Precarity's Pirate
The Fictive Afterlives of Idemitsu Sazō
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3606744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Leheny (0000-0001-6420-1221, Waseda University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 673-687 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911822000547 |
| OpenAlex | W4281684879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
When the famously nationalistic Japanese author Hyakuta Naoki published his best-selling novelA Man Called Pirate(Kaizoku to yobareta otoko) in 2012, which subsequently became both a manga and a major film, he renewed interest in the midcentury oil baron Idemitsu Sazō, using him as the model for the novel's lead character. Hyakuta claims to have aimed to inspire the country, reeling from decades of slow growth as well as the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, by featuring a visionary Japanese leader motivated primarily by love for his employees and his country. This article traces the efforts across these media to render Idemitsu as a credible character, particularly in dealing with his real-life family as well as his "family" of employees. It argues that the partial disappearance of the "real" Idemitsu in these versions of Hyakuta's novel allowed the production of a more believable one-made believable in part because of the essential Japanese values that he ostensibly represents, even as the constraints on these representations hint at fissures and tensions in contemporary political use of biographical fiction and film
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics) · Literature · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law
The melodramatic imagination
It Was Like a Fever
Precarious Japan
The State and Labor in Modern Japan
The Business of the Japanese State
Think Global, Fear Local
Fights on the Right
Reforming Japanese-style management
Introduction
Narrative in Political Science
Synthetic Experiences
A Roadmap to Millennial Japan
History, Historiography, and Political Science
Taking Temporality Seriously
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |