- 288 pages
- English
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About this book
This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan’s remarkable post–World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan’s globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the “yellow peril,” and formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency, a remarkable shift was happening in countless local places throughout the United States: Japanese goods were remaking American consumer life and injecting contemporary globalization into U.S. commerce and culture. What impact did the flood of billions of Japanese things have on the ways Americans produced, consumed, and thought about their place in the world?
From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.
From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Resurrecting the Ordinary in U.S.-Japan Relations
- One: Japan Won the Cold War, and Other Strange Ideas from an Era of Ideological Change
- Two: Wakarimasuka
- Three: Ohayō I
- Four: Ohayō II
- Five: A Medium but Not a Message
- Six: Authenticity in a Hybrid World
- Seven: You Are Not Alone!
- Epilogue: Back to the Future in U.S.-Japan Relations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index