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Hokkaido University, Modern Japanese Studies Program, Faculty Member

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Accommodation and resistance in Hokkaido hip hop practitioners: An ethnographic analysis of Generation Resignation in post-growth Japan

Ethnography, 2020

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between October 2013 and October 2017 in Hokkaido, no... more Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between October 2013 and October 2017 in Hokkaido, northern Japan, this paper explores the trajectories of individuals engaging in hip hop music. Participant observation and narratives indicate that the majority of individuals work as regular members of society (shakaijin) and only pursue hip hop in their free time. The paper highlights the intricate entanglement of individuals in subordination to mainstream values despite their references to elements of resistance. I contend that in contrast to previous generations of hip hoppers who chose to lead lives of open resistance to mainstream values, contemporary youth who largely belong to the “Generation Resignation” (satori sedai) prefer to engage in practices of resistance that may not be evident rather than overt contestation of societal conventions.

Accommodation and resistance in Hokkaido hip hop practitioners: An ethnographic analysis of Generation Resignation in post-growth Japan

by Klien Susanne and Susanne Klien

Ethnography, 2022

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between October 2013 and October 2017 in Hokkaido, no... more Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between October 2013 and October 2017 in Hokkaido, northern Japan, this paper explores the trajectories of individuals engaging in hip hop music. Participant observation and narratives indicate that the majority of individuals work as regular members of society (shakaijin) and only pursue hip hop in their free time. The paper highlights the intricate entanglement of individuals in subordination to mainstream values despite their references to elements of resistance. I contend that in contrast to previous generations of hip hoppers who chose to lead lives of open resistance to mainstream values, contemporary youth who largely belong to the "Generation Resignation" (satori sedai) prefer to engage in practices of resistance that may not be evident rather than overt contestation of societal conventions.

Early Chinese Poetry by Mori Ogai

アジア文化研究, 2006

Reconstructing Japan's International Contribution in the Post-September 11 World: Evaluating Implications for Japan's National Security Debate

国際基督教大学学報 3 a アジア文化研究 International Christian University Publications 3 a Asian Cultural Studies, Mar 30, 2007

Special issue: Exploring rural Japan as heterotopia

Asian anthropology, Jan 2, 2022

This set of papers, by authors from Japan, Europe, the US and Canada, originated from a panel ent... more This set of papers, by authors from Japan, Europe, the US and Canada, originated from a panel entitled “Heterotopia in Post-Growth Rural Japan: Negotiating Difference in Local Communities” at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose, California, 2018. All contributions draw on long-term ethnographic fieldwork. We believe that the grounded perspectives salient in all papers tie in well with the concept of heterotopia, as the research tool of ethnography highlights the multilayered nature of places and social relations across times and spaces. The original panel organizers were Stephanie Assmann and Susanne Klien. But as Stephanie shifted to a new university position, Paul Hansen, who was unable to join the original panel due to being on another, stepped in as co-editor and contributor. We remain indebted and thankful for Stephanie’s input and continued camaraderie. We would also like to express our thanks to Kato Fumitoshi (Keio University), who was an outstanding panel discussant at the AAA and helped shape the trajectory of this project. Before delving into the papers included in this special issue, some obvious questions emerge. What is heterotopia? For those readers who are familiar with this pervasive but elusive concept, why is it used as a provocation or conceptual scaffolding herein? And why focus specifically on rural Japan? These important questions we will address in this short introduction before offering an outline of the contributions.

Special issue: Exploring rural Japan as heterotopia

by Paul Hansen and Klien Susanne

Asian Anthroplogy, 2022

Ritual, Resistance, Rebellion? Disaster Volunteer Experiences in Northeastern Japan

Contemporary Japanese society is undergoing a gradual shift of values and modes of work and life.... more Contemporary Japanese society is undergoing a gradual shift of values and modes of work and life. Deriving smallscale temporary happiness from activities that make sense to individuals has replaced stability secured by lifetime employment. Disaster volunteer narratives and lifestyles illustrate this change. Drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in Miyagi and Iwate Prefecture, this study explores the broad range of meanings that doing pro-social work in the area devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 holds for those engaging in it. I contend that volunteers are caught between the rigid rules pervading daily volunteer routine and their aspiration to break out from mainstream society. Drawing on Bell's definition of ritual practice as self-interested appropriation which affords its participants some flexibility in negotiating the terms of their involvement (1992), this ethnography exposes the inherent difficulties volunteers face in making the tropes of "being good", "doing good" and "feeling good" compatible. Furthermore, the study documents the ambiguous position volunteers find themselves in by applying the theory of liminoid states, i.e. the concept developed by Turner to describe the playful experiences sought by members of postindustrial societies as an escape from the constraints of daily routine (1979).

