William Tsutsui
Biographic Data
| ID | 4798713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Tsutsui |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsutsui |
| SIGNATURE | TSUTSUI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is Your War over Now? Nationalism, Nostalgia, and Japan’s Long Postwar from Gojira (1954) to Godzilla Minus One (2023)
This essay explores the political dynamics of the Godzilla film franchise over the past 70 years, arguing that critical and scholarly characterizations commonly oversimplify the movies’ complicated messages, which reflect the complex, often contradictory responses of Japanese filmmakers and audiences to the experiences of war, the atomic bombings, defeat, occupation, lasting subordination to the United States, and a seemingly endless postwar peri…
The Pelagic Empire: Reconsidering Japanese Expansion
The Pelagic Empire
This chapter examines the nature of Japanese imperialism, and particularly Japan's “pelagic empire,” from a marine perspective. It argues that imperialism and the patterns of resource exploitation which it has connoted, at least in its twentieth-century incarnations, were not only phenomena of dry-land environments but also left their marks on the seas. Using the case study of the Japanese empire from the late nineteenth century through World War…
Godzilla vs. the Egghead: Negotiating the Cultures of Fandom and Academe
Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (2004) was my attempt to write an intelligent but accessible study of an enduring film icon for non-academic audiences. Although the volume has sold far better than any of my traditional scholarly monographs (by a factor of ten) and was praised in the New York Times as a “cult classic,” it generated very mixed responses from both the Godzilla fan community and professional historians. This …
The East Asian Olympiads, 1934–2008: Building Bodies and Nations in Japan, Korea, and China
The East Asian Olympiads, 1934-2008: Building Bodies and Nations in Japan, Korea, and China is the first scholarly volume to focus on the collective East Asian experience of the Olympic Games. These twelve essays, from the diverse disciplinary perspectives of anthropology, geography, history, political science, and sports studies, explore how the Asian Olympics were used as patriotic exercises and yardsticks of social progress, shaped ideals of i…
Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization
Looking Straight at Them! Understanding the Big Bug Movies of the 1950s
Giant insects, from the ants of Them! to the locusts in Beginning of the End, featured prominently in Hollywood's postwar science fiction boom. Critics and historians have invariably interpreted these cinematic big bugs as symbolic manifestations of Cold War era anxieties, including nuclear fear, concern over communist infiltration, ambivalence about science and technocratic authority, and repressed Freudian impulses. This essay argues that Holly…
What’s Next for Environmental History
Landscapes in the Dark Valley: Toward an Environmental History of Wartime Japan
The Way of Efficiency: Ueno Yoichi and Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
The profound influence of American management thought on Japanese industrial practice has generally been considered a postwar phenomenon. Stressing the contributions of Deming, Drucker and other American experts, both popular wisdom and scholarly opinion have embraced the notion that 'the managerial revolution that occurred in Japan after World War II was made in the United States'. Prewar Japanese management, however, has seldom been figured in …
Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
Technology and Industrialisation: Historical Case Studies and International Perspectives. Ian Inkster
The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan
Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
Japanese industry is the envy of the world for its efficient and humane management practices, yet the origins and implications of Japanese-style management are poorly understood. This book claims that Japanese stategies are not particularly novel, or even especially Japanese. The book traces the roots of these practices to scientific management, or Taylorism, an American concept that arrived in Japan at the turn of the 20th century. This imported…
The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan
Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
Modern Japan: A Social History since 1868
Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu-Saison Enterprises in Twentieth-Century Japan
W. Edwards Deming and the Origins of Quality Control in Japan
Landscapes in the Dark Valley: Toward an Environmental History of Wartime Japan
Looking Straight at Them! Understanding the Big Bug Movies of the 1950s
Giant insects, from the ants of Them! to the locusts in Beginning of the End, featured prominently in Hollywood's postwar science fiction boom. Critics and historians have invariably interpreted these cinematic big bugs as symbolic manifestations of Cold War era anxieties, including nuclear fear, concern over communist infiltration, ambivalence about science and technocratic authority, and repressed Freudian impulses. This essay argues that Holly…
Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
