Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan

Katarzyna Cwiertka is professor Modern Japan Studies at the University of Leiden. Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is Chair of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University and an established expert on the food history of modern Japan. Cwiertka is managing co-editor of the journal Global Food History and editor-in-chief of Worldwide Waste: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. Ewa Machotka is associate professor of Japanese language and culture at Stockholm University.

Edited books offer varied and diverse views of a particular phenomenon; it is one of the advantages of an edited volume on a given subject. Social themes in general lend themselves well to such a format, and that is certainly true in the case for contemporary consumption patterns in modern societies. And in this aspect, Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan: A Transdisciplinary Perspective is indeed a success. It is a work that provides interesting insights into a variety of contemporary forms of consumption.- Anthony Rausch, newbooks.asia (2021), A very adroit look at post-bubble Japan through its social economics and culture, from robots to garbage, fashion to food. I will use it with enthusiasm in graduate and undergraduate courses.- Merry White, Boston University

• Acknowledgements, Notes to the Reader, Introduction, Post-Bubble Japanese Department Stores, Consumption of Fast Fashion in Japan, Konbini-Nation, Serving the Nation, Consuming Domesticity in Post-Bubble Japan, The Metamorphosis of Excess, Robot Reincarnation, Art and Consumption in Post-Bubble Japan, The Fate of Landscape in Post-War Japanese Art and Visual Culture, Consuming Eco-Art, Artistic Recycling in Japan Today, Notes on Contributors, Index