Shunya Yoshimi
Biographic Data
| ID | 322331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shunya Yoshimi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shunya |
| FAMILY NAME | Yoshimi |
| SIGNATURE | YOSHIMI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Tokyo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
After the Expansion: The Japanese University Crisis and a Vision of the Post-University
The university is in a state of crisis. This crisis has both quantitative and qualitative, or structural, aspects. Additionally, there are predicaments unique to Japanese universities as well as difficulties being faced by universities worldwide. The main focus of this paper is to explain the dire situation that contemporary Japanese universities are confronting and to suggest ways to overcome it. However, it will also touch upon the broader cris…
Online university, pandemics and the long history of globalization
Online classes have so rapidly expanded in Japanese universities as a result of the Covid-19 shock in 2020. Although this shift opens many possibilities in the university education including the participation of students who have small kids, disabilities, and reasons they cannot come to the university campus, we still need to think about the difference between the small scale interactive style class and the large scale on-demand delivery style cl…
Tokyo Olympics as Post‐War
This is an analysis of the historical continuity of the military‐cultural spatial formation of the Tokyo Olympic Games throughout the prewar and postwar era. The sites that eventually became the basis for hosting the 1964 and 2020 Olympics had already materialized in the plan for the 1940 Olympics. Tokyo's modernization process entailed a shift of the city's core from the rich cultural heritage accumulated since the Edo in the city's northeast to…
Preface to Yoshimi Shun'ya's Voice Capitalism
This article is a translation of the preface to Voice Capitalism by influential sociologist Yoshimi Shun'ya. The chapter ties together a wealth of discourse on the meaning of sound to society and to the individual, and its evolving role as a means of expression and connection to our environments. Yoshimi walks us through Nagai Kafū's reverence for tangible sound, R. Murray Schafer's schizophonic soundscapes, Marshal McLuhan's essays on the impact…
Le regard urbain fondu dans les médias
This paper is an extract from Geopolitics of the Visual City (2015), published in Japanese by the sociologist Yoshimi Shunya, in which the author draws on the work of Michel Foucault and Jonathan Crary to explore not how people’s gaze has been reconstructed in modern times, but how the reorganisation, redistribution and disciplining of the gaze fundamentally informs the way modernity is experienced in cities. The aim is to document a veritable ep…
In 1996, we've started the dialogues among cultural studies
During his first visit to Japan in March 1996, Stuart Hall gave a keynote speech before a packed audience in University of Tokyo's Yasuda Auditorium. In that speech, he emphasized that cultural stu
Radioactive Rain and the American Umbrella
With the earthquake of March 11, 2011, and the expanding nuclear disaster that followed, our "affluent postwar" has finally reached a decisive end. Indeed, this closure had been clearly augured since the 1990s. The collapse of the bubble economy, the close of an era of single-party rule by the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and Aum Shinrikyō sarin gas attacks that came in rapid succession in 1995-these events for…
The market of ruins, or the destruction of the cultural city
Shibuya in the 1970s became the scene for the emergence of a postmodern culture, wherein urban space was differentiated, staged and mediatised, so as to become an integrated advertising environment. This was enabled by and produced a particular geography, but was the result most directly of a conscious strategy on the part of Parco, its dominant retailer. The segmented area could therefore be consumed by its visitors, as women's magazines at the …
The experiences of cultural studies in Japan
When considering the development of cultural studies in Asia, we must first focus careful attention on the timing of its diffusion among the countries of the region. It might be argued that cultura
Japanese Television: Early Development and Research
Information
Although the concept of information is an inherently qualitative entity implying the capacity for meaning creation, in the historical development of this concept there has been a consistent emphasis on quantitative aspects. The generalization of the information concept from a specialized military term to a concept of broad social application occurred during the period when society as a whole became militarized in the 1930s and 1940s. After the Se…
America’ as desire and violence: Americanization in postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War
The self as ‘America’ in east Asia What has ‘America’ meant in everyday terms for the people of East Asia since the end of the Second World War? What indeed does it continue to mean for us in the present day? Would it not be possible to review the relationship with America, built up especially during the period of the Cold War from a comprehensive regional perspective, taking into account the level of people’s everyday consciousness and culture b…
An introduction
Television and Nationalism: Historical Change in the National Domestic TV Formation of Postwar Japan
This article attempts to throw some light on the linkage between television and nationalism in contemporary Japan, focusing on: 1) the historical development of TV as a symbolic object in everyday life; 2) TV as a technology of time–space articulation; and 3) the textual formation of TV programs. By the late 1950s, TV sets were placed not in homes, but on street corners, where large numbers of people gathered. The symbolic meaning of the ‘collect…
The Development of 'Newspaper Studies' as an Academic Discipline in the Discursive Space of 1930s Japan
There has long been a conventional understanding that mass communication studies in Japan started with the introduction of theories of mass communication from the USA in the 1950s. However, as this paper demonstrates, a new academic paradigm, ‘newspaper studies’ (shinbungaku) had begun to take shape as early as the 1920s. At first the infant discipline occupied a very marginal position in mainstream academia, but as Japan prepared for war during …
Consuming ,America: Der kulturelle Konsum von Räumen und Identitäten im heutigen Japan
Made in Japan: The cultural politics of `home electrification' in postwar Japan
This article examines the advertising images of home appliances and their technology in contemporary Japanese society. I view these images at the intersection of two sets of boundaries: Americanism/nationalism, and between genders. While home appliances had been in use in Japan since the early part of the century, it is only after the mid-1950s that appliances as commodities became linked in the popular imagination with images of the nuclear fami…
The condition of cultural studies in Japan
(1998). The condition of cultural studies in Japan. Japanese Studies: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 65-72
Television and Nationalism: Historical Change in the National Domestic TV Formation of Postwar Japan
This article attempts to throw some light on the linkage between television and nationalism in contemporary Japan, focusing on: 1) the historical development of TV as a symbolic object in everyday life; 2) TV as a technology of time–space articulation; and 3) the textual formation of TV programs. By the late 1950s, TV sets were placed not in homes, but on street corners, where large numbers of people gathered. The symbolic meaning of the ‘collect…
America’ as desire and violence: Americanization in postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War
The self as ‘America’ in east Asia What has ‘America’ meant in everyday terms for the people of East Asia since the end of the Second World War? What indeed does it continue to mean for us in the present day? Would it not be possible to review the relationship with America, built up especially during the period of the Cold War from a comprehensive regional perspective, taking into account the level of people’s everyday consciousness and culture b…
Radioactive Rain and the American Umbrella
With the earthquake of March 11, 2011, and the expanding nuclear disaster that followed, our "affluent postwar" has finally reached a decisive end. Indeed, this closure had been clearly augured since the 1990s. The collapse of the bubble economy, the close of an era of single-party rule by the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and Aum Shinrikyō sarin gas attacks that came in rapid succession in 1995-these events for…
The condition of cultural studies in Japan
(1998). The condition of cultural studies in Japan. Japanese Studies: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 65-72
Information
Although the concept of information is an inherently qualitative entity implying the capacity for meaning creation, in the historical development of this concept there has been a consistent emphasis on quantitative aspects. The generalization of the information concept from a specialized military term to a concept of broad social application occurred during the period when society as a whole became militarized in the 1930s and 1940s. After the Se…
Made in Japan: The cultural politics of `home electrification' in postwar Japan
This article examines the advertising images of home appliances and their technology in contemporary Japanese society. I view these images at the intersection of two sets of boundaries: Americanism/nationalism, and between genders. While home appliances had been in use in Japan since the early part of the century, it is only after the mid-1950s that appliances as commodities became linked in the popular imagination with images of the nuclear fami…
The condition of cultural studies in Japan
(1998). The condition of cultural studies in Japan. Japanese Studies: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 65-72
Made in Japan: The cultural politics of `home electrification' in postwar Japan
This article examines the advertising images of home appliances and their technology in contemporary Japanese society. I view these images at the intersection of two sets of boundaries: Americanism/nationalism, and between genders. While home appliances had been in use in Japan since the early part of the century, it is only after the mid-1950s that appliances as commodities became linked in the popular imagination with images of the nuclear fami…
The Development of 'Newspaper Studies' as an Academic Discipline in the Discursive Space of 1930s Japan
There has long been a conventional understanding that mass communication studies in Japan started with the introduction of theories of mass communication from the USA in the 1950s. However, as this paper demonstrates, a new academic paradigm, ‘newspaper studies’ (shinbungaku) had begun to take shape as early as the 1920s. At first the infant discipline occupied a very marginal position in mainstream academia, but as Japan prepared for war during …
Consuming ,America: Der kulturelle Konsum von Räumen und Identitäten im heutigen Japan
