Daniel White, "Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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The Difference Between Nationalism and National Culture
A japan foundation official adopts an approach which is committed far less to national security in terms of defense. who are much more concerned with sharing and communicating um japanese many different forms of culture popular and otherwise. These are two different ideas of nationalism and national culture within a single administrative body i mean within the national government at at large but both ideas and both figures are incorporated under the umbrella of soft power so by showing that difference between these two different kinds of bureaucrats i'm trying to show how a wide variety of personal feelings one might have for the nation are channeled toward the state in different ways through the process of administration.
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