Marie Thorsten
Biographic Data
| ID | 247874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie Thorsten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Thorsten |
| SIGNATURE | THORSTEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Doshisha University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Soft–Hard Power Convergence and Democracy in Abe’s Japan
Japan’s remilitarization and rebranding constitute stratagems of “hard” and “soft” power, respectively. Marie Thorsten considers both forms of power together, with attention to changes under the second administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2012–). As the state increases its management over both hard and soft power, what are implications for popular culture to serve democracy? The consequence of artifacts of popular culture standing only fo…
Responsibility and Remembrance
We have recently crossed the five-year mark since the American invasion of Iraq. President George W. Bush used the occasion to triumphantly declare that, due to his decision to invade, 'the world is better, and the United States of America is safer.'In Japan, the Asahi Shinbun appears virtually alone in using this occasion to reflect upon the Iraq War. For all its pro-war cheerleading, the Yomiuri Shinbun did not even see fit to produce an Englis…
The Homecoming of Japanese Hostages from Iraq: Culturalism or Japan in America's Embrace
In the spring of 2004, five Japanese civilians doing volunteer aid and media work in Iraq were kidnapped, threatened and released unharmed by Iraqi militant groups in two separate, overlapping incidents lasting just over one week. On their return to Japan (16 April 2004), the hostages appeared defensively solemn, having been harshly criticized and shamed for their effrontery to travel to a government-declared danger zone and undertake anti-war ac…
Superhuman Japan: Knowledge, Nation and Culture in US-Japan Relations
This book examines the imaginative narratives that shaped the attitudes of Americans (and others) toward Japan. Focusing on cultural aspects of economic nationalism and US-Japan relations during the trade war Marie Thorsten uses examples from public discourse, film, documentaries, novels, acts of racism and comparison of international education assessments to examine the way in which Japan has been constituted in a global political gaze as an eco…
"Graphic "Heart of Darkness: Two Visions of Current Affairs Comics1
Edward Said's praise of comics journalist Joe Sacco as a kind of “Marlow” (from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness) is an analogy that reminds us of the contextualization of current affairs graphic novels in other media. While scholars and laypeople alike have praised serious comics and animated works for their capacity to get readers interested in “the horror, the horror” (iconic words of Heart of Darkness), the failure of such works to “translat…
Binational Pearl Harbor? Tora! Tora! Tora! and the Fate of (Trans)national Memory
The fifty-year anniversary of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States, signed on January 19, 1960, was not exactly a cause for unrestrained celebration. In 2010, contentious disagreements over the relocation and expansion of the American military presence in Okinawa, lawsuits against the Toyota Motor Corporation, ongoing restrictions on the import of American beef, and disclosures of secret pacts that hav…
Silk Road nostalgia and imagined global community
The 'Silk Road' has become fashionable nostalgia, expressing longing for a perceived time when universalism was a norm. Popular Silk Road narratives, in documentaries, websites, feature films, tabletop books, and discourses of diplomacy and tourism, romanticize the ancient trading routes as 'our' lost civilization. The Silk Road image also signifies belonging to the newest trade and political networks across Asia. The regional invocation of the '…
Shame to Vengeance: The Grand Cliché of the Japanese Superstate
In a nation where watching the gross national product is a gross national pastime, trade representatives come close to being culture heroes. Departing from Tokyo's Haneda Airport for their three-to six-year assignments in the field, they are usually seen off by delegations of colleagues waving banners and shouting banzai! Their exploits are publicized like battlefield heroics, and a truly dedicated shosha-in [company man] can get national recogni…
Treading the Tiger's Tail: Pearl Harbor Veteran Reunions in Hawai'i and Japan
This essay compares decade-long commemorations between American and Japanese veterans of Pearl Harbor, and the ancient kabuki legend of “Treading the Tiger's Tail”, which also concerns enemies who come to appreciate their commonalities. The “danger zones” in the joint Pearl Harbor reunions had less to do with enemies still fighting an old war, than with each nation's internally unresolved tensions and with sensitivities across a broader, more com…
Joseph Dodge and the geometry of power in US‐Japan relations
A few bad women: Manufacturing “education mamas” in postwar Japan
Silk Road nostalgia and imagined global community
The 'Silk Road' has become fashionable nostalgia, expressing longing for a perceived time when universalism was a norm. Popular Silk Road narratives, in documentaries, websites, feature films, tabletop books, and discourses of diplomacy and tourism, romanticize the ancient trading routes as 'our' lost civilization. The Silk Road image also signifies belonging to the newest trade and political networks across Asia. The regional invocation of the '…
"Graphic "Heart of Darkness: Two Visions of Current Affairs Comics1
