Joshua Hotaka Roth
Biographic Data
| ID | 128858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Hotaka Roth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua Hotaka |
| FAMILY NAME | Roth |
| SIGNATURE | ROTH J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Vehicles
Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign-for example, a cattle car-and its referent, the Holocaust. These "sign-vehicles" serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles present…
Adachi, Nobuko
Anthropos , Seite 269 - 270
Responsibility and the Limits of Identification
Hōkō onchi
Take a wrong turn and show up late to an appointment in Japan and it is quite likely that someone will label you "hōkō onchi" (directionally tone-deaf). The term was coined in the late 1960s, and now hundreds of thousands of Japanese identify themselves as "hōkō onchi." The term is much more widely used than any equivalent in English, and there is reason to believe that some people who have embraced the label do not necessarily have more difficul…
Capturing Contemporary Japan
Heartfelt Driving
This paper explores the contradictory discourses on manners, safety and emotion that arose with mass motorization in Japan in the 1960s and which continue through the present. It documents the way in which multiple government entities end up working at cross-purposes in their attempts to cultivate safer drivers and slow the epidemic of traffic accidents. On the one hand, the discourse on driving manners suggests a widespread embrace of the Traffi…
Harmonizing Cars and Humans in Japan's Era of Mass Automobility
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, one cannot help but ask why Japanese authorities long promoted an ambitious nuclear program that included over fifty reactors spread all over one of the most seismically active geological zones in the world, vulnerable not only to earthquakes but also to devastating tsunamis. However, other technological systems have been adopted in Japan and elsewhere despite their inherent dangers and high cos…
Fighting for Foreigners
Reviewed by: Fighting for Foreigners: Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy Joshua H. Roth (bio) Fighting for Foreigners: Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy. By Apichai W. Shipper. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2008. xvii, 216 pages. $35.00. It would not be surprising to explore foreign influences when investigating democratic institutions and human rights policy in Japan. The title of Apichai Shipper's book, Fighting…
A Mean-Spirited Sport
In the city of São Paulo, Brazil, one middle class ethnic minority, Japanese Brazilians, is surprisingly visible in the citys unsecured public spaces. Their presence in these spaces is particularly surprising in light of the extensive scholarly discussion of the death of public space in urban centers throughout the world, and So Paulo specifically. Scholars have highlighted the retreat of middle- and upper classes into gated communities and forti…
Response to Stewart Lone
Reponse to Stewart Lone Josha Hotaka Roth I meant my review to engage Lone on a number of arguments he makes in his book and by no means intended it as a personal attack. As I wrote in my review, Lone's book is a contribution to the study of Japanese immigrants to Brazil. I regret if my review created the impression Lone had not consulted any of Maeyama Takashi's works besides the two published in English, and I would like to take this opportunit…
Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan's Insider Minorities
This article introduces the concept of "Insider minorities", those whose difference is of a sort that currently does not deny their Japanese-ness in the eyes of other Japanese, as opposed to outsider minorities, who are considered foreign despite their long, even multigenerational, residence within Japan. Most surveys of minorities in Japan have focused on ethnic minorities, including Koreans and Chinese, as well as the indigenous Ainu and Okinaw…
Identity Transformations among Okinawans and Their Descendants in Brazil
Urashima Taro’s Ambiguating Practices
Identity Transformations among Okinawans and Their Descendants in Brazil
Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Doing Fieldwork in Japan taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducting long-term research in the social sciences and cultural studies. In lively first-person accounts, they discuss their successes and failures doing fieldwork across rural and urban Japan in a wide range of settings: among religious pilgrims and adolescent consumers; on factory assembly lines and in high schools and wholesale sea…
Importing Diversity
Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program. David L. McConnell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 328 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index
Importing Diversity
Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program. David L. McConnell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 328 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index
Heartfelt Driving
This paper explores the contradictory discourses on manners, safety and emotion that arose with mass motorization in Japan in the 1960s and which continue through the present. It documents the way in which multiple government entities end up working at cross-purposes in their attempts to cultivate safer drivers and slow the epidemic of traffic accidents. On the one hand, the discourse on driving manners suggests a widespread embrace of the Traffi…
