R Sakamoto
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 19880 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Sakamoto |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Sakamoto |
| FIRMA | SAKAMOTO R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0344-5243 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
From base town to tourist town
This article examines how tourism intersects with active military presence in contemporary Japan, focusing on Yokosuka: the country’s largest naval port and home to both the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) headquarters and the United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY). In recent years, the city has rebranded its military presence as a tourism resource, most notably through the popular Yokosuka Military Port Cruise. Drawing on field…
The Truth of Battleship Island
Men's but not women's risk proneness in early adulthood is associated with lifetime reproductive success
Two studies were conducted in Japan (Study 1) and the US (Study 2) to test whether sexual selection acts on risk proneness in modern environments. Participants aged 45 to 55 years (total N = 2887) reported their risk proneness in early adulthood (20s to 30s) and the number of children they had. In both studies, the number of children was significantly correlated with risk proneness in early adulthood only among men. Although men's correlation was…
Inserting Japanese-American Memories into Japan’s War Narrative
Engaging with the ‘transnational turn’ in collective memory studies, this article examines how national and transnational elements intersect in cultural memory-making of the Pacific War in contemporary Japan. Through a case study of a recent Japanese television drama (Two Homelands, 2019) about Japanese Americans who were caught up between two countries at war, it argues that the incorporation of transnational Nikkei memories into Japanese nation…
Battleship Island and the transnational dynamics of cultural memory between South Korea and Japan
This essay examines the transnational impact of mediated memory of Korean forced labour through a case study of the South Korean blockbuster Battleship Island (2017)—a historical action film about the mass escape of Korean coalminers from forced labour on Hashima Island. Rather than focusing on the content of the reconstructed past in the film and its historical (in)accuracies, we explore the film’s entanglement with a wider mnemonic landscape an…
The Flawed Japan-ROK Attempt to Resolve the Controversy Over Wartime Sexual Slavery and the Case of Park Yuha
To many, the 2015 Japan-South Korea agreement to finally settle the Korean "comfort women" issue came as a surprise. For over two decades Japan's wartime military sexual slavery remained the single most contentious issue dividing Japan and South Korea, severely affecting the bilateral relations and even becoming a concern for the US, which saw the tension between two of its allies in the Asia Pacific as troublesome. The 2015 comfort women agreeme…
Mobilizing Affect for Collective War Memory
Taking a cue from recent works that assert the importance of affect in politics and critical theory, this paper examines affective strategies employed at Yūshūkan, a war museum attached to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Although its revisionist historiography has been generally discredited by historians, over the last decade Yūshūkan has established itself as a key public site for neo-nationalist war memory in Japan. This paper argue…
China Threat Theory' Drives Japanese War Legislation
Since his war legislation has failed to gain public support, Prime Minister Abe has suddenly brought up the China Threat as a last resort. However, a rational analysis of reality reveals that the theory is unfounded.On July 21, 2015 a defence white paper was published. Unusually, it contained an addenda with a statement inserted at the end of a section on China: "China has been building new offshore platforms and other facilities on the Chinese s…
The Japanese State's New Assault on the Victims of Wartime Sexual Slavery
Denigrating women who survived comfort station internment is critical to protecting the historical record of the Japanese military and the contemporary reputation of the Japanese government, as Nishino Rumiko and Nogawa Motokazu make clear in these two articles. They describe recent efforts from a range of quarters to 'injure the victims all over again, rubbing salt in their wounds and violating their human rights'. Recent attacks on survivors in…
War and Peace
How is war remembered in public places in Japan? The high profile ‘peace’ museums of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Yushukan, the museum that is attached to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, have dominated both the English and Japanese language literature about sites of remembrance since the 1990s. The thrust of much of the literature emphasises the divide between Japan's recognition of its place as a victim of atomic bombing in war, and its recognition…
Kim Jong-il and the Normalization of Japan-North Korea Relations