America’ as desire and violence: Americanization in postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War
The self as ‘America’ in east Asia What has ‘America’ meant in everyday terms for the people of East Asia since the end of the Second World War? What indeed does it continue to mean for us in the present day? Would it not be possible to review the relationship with America, built up especially during the period of the Cold War from a comprehensive regional perspective, taking into account the level of people’s everyday consciousness and culture b…
An introduction
Television and Nationalism: Historical Change in the National Domestic TV Formation of Postwar Japan
This article attempts to throw some light on the linkage between television and nationalism in contemporary Japan, focusing on: 1) the historical development of TV as a symbolic object in everyday life; 2) TV as a technology of time–space articulation; and 3) the textual formation of TV programs. By the late 1950s, TV sets were placed not in homes, but on street corners, where large numbers of people gathered. The symbolic meaning of the ‘collect…
Information
Although the concept of information is an inherently qualitative entity implying the capacity for meaning creation, in the historical development of this concept there has been a consistent emphasis on quantitative aspects. The generalization of the information concept from a specialized military term to a concept of broad social application occurred during the period when society as a whole became militarized in the 1930s and 1940s. After the Se…
Japanese Television: Early Development and Research
The experiences of cultural studies in Japan
When considering the development of cultural studies in Asia, we must first focus careful attention on the timing of its diffusion among the countries of the region. It might be argued that cultura
The market of ruins, or the destruction of the cultural city
Shibuya in the 1970s became the scene for the emergence of a postmodern culture, wherein urban space was differentiated, staged and mediatised, so as to become an integrated advertising environment. This was enabled by and produced a particular geography, but was the result most directly of a conscious strategy on the part of Parco, its dominant retailer. The segmented area could therefore be consumed by its visitors, as women's magazines at the …
Radioactive Rain and the American Umbrella
With the earthquake of March 11, 2011, and the expanding nuclear disaster that followed, our "affluent postwar" has finally reached a decisive end. Indeed, this closure had been clearly augured since the 1990s. The collapse of the bubble economy, the close of an era of single-party rule by the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and Aum Shinrikyō sarin gas attacks that came in rapid succession in 1995-these events for…
In 1996, we've started the dialogues among cultural studies
During his first visit to Japan in March 1996, Stuart Hall gave a keynote speech before a packed audience in University of Tokyo's Yasuda Auditorium. In that speech, he emphasized that cultural stu
Preface to Yoshimi Shun'ya's Voice Capitalism
This article is a translation of the preface to Voice Capitalism by influential sociologist Yoshimi Shun'ya. The chapter ties together a wealth of discourse on the meaning of sound to society and to the individual, and its evolving role as a means of expression and connection to our environments. Yoshimi walks us through Nagai Kafū's reverence for tangible sound, R. Murray Schafer's schizophonic soundscapes, Marshal McLuhan's essays on the impact…
Le regard urbain fondu dans les médias
This paper is an extract from Geopolitics of the Visual City (2015), published in Japanese by the sociologist Yoshimi Shunya, in which the author draws on the work of Michel Foucault and Jonathan Crary to explore not how people’s gaze has been reconstructed in modern times, but how the reorganisation, redistribution and disciplining of the gaze fundamentally informs the way modernity is experienced in cities. The aim is to document a veritable ep…
Tokyo Olympics as Post‐War
This is an analysis of the historical continuity of the military‐cultural spatial formation of the Tokyo Olympic Games throughout the prewar and postwar era. The sites that eventually became the basis for hosting the 1964 and 2020 Olympics had already materialized in the plan for the 1940 Olympics. Tokyo's modernization process entailed a shift of the city's core from the rich cultural heritage accumulated since the Edo in the city's northeast to…
Online university, pandemics and the long history of globalization
Online classes have so rapidly expanded in Japanese universities as a result of the Covid-19 shock in 2020. Although this shift opens many possibilities in the university education including the participation of students who have small kids, disabilities, and reasons they cannot come to the university campus, we still need to think about the difference between the small scale interactive style class and the large scale on-demand delivery style cl…
After the Expansion: The Japanese University Crisis and a Vision of the Post-University
The university is in a state of crisis. This crisis has both quantitative and qualitative, or structural, aspects. Additionally, there are predicaments unique to Japanese universities as well as difficulties being faced by universities worldwide. The main focus of this paper is to explain the dire situation that contemporary Japanese universities are confronting and to suggest ways to overcome it. However, it will also touch upon the broader cris…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (8 works) · History (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works)