2016/01/01 by Toshio Miyake · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Japanese History and Culture #Asian Culture and Media Studies #Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
paper · doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55143-6_8
openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Following the publication of revisionist manga series such as Sensōron (On War, 1998–2003, 3 vols.) by Yoshinori Kobayashi, Japanese comics and popular cultures have attracted increasing attention within the heated public debate surrounding issues of history, national identity, and youth (Sakamoto 2008). Public discussion on historical revisionism and school textbooks has been so far to a large amount shaped by political or ideological interpretations about the past, present, and future of the nation. However, some commentators have pinpointed the emergence of radical changes within new generations in Japan in regard to their self-perception and identity, and to their relationship with the nation as an imagined community , noting the emergence of a post-ideological or post-modern sensibility, increasingly indifferent to modernist, content-based, true versus false or good versus evil dialectics, which continues to inform the evaluative horizon of both conservative and progressive institutional discourses (Honda 2007). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.