractured Alliance: Anti-Base Protests and Postwar US–Japanese Relations’, Diplomatic History, 38:5 (2014); Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan, 2nd edn (Oxford University Press, 2008); Donald Eugene Shoop, ‘Sunagawa Incident’, PhD thesis (University of Denver, 1985). On Kishi Nobusuke, see Mark Driscoll, Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895–1945 (Duke University Press, 2010); Richard J. Samuels, ‘Kishi and Corruption: An Anatomy of the 1955 System’, Japan Policy Research Institute Working Paper 83 (2001). On post-war Japanese art movements, see Alexandra Munroe, Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky (Harry N. Abrams, 1994); Linda Hoaglund (introduction by John Dower), ‘Protest Art in 1950s Japan: The Forgotten Reportage Painters’, Asia-Pacific Journal, 12:43 (2014) and ‘ANPO: Art X War – In Havoc’s Wake’, Asia-Pacific Journal, 9:41 (2011); Peter Eckersall, Theorizing the Angura Space: Avant-garde Performance and Politics in Japan, 1960–2000 (Brill, Leiden, 2006); David Elliott, Reconstructions: Avant-Garde Art in Japan, 1945–1965 (Universe Pub, 1987). On protest, see Stuart J. Dowsey (ed.), Zengakuren: Japan’s Revolutionary Students (The Ishi Press, California, 1970); Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960 (Cornell University Press, 2008); McClain, Japan; Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan; David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro, Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld (University of California Press, 2003); Rikki Kersten, ‘The Intellectual Culture of Postwar Japan and the 1968–1969 University of Tokyo Struggles: Repositioning the Self in Postwar Thought’, Social Science Japan Journal, 12:2 (2009); Takemas Ando, ‘Transforming “Everydayness”: Japanese New Left Movements and the Meaning of their Direct Action’, Japanese Studies, 33:1 (2013). On pop and TV culture in Japan, see Jonathan E. Abel, ‘Masked Justice: Allegories of the Superhero in Cold War Japan’, Japan Forum, 26:2 (2014); Jayson Makoto Chun, A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots? A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953–1973 (Routledge, 2006); Hiromu Nagahara, Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and its Discontents (Harvard University Press, 2017); Carolyn Stevens, Japanese Popular Music: Culture, Authenticity, and Power (Routledge, 2008); Ian F. Martin, Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground (Awai Books, 2016); Deborah Shamoon, ‘Sun Tribe: Cultural Production and Popular Culture in Post-War Japan’, E-ASPAC (An Electronic Journal of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast), 1 (2002); Michael K. Bourdaghs, Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Pre-History of J-Pop (Columbia University Press, 2012). On film, see Donald Richie, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film, revised and updated edn (Kodansha America, 2012); David Dresser, Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema (Indiana University Press, 1988); Isolde Standish, Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s (Continuum, 2011); David Dresser (ed.), Ozu’s Tokyo Story (Cambridge University Press, 2010); Woojeong Joo, ‘I Was Born Middle Class But …: Ozu Yasujiro’s Shōshimin Eiga in the Early 1930s’, Journal of Japanese & Korean Cinema, 4:2 (2012). ‘Nation of 100 million idiots’ and ‘waddling like a child with polio’ are reproduced in Chun, A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots?. ‘Masterpiece of colonial literature’ is from Nagahara, Tokyo Boogie-Woogie. ‘A picture is no good’ is quoted in Richie, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film. ‘World around’ is Masumara Yasuzo, quoted in Dresser, Eros Plus Massacre. On Japanese consumption patterns, see Andrew Gordon, ‘Consumption, Consumerism, and Japanese Modernity’, in Frank Trentmann (ed.), Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Oxford University Press, 2012); Penelope Francks, ‘Inconspicuous Consumption: Sake, Beer and the Birth of the Consumer in Japan’, Journal of Asian Studies, 68:1 (February 2009); Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy (eds), Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transformation (Routledge, 2011). On Japanese art and cultural diplomacy, see Noriko Aso, ‘Sumptuous Re-past: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics Arts Festival’, Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 10:1 (2002); Reiko Tomii, ‘How Gendai Bijutsu Stole the “Museum”: An Institutional Observation of the Vanguard 1960s’, in Thomas J. Rimer (ed.), Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868–2000 (University of Hawaii Press, 2011). On Okamoto Tarō, see Elliott, Reconstructions. On avant-garde art more generally in post-war Japan, see Munroe, Japanese Art After 1945; William Marotti, Money, Trains