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ISBN 10: 0415215013
ISBN 13: 9780415215015
Author: Joy Hendry
This book explores the myth, so abused by the mass media, that the Japanese are a grey, anonymous mass of efficient, obedient workers. The articles shed light on a Japan outside officialdom, a lively Japan of tumultuous and independent thought, inefficient and aesthetic, pleasure-loving, aggressive and wasteful, creative and anti-authoritarian. The book’s truly international contributors examine the role in modern Japanese society of a range of leisure and play activities, from drinking to travel, football to karaoke, tattoos to rock fandom. They explore how things which seem like play in one context are deadly serious in another, and how the fun and enjoyment may be achieved in unexpected ways. They also draw attention to the importance of such activities in understanding the deeper structure and meaning pervading all areas of the society in which they take place. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Sociology, Anthropology and Cultural Studies.
Japan at Play 1st Table of contents:
1 The Japanese tattoo
Play or purpose?
2 Interpreting the world as a ken game
3 Kono sekai (the Japanese gay scene)
Communities or just playing around?
4 Karakuri
The ludic relationship between man and machine in Tokugawa Japan
5 Ludic elements in Japanese attitudes to tsukuru
6 Saved by the love song
Japanese rock fans, memory and the pursuit of pleasure
7 Inakazumō, fun, and socially sanctioned violence
8 At the interstices
Drinking, management, and temporary groups in a local Japanese organization
9 Training for leisure
Karaoke and the seriousness of play in Japan
10 Is there a Japanese way of playing?
11 When the goal is not a goal
Japanese school football players working hard at their game
12 Professional soccer in Japan
13 Japan in the world of Johan Huizinga
14 The countryside reinvented for urban tourists
Rural transformation in the Japanese muraokoshi movement
15 From curing and playing, to leisure
Two Japanese hot springs: Arima and Kinosaki onsen
16 Illegal fishing and power games
17 Hunters and hikers
Rival recreations in the Japanese forest
18 Japan at play in TDL (Tokyo Disneyland)
The dialectics of asobi and rejā
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