The "Japan Is Great!" Boom, Historical Revisionism, and the Government
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2134391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tomomi Yamaguchi (0000-0003-4681-2808) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 17 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1557466017013377 |
| OpenAlex | W4408501286 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
As the Tokyo Shimbun reported in its recent article, the expression "Japan Is Great!" and a distinctive nationalistic sentiment associated with it flood the mass media in Japan today. Journalists and television personalities praise Japan ad nauseam. Hayakawa Tadanori is an editor and writer who has extensively covered this "Japan-Is-Great" phenomenon. Analyzing issues surrounding nationalism and propaganda both in pre-war and contemporary Japan, he examines topics ranging from patriotic mobilization in pre-war and war-time Japan to post-war propaganda promoting nuclear energy. His most recent book, The Dystopia of "Japan Is Great": The Genealogy of Singing One's Own Praises in Wartime ("Nihon sugoi" no disutopia: senjika jiga jisan no keifu, Seikyūsha, 2016) analyzes "precursors to the current 'Japan Is Great!' discourse" in publications between 1925 and 1945
Boom · Economic history · Linguistics · Political science · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Geology · Oceanography
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |