Tomoyuki Sasaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomoyuki Sasaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomoyuki |
| FAMILY NAME | Sasaki |
| SIGNATURE | SASAKI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6408-9150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Shimizu elegy
Naruse Mikio’s Yearning (Midareru) is a melodrama released in 1964, at the height of Japan’s high-speed economic growth. A commonly accepted reading of this film focuses on the intimate relationship between the protagonist Morita Reiko and her brother-in-law, but this article understands the significance of the film within its socioeconomic and sociospatial context, that is, the growing dominance of big-capital corporations in the distribution an…
A Crisis of Japanese Studies
How did Japan's border restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic affect Japanese studies? To answer this question, this essay discusses the results of a survey conducted in August 2022
Engineering Asia
Engineering Asia traces the history of the economic development of post–World War II Asia. While conventional approaches to this history tend to employ the nation-state as a basic unit of analysis and focus on each nation’s specific conditions, this book is critical of this type of “nation-based miracle narrative” (1) and calls for the incorporation of regional and global factors within the historical contexts of both colonialism and the Cold War…
Jennifer M. Miller. Cold War Democracy
Jennifer M. Miller’s Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan examines the contestation between the United States and Japan over the ideas and principles of democracy. The author details how American policymakers and military leaders, Japanese conservatives and progressives, and Japanese citizens and activists conceptualized, defined, and defended democracy during and after the U.S. occupation. While all agreed upon the centrality of democ…
The Constitution Must Be Defended
Revision of the Japanese Constitution is a heated topic, associated with nationalistic sentiment. Conservatives insist the constitution was imposed by the US occupation and call for an "autonomous constitution" created without foreign interference. This article critiques this discourse within the historical context of modern democracy. I emphasize the need to distinguish two questions: whether a constitution was established democratically and whe…
Disquieting growth
This article examines how Japanese postwar cinematic texts manifest and comment upon contemporary political and economic events, and considers the usefulness of cinema for a more complete historical understanding of the period. In particular, it argues for the significance of fūzoku eiga, or ‘films of customs and manners’ by analyzing a representative text of that genre, Kawashima Yūzō's 1956 film Suzaki Paradise Red Light. Although Kawashima's f…
Whose Peace? Anti-Military Litigation and the Right to Live in Peace in Postwar Japan
This article examines two anti-military court cases that took place in Hokkaido during the 1960s and 1970s and their legacy today. It demonstrates how protesters against Japan's Self-Defense Forces developed the notion of the right to live in peace through a creative interpretation of the Constitution
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Whose Peace? Anti-Military Litigation and the Right to Live in Peace in Postwar Japan
This article examines two anti-military court cases that took place in Hokkaido during the 1960s and 1970s and their legacy today. It demonstrates how protesters against Japan's Self-Defense Forces developed the notion of the right to live in peace through a creative interpretation of the Constitution
Disquieting growth
This article examines how Japanese postwar cinematic texts manifest and comment upon contemporary political and economic events, and considers the usefulness of cinema for a more complete historical understanding of the period. In particular, it argues for the significance of fūzoku eiga, or ‘films of customs and manners’ by analyzing a representative text of that genre, Kawashima Yūzō's 1956 film Suzaki Paradise Red Light. Although Kawashima's f…
The Constitution Must Be Defended
Revision of the Japanese Constitution is a heated topic, associated with nationalistic sentiment. Conservatives insist the constitution was imposed by the US occupation and call for an "autonomous constitution" created without foreign interference. This article critiques this discourse within the historical context of modern democracy. I emphasize the need to distinguish two questions: whether a constitution was established democratically and whe…
Engineering Asia
Engineering Asia traces the history of the economic development of post–World War II Asia. While conventional approaches to this history tend to employ the nation-state as a basic unit of analysis and focus on each nation’s specific conditions, this book is critical of this type of “nation-based miracle narrative” (1) and calls for the incorporation of regional and global factors within the historical contexts of both colonialism and the Cold War…
Jennifer M. Miller. Cold War Democracy
Jennifer M. Miller’s Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan examines the contestation between the United States and Japan over the ideas and principles of democracy. The author details how American policymakers and military leaders, Japanese conservatives and progressives, and Japanese citizens and activists conceptualized, defined, and defended democracy during and after the U.S. occupation. While all agreed upon the centrality of democ…
A Crisis of Japanese Studies
How did Japan's border restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic affect Japanese studies? To answer this question, this essay discusses the results of a survey conducted in August 2022
Shimizu elegy
Naruse Mikio’s Yearning (Midareru) is a melodrama released in 1964, at the height of Japan’s high-speed economic growth. A commonly accepted reading of this film focuses on the intimate relationship between the protagonist Morita Reiko and her brother-in-law, but this article understands the significance of the film within its socioeconomic and sociospatial context, that is, the growing dominance of big-capital corporations in the distribution an…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · International Law and Human Rights (2 works)