Edward Said's praise of comics journalist Joe Sacco as a kind of “Marlow” (from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness) is an analogy that reminds us of the contextualization of current affairs graphic novels in other media. While scholars and laypeople alike have praised serious comics and animated works for their capacity to get readers interested in “the horror, the horror” (iconic words of Heart of Darkness), the failure of such works to “translat…
Shame to Vengeance: The Grand Cliché of the Japanese Superstate
In a nation where watching the gross national product is a gross national pastime, trade representatives come close to being culture heroes. Departing from Tokyo's Haneda Airport for their three-to six-year assignments in the field, they are usually seen off by delegations of colleagues waving banners and shouting banzai! Their exploits are publicized like battlefield heroics, and a truly dedicated shosha-in [company man] can get national recogni…
Joseph Dodge and the geometry of power in US‐Japan relations
A few bad women: Manufacturing “education mamas” in postwar Japan
A few bad women: Manufacturing “education mamas” in postwar Japan
Joseph Dodge and the geometry of power in US‐Japan relations
Treading the Tiger's Tail: Pearl Harbor Veteran Reunions in Hawai'i and Japan
This essay compares decade-long commemorations between American and Japanese veterans of Pearl Harbor, and the ancient kabuki legend of “Treading the Tiger's Tail”, which also concerns enemies who come to appreciate their commonalities. The “danger zones” in the joint Pearl Harbor reunions had less to do with enemies still fighting an old war, than with each nation's internally unresolved tensions and with sensitivities across a broader, more com…
Shame to Vengeance: The Grand Cliché of the Japanese Superstate
In a nation where watching the gross national product is a gross national pastime, trade representatives come close to being culture heroes. Departing from Tokyo's Haneda Airport for their three-to six-year assignments in the field, they are usually seen off by delegations of colleagues waving banners and shouting banzai! Their exploits are publicized like battlefield heroics, and a truly dedicated shosha-in [company man] can get national recogni…
Silk Road nostalgia and imagined global community
The 'Silk Road' has become fashionable nostalgia, expressing longing for a perceived time when universalism was a norm. Popular Silk Road narratives, in documentaries, websites, feature films, tabletop books, and discourses of diplomacy and tourism, romanticize the ancient trading routes as 'our' lost civilization. The Silk Road image also signifies belonging to the newest trade and political networks across Asia. The regional invocation of the '…
Binational Pearl Harbor? Tora! Tora! Tora! and the Fate of (Trans)national Memory
The fifty-year anniversary of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States, signed on January 19, 1960, was not exactly a cause for unrestrained celebration. In 2010, contentious disagreements over the relocation and expansion of the American military presence in Okinawa, lawsuits against the Toyota Motor Corporation, ongoing restrictions on the import of American beef, and disclosures of secret pacts that hav…
Superhuman Japan: Knowledge, Nation and Culture in US-Japan Relations
This book examines the imaginative narratives that shaped the attitudes of Americans (and others) toward Japan. Focusing on cultural aspects of economic nationalism and US-Japan relations during the trade war Marie Thorsten uses examples from public discourse, film, documentaries, novels, acts of racism and comparison of international education assessments to examine the way in which Japan has been constituted in a global political gaze as an eco…
"Graphic "Heart of Darkness: Two Visions of Current Affairs Comics1
Edward Said's praise of comics journalist Joe Sacco as a kind of “Marlow” (from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness) is an analogy that reminds us of the contextualization of current affairs graphic novels in other media. While scholars and laypeople alike have praised serious comics and animated works for their capacity to get readers interested in “the horror, the horror” (iconic words of Heart of Darkness), the failure of such works to “translat…
Soft–Hard Power Convergence and Democracy in Abe’s Japan
Japan’s remilitarization and rebranding constitute stratagems of “hard” and “soft” power, respectively. Marie Thorsten considers both forms of power together, with attention to changes under the second administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2012–). As the state increases its management over both hard and soft power, what are implications for popular culture to serve democracy? The consequence of artifacts of popular culture standing only fo…
Responsibility and Remembrance
We have recently crossed the five-year mark since the American invasion of Iraq. President George W. Bush used the occasion to triumphantly declare that, due to his decision to invade, 'the world is better, and the United States of America is safer.'In Japan, the Asahi Shinbun appears virtually alone in using this occasion to reflect upon the Iraq War. For all its pro-war cheerleading, the Yomiuri Shinbun did not even see fit to produce an Englis…
The Homecoming of Japanese Hostages from Iraq: Culturalism or Japan in America's Embrace
In the spring of 2004, five Japanese civilians doing volunteer aid and media work in Iraq were kidnapped, threatened and released unharmed by Iraqi militant groups in two separate, overlapping incidents lasting just over one week. On their return to Japan (16 April 2004), the hostages appeared defensively solemn, having been harshly criticized and shamed for their effrontery to travel to a government-declared danger zone and undertake anti-war ac…
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