Nostalgia for a (different) Asian modernity: Media consumption of "Asia" in Japan

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Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 547-573

  Iwabuchi, Koichi ^a  

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EID: 33748794143     PISSN: 10679847     EISSN: 15278271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10679847-10-3-547     Document Type: Article

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1. For the analysis of the recent new Asianism in Japan sec, e.g., Tessa Morris-Suzuki, "Invisible Countries: Japan and the Asian Dream," Asian Studies Review 22, no. 1 (1998): 5-22
2. See Fred Davis, Yearning for Yesterday: A Sociology of Nostalgia (New York: Free Press, 1979)
3. and Susan Stewart, On hanging: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984; rpt, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993)
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10. For example, Elle Japon (July, November 1997)
11. Crea (January 1997, January 1996)
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13. "Mitai, shiritai, Ajia ga kōfun" [We want to know more about exciting Asia], Créa, November 1994, 72-80
14. In the early 1990s, Japanese women's fascination with "pure" beach hoys in Southeast Asia attracted media attention. They are often described in a derogatory way as women's equivalent of Japanese "sex tourism," though some women actually migrated to Bali. See Yarnashita Shinji, "'Minami' e: Bari kankō no naka no Nihonjm" [To the "South": Japanese and tourism in Bali], in Kōza Bunkajinruigaku [Lecture series: Cultural anthropology), vol. 7, Idō no Mmzokushi [Ethnographies of ethno-flows], ed. Aoki T. et al. (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1996), 31-60
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26. Hara, Honkon Chūdoku
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