I finished much of the manuscript during a year as the Toyota Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan’s Center for Japanese Studies. Across these periods, Kiichi Fujiwara and Takashi Inoue of Todai’s Faculty of Law have been exceptionally knowledgeable and enthusiastic sounding boards. Jin Sato has been unfailingly supportive, even when appropriately and constructively skeptical of some of my more speculative flights of fancy. Several years later, a summer affiliation with the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia allowed me to do much of the research on Viet and Duc Nguyen, and my brilliant colleague I then spent six months at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Social Science, where friends and mentors such as Yuji Genda, Hiroshi Ishida, Naofumi Nakamura, Gregory Noble, and Shigeki Uno provided essential introductions and insights that profoundly affected this work, even late in the drafting phase. Yasuhiko Sugiyama was a sterling research assistant. At the time of the 2011 tsunami, I was completing a period as a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University’s Institute for the Study of Global Issues, where I benefited immensely from the generous support of Yoshiko Ashiwa, Jonathan Lewis, and Kazuhito Onozuka, as well as advice from Ikuya Sato of Hitotsubashi’s School of Commerce. Five institutional settings were especially important. In the process of writing this book, I incurred debts I can never repay, although I hope the many people who provided advice, assistance, and support are aware of the depth of my gratitude. Used by permission of The Mainichi Newspapers.Īcknowledgments Conventions 1. L45 2018 (print) | DDC 306.20952-dc23 LC record available at Cover image: Prime Minister Abe Shinzō appears as Super Mario at the closing ceremonies of the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, August 21, 2016. | Japan-Politics and government-1989– Classification: LCC JQ1681 (ebook) | LCC JQ1681. | Emotions- Political aspects-Japan-History-21st century. | Emotions- Political aspects-Japan-History-20th century. | Political culture-Japan-History-21st century. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Political culture-Japan-History-20th century. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Title: Empire of hope : the sentimental politics of Japanese decline / David Leheny. First published 2018 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Leheny, David Richard, 1967– author. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. The Sentimental Politics of Japanese DeclineĬornell University Press Ithaca and LondonĬopyright © 2018 by Cornell University All rights reserved.
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