A Mean-Spirited Sport
In the city of São Paulo, Brazil, one middle class ethnic minority, Japanese Brazilians, is surprisingly visible in the citys unsecured public spaces. Their presence in these spaces is particularly surprising in light of the extensive scholarly discussion of the death of public space in urban centers throughout the world, and So Paulo specifically. Scholars have highlighted the retreat of middle- and upper classes into gated communities and forti…
Importing Diversity
Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program. David L. McConnell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 328 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index
Identity Transformations among Okinawans and Their Descendants in Brazil
Urashima Taro’s Ambiguating Practices
Identity Transformations among Okinawans and Their Descendants in Brazil
Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Doing Fieldwork in Japan taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducting long-term research in the social sciences and cultural studies. In lively first-person accounts, they discuss their successes and failures doing fieldwork across rural and urban Japan in a wide range of settings: among religious pilgrims and adolescent consumers; on factory assembly lines and in high schools and wholesale sea…
Response to Stewart Lone
Reponse to Stewart Lone Josha Hotaka Roth I meant my review to engage Lone on a number of arguments he makes in his book and by no means intended it as a personal attack. As I wrote in my review, Lone's book is a contribution to the study of Japanese immigrants to Brazil. I regret if my review created the impression Lone had not consulted any of Maeyama Takashi's works besides the two published in English, and I would like to take this opportunit…
Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan's Insider Minorities
This article introduces the concept of "Insider minorities", those whose difference is of a sort that currently does not deny their Japanese-ness in the eyes of other Japanese, as opposed to outsider minorities, who are considered foreign despite their long, even multigenerational, residence within Japan. Most surveys of minorities in Japan have focused on ethnic minorities, including Koreans and Chinese, as well as the indigenous Ainu and Okinaw…
A Mean-Spirited Sport
In the city of São Paulo, Brazil, one middle class ethnic minority, Japanese Brazilians, is surprisingly visible in the citys unsecured public spaces. Their presence in these spaces is particularly surprising in light of the extensive scholarly discussion of the death of public space in urban centers throughout the world, and So Paulo specifically. Scholars have highlighted the retreat of middle- and upper classes into gated communities and forti…
Fighting for Foreigners
Reviewed by: Fighting for Foreigners: Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy Joshua H. Roth (bio) Fighting for Foreigners: Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy. By Apichai W. Shipper. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2008. xvii, 216 pages. $35.00. It would not be surprising to explore foreign influences when investigating democratic institutions and human rights policy in Japan. The title of Apichai Shipper's book, Fighting…
Harmonizing Cars and Humans in Japan's Era of Mass Automobility
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, one cannot help but ask why Japanese authorities long promoted an ambitious nuclear program that included over fifty reactors spread all over one of the most seismically active geological zones in the world, vulnerable not only to earthquakes but also to devastating tsunamis. However, other technological systems have been adopted in Japan and elsewhere despite their inherent dangers and high cos…
Heartfelt Driving
This paper explores the contradictory discourses on manners, safety and emotion that arose with mass motorization in Japan in the 1960s and which continue through the present. It documents the way in which multiple government entities end up working at cross-purposes in their attempts to cultivate safer drivers and slow the epidemic of traffic accidents. On the one hand, the discourse on driving manners suggests a widespread embrace of the Traffi…
Capturing Contemporary Japan
Hōkō onchi
Take a wrong turn and show up late to an appointment in Japan and it is quite likely that someone will label you "hōkō onchi" (directionally tone-deaf). The term was coined in the late 1960s, and now hundreds of thousands of Japanese identify themselves as "hōkō onchi." The term is much more widely used than any equivalent in English, and there is reason to believe that some people who have embraced the label do not necessarily have more difficul…
Responsibility and the Limits of Identification
Adachi, Nobuko
Anthropos , Seite 269 - 270
Vehicles
Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign-for example, a cattle car-and its referent, the Holocaust. These "sign-vehicles" serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles present…
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