and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan (Duke University Press, 2013); Beth Noble, ‘ “This is not art”: An Investigation into Explorations of Democracy and the Politics of Space in the Yomiuri Indépendant 1949–1963’, MSc dissertation (University of Edinburgh, 2017). On Japanese theatre, see Brian Powell, Japan’s Modern Theatre: A Century of Change and Continuity (Japan Library, 2002); Benito Ortolani, The Japanese Theatre: From Shamanistic Ritual to Contemporary Pluralism, revised edn (Princeton University Press, 1995); Eckersall, Theorizing the Angura Space; Miryam Sas, Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return (Harvard University Press, 2011); Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shūji and Postwar Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2005); Ian Buruma, A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir (Penguin Press, 2018). On Ōe Kenzaburō and Mishima Yukio, see Yumiko Iida, Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics (Routledge, 2002); Donald Keene, A History of Japanese Literature: Volume 3: Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984); Susan J. Napier, Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo (Harvard University Press, 1991); Gwenn Boardman Petersen, The Moon in the Water: Understanding Tanizaki, Kawabata, and Mishima (University of Hawaii Press, 1979); Ōe Kenzaburō (translated by Luk Van Haute; introduction by Masao Miyoshi), Seventeen & J: Two Novels (electronic edn Foxrock Books/Evergreen Review, 2015). On protest and resistance, see Ando, ‘Transforming “Everydayness”: Japanese New Left Movements and the Meaning of their Direct Action’; Patricia G. Steinhoff, ‘Hijackers, Bombers, and Bank Robbers: Managerial Style in the Japanese Red Army’, Journal of Asian Studies, 48:4 (1989); Yoshikuni Igarashi, ‘Dead Bodies and Living Guns: The United Red Army and Its Deadly Pursuit of Revolution, 1971–1972’, Japanese Studies, 27:2 (2007); William Andrews, Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture from 1945 to Fukushima (C. Hurst & Co Publishers, 2015); Mark Schreiber, Shocking Crimes of Postwar Japan (Yenbooks, 1996); Eiji Oguma, ‘Japan’s 1968: A Collective Reaction to Rapid Economic Growth in an Age of Turmoil’, Asia-Pacific Journal, 13:12 (2015); Chris Perkins, The United Red Army On Screen: Cinema, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). ‘A naked human being’ is quoted in Munroe, Japanese Art After 1945. ‘Postwar Japanese’ is quoted in Iida, Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan.
15 PULLING STRINGS
On Minamata disease and Japan’s post-war environmental crisis, see Mami Aoyama, ‘Minamata: Disability and the Sea of Sorrow’, in P. Block et al. (eds), Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability (Springer, 2016); Norie Huddle, Michael Reich and Nahum Stiskin, Island of Dreams: Environmental Crisis in Japan (Schenkman Pub Co., 1987); Frank K. Upham, Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan (Harvard University Press, 1989): Timothy S. George, Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan, paperback edn (Harvard University Press, 2002); Jeffrey Broadbent, Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest (Cambridge University Press, 1998). On citizenship, protest and the law, see Upham, Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan; Simon Andrew Avenell, Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan (
University of California Press, 2010); Hiroshi Oda, Japanese Law, 3rd edn (Oxford University Press, 2011); Patricia G. Steinhoff (ed.), Going to Court to Change Japan: Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan (University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2014); William Andrews, Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture from 1945 to Fukushima (C. Hurst & Co Publishers, 2015). On urban population, see T. Ito, ‘Tōkaidō – Megalopolis of Japan’, GeoJournal, 4:3 (1980). On women and women’s rights, see Yusuke Torii, ‘Swing Ideology and Its Cold War Discontents in US–Japan Relations, 1944–1968’, PhD thesis (George Washington University, 2007); Mire Koikari, ‘Exporting Democracy? American Women, “Feminist Reforms”, and Politics of Imperialism in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952’, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 23:1 (2002); and Koikare, ‘Rethinking Gender and Power in the US Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952’, Gender & History, 11:2 (1999). On Japanese politics, see Richard Sims, Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868–2000 (C. Hurst Publishers, London, 2001); Morita Akio, Made in Japan (Dutton, 1986). On Minobe Ryōkichi, see Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan, 2nd edn (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Avenell, Making Japanese Citizens. ‘You’re a parent, too’ features in Upham, Law.
