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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788131103321

Autore

Iwabuchi KoĢ„ichi <1960->

Titolo

Resilient Borders and Cultural Diversity : Internationalism, Brand Nationalism, and Multiculturalism in Japan / / Koichi Iwabuchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington Books

ISBN

1-4985-0227-X

Disciplina

303.48/252

Soggetti

Multiculturalism - Japan

Internationalism - Economic aspects - Japan

Nationalism - Japan

Business names - Political aspects - Japan

Globalization - Political aspects - Japan

Marketing - Political aspects - Japan

Mass media - Political aspects - Japan

Japan Relations

Japan Ethnic relations

Japan Commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Media culture globalization and national border transgression -- Banal inter-nationalism and its others -- Cool Japan, brand nationalism and the public interest -- Lost in trans-nation : post-Orientalism and actually existing multicultural reality -- Making it multinational : media representation of multicultural Japan -- The Korean wave and the dis/empowering of resident Koreans in Japan -- East Asian media culture connections, inter-Asian referencing and cross-border dialogue.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book discusses how the evolution of market-driven cultural globalization has reinforced the administration of national cultural borders in Japan. As a result of these processes, a particular kind of cross-border connectivity and exchange is embraced while cross-border dialogue and engagement with multicultural questions within



Japan are discouraged"--Provided by publisher.