The invention and reinvention of "Japanese culture."

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The concept of culture has acquired a new visibility in contemporary thought in the face of attacks on positivist philosophies and emerging national cultures. The search for an idea of culture articulating national uniqueness and transcending modernity is rooted in a long Japanese intellectual tradition. Culture, in this tradition, changed from an imported novelty to a key concept of a new world view. The evolution of Japanese thought on culture brings out some of the problems inherent in the analysis of culture.

Culture, Nationalism

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'Northern Lights': the making and unmaking of Karafuto identity

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This article discusses the paradoxical manner in which the history and social aspects of the Karafuto settler colony was portrayed in literature and cinema. Topics include colonial government, cultural policy, propaganda, foreignness, and postwar history.

Japan, History, Political aspects, Propaganda, Identity, Paradox, Colonies, Characters and characteristics in motion pictures, Movie characters, Northern Lights (Motion picture), Paradoxes, Motion pictures in propaganda, Political movies, Sakhalin

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Peoples of the gourd: imagined ethnicities in highland Southeast Asia

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This article discusses the manner in which indigenous asian ethnicity is portrayed in Kmhmu myth, oral history, and folklore. Topics include cultural tradition, colonialism, historical linguistics, and race relations.

Southeast Asia, Oral history, Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, Historical linguistics, Imperialism, Southeast Asians, Ethnic folklore

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