16 MOVING MOUNTAINS
On manga, see Brigitte Koyama-Richard, One Thousand Years of Manga (Flammarion-Pere Castor, 2014); Toni Johnson-Woods (ed.), Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives, reprint edn (Continuum, 2009); J. B. Thomas, Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2012). On Miyazaki Hayao and Nausicaä, see Shigemi Inaga, ‘Miyazaki Hayao’s Epic Comic Series: “Nausicaä in the Valley of the Wind”: An Attempt at Interpretation’, Japan Review, 11 (1999); Marc Hairston, ‘The Reluctant Messiah: Miyazaki Hayao’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Manga’, in Johnson-Woods (ed.), Manga; Thomas, Drawing on Tradition. On Japan in the 1970s, see Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan, 2nd edn (Oxford University Press, 2008); James McClain, Japan: A Modern History (W. W. Norton & Company, 2002); Morita Akio, Made in Japan (Dutton, 1986). On volunteerism, see Simon Andrew Avenell, Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan (University of California Press, 2010). On Sino-Japanese relations, see June Teufel Dreyer, Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun (Oxford University Press, 2016); Richard McGregor, Asia’s Reckoning: The Struggle for Global Dominance (Allen Lane, 2017); Patricia G. Steinhoff (ed.), Going to Court to Change Japan: Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan (University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2014). On the ‘Discover Japan’ campaign, see Marilyn Ivy, Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan (University of Chicago Press, 1995). On ‘new’ and ‘new new’ religions, see Susumu Shimazono, From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan (Trans Pacific Press, 2004). On Aum Shinrikyō, see Ian Reader, Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyō (Curzon Press, Surrey, 2000). On Japanese politics, see Richard Sims, Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868–2000 (C. Hurst Publishers, London, 2001); David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro, Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld (University of California Press, 2003); Jeff Kingston, Japan’s Quiet Transformation: Social change and civil society in the twenty-first century (Routledge, 2004); Jacob M. Schlesinger, Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Postwar Political Machine (Simon & Schuster, 1997). On Japan as a ‘construction state’, see Gavan McCormack, ‘Growth, Construction, and the Environment: Japan’s Construction State’, Japanese Studies, 15:1 (1995); The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence (M. E. Sharpe, 1996), and McCormack, ‘Japan: Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s Agenda’, in Asia-Pacific Journal, 14:24 (2016); Alex Kerr, Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan (Hill & Wang, 2001). On the Japanese government’s response to the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake, see David Pilling, Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival (Allen Lane, 2014). ‘My political philosophy’ and ‘Every city, town, and village’ are quoted in Schlesinger, Shadow Shoguns.
