Kusanagi Tsuyoshi x Chonangang: Transcending Japanese/Korean Ethnic Boundaries in Japanese Popular Culture

In the last ten years or so, interest among the Japanese in their Korean neighbour has increased significantly. Yet, before the Korean Wave hit Japan in the early 2000s, Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, member of popular Japanese boy-band SMAP, had already débuted and gained popularity as Chonangang, his Korean alter-self. From releasing a Korean pop-music single to interviewing South Korean Presidents on Japanese national television, it is undeniable that Kusanagi (and Chonangang) has brought Korea closer to the hearts of the Japanese. In this paper, I argue that Kusanagi's performances of and as Chonangang create a polyglotic, hybrid identity that functions as a “third space” through which notions of an underlying, essential Japanese (and Korean) identity can be destabilised. Beyond mere entertainment, Kusanagi's adoption of an identity position that is neither Japanese nor Korean, yet also both Japanese and Korean, enables the articulation of difference and hybridity which, I contend, has direct relevance to Japan–Korea and Japanese–resident Korean relations.     

A research report on Japanese use of chemical weapons during the Second World War

This research report introduces the historical process of Japanese use of chemical weapons against the Chinese during the Second World War, which caused serious casualties and mass destruction. In addition, it also elaborates on the discarded chemical weapons' injuries to the Chinese people and their negative effects on environmental pollution. According to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which became effective in 1997, Japan should take responsibility for destroying all chemical weapons abandoned on Chinese territory.     

Inō Kanori's “history” of taiwan: colonial ethnology,the civilizing mission and struggles for survival in east asia

This paper presents an ethnographic portrait and analysis of the historical development of heritage tourism in a Southern French village. Using the occasion of a failed village fête in the summer of 1997 as a focus, it details the local and regional factors that have influenced the emergence of heritage tourism in the village, and outlines the conflicts that have arisen over it. Such conflicts appear to lie behind the fête's failure, and the paper addresses in particular the reinvention of local cuisine, as much local heritage tourism centres on the consumption of food products. Theoretically, the paper demonstrates the benefits of considering heritage in relation to Munn's symbolic theory of temporality: such an analysis permits a detailed consideration of exactly what is at issue in the social production and consumption of heritage. However, the paper stresses the importance of locating such an analysis within a material, historical framework.     

近十年来中国的日本企业终身雇佣制研究综述

近十年来,我国学者对日本企业终身雇佣制展开了广泛的研究。本文就终身雇佣制概念的界定、上世纪90年代后终身雇佣制变化的原因、日本企业终身雇佣制未来走势的研究成果进行综述,并加以评论。     

当前日本经济的复苏与风险

从20世纪80年代末到本世纪初的10多年间,日本经历了战后以来最为严重的经济衰退。泡沫经济崩溃后,为了恢复经济,20世纪90年代以来日本政府推出过大大小小的经济对策不计其数,经历了多年艰难调整后,改革取得了明显的成效,延续了10多年的经济衰退和停滞终于结束,实现了经济的全面复苏。但另一方面,当前在日本经济增长和复苏的过程中,潜在的危机隐患依然存在,经济复苏是否能够持续下去仍然是个悬念,不能排除经济增长减缓或出现新一轮衰退的可能。     

对日和约与朝鲜停战谈判

朝鲜战争的爆发迫使美国最终确定了单独媾和的对日和约新方针,并且期待战局好转而实现对日媾和;美国为了阻止中国出席旧金山会议,在对日和约签订之前采取了拖延谈判的策略;旧金山会议后美国急于停战,而因对日和约在远东陷入困境和被动局面的苏联和中国却决心在停战谈判中坚持强硬的和不妥协的立场,以便在朝鲜战场吸引和消耗美国的力量。这就是在冷战大背景下对日和约与朝鲜停战谈判之间的微妙关系。     

满铁与日本的中国东北移民

满铁作为日本“国策会社”,在日本向中国东北移民过程中,通过设置调查机关,投资成立移民执行机构,建立具有自身特色的移民组织等活动,大力支持并积极参与日本移民侵略。由于满铁与日本军方特殊的密切关系,也必然决定了其在日本对中国东北移民活动中,扮演着策划者和执行者的重要角色。     

留日士官生与晚清军事现代化

晚清以降,积弱不振的清王朝在内忧外患的冲击下,被动地迈开了富国强兵的步子,接连向日本派遣了大批留学生,专习陆军,这些留日士官生在学成归国后,被充实到各个军事部门。他们无论在主持军事教育,还是在充任现役军官方面,均做出了不同程度的贡献,极大地推动了中国军事现代化进程。     

Gardens and the Bush: Gardeners’ Attitudes,Garden Types and Invasives

Garden plants that invade native vegetation can be a threat to native ecosystems. The species composition of gardens near the bush in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia is shown to relate to environmental variation and the attitudes of gardeners to their recreation, to native plants and to the bush. Four types of gardens are discriminated: the species‐poor shrub garden; the local native garden; the woodland garden; and the gardenesque. A group of gardeners who valued functional gardens, and the hard work in creating a garden, largely produced gardenesque outcomes. A strongly conservationist group of gardeners had native, woodland or shrub gardens. A group of gardeners who valued romance and privacy largely had woodland gardens. A small group of gardeners who liked gardens to create themselves, and preferred to minimize the act of gardening, tended to the shrub garden outcome. Plant species that invade the bush are least frequent in the more manicured shrub and gardenesque styles of garden than in the more informal local native and woodland gardens, in a dissonance between expressed attitudes and outcomes. Most of the most invasive weeds in the bush are shown to be independent of their occurrence in adjacent gardens, suggesting that integrated control programs involving both all gardeners within dispersal range, and bush managers, are necessary. The existence of a small number of respondents who see benefits in environmental weeds in their gardens, suggests that such programs would be ineffective without regulation, a solution offered by no respondent. However, regulation might be ineffective without community understanding, the raising of which was the main solution suggested by the interviewed gardeners.     

福泽谕吉的中国批判与日本民族主义

日本近代启蒙思想家福泽谕吉蔑视亚洲,对中国、朝鲜乃至亚洲进行了颇为极端的批判和诟骂。他申言“脱亚入欧”,主张用武力干涉中朝事务,尔后又为战争辩诬。其言行与帝国主义行为适相表里,与二战后日本美化侵略逃避战争责任之遁词亦若合符节。剖解福泽的极端民族主义及其思想遗患,不仅有助于理解日本民族主义之思想根源,还将有益于对福泽思想之复杂性进行整体性把握和认识。