Empire of Hope The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline 1st Edition by David Leheny ISBN 150172908X 9781501729089

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ISBN 10: 150172908X 
ISBN 13: 9781501729089
Author: David Leheny

Empire of Hope asks how emotions become meaningful in political life. In a diverse array of cases from recent Japanese history, David Leheny shows how sentimental portrayals of the nation and its global role reflect a durable story of hopefulness about the country’s postwar path. From the medical treatment of conjoined Vietnamese children, victims of Agent Orange, the global promotion of Japanese popular culture, a tragic maritime accident involving a US Navy submarine, to the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, this story has shaped the way in which political figures, writers, officials, and observers have depicted what the nation feels.

Expressions of national emotion do several things: they construct the boundaries of the national body, they inform and discipline appropriate expression, and they depoliticize messy problems that threaten to produce divisive questions about winners and losers. Most important, they work because they appear to be natural, simple and expected expressions of how the nation shares feeling, even when they paper over the extraordinary divergence in how the nation’s citizens experience each incident. In making its arguments, Empire of Hope challenges how we read the relations between emotion and politics by arguing—unlike those who build from the neuroscientific turn in the social sciences or those developing affect theory in the humanities—that the focus should be on emotional representation rather than on emotion itself.

Empire of Hope The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Empire

• The Early Years: From Imperial Expansion to Post-War Reconstruction
• Japan’s Economic Boom and the Mirage of Eternal Success
• The Beginnings of Decline: Structural and Societal Changes

Chapter 2: Sentimentality and National Identity

• The Role of Sentiment in Shaping Modern Japanese Politics
• Cultural Memory and National Pride: Revisiting the Glory Days
• How Sentimentality Shapes Public Perception of Decline

Chapter 3: The Politics of Nostalgia

• The Revival of Nationalism and Imperial Sentiment
• The Myth of Japanese Exceptionalism
• Nostalgic Politics in the Media, Education, and Popular Culture

Chapter 4: Economic Stagnation and the Lost Decade

• Analyzing Japan’s Economic Crisis of the 1990s
• The End of the Bubble Economy and Shifting Global Power
• How Economic Decline Fueled Sentimental Politics

Chapter 5: The Demographic Crisis: Aging and Decline

• Japan’s Aging Population and its Political Ramifications
• The Impact of a Shrinking Workforce on Economic and Social Systems
• Political Responses to Demographic Change and Decline

Chapter 6: Japan’s Security and the Changing Role in the World

• Post-War Pacifism and Japan’s Security Policies
• Shifting Alliances in the Asia-Pacific Region
• Sentimental Politics and Japan’s Identity on the Global Stage

Chapter 7: The Political Elite and Sentimental Leadership

• The Role of Political Leaders in Fostering National Sentiment
• Sentimentality and Leadership Styles: From Koizumi to Abe
• Nationalism as a Tool for Political Mobilization

Chapter 8: The Impact of Globalization on Japanese Sentiment

• Japan’s Reaction to Globalization: A Clash of Nationalism and Global Trends
• Economic Dependence and Cultural Identity in a Globalized World
• The Challenge of Maintaining Hope in a Global Context

Chapter 9: Hope and Disillusionment: Japan’s Political Future

• The Struggle for Political Reform in Times of Decline
• Reimagining Japan’s Role: Looking Beyond Sentimental Politics
• The Future of Japan’s National Identity and International Standing

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