Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Biographic Data
| ID | 305201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eiko Maruko Siniawer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eiko Maruko |
| FAMILY NAME | Siniawer |
| SIGNATURE | SINIAWER E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-1850-3949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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Toilet Paper Panic”: Uncertainty and Insecurity in Early 1970s Japan
When toilet paper disappeared from store shelves across Japan in November 1973, the housewives who searched their neighborhood markets and stood in long lines for the scarce packs were described as unwitting perpetrators of a “toilet paper panic.” The word “panic” evoked well-established notions of a social frenzy, irrational and overwrought. This article overturns a conception of panic laden with condescension and adopts, instead, a more empathe…
Nick Kapur. Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo
The mass protests against renewal of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in 1960 occupy a firmly established place in most historical narratives of postwar Japan, so it is simply assumed to be one of those topics that historians of modern Japan know well. Nick Kapur’s Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo refutes this assumption by demonstrating how narrow our understanding has been, reminding us of the relative dearth of English…
Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan
Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan
Affluence of the Heart explores the many and various ways in which waste—be it of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources—was thought about in Japan from the immediate aftermath of devastating war to the early twenty-first century.It shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of the everyday and shaped by the central forces of postwar Japanese life from economic growth and mass consumption to material abundance a…
A War Against Garbage in Postwar Japan
When Minobe Ryōkichi declared war against garbage in September 1971, he thrust waste into the public's attention and rendered it visible. The governor of Tokyo was not just encouraging the construction of incinerators and landfills to deal with the rapid proliferation of rubbish then facing the metropolis, but was also provoking discussions about the inescapable costs of high economic growth and mass consumption. The Garbage War (gomi sensō), des…
Affluence of the Heart: Wastefulness and the Search for Meaning in Millennial Japan
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Japan experienced a surge in the evocation of the word "mottainai," most simply translated as "wasteful." Children's literature, mass-market nonfiction, magazines, newspapers, songs, government ministries, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations deliberately used and defined the term as they took up the question of what was to be deemed wasteful. This essay examines how discourses that were…
Befitting Bedfellows: Yakuza and the State in Modern Japan
On a fall afternoon in 1919, several dozen yakuza bosses—heads of Japanese mafia groups—climbed into cars at a Tokyo hotel. The caravan of smartly dressed men then proceeded to the Home Ministry for an appointment with top ministry officials, including the home minister himself. This meeting between Home Minister Tokonami Takejirō and Kansai-area bosses eventually led to the founding of an influential nationalist group of the interwar era: the Da…
Liberalism Undone: Discourses on Political Violence in Interwar Japan
During the 1920s, liberal intellectuals in Japan took up their pens to express concerns about the proliferation of violence in political life. Political violence, they feared, was eroding Japanese civilization and culture, degrading constitutional government, and fomenting disorder and instability. Such anxieties encouraged 'statism' in their thinking, as a number of liberals called upon the state to provide order and security, without considerin…
Befitting Bedfellows: Yakuza and the State in Modern Japan
On a fall afternoon in 1919, several dozen yakuza bosses—heads of Japanese mafia groups—climbed into cars at a Tokyo hotel. The caravan of smartly dressed men then proceeded to the Home Ministry for an appointment with top ministry officials, including the home minister himself. This meeting between Home Minister Tokonami Takejirō and Kansai-area bosses eventually led to the founding of an influential nationalist group of the interwar era: the Da…
Affluence of the Heart: Wastefulness and the Search for Meaning in Millennial Japan
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Japan experienced a surge in the evocation of the word "mottainai," most simply translated as "wasteful." Children's literature, mass-market nonfiction, magazines, newspapers, songs, government ministries, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations deliberately used and defined the term as they took up the question of what was to be deemed wasteful. This essay examines how discourses that were…
Liberalism Undone: Discourses on Political Violence in Interwar Japan
During the 1920s, liberal intellectuals in Japan took up their pens to express concerns about the proliferation of violence in political life. Political violence, they feared, was eroding Japanese civilization and culture, degrading constitutional government, and fomenting disorder and instability. Such anxieties encouraged 'statism' in their thinking, as a number of liberals called upon the state to provide order and security, without considerin…
Liberalism Undone: Discourses on Political Violence in Interwar Japan
During the 1920s, liberal intellectuals in Japan took up their pens to express concerns about the proliferation of violence in political life. Political violence, they feared, was eroding Japanese civilization and culture, degrading constitutional government, and fomenting disorder and instability. Such anxieties encouraged 'statism' in their thinking, as a number of liberals called upon the state to provide order and security, without considerin…
Befitting Bedfellows: Yakuza and the State in Modern Japan
On a fall afternoon in 1919, several dozen yakuza bosses—heads of Japanese mafia groups—climbed into cars at a Tokyo hotel. The caravan of smartly dressed men then proceeded to the Home Ministry for an appointment with top ministry officials, including the home minister himself. This meeting between Home Minister Tokonami Takejirō and Kansai-area bosses eventually led to the founding of an influential nationalist group of the interwar era: the Da…
Affluence of the Heart: Wastefulness and the Search for Meaning in Millennial Japan
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Japan experienced a surge in the evocation of the word "mottainai," most simply translated as "wasteful." Children's literature, mass-market nonfiction, magazines, newspapers, songs, government ministries, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations deliberately used and defined the term as they took up the question of what was to be deemed wasteful. This essay examines how discourses that were…
Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan
Affluence of the Heart explores the many and various ways in which waste—be it of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources—was thought about in Japan from the immediate aftermath of devastating war to the early twenty-first century.It shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of the everyday and shaped by the central forces of postwar Japanese life from economic growth and mass consumption to material abundance a…
A War Against Garbage in Postwar Japan
When Minobe Ryōkichi declared war against garbage in September 1971, he thrust waste into the public's attention and rendered it visible. The governor of Tokyo was not just encouraging the construction of incinerators and landfills to deal with the rapid proliferation of rubbish then facing the metropolis, but was also provoking discussions about the inescapable costs of high economic growth and mass consumption. The Garbage War (gomi sensō), des…
Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan
Nick Kapur. Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo
The mass protests against renewal of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in 1960 occupy a firmly established place in most historical narratives of postwar Japan, so it is simply assumed to be one of those topics that historians of modern Japan know well. Nick Kapur’s Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo refutes this assumption by demonstrating how narrow our understanding has been, reminding us of the relative dearth of English…
Toilet Paper Panic”: Uncertainty and Insecurity in Early 1970s Japan
When toilet paper disappeared from store shelves across Japan in November 1973, the housewives who searched their neighborhood markets and stood in long lines for the scarce packs were described as unwitting perpetrators of a “toilet paper panic.” The word “panic” evoked well-established notions of a social frenzy, irrational and overwrought. This article overturns a conception of panic laden with condescension and adopts, instead, a more empathe…
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History (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)