Koichi Iwabuchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 668586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Koichi Iwabuchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Koichi |
| FAMILY NAME | Iwabuchi |
| SIGNATURE | IWABUCHI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Waseda University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9394-6174 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 420 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Marketing ‘Japan’
The Japanese cultural commodities that circulate so successfully seem, in relation, to lack any connection to Japanese bodies. Even some of the most popular character games produced by Japanese companies distinctly play down any relation to Japanese populations. The fact that the Japanese pop that is being adapted is in turn an adoption and alteration of American pop vernacular casts Japan as crucial cultural intermediary for the spread of a sort…
Making neo-nationalist subject in Japan
This article considers how digital media communication reconfigures a “neo-nationalist subject” in the Japanese context. A neo-nationalist subject is not the so-called modern national subject that maintains a shared, collective identity as the rationale regulating his or her decisions and behavior, but rather is a fragmented subject that, in view of “the decline of symbolic efficiency,” is open to discourses that others are in effect stealing his…
Global East Asia
Cool Japan, Creative Industries, and Diversity
Transcultural media practices fostering cosmopolitan ethos in a digital age
The increasingly transnational reach of East Asian media suggests that East Asia has become an ever more de-territorialized media zone. But what has been relatively neglected in the extant scholarship is in-depth consideration of how East Asian media culture has been transnationalised beyond the geographic boundaries of Asia, especially in the context of accelerating online content distribution. In this article, we propose that Australia provides…
Introduction
This article introduces the special issue, Everyday Multiculturalism in/across Asia. It provides an overview of the international and inter-disciplinary research papers included in the special issue which all speak to the concept of everyday multiculturalism by critically engaging with the extent to which core aspects relate to different contexts in and across Asia. Papers in this collection encompass research undertaken in Australia, Hong Kong, …
Media and Communications
Developments in digital technologies over the last 30 years have expanded massively human beings' capacity to communicate across time and space (Section 13.1).Media infrastructures have simultaneously acquired huge complexity.By "media" we mean technologies for the production, dissemination, and reception of communication, but also the contents distributed through those technologies and the institutions associated with their production, dissemina…
Media, communication and the struggle for social progress
This article discusses the role of media and communications in contributing to social progress, as elaborated in a landmark international project – the International Panel on Social Progress. First, it analyses how media and digital platforms have contributed to global inequality by examining media access and infrastructure across world regions. Second, it looks at media governance and the different mechanisms of corporatized control over media p…
In search of proximate enemies
The post-Cold War context has accompanied the ascent of East Asian economies and consumer markets, as exemplified by China, while Japan's experience has been marked by the struggle with an economic slump after the collapse of the so-called bubble economy. Japan has been actively promoting ‘cool Japan’ instead of the economy, but even more notable is the rise of the Korean Wave. Joined together with political contestation over historical issues, a…
Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture
China is generally perceived as the manufacturer of the world. Whereas “created in China” has become one prime focus of national cultural policy (Keane 2013), the label “Made in China” continues to proliferate in global stories about abuses of labor in the production of iPhones and the massive production of steel and coal. Dovetailing with this narrative of China as the world’s factory is the image of China as a nation of copiers. After China’s e…
Cultural flows
Resilient Borders and Cultural Diversity
"This book discusses how the evolution of market-driven cultural globalization has reinforced the administration of national cultural borders in Japan. As a result of these processes, a particular kind of cross-border connectivity and exchange is embraced while cross-border dialogue and engagement with multicultural questions within Japan are discouraged"...Provided by publisher
Rethinking Race and Racism in and from Japan
Recently, racism and racist discrimination have become prevalent and visible in Japan. For example, a sharp rise in racist attacks (such as ‘hate speech’ and demonstrations against Korean residents
Pop-culture diplomacy in Japan
This paper critically examines the development of what is known as ‘pop-culture diplomacy’ in Japan. In the postwar era, the country’s cultural diplomacy was propelled by the necessity to soften anti-Japan perceptions, notably in Southeast Asia. In the late 1980s, the popularity of Japanese media culture in Asia began to attract the attention of policy makers, while subsequent globalized practices of soft power and nation branding gave greater em…
"Australia's "Asian Century
In late September 2013, Australian news media reported on two very different events related to journeys across the ocean straits that separate Australia from Indonesia. On the evening of September 26th, an Indonesian fishing boat carrying eighty refugees from northern Lebanon who intended to seek asylum in Australia foundered off a West Java beach. The boat sank the following day. Thirty-one people who had been onboard drowned. Some of those who …
Against Banal Inter-nationalism
De-westernisation, inter-Asian referencing and beyond
The necessity of de-westernising knowledge production has been widely advocated. This is especially pertinent with media and cultural studies, due to the rise of East Asian media cultures and their transnational circulation, hence a call for ‘looking after Europe’. This article engages the issue by considering the possibility of inter-Asian referencing and the next steps to be taken. Inter-Asian referencing is a significant manoeuvre for making c…
"China," Japan's Chimera, and Media Cultural Globalization
"China," Japan's Chimera, and Media Cultural Globalization Koichi Iwabuchi (bio) China has long been a significant imaginative geography for Japan. It evokes desire, yearning, respect, and comradeship as well as disdain, hostility, fear, and the enigmatic. This is due to China's unambiguous dominance and cultural influence in the premodern era, its subjection and resistance to European and Japanese imperialism, its postwar communist revitalizatio…
Globalization, East Asian media cultures and their publics
In the last two decades, media and cultural globalization has reached another level of development and penetration. While various (national) media markets have been penetrated and integrated by the powerful missionaries of global media culture such as News Corporation, Disney and Time Warner, the development of East Asian media cultural production and inter-Asian media co-production, circulation and consumption has become no less conspicuous. On …
De-Westernization and the governance of global cultural connectivity
2010). De-Westernization and the governance of global cultural connectivity: a dialogic approach to East Asian media cultures. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 13, Contemporary East Asia, in theory, pp. 403-419
Dialogue with the Korean Wave
Since the mid-1990s, East Asian media fl ows and connections have been intensifi ed. Media markets have rapidly expanded and transnational partnerships have been closely formed among media corporations that pursue marketing strategies and joint production ventures spanning several different markets. The circulation of popular culture is no longer limited to the national borders but fi nds a broader transnational acceptance in the region, leading …
Symptomatic transformations
Introduction The increasing spread of its media culture in the world is perhaps one of the most significant changes occurring in the last ten years or so regarding contemporary Japan. The perception of Japan as a faceless economic power has been displaced by an image of a cultural power that produces and disseminates ‘cool’ and ‘cute’ cultures to many parts of the world such as animated movies, comics, video games, characters, fashion, food, film…
Lost in TransNation
The 2003 film Lost in Translation has attracted both acclaim and critique concerning its representation of the urban imaginary of Tokyo. Examining both the film representation and the critical responses to the imaginary, this paper discusses how they illuminate some of the emerging issues that Tokyo and Japan face in the era of globalization, such as the loss of the idiosyncratic status of non‐Western modernity that Japan has long enjoyed; post‐(…
Au-delà du « Cool Japan », la globalisation culturelle
Leaving Aside “Cool Japan”... Things we’ve got to discuss about media and cultural globalization The spread of Japanese media culture to many parts of the world has been domestically and internationally acclaimed for its cultural creativity that stands out from its American counterparts and for its promotion of Japan’s “soft power.” However, such an affirmative discourse tends to ignore how it has been occurring in the uneven globalization proces…
East Asian Pop Culture
The contributors analyse the subject of Asian pop culture arranged under three headings: 'Television Industry in East Asia', 'Transnational-Crosscultural Receptions of TV Dramas' and 'Nationalistic reactions
Recentering Globalization
Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western—particularly American—popular culture. Yet if one nation stands out the dissemination of pop culture East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokemon, anime, pop music, television dramas such as Tokyo Love Story and Long Vacation —the export of Japanese media and culture is big business. In Recentering Globalization, Koichi Iwabuchi explores how Japanese popular culture circulate…
Pop-culture diplomacy in Japan
This paper critically examines the development of what is known as ‘pop-culture diplomacy’ in Japan. In the postwar era, the country’s cultural diplomacy was propelled by the necessity to soften anti-Japan perceptions, notably in Southeast Asia. In the late 1980s, the popularity of Japanese media culture in Asia began to attract the attention of policy makers, while subsequent globalized practices of soft power and nation branding gave greater em…
De-westernisation, inter-Asian referencing and beyond
The necessity of de-westernising knowledge production has been widely advocated. This is especially pertinent with media and cultural studies, due to the rise of East Asian media cultures and their transnational circulation, hence a call for ‘looking after Europe’. This article engages the issue by considering the possibility of inter-Asian referencing and the next steps to be taken. Inter-Asian referencing is a significant manoeuvre for making c…
Marketing ‘Japan
1998). Marketing ‘Japan’: Japanese cultural presence under a global gaze. Japanese Studies: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 165-180
Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture
China is generally perceived as the manufacturer of the world. Whereas “created in China” has become one prime focus of national cultural policy (Keane 2013), the label “Made in China” continues to proliferate in global stories about abuses of labor in the production of iPhones and the massive production of steel and coal. Dovetailing with this narrative of China as the world’s factory is the image of China as a nation of copiers. After China’s e…
Complicit exoticism
(1994). Complicit exoticism: Japan and its other. Continuum: Vol. 8, Critical Multiculturalism, pp. 49-82
Nostalgia for a (Different) Asian Modernity
Research Article| August 01 2002 Nostalgia for a (Different) Asian Modernity: Media Consumption Of“asia” In Japan Koichi Iwabuchi Koichi Iwabuchi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2002) 10 (3): 547–573. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-3-547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Koichi Iwabuchi; Nostalgia for a (Different) Asian Modernity: Media Con…
Soft” nationalism and narcissism
2002). “Soft” nationalism and narcissism: Japanese popular culture goes global. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 447-469
Globalization, East Asian media cultures and their publics
In the last two decades, media and cultural globalization has reached another level of development and penetration. While various (national) media markets have been penetrated and integrated by the powerful missionaries of global media culture such as News Corporation, Disney and Time Warner, the development of East Asian media cultural production and inter-Asian media co-production, circulation and consumption has become no less conspicuous. On …
Multinationalizing the multicultural
This paper analyses the representation of foreign residents in Japan in the popular television variety show Kokoga hen dayo nihonjin (This Is So Bizarre, You Japanese). It discusses ways in which the increasing presence and visibility of foreign residents in the Japanese public space enhances the commercial value of ‘ordinariness’. In this process the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them-within-us’ are sharply re-demarcated in an international frame…
Rethinking Race and Racism in and from Japan
Recently, racism and racist discrimination have become prevalent and visible in Japan. For example, a sharp rise in racist attacks (such as ‘hate speech’ and demonstrations against Korean residents
De-Westernization and the governance of global cultural connectivity
2010). De-Westernization and the governance of global cultural connectivity: a dialogic approach to East Asian media cultures. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 13, Contemporary East Asia, in theory, pp. 403-419
Lost in TransNation
The 2003 film Lost in Translation has attracted both acclaim and critique concerning its representation of the urban imaginary of Tokyo. Examining both the film representation and the critical responses to the imaginary, this paper discusses how they illuminate some of the emerging issues that Tokyo and Japan face in the era of globalization, such as the loss of the idiosyncratic status of non‐Western modernity that Japan has long enjoyed; post‐(…
Media, communication and the struggle for social progress
This article discusses the role of media and communications in contributing to social progress, as elaborated in a landmark international project – the International Panel on Social Progress. First, it analyses how media and digital platforms have contributed to global inequality by examining media access and infrastructure across world regions. Second, it looks at media governance and the different mechanisms of corporatized control over media p…
Introduction
This article introduces the special issue, Everyday Multiculturalism in/across Asia. It provides an overview of the international and inter-disciplinary research papers included in the special issue which all speak to the concept of everyday multiculturalism by critically engaging with the extent to which core aspects relate to different contexts in and across Asia. Papers in this collection encompass research undertaken in Australia, Hong Kong, …
Against Banal Inter-nationalism
Return to Asia? Japan in the Global Audio-Visual Market
Making neo-nationalist subject in Japan
This article considers how digital media communication reconfigures a “neo-nationalist subject” in the Japanese context. A neo-nationalist subject is not the so-called modern national subject that maintains a shared, collective identity as the rationale regulating his or her decisions and behavior, but rather is a fragmented subject that, in view of “the decline of symbolic efficiency,” is open to discourses that others are in effect stealing his…
Transcultural media practices fostering cosmopolitan ethos in a digital age
The increasingly transnational reach of East Asian media suggests that East Asia has become an ever more de-territorialized media zone. But what has been relatively neglected in the extant scholarship is in-depth consideration of how East Asian media culture has been transnationalised beyond the geographic boundaries of Asia, especially in the context of accelerating online content distribution. In this article, we propose that Australia provides…
In search of proximate enemies
The post-Cold War context has accompanied the ascent of East Asian economies and consumer markets, as exemplified by China, while Japan's experience has been marked by the struggle with an economic slump after the collapse of the so-called bubble economy. Japan has been actively promoting ‘cool Japan’ instead of the economy, but even more notable is the rise of the Korean Wave. Joined together with political contestation over historical issues, a…
The examination system in pre-war Japan
Complicit exoticism
(1994). Complicit exoticism: Japan and its other. Continuum: Vol. 8, Critical Multiculturalism, pp. 49-82
Return to Asia? Japan in the Global Audio-Visual Market
Return to Asia
A pendulum of Japanese history is slowly swinging towards return to Asia again, with the ascent of Asian economic power. In the audiovisual market, the Japanese cultural industry is becoming keen to enter the Asian market by producing 'localised' cultural products based upon the strategy of 'global localisation'; global corporations should be sensitive to local preference while spreading standardised commodities. In this 'return to Asia', Japan c…
Marketing ‘Japan
1998). Marketing ‘Japan’: Japanese cultural presence under a global gaze. Japanese Studies: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 165-180
Uses of Japanese Popular Culture
Soft” nationalism and narcissism
2002). “Soft” nationalism and narcissism: Japanese popular culture goes global. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 447-469
Recentering Globalization
Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western—particularly American—popular culture. Yet if one nation stands out the dissemination of pop culture East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokemon, anime, pop music, television dramas such as Tokyo Love Story and Long Vacation —the export of Japanese media and culture is big business. In Recentering Globalization, Koichi Iwabuchi explores how Japanese popular culture circulate…
Nostalgia for a (Different) Asian Modernity
Research Article| August 01 2002 Nostalgia for a (Different) Asian Modernity: Media Consumption Of“asia” In Japan Koichi Iwabuchi Koichi Iwabuchi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2002) 10 (3): 547–573. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-3-547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Koichi Iwabuchi; Nostalgia for a (Different) Asian Modernity: Media Con…
How “Japanese” Is Pokémon
Rogue Flows
"Rogue Flows brings together some of the best and most knowledgeable writers on consumption and cultural theory to chart the under-explored field of cultural flows and consumption across different regions in Asia, and the importance of these flows in creating contemporary Asian national identities. It offers innovative possibilities for envisioning how the transfer of popular and consumer culture (such as TV, music, film, advertising and commodit…
Feeling Asian Modernities
The recent transnational reach of Japanese television dramas in East and Southeast Asia is unprecedented, and not simply in terms of the range and scale of diffusion, but also of the intense sympathy many young Asians feel toward the characters in Japanese dramas, so that they cope with their own modern lives by emulating the lives on screen. Through the empirical analysis of how Japanese youth dramas are (re)produced, circulated, regulated, and …
Pikachu's Global Adventure