Japanese industry is the envy of the world for its efficient and humane management practices, yet the origins and implications of Japanese-style management are poorly understood. This book claims that Japanese stategies are not particularly novel, or even especially Japanese. The book traces the roots of these practices to scientific management, or Taylorism, an American concept that arrived in Japan at the turn of the 20th century. This imported…
The Way of Efficiency: Ueno Yoichi and Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
The profound influence of American management thought on Japanese industrial practice has generally been considered a postwar phenomenon. Stressing the contributions of Deming, Drucker and other American experts, both popular wisdom and scholarly opinion have embraced the notion that 'the managerial revolution that occurred in Japan after World War II was made in the United States'. Prewar Japanese management, however, has seldom been figured in …
W. Edwards Deming and the Origins of Quality Control in Japan
W. Edwards Deming and the Origins of Quality Control in Japan
Modern Japan: A Social History since 1868
Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu-Saison Enterprises in Twentieth-Century Japan
The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan
Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
Japanese industry is the envy of the world for its efficient and humane management practices, yet the origins and implications of Japanese-style management are poorly understood. This book claims that Japanese stategies are not particularly novel, or even especially Japanese. The book traces the roots of these practices to scientific management, or Taylorism, an American concept that arrived in Japan at the turn of the 20th century. This imported…
The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan
Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
Technology and Industrialisation: Historical Case Studies and International Perspectives. Ian Inkster
The Way of Efficiency: Ueno Yoichi and Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
The profound influence of American management thought on Japanese industrial practice has generally been considered a postwar phenomenon. Stressing the contributions of Deming, Drucker and other American experts, both popular wisdom and scholarly opinion have embraced the notion that 'the managerial revolution that occurred in Japan after World War II was made in the United States'. Prewar Japanese management, however, has seldom been figured in …
Landscapes in the Dark Valley: Toward an Environmental History of Wartime Japan
What’s Next for Environmental History
Looking Straight at Them! Understanding the Big Bug Movies of the 1950s
Giant insects, from the ants of Them! to the locusts in Beginning of the End, featured prominently in Hollywood's postwar science fiction boom. Critics and historians have invariably interpreted these cinematic big bugs as symbolic manifestations of Cold War era anxieties, including nuclear fear, concern over communist infiltration, ambivalence about science and technocratic authority, and repressed Freudian impulses. This essay argues that Holly…
Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization
The East Asian Olympiads, 1934–2008: Building Bodies and Nations in Japan, Korea, and China
The East Asian Olympiads, 1934-2008: Building Bodies and Nations in Japan, Korea, and China is the first scholarly volume to focus on the collective East Asian experience of the Olympic Games. These twelve essays, from the diverse disciplinary perspectives of anthropology, geography, history, political science, and sports studies, explore how the Asian Olympics were used as patriotic exercises and yardsticks of social progress, shaped ideals of i…
The Pelagic Empire
This chapter examines the nature of Japanese imperialism, and particularly Japan's “pelagic empire,” from a marine perspective. It argues that imperialism and the patterns of resource exploitation which it has connoted, at least in its twentieth-century incarnations, were not only phenomena of dry-land environments but also left their marks on the seas. Using the case study of the Japanese empire from the late nineteenth century through World War…
Godzilla vs. the Egghead: Negotiating the Cultures of Fandom and Academe
Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (2004) was my attempt to write an intelligent but accessible study of an enduring film icon for non-academic audiences. Although the volume has sold far better than any of my traditional scholarly monographs (by a factor of ten) and was praised in the New York Times as a “cult classic,” it generated very mixed responses from both the Godzilla fan community and professional historians. This …
The Pelagic Empire: Reconsidering Japanese Expansion
Is Your War over Now? Nationalism, Nostalgia, and Japan’s Long Postwar from Gojira (1954) to Godzilla Minus One (2023)
This essay explores the political dynamics of the Godzilla film franchise over the past 70 years, arguing that critical and scholarly characterizations commonly oversimplify the movies’ complicated messages, which reflect the complex, often contradictory responses of Japanese filmmakers and audiences to the experiences of war, the atomic bombings, defeat, occupation, lasting subordination to the United States, and a seemingly endless postwar peri…
History (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · Law (10 works) · History (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic history (5 works)