The University and the ‘‘Global Economy’’: The Cases of the United States and Japan

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction Harry Harootunian and Tomiko Yoda 1
4. A Roadmap to Millennial Japan 16
5. The University and the ‘‘Global Economy’’: The Cases of the United States and Japan 54
6. The University, Disciplines, National Identity: Why Is There No Film Studies in Japan? 81
7. Japan’s Long Postwar: The Trick of Memory and the Ruse of History 98
8. National Subjectivity and the Uses of Atonement in the Age of Recession 122
9. ‘‘Give Me Japan and Nothing Else!’’: Postcoloniality, Identity, and the Traces of Colonialism 142
10. ‘‘You Asians’’: On the Historical Role of the West and Asia Binary 167
11. Revenge and Recapitation in Recessionary Japan 195
12. The ‘‘Wild Child’’ of 1990s Japan 216
13. The Rise and Fall of Maternal Society: Gender, Labor, and Capital in Contemporary Japan 239
14. Representation, Reality Culture, and Global Capitalism in Japan 275
15. Monsieur le Capital and Madame la Terre Do Their Ghost-Dance: Globalization and the Nation-State 299
16. New-Age Fetishes, Monsters, and Friends: Pokémon Capitalism at the Millennium 331
17. Otaku Movement 358
18. A Drifting World Fair: Cultural Politics of Environment in the Local/Global Context of Contemporary Japan 395
19. Angelus Novus in Millennial Japan 415
20. Contributors 439
21. Index 443