In the last years of the last millennium, a new consumer phenomenon developed in Japan and swept across the globe.Pokémon, which began life as a piece of software to be played on Nintendo's Game Boy (a hand-held gaming computer), quickly diversified into a comic book, a television show, a movie, trading cards, stickers, small toys, and ancillary products such as backpacks and T-shirts.Entering into production and licensing agreements with Japanes…
Multinationalizing the multicultural
This paper analyses the representation of foreign residents in Japan in the popular television variety show Kokoga hen dayo nihonjin (This Is So Bizarre, You Japanese). It discusses ways in which the increasing presence and visibility of foreign residents in the Japanese public space enhances the commercial value of ‘ordinariness’. In this process the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them-within-us’ are sharply re-demarcated in an international frame…
Dialogue with the Korean Wave
Since the mid-1990s, East Asian media fl ows and connections have been intensifi ed. Media markets have rapidly expanded and transnational partnerships have been closely formed among media corporations that pursue marketing strategies and joint production ventures spanning several different markets. The circulation of popular culture is no longer limited to the national borders but fi nds a broader transnational acceptance in the region, leading …
Symptomatic transformations
Introduction The increasing spread of its media culture in the world is perhaps one of the most significant changes occurring in the last ten years or so regarding contemporary Japan. The perception of Japan as a faceless economic power has been displaced by an image of a cultural power that produces and disseminates ‘cool’ and ‘cute’ cultures to many parts of the world such as animated movies, comics, video games, characters, fashion, food, film…
Lost in TransNation
The 2003 film Lost in Translation has attracted both acclaim and critique concerning its representation of the urban imaginary of Tokyo. Examining both the film representation and the critical responses to the imaginary, this paper discusses how they illuminate some of the emerging issues that Tokyo and Japan face in the era of globalization, such as the loss of the idiosyncratic status of non‐Western modernity that Japan has long enjoyed; post‐(…
Au-delà du « Cool Japan », la globalisation culturelle
Leaving Aside “Cool Japan”... Things we’ve got to discuss about media and cultural globalization The spread of Japanese media culture to many parts of the world has been domestically and internationally acclaimed for its cultural creativity that stands out from its American counterparts and for its promotion of Japan’s “soft power.” However, such an affirmative discourse tends to ignore how it has been occurring in the uneven globalization proces…
East Asian Pop Culture
The contributors analyse the subject of Asian pop culture arranged under three headings: 'Television Industry in East Asia', 'Transnational-Crosscultural Receptions of TV Dramas' and 'Nationalistic reactions
"China," Japan's Chimera, and Media Cultural Globalization
"China," Japan's Chimera, and Media Cultural Globalization Koichi Iwabuchi (bio) China has long been a significant imaginative geography for Japan. It evokes desire, yearning, respect, and comradeship as well as disdain, hostility, fear, and the enigmatic. This is due to China's unambiguous dominance and cultural influence in the premodern era, its subjection and resistance to European and Japanese imperialism, its postwar communist revitalizatio…
Globalization, East Asian media cultures and their publics
In the last two decades, media and cultural globalization has reached another level of development and penetration. While various (national) media markets have been penetrated and integrated by the powerful missionaries of global media culture such as News Corporation, Disney and Time Warner, the development of East Asian media cultural production and inter-Asian media co-production, circulation and consumption has become no less conspicuous. On …
De-Westernization and the governance of global cultural connectivity
2010). De-Westernization and the governance of global cultural connectivity: a dialogic approach to East Asian media cultures. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 13, Contemporary East Asia, in theory, pp. 403-419
De-westernisation, inter-Asian referencing and beyond
The necessity of de-westernising knowledge production has been widely advocated. This is especially pertinent with media and cultural studies, due to the rise of East Asian media cultures and their transnational circulation, hence a call for ‘looking after Europe’. This article engages the issue by considering the possibility of inter-Asian referencing and the next steps to be taken. Inter-Asian referencing is a significant manoeuvre for making c…
Against Banal Inter-nationalism
Cultural flows
Political science (29 works) · Japanese History and Culture (28 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (27 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Law (19 works) · Geography (14 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (14 works) · China (13 works) · Media studies (13 works) · Politics (13 works)