Japan's Soft Power
I would like to focus on Japan's current success using "soft power..." would also want to contrast this with how America has "soft power" influcnecing Japan as well
Reference Sources
Books
Soft Power Superpowers: cultural and national assets of Japan and the United States by Call Number: E183.8.J3 S65 2008ISBN: 9780765622488
TCNJ Catalog Boolean search: japan and "soft power"
Journal Articles
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| Database |  Sociological Abstracts |
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| Title | Iron Chef around the world | ||
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| Author | Lukacs, Gabriella | ||
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| Affiliation | University of Pittsburgh, USA, lukacs@pitt.edu | ||
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International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 409-426, Jul 2010
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| Abstract | Iron Chef is a Japanese television show in which cooks from around the world challenge the chefs of an eccentric millionaire. By appealing to audiences worldwide, Iron Chef epitomized a new trend in international media trade -- a conspicuous rise in the exports of made-in-Japan media entertainment. Scholars have argued that this trend testifies to a shift in Japan's status in the realm of soft power. This article uses the case of Iron Chef as an entry point to discuss the analytical limitations of the soft power discourse in theorizing shifting patterns of cultural globalization. I argue that this discourse fails to capture the complexities of how cable networks use and how viewers respond to imported media entertainment. I conclude that soft power is a tale of Euro-American modernity that renationalizes transnational cultural traffic in reaction to anxieties that the decentering forces of global capitalism will corrupt the sovereignty of the nation-state. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.] |
