Assembling Japan

Griseldis Kirsch is Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her most recent publications include ‘Next-Door-Divas: Japanese Tarento, Television and Consumption’ (2014, in Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema) and Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen: A History, 1989–2005 (2015).Dolores P. Martinez is Emeritus Reader in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and a research associate at the University of Oxford. Her most recent publications include Remaking Kurosawa (2009) and Gender in Japanese Society (2014).Merry White is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University and a research associate at Harvard University’s E. O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Her most recent publications include Coffee Life in Japan (2013) and a cookbook, Cooking for Crowds (2014).

• Contents: Griseldis Kirsch/Dolores P. Martinez: Japan as an Assemblage – Merry White: Cafe Society in Japan: Global Coffee and Urban Space – Christine R. Yano: «A Japanese in Every Jet»: Globalism and Gendered Service in the Jet Age – Joy Hendry: Rewrapping the Message: Museums, Healing and Communicative Power – Wolfram Manzenreiter/John Horne: Football in the Community: Global Culture, Local Needs and Diversity in Japan – Griseldis Kirsch: Relocating Japan? Japan, China and the West in Japanese Television Dramas – Bruce White: Japanese Reggae and the Def Tech Phenomenon: Global Paths to Intra-cultural Pluralism – Heung-wah Wong/Hoi-yan Yau: The More I Shop at Yaohan, the More I Become a Heung Gong Yahn (Hongkongese): Japan and the Formation of a Hong Kong Identity – Dolores P. Martinez: Global Technologies, Local Interventions: Or Musings on Japanese Film – Hirofumi Katsuno: Branding Humanoid Japan – Griseldis Kirsch/Wolfram Manzenreiter/John Horne/Merry White/Hirofumi Katsuno/Dolores P. Martinez: Afterword: Reassembling after 3/11.