Kosaku Yoshino
Biographic Data
| ID | 245672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kosaku Yoshino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kosaku |
| FAMILY NAME | Yoshino |
| SIGNATURE | YOSHINO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sophia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2863-4702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure 1
This chapter argues that self-identified straights and gays have entered into an epistemic contract to erase bisexuality. The epistemic contract is a political model that could be profitably applied beyond the sexual orientation context to other intermediate identity categories. As in the bisexual context, the tendency to adopt narrow binarizing definitions of race can be traced to anxieties felt by both the dominant and the subordinate groups. T…
Nihonjinron
The Japanese term nihonjinron refers to discourses on the distinctiveness of the society, culture, and national character of the Japanese. As such, nihonjinron have manifested themselves periodically from the Meiji era (1868–1911) to the present, while continually undergoing changes in form. In its narrower and most recent sense, the term refers to the vogue of such discourses during the 1970s and the early 1980s, when a very large quantity of wo…
Endogenous Development
Endogenous development was presented as an alternative perspective on development that reconsidered modernization theory, which had until the 1960s been the dominant analytical paradigm of social change, especially in American sociology. From the late 1960s throughout the 1970s, criticisms were directed against modernization theory on the grounds that modernization was a western‐centric model and that as such it would not necessarily lead to indu…
Nihonjinron
Nihonjinron refers to discourses on the distinctiveness of the society, culture, and national character of the Japanese. In its general sense, the term refers to such discourses that have appeared periodically since the start of the Meiji era (1868–1911). More specifically, the term refers to the vogue of such discourses during the 1970s and the early 1980s. Nihonjinron should be regarded as one variation of the more general phenomenon of discour…
Minzoku
Minzoku is one of the many Japanese words coined in early modern Japan that derive from concepts that were originally western. It means an ethnic group, a nation, a race, or even a combination of all these. The word reflects the fact that ethnic, national, and racial categories vaguely overlap in the Japanese perception of themselves. It had its origin in the early modern Japanese nationalist ideology according to which kinship, religion, and rac…
Further Reflections on Sociology in Japan
The aim of this short essay is to further reflect on sociology in Japan by supplementing discussions on the three sociological papers compiled in this volume and adding critical perspectives. Discussions, and arguments, will be provided on the three thematic categories, namely, ‘international sociology’, sociology of culture as well as language use, and the global academic market, the latter addressing not merely sociology but also other social s…
Youth and Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
This article critically enquires into prevailing discourses on the rise of nationalism among the youth in Japan and proposes a sociological approach to an understanding of the situation involving them. Given the lack of sociological studies on this subject, empirical research is essential in order to understand the situation regarding youth and nationalism in present-day Japan. I have had valuable experiences of reflecting on the issue with stude…
Minzoku
Minzoku is a Japanese word meaning an ethnic group, a nation, a race, or even a combination of all these. A Japanese dictionary defines minzoku as “(1) a social group sharing many common characteristics in race, language, culture, religion, etc.; (2) a social group sharing a territory, an economy and a fate and forming a state. A nation” (Umesao et al. 1989). Minzoku is one of the many modern Japanese words coined in the westernizing Meiji era (1…
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry
The debate about Japan's 'uniqueness' is central to Japanese studies. This book aims to illuminate that debate from a comparative and theoretical perspective. It also tests theories of ethnicity and cultural nationalism through the use of Japan as a case study.Yoshino examines how ideas of national distinctiveness are `produced' and `consumed' in Japanese society through a study of intellectuals, teachers and businessmen. He finds that ideas of J…
The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure
In this article, Professor Kenji Yoshino seeks to explain why the category of bisexuality has been erased in contemporary American political and legal discourse. He first argues that the invisibility of bisexuality relative to homo- sexuality does not reflect the incidences of those orientations in the population. Defining bisexuality as the possession of more than incidental desire for both sexes, Yoshino shows that the major sexuality studies d…
Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism: Asian Experiences
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Inquiry
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry
Cultural nationalism in contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry
The debate about Japan's 'uniqueness' is central to Japanese studies. This book examines the content and role of ideas of Japanese uniqueness, generally referred to as the nihonjinron, from comparative and theoretical perspectives. It also illuminates sociological theories of ethnicity and cultural nationalism through the use of Japan as a case study. Kosaku Yoshino, a Japanese scholar with a grounding in Western academic approaches to nationalis…
The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure
In this article, Professor Kenji Yoshino seeks to explain why the category of bisexuality has been erased in contemporary American political and legal discourse. He first argues that the invisibility of bisexuality relative to homo- sexuality does not reflect the incidences of those orientations in the population. Defining bisexuality as the possession of more than incidental desire for both sexes, Yoshino shows that the major sexuality studies d…
Cultural nationalism in contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry
The debate about Japan's 'uniqueness' is central to Japanese studies. This book examines the content and role of ideas of Japanese uniqueness, generally referred to as the nihonjinron, from comparative and theoretical perspectives. It also illuminates sociological theories of ethnicity and cultural nationalism through the use of Japan as a case study. Kosaku Yoshino, a Japanese scholar with a grounding in Western academic approaches to nationalis…
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry
Endogenous Development
Endogenous development was presented as an alternative perspective on development that reconsidered modernization theory, which had until the 1960s been the dominant analytical paradigm of social change, especially in American sociology. From the late 1960s throughout the 1970s, criticisms were directed against modernization theory on the grounds that modernization was a western‐centric model and that as such it would not necessarily lead to indu…
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Inquiry
Cultural nationalism in contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry
The debate about Japan's 'uniqueness' is central to Japanese studies. This book examines the content and role of ideas of Japanese uniqueness, generally referred to as the nihonjinron, from comparative and theoretical perspectives. It also illuminates sociological theories of ethnicity and cultural nationalism through the use of Japan as a case study. Kosaku Yoshino, a Japanese scholar with a grounding in Western academic approaches to nationalis…
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Inquiry
Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism: Asian Experiences
The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure
In this article, Professor Kenji Yoshino seeks to explain why the category of bisexuality has been erased in contemporary American political and legal discourse. He first argues that the invisibility of bisexuality relative to homo- sexuality does not reflect the incidences of those orientations in the population. Defining bisexuality as the possession of more than incidental desire for both sexes, Yoshino shows that the major sexuality studies d…
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry
The debate about Japan's 'uniqueness' is central to Japanese studies. This book aims to illuminate that debate from a comparative and theoretical perspective. It also tests theories of ethnicity and cultural nationalism through the use of Japan as a case study.Yoshino examines how ideas of national distinctiveness are `produced' and `consumed' in Japanese society through a study of intellectuals, teachers and businessmen. He finds that ideas of J…
Youth and Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
This article critically enquires into prevailing discourses on the rise of nationalism among the youth in Japan and proposes a sociological approach to an understanding of the situation involving them. Given the lack of sociological studies on this subject, empirical research is essential in order to understand the situation regarding youth and nationalism in present-day Japan. I have had valuable experiences of reflecting on the issue with stude…
Minzoku
Minzoku is a Japanese word meaning an ethnic group, a nation, a race, or even a combination of all these. A Japanese dictionary defines minzoku as “(1) a social group sharing many common characteristics in race, language, culture, religion, etc.; (2) a social group sharing a territory, an economy and a fate and forming a state. A nation” (Umesao et al. 1989). Minzoku is one of the many modern Japanese words coined in the westernizing Meiji era (1…
Further Reflections on Sociology in Japan
The aim of this short essay is to further reflect on sociology in Japan by supplementing discussions on the three sociological papers compiled in this volume and adding critical perspectives. Discussions, and arguments, will be provided on the three thematic categories, namely, ‘international sociology’, sociology of culture as well as language use, and the global academic market, the latter addressing not merely sociology but also other social s…
Nihonjinron
Nihonjinron refers to discourses on the distinctiveness of the society, culture, and national character of the Japanese. In its general sense, the term refers to such discourses that have appeared periodically since the start of the Meiji era (1868–1911). More specifically, the term refers to the vogue of such discourses during the 1970s and the early 1980s. Nihonjinron should be regarded as one variation of the more general phenomenon of discour…
Minzoku
Minzoku is one of the many Japanese words coined in early modern Japan that derive from concepts that were originally western. It means an ethnic group, a nation, a race, or even a combination of all these. The word reflects the fact that ethnic, national, and racial categories vaguely overlap in the Japanese perception of themselves. It had its origin in the early modern Japanese nationalist ideology according to which kinship, religion, and rac…
The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure 1
This chapter argues that self-identified straights and gays have entered into an epistemic contract to erase bisexuality. The epistemic contract is a political model that could be profitably applied beyond the sexual orientation context to other intermediate identity categories. As in the bisexual context, the tendency to adopt narrow binarizing definitions of race can be traced to anxieties felt by both the dominant and the subordinate groups. T…
Nihonjinron
The Japanese term nihonjinron refers to discourses on the distinctiveness of the society, culture, and national character of the Japanese. As such, nihonjinron have manifested themselves periodically from the Meiji era (1868–1911) to the present, while continually undergoing changes in form. In its narrower and most recent sense, the term refers to the vogue of such discourses during the 1970s and the early 1980s, when a very large quantity of wo…
Endogenous Development
Endogenous development was presented as an alternative perspective on development that reconsidered modernization theory, which had until the 1960s been the dominant analytical paradigm of social change, especially in American sociology. From the late 1960s throughout the 1970s, criticisms were directed against modernization theory on the grounds that modernization was a western‐centric model and that as such it would not necessarily lead to indu…
Sociology (12 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · Nationalism (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works)