When I heard the sudden news of the death of North Koreans leader Kim Jong-il,I felt as if I had been struck by lightning. Since his miracle recovery from the 2008 stroke, he had been busy travelling in and outside North Korea. Both he and others around him would have been concerned about his health, and also prepared for this moment. His death must have been such a huge regret for Kim himself, who was single-mindedly focusing on keeping his publ…
The Second Time as Farce?' Abe Shinzo's New Challenge
I'd like to start with a big question: "can the media overcome nationalism?" I ask this because the words "national interest" have been used both casually and often in communicating everyday information. The Japanese media seemingly lack awareness that these words are used contiguously with the words "conservative swing". What I'd like to know is the proportion of Japanese who felt angry versus those who remained calm when Korean president Lee My…
"Will you go to war? Or will you stop being Japanese?" Nationalism and History in Kobayashi Yoshinori's Sensoron
As a study of the influence and nature of popular nationalism in Japan, this article examines the relationship between nationalism and history in Kobayashi Yoshinori's bestselling manga comic, Sensoron (On War, 1998). Sensoron heralded the recent trend of nationalistic manga targeted at younger generations and has been instrumental in popularizing the ideas of new-generation rightists and historical revisionists over the last decade. Kobayashi ex…
There's something fishy about that sushi
Since the 1990s sushi has become a global product with a transnational market. Hybridised and localised sushi like California Rolls and Spider Rolls are now even being reverse-imported to Japan as ‘genuine American sushi’. This article examines some attempts to re-nationalise global sushi, both from the Japanese state and from the vernacular media. We argue that, while popular reporting on the ‘overseas sushi boom’ generates a sense of national p…
The True Origins of Pizza
On September 30, 2011, an outfit named GumshoePictures uploaded on YouTube a video entitled "The True Origins of Pizza," which, in the format of a brief documentary (3:44), reminiscent of those seen on such stations as the Discovery Channel, investigates an apparent historical puzzle: a series of speakers, from academics to a blogger and a representative of the "Korean Culinary Center," are interviewed and advance evidence that pizza originated i…
Koreans, Go Home! 'Internet Nationalism in Contemporary Japan as a Digitally Mediated Subculture
On 18 September 2009, a person using the online name of 'xegnojw' posted a four-minute video on YouTube entitled 'Japanese Racists Hoot Down Korean Tourists in Tsushima'. It depicted members of a Japanese nationalist group harassing Korean tourists on Tsushima, a Japanese island 138 km from Fukuoka and 50km from Busan. This island has been attracting attention from Japanese nationalists because of the increasing presence of Korean tourists and Ko…
Economic Crisis Shakes US Forces Overseas
On August 31, President Obama delivered a speech from the White House. Because he was expected to declare the end of the Iraqi war, the entire nation focused its attention on the content to the speech. 'Operation Iraqi Freedom is over. ... We have spent over a trillion dollars on this war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has short-changed investments in our own people, and contributed to record deficits.... Our most urge…
Sushi Reverses Course
Sushi, not long ago a quintessentially Japanese product, has gone global. Japanese food, and sushi in particular, has experienced a surge in international popularity in recent decades. Japanese government estimates that outside of Japan there are over 20,000 Japanese restaurants, most of which either specialize in sushi or serve sushi (MAFF 2006; Council of Advisors 2007). Some estimate the number of overseas sushi bars and restaurants to be betw…
Pan-pan Girls
This paper looks at some literary representations of the ‘pan-pan girls’ in postwar Japan. ‘Pan-pan’ is a derogatory term for street prostitutes who (mostly) served the soldiers of the occupying forces. Immediately after World War II, the Japanese government established the RAA (Recreation Amusement Association) and employed several thousand women to provide sexual services for foreign soldiers, ostensibly to protect Japanese women of middle and …
Confucianising Science
Sakuma Shōzan (1811–1864), a late Edo scholar, urged shogunal authorities to adopt Western science and technology, which he represented as consistent with the Confucian epistemological framework, in particular the rationalist metaphysics of the Zhu Xi school. His ideas are commonly credited as the basis for the key Meiji slogan wakon yōsai, but this article argues against that interpretation, discussing important differences in the way Sakuma con…
US Bases, Japan and the Reality of Okinawa as a Military Colony
On June 24, 2007, two US Navy minesweepers entered the small Sonai port in Yonaguni island, the westernmost Japanese island near Taiwan, on a 'good-will visit and crew R and R'. Okinawa prefectural governor Mr. Nakaima had stated that the 'US Navy warships should use the designated ports such as White Beach and Naha Military Port and should not use civilian ports'. He asked the Commander, US Naval Forces, Japan to voluntarily refrain from entry i…
‘Will you go to war? Or will you stop being Japanese?’
This book examines the often troubled relationship between Japan and China from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Utilising the expertise of Chinese, Japanese and regional specialists working in a variety of fields, this original work approaches the contemporary sources of tensions between these two Asian giants from several levels of analysis. In particular the domestic–state interface in both countries and the important role of historical …
Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan
Millennial Monsters
"Hating 'The Korean Wave'" Comic Books
The internet has become an increasingly influential medium throughout East Asia. In this article we examine the case of Kenkanryu ('"Hating 'The Korean Wave'"), a manga published in 2005 in hard copy, but available online as a web comic for many months prior to print publication. We argue that the content, while nationalist, xenophobic, and 'toxic' is only one of a number of other, media-related reasons for the sales success of this comic in Japa…
Japan, Hybridity and the Creation of Colonialist Discourse
There's something fishy about that sushi
Since the 1990s sushi has become a global product with a transnational market. Hybridised and localised sushi like California Rolls and Spider Rolls are now even being reverse-imported to Japan as ‘genuine American sushi’. This article examines some attempts to re-nationalise global sushi, both from the Japanese state and from the vernacular media. We argue that, while popular reporting on the ‘overseas sushi boom’ generates a sense of national p…
"Hating 'The Korean Wave'" Comic Books
The internet has become an increasingly influential medium throughout East Asia. In this article we examine the case of Kenkanryu ('"Hating 'The Korean Wave'"), a manga published in 2005 in hard copy, but available online as a web comic for many months prior to print publication. We argue that the content, while nationalist, xenophobic, and 'toxic' is only one of a number of other, media-related reasons for the sales success of this comic in Japa…
Pan-pan Girls
This paper looks at some literary representations of the ‘pan-pan girls’ in postwar Japan. ‘Pan-pan’ is a derogatory term for street prostitutes who (mostly) served the soldiers of the occupying forces. Immediately after World War II, the Japanese government established the RAA (Recreation Amusement Association) and employed several thousand women to provide sexual services for foreign soldiers, ostensibly to protect Japanese women of middle and …
Dream of a Modern Subject
Battleship Island and the transnational dynamics of cultural memory between South Korea and Japan
This essay examines the transnational impact of mediated memory of Korean forced labour through a case study of the South Korean blockbuster Battleship Island (2017)—a historical action film about the mass escape of Korean coalminers from forced labour on Hashima Island. Rather than focusing on the content of the reconstructed past in the film and its historical (in)accuracies, we explore the film’s entanglement with a wider mnemonic landscape an…
War and Peace
How is war remembered in public places in Japan? The high profile ‘peace’ museums of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Yushukan, the museum that is attached to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, have dominated both the English and Japanese language literature about sites of remembrance since the 1990s. The thrust of much of the literature emphasises the divide between Japan's recognition of its place as a victim of atomic bombing in war, and its recognition…
Koreans, Go Home! 'Internet Nationalism in Contemporary Japan as a Digitally Mediated Subculture
On 18 September 2009, a person using the online name of 'xegnojw' posted a four-minute video on YouTube entitled 'Japanese Racists Hoot Down Korean Tourists in Tsushima'. It depicted members of a Japanese nationalist group harassing Korean tourists on Tsushima, a Japanese island 138 km from Fukuoka and 50km from Busan. This island has been attracting attention from Japanese nationalists because of the increasing presence of Korean tourists and Ko…
Men's but not women's risk proneness in early adulthood is associated with lifetime reproductive success
Two studies were conducted in Japan (Study 1) and the US (Study 2) to test whether sexual selection acts on risk proneness in modern environments. Participants aged 45 to 55 years (total N = 2887) reported their risk proneness in early adulthood (20s to 30s) and the number of children they had. In both studies, the number of children was significantly correlated with risk proneness in early adulthood only among men. Although men's correlation was…
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
Japan, Hybridity and the Creation of Colonialist Discourse
Dream of a Modern Subject
Dream of a Modern Subject
Race-ing Japan
‘Will you go to war? Or will you stop being Japanese?’
