Daniel White, "Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Soft Power an Affective History of the Politically Possible
In many sort of history stories Japanese ethnographies of Japan there's very much a common narrative told about Japan's recent political history. So the story is it's often told goes something like this and I'm giving this story because I want to tell a rather different story. The main story says that after World War II, Japan went through an period of high economic growth or kodosacho as it's often called in Japanese. This led to what some have dubbed the lost decade which was characterized by things like the loss of lifetime employment but also deflated morale. Now despite further efforts to regenerate Japan's economy through further liberalization policies Japan's economy has continued to stagnate now through two three
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