cool japan

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Japanese

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university teacher

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Australian Academy of the Humanities

sociologist

innovator in the field of

Japanese studies

Asian Studies Association of Australia

Japanese Studies Association of Australia

is a limiting discourse in that it reflects limited orientations to structural social reform and often comes close to cultural essentialism.

At the same time, while countercultural and postmodern in many respects, the Cool Japan discourse not only contains very limited orientations to structural social reform but often comes close to cultural essentialism. The very fact that Cool Japan is approved by Japanese government and business indicates that Cool Japan culture is not a threat to the nation's socio-political system at all and is conceivably counter-cultural in form only. It arguably expands political and economic interests while allowing the masses to engage in acceptable diversions. In tune with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's 2006 slogan, Utsukushii muni Nippon (Japan as a beautiful nation), one may even suggest that the Cool Japan campaign tacitly fosters cultural nationalism. (Yoshio Sugimoto. p.303). Underneath the Cool Japan model lies the assumption that Japanese culture encapsulates exceptionally unique characteristics that no other culture has.

is approved by Japanese government and business. As such, it indicates that Cool Japan culture is not a threat to the nation's socio-political system at all and is conceivably counter-cultural in form only.

is responsible for a tacit fostering cultural nationalism, an assumption that Japanese culture encapsulates exceptionally unique characteristics that no other culture has.

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Yoshio Sugimoto