1. 日本研究 (Japanese Society)
Chris Burgess (1号館1308研究室、内線164)

2. Attendance cards in あいうえお order by family name （=名字）
Saki
Saki
Sign here!
Attendance cards in あいうえお order by family name （=名字）

4. Last Week: National Character as an ideological construction

5. 国民性調査と国際比較調査 http://www.ism.ac.jp/kokuminsei/index.html
From Sugimoto (2010: 15)
Kinben=hard-working, diligent
国民性調査と国際比較調査

6. 豪州における対日世論調査（結果） 外務省 2006年6月
Nouritsuteki=efficient
Yushikisha=leaders/elite
外務省　2006年6月

7. Japanese have not always been perceived as hard-working…

8. Reports by German missionaries in Japan, end of 19th century
宣教師
Reports by German missionaries in Japan, end of 19th century
“The steady, systematic work to which we Nordic people were educated is unknown here on the average. “
“The Japanese worker is hardly willing to submit himself to the military discipline which according to our standards must rule the modern factory. He takes his holiday whenever he likes, he comes and goes as he pleases, and if he is scolded for such behavior, he leaves the company.”

9. Re-inventing Japan How do we distinguish between people?
Is nation the major (or even only important) distinguishing category?!?
Where do we draw the lines?
What gives us the confidence to sum up 127 million ‘Japanese’ in a single word?
What categories of thought underlie concepts of nationhood?
How are they used to create an image of ‘Japan’

10. Drawing Lines: Island Scenario
Thinking about Nationality as our Dominant Identity…

11. Nation as the dominant (only?) identity or category
"The idea of a person without nation seems to impose a strain on the modern imagination. A person must have a nationality as they must have a nose and two ears. All this seems obvious, though, alas, it is not true. But that it has come to appear so very obviously true is indeed an aspect, perhaps the very core, of the problem of nationalism. Having a nation is not an inherent attribute of humanity, but it has now come to appear as such."
Ernest Gellner (1983: 6)
Nationality has become the dominant, major distinguishing category…

12. Nationality is a Recent Invention
‘Invented’ in Europe at the end of C. 18th
Developed mid C. 19th thanks to the emergence of ‘print-capitalism’ (出版資本主義)
Idea of nation emerged later in Japan
“The modern Japanese state…is an artificial construct whose boundaries were drawn in the 2nd half of the 19th century” TMS
明治３２（１８９９）年に国籍法が制定されるまで、国籍という概念が存在していなかった

13. Drawing Lines: Island Scenario
Concrete examples please!
(culture, lifestyle, values etc = too vague!)

14. FRONT 1 6 2 7 8 3 4 9
Japanese students separate by student number (last digit). International students number in attendance books 5

15. GROUP
UK+UKJP+JP
UK+JP
KEY FACTORS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16. Next Week: Who are the Japanese?

17. Who is the ‘typical’ Japanese?
Mr Yamamoto?
Ms Tanaka?

18. Readings: On TsudaNet ポータル
Readings for the following week can be accessed at least one week before (i.e. now!)

19. Read Chapter 1 (“Who are the Japanese?”) in:
This will help during next week’s activity!

20. 日本研究演習(英語)Ａ Chris Burgess (1号館1308研究室、内線164)
Ziyi Zhang and Ken Watanabe in Columbia Pictures‘ Memoirs of a Geisha – due out Dec (US)
Chris Burgess (1号館1308研究室、内線164)

21. Last Week: The Samurai Spirit
Yukio Mishima: Japanese novelist and playwright, whose central theme is the dichotomy between traditional Japanese values and the spiritual barrenness of contemporary life.
He was hated by leftists, in particular for his outspoken and anachronistic commitment to bushido, the code of the samurai

22. Last Week: The Samurai Spirit
Remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état on November 25, 1970
1985 film interweaves episodes from his life with dramatizations of segments from his books The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses.
"It's the one I'd stand by – as a screenwriter it's Taxi Driver, but as a director it's
Mishima“
Paul Schrader
Final scenes:
Speaking in English:
Co-written and directed by Paul Schrader in Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas served as executive producers (日本未公開)

23. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b50vS55sFYU
Final scene:

24. Wakata Returns from Space
Wakata’s motto was to have the “Japanese spirit of harmony, or wa.”
“He exerted Japanese-style leadership and completed the mission honorably,” said Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga
May 15, 2014

25. Wakata: First Japanese Commander of International Space Station
Japan News 2013/11/9p3
Yomiuri 2013/11/08 p.3