This book examines the often troubled relationship between Japan and China from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Utilising the expertise of Chinese, Japanese and regional specialists working in a variety of fields, this original work approaches the contemporary sources of tensions between these two Asian giants from several levels of analysis. In particular the domestic–state interface in both countries and the important role of historical …
Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan
Millennial Monsters
"Hating 'The Korean Wave'" Comic Books
The internet has become an increasingly influential medium throughout East Asia. In this article we examine the case of Kenkanryu ('"Hating 'The Korean Wave'"), a manga published in 2005 in hard copy, but available online as a web comic for many months prior to print publication. We argue that the content, while nationalist, xenophobic, and 'toxic' is only one of a number of other, media-related reasons for the sales success of this comic in Japa…
Is it Fine for Japan to Do Without Agriculture? Negotiating Japan-Australia Economic Partnership
On the 23rd and 24th of April the first round of negotiations for the Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) was held in Canberra, the Australian capital. This is the first negotiation since the telephone conversation four months ago between Prime Ministers Abe Shinzo and John Howard, in which a decision was made to begin negotiations. To avoid negative political repercussions the negotiations were scheduled to follow the Japanese G…
Confucianising Science
Sakuma Shōzan (1811–1864), a late Edo scholar, urged shogunal authorities to adopt Western science and technology, which he represented as consistent with the Confucian epistemological framework, in particular the rationalist metaphysics of the Zhu Xi school. His ideas are commonly credited as the basis for the key Meiji slogan wakon yōsai, but this article argues against that interpretation, discussing important differences in the way Sakuma con…
US Bases, Japan and the Reality of Okinawa as a Military Colony
On June 24, 2007, two US Navy minesweepers entered the small Sonai port in Yonaguni island, the westernmost Japanese island near Taiwan, on a 'good-will visit and crew R and R'. Okinawa prefectural governor Mr. Nakaima had stated that the 'US Navy warships should use the designated ports such as White Beach and Naha Military Port and should not use civilian ports'. He asked the Commander, US Naval Forces, Japan to voluntarily refrain from entry i…
Pan-pan Girls
This paper looks at some literary representations of the ‘pan-pan girls’ in postwar Japan. ‘Pan-pan’ is a derogatory term for street prostitutes who (mostly) served the soldiers of the occupying forces. Immediately after World War II, the Japanese government established the RAA (Recreation Amusement Association) and employed several thousand women to provide sexual services for foreign soldiers, ostensibly to protect Japanese women of middle and …
There's something fishy about that sushi
Since the 1990s sushi has become a global product with a transnational market. Hybridised and localised sushi like California Rolls and Spider Rolls are now even being reverse-imported to Japan as ‘genuine American sushi’. This article examines some attempts to re-nationalise global sushi, both from the Japanese state and from the vernacular media. We argue that, while popular reporting on the ‘overseas sushi boom’ generates a sense of national p…
The True Origins of Pizza
On September 30, 2011, an outfit named GumshoePictures uploaded on YouTube a video entitled "The True Origins of Pizza," which, in the format of a brief documentary (3:44), reminiscent of those seen on such stations as the Discovery Channel, investigates an apparent historical puzzle: a series of speakers, from academics to a blogger and a representative of the "Korean Culinary Center," are interviewed and advance evidence that pizza originated i…
Koreans, Go Home! 'Internet Nationalism in Contemporary Japan as a Digitally Mediated Subculture
On 18 September 2009, a person using the online name of 'xegnojw' posted a four-minute video on YouTube entitled 'Japanese Racists Hoot Down Korean Tourists in Tsushima'. It depicted members of a Japanese nationalist group harassing Korean tourists on Tsushima, a Japanese island 138 km from Fukuoka and 50km from Busan. This island has been attracting attention from Japanese nationalists because of the increasing presence of Korean tourists and Ko…
Economic Crisis Shakes US Forces Overseas
On August 31, President Obama delivered a speech from the White House. Because he was expected to declare the end of the Iraqi war, the entire nation focused its attention on the content to the speech. 'Operation Iraqi Freedom is over. ... We have spent over a trillion dollars on this war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has short-changed investments in our own people, and contributed to record deficits.... Our most urge…
Sushi Reverses Course
Sushi, not long ago a quintessentially Japanese product, has gone global. Japanese food, and sushi in particular, has experienced a surge in international popularity in recent decades. Japanese government estimates that outside of Japan there are over 20,000 Japanese restaurants, most of which either specialize in sushi or serve sushi (MAFF 2006; Council of Advisors 2007). Some estimate the number of overseas sushi bars and restaurants to be betw…
Kim Jong-il and the Normalization of Japan-North Korea Relations
When I heard the sudden news of the death of North Koreans leader Kim Jong-il,I felt as if I had been struck by lightning. Since his miracle recovery from the 2008 stroke, he had been busy travelling in and outside North Korea. Both he and others around him would have been concerned about his health, and also prepared for this moment. His death must have been such a huge regret for Kim himself, who was single-mindedly focusing on keeping his publ…
The Second Time as Farce?' Abe Shinzo's New Challenge
I'd like to start with a big question: "can the media overcome nationalism?" I ask this because the words "national interest" have been used both casually and often in communicating everyday information. The Japanese media seemingly lack awareness that these words are used contiguously with the words "conservative swing". What I'd like to know is the proportion of Japanese who felt angry versus those who remained calm when Korean president Lee My…
"Will you go to war? Or will you stop being Japanese?" Nationalism and History in Kobayashi Yoshinori's Sensoron
As a study of the influence and nature of popular nationalism in Japan, this article examines the relationship between nationalism and history in Kobayashi Yoshinori's bestselling manga comic, Sensoron (On War, 1998). Sensoron heralded the recent trend of nationalistic manga targeted at younger generations and has been instrumental in popularizing the ideas of new-generation rightists and historical revisionists over the last decade. Kobayashi ex…
War and Peace
How is war remembered in public places in Japan? The high profile ‘peace’ museums of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Yushukan, the museum that is attached to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, have dominated both the English and Japanese language literature about sites of remembrance since the 1990s. The thrust of much of the literature emphasises the divide between Japan's recognition of its place as a victim of atomic bombing in war, and its recognition…
The Japanese State's New Assault on the Victims of Wartime Sexual Slavery
Denigrating women who survived comfort station internment is critical to protecting the historical record of the Japanese military and the contemporary reputation of the Japanese government, as Nishino Rumiko and Nogawa Motokazu make clear in these two articles. They describe recent efforts from a range of quarters to 'injure the victims all over again, rubbing salt in their wounds and violating their human rights'. Recent attacks on survivors in…
Mobilizing Affect for Collective War Memory
Taking a cue from recent works that assert the importance of affect in politics and critical theory, this paper examines affective strategies employed at Yūshūkan, a war museum attached to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Although its revisionist historiography has been generally discredited by historians, over the last decade Yūshūkan has established itself as a key public site for neo-nationalist war memory in Japan. This paper argue…
China Threat Theory' Drives Japanese War Legislation
Since his war legislation has failed to gain public support, Prime Minister Abe has suddenly brought up the China Threat as a last resort. However, a rational analysis of reality reveals that the theory is unfounded.On July 21, 2015 a defence white paper was published. Unusually, it contained an addenda with a statement inserted at the end of a section on China: "China has been building new offshore platforms and other facilities on the Chinese s…
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