Hiroko Hirakawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 6041155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hiroko Hirakawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hiroko |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirakawa |
| SIGNATURE | HIRAKAWA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Guilford College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Maiden Martyr for "New Japan"
Maiden Martyr for "New Japan":The 1960 Ampo and the Rhetoric of the Other Michiko Hiroko Hirakawa (bio) During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Shōda Michiko, the commoner who married Prince Akihito in 1959, gained iconographic status in the media (Bardsley 2002). Around the same time, another Japanese woman who happened to have the same given name attracted as much if not more attention. Her name was Kanba Michiko. A Tokyo University coed and Zen…
Branded
The Japanese fascination with high-end luxury goods has captured worldwide attention for good reason. Japanese have become by far the largest group of consumers of American and European designer-brand fashion goods, their purchases accounting for 40 percent of this multi-billion-dollar global market.2 In 2002, a Merrill Lynch analyst stated that the dozen largest fashion houses in Europe owed one out of every three dollars in worldwide sales to J…
Give Me One Good Reason to Marry a Japanese Man
This article explores how contemporary Japanese women, as they confront issues of marriage and employment, play with images of the liberated West, traditional Japan, and spoiled Japanese men. For this purpose, I investigate the works of popular non-fiction writer Matsubara Junko and recent online debates. I argue that Matsubara's writing is supported by women not because of her sometimes blatant idolization of the West, but because she exposes he…
Give Me One Good Reason to Marry a Japanese Man
This article explores how contemporary Japanese women, as they confront issues of marriage and employment, play with images of the liberated West, traditional Japan, and spoiled Japanese men. For this purpose, I investigate the works of popular non-fiction writer Matsubara Junko and recent online debates. I argue that Matsubara's writing is supported by women not because of her sometimes blatant idolization of the West, but because she exposes he…
Give Me One Good Reason to Marry a Japanese Man
This article explores how contemporary Japanese women, as they confront issues of marriage and employment, play with images of the liberated West, traditional Japan, and spoiled Japanese men. For this purpose, I investigate the works of popular non-fiction writer Matsubara Junko and recent online debates. I argue that Matsubara's writing is supported by women not because of her sometimes blatant idolization of the West, but because she exposes he…
Branded
The Japanese fascination with high-end luxury goods has captured worldwide attention for good reason. Japanese have become by far the largest group of consumers of American and European designer-brand fashion goods, their purchases accounting for 40 percent of this multi-billion-dollar global market.2 In 2002, a Merrill Lynch analyst stated that the dozen largest fashion houses in Europe owed one out of every three dollars in worldwide sales to J…
Maiden Martyr for "New Japan"
Maiden Martyr for "New Japan":The 1960 Ampo and the Rhetoric of the Other Michiko Hiroko Hirakawa (bio) During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Shōda Michiko, the commoner who married Prince Akihito in 1959, gained iconographic status in the media (Bardsley 2002). Around the same time, another Japanese woman who happened to have the same given name attracted as much if not more attention. Her name was Kanba Michiko. A Tokyo University coed and Zen…
Art (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Wife (2 works) · Advertising (1 works)