17 TELLING TALES
On Japan’s pre-history, see Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie and Suzanne Gay, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, 4th edn (Wadsworth Publishing, Boston, 2012); Conrad Totman, A History of Japan, 2nd edn (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005). On Okinawa’s history, see George H. Kerr, Okinawa: The History of an Island People, revised edn (Tuttle Publishing, 2000); Masahide Ota, ‘Re-Examining the History of the Battle of Okinawa’ and Koji Taira, ‘The Battle of Okinawa in Japanese History Books’, in Chalmers Johnson (ed.), Okinawa: Cold War Island (Japan Policy Research Institute, 1999); Richard McGregor, Asia’s Reckoning: The Struggle for Global Dominance (Allen Lane, 2017); Laura Hein and Mark Selden (eds), Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003); Yoko Fukumura and Martha Matsuoka, ‘Redefining Security: Okinawa Women’s Resistance to US Militarism’, in Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai (eds), Women’s Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics (Routledge, 2002). On the 1995 rape incident, see ‘The Rape of a Schoolgirl’, in Hein and Selden, Islands of Discontent; Carolyn Francis, ‘Women and Military Violence’, in Johnson (ed.), Okinawa: Cold War Island; Kevin Sullivan, ‘3 Servicemen Admit Roles in Rape of Okinawa Girl’, Washington Post, 8 November 1995; Andrew Pollack, ‘One Pleads Guilty to Okinawa Rape; 2 Others Admit Role’, New York Times, 8 November 1995; [Associated Press], ‘Sailor Testifies About Raping Japanese Girl’, Los Angeles Times, 28 December 1995; Michael A. Lev, ‘3 GIs Convicted in Okinawa Rape, Chicago Tribune, 7 March 1996. On Japan’s foreign relations, see June Teufel Dreyer, Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun (Oxford University Press, 2016); McGregor, Asia’s Reckoning; for the 1995 Murayama statement, see the website of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (
in China: An Agent of Japan’s Soft Power?’, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 5 (2008). On social problems in Japan, see Jeff Kingston, Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change Since the 1980s (John Wiley & Sons, 2010); Anne Allison, Precarious Japan (Duke University Press, 2013). On Koizumi Junichirō, see Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan, 2nd edn (Oxford University Press, 2008) and David Pilling, Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival (Allen Lane, 2014). On young people in Japan, see Roger Goodman, Children of the Japanese State: The Changing Role of Child Protection Institutions in Contemporary Japan (Oxford University Press, 2000); Sachiko Horiguchi, ‘How Private Isolation Caught the Public Eye’, in Goodman, Imoto and Toivonen (eds), A Sociology of Japanese Youth; Nicolas Tajan, ‘Japanese Post-Modern Social Renouncers: An Exploratory Study of the Narratives of Hikikomori Subjects’, Subjectivity, 8:283 (2015). On mental healthcare after the 1995 earthquake, see Timothy O. Benedict, ‘Heart Care in Japan: Before and After the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake’, Inochi no Mirai: The Future of Life, 1 (2016). On Japan’s relationships with nuclear technology, see Maika Nakao, ‘The Image of the Atomic Bomb in Japan Before Hiroshima’, Historia Scientiarum, 19:2 (2009) and Nakao, Kaku no Yūwaku: Senzen Nihon no Kagaku Bunka to ‘Genshiryoku no Yūtopia’ no Shutsugen [‘Nuclear Temptations: Pre-war Japanese Scientific Culture and the Birth of “Atomic Energy Utopia” ’] (Keiso Shobo, 2015); John W. Dower, ‘The Bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory’, in Michael J. Hogan (ed.), Hiroshima in History and Memory (Cambridge University Press, 1996); Charles Weiner, ‘Retroactive Saber Rattling?’, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March 1978); Weiner, ‘Japan’s First Nuclear Power Station’, The Engineer (6 March 1959); Daniel P. Aldrich, ‘Revisiting the Limits of Flexible and Adaptive Institutions: the Japanese Government’s Role in Nuclear Power Plant Siting over the Post-war Period’, in Kingston (ed.), Critical Issues, and ‘Networks of Power’, in Jeff Kingston (ed.), Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan (Routledge, 2012); William Breuer, Secret Weapons of World War II (Castle Books, 2008); Jeff Kingston, ‘Japan’s Nuclear Village: Power and Resilience’, Asia-Pacific Journal, 19:37 (2012). ‘They pay in yen, we pay in blood’, is from Penney, ‘Manga from Right to Left’, in Mangatopia. ‘If this is a recession’ is quoted in Pilling, Bending Adversity.
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