Contemporary art and regional revitalisation: selected artworks in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000–6

Japan Forum, 2010

We investigate the critical exponents η3(α, M), η1(α, M) associated with the singularities in the... more We investigate the critical exponents η3(α, M), η1(α, M) associated with the singularities in the longitudinal and transverse structure factors of the one dimensional antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with nearest (J1) and next to nearest (J2) neighbour coupling of relative strength α = J 2 J 1 and an external field B with magnetization M (B).

Shinto Ritual Practice in Miyagi Prefecture after the Great East Japan Earthquake : The Case of the Ogatsu Hōin Kagura

This ethnographic study examines the impact of the Great East Japan earthquake on kagura practice... more This ethnographic study examines the impact of the Great East Japan earthquake on kagura practice, more specifically the Ogatsu Hōin Kagura in Miyagi Prefecture, and shifting notions of the functions and meaning of ritual performance. Referring to Satsuki Kawano’s notion of “emplacement,” I argue that the disaster has expanded the range of meanings in multiple ways. By demonstrating that practitioners play an essential role in redefining the nature of kagura performances in the wake of the earthquake and that the adaptation of the performance to changing circumstances helps to maintain its relevance, I argue that Hashimoto Hiroyuki’s concept of “the authenticity of practitioners,” which seeks to understand folk performing arts as evolving rather than “authentic” cultural phenomena, continues to be highly pertinent.

Recovering from Disaster, Reinventing Japan?

Current History

Civil society groups have helped meet social needs left unaddressed by the official response to t... more

Entrepreneurial selves, governmentality and lifestyle migrants in rural Japan

Asian Anthropology

Abstract Since the 2008 Lehman shock, the number of individuals who have decided to move to rural... more Abstract Since the 2008 Lehman shock, the number of individuals who have decided to move to rural areas in order to pursue more individualized modes of working and living has increased in Japan. This ethnographic article explores how urbanite newcomers grapple between their ambitions of engaging in self-created work and the pressures of making their dreams come true. The study draws on participant observation and interviews conducted in Tokushima Prefecture and Hokkaido in 2016–2017. Narratives and quotidian practices of lifestyle migrants across Japan indicate that the pursuit of entrepreneurial subjectivity often concurs with a high degree of self-government and senses of mental pressure. Drawing on theoretical frameworks of governmentality studies, the article examines how individuals with entrepreneurial aspirations negotiate their fragile subjectivities between self-management and coercion in neoliberal contexts.

Rethinking Japan’s Identity and International Role

... Educational Reforms and Their Impact on China's Rural Development, 1966-1976 Dongping Ha... more

Reinventing Ishinomaki, Reinventing Japan? Creative Networks, Alternative Lifestyles and the Search for Quality of Life in Post-growth Japan

Japanese Studies, 2016

This article aims to give an outline of recent developments in Ishinomaki, one of the worst affec... more This article aims to give an outline of recent developments in Ishinomaki, one of the worst affected cities struck by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011. Before the disaster, the harbor town faced depopulation, aging residents, and a lack of prospects for the young, like many other stagnant regional cities. Since March 2011, Ishinomaki has seen an influx of short-, mid-, and long-term volunteers and young ambitious individuals who have moved from urban areas to initiate their own revitalization or social business projects. Drawing on and showing the limitations of Richard Florida's notion of the 'Creative Class', this paper approaches Ishinomaki's recent reinvention and transition from production to postindustrial multi-functionality as a phenomenon that can be seen as both a renaissance movement as well as the result of the structural instability of the labor market caused by Japan's transition into a mature postindustrial economy. 21 Stevens, On the margins, 14. 22 Stevens, On the margins, 14. 23 All pictures taken by the author. 24 Hendry, 'From Scrambled Messages to an Impromptu Dip', 55-70.

Collaboration or confrontation? Local and non-local actors in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial

Contemporary Japan, 2010

This article deals with selected contemporary art projects that have involved the collaboration o... more This article deals with selected contemporary art projects that have involved the collaboration of heterogeneous actors in the framework of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, which started in 2000 in southern Niigata Prefecture. Originally initiated as a revitalization plan to tackle depopulation and obsolescence in this vast rural area, the triennal has been envisaged and implemented by the Tokyo-based commercial gallery Art Front Gallery (AFG) in cooperation with municipal and prefectural agencies. I will examine how the collaboration between local residents, non-local artist(s), and volunteers has evolved in three projects that were all carried out in mountain villages. The first project entitled "Ubusuna no Ie" was initiated by a Tokyo-based editor and his staff for the 2006 festival, involving the restoration of an abandoned house, which now serves as a space to exhibit pottery. As a result of the project, the village women have started a restaurant in the house, which has been an enormous success, attracting hundreds of visitors per day in August 2009. The second project implemented in 2006 involved the cooperation of a British artist group called Grizedale Arts with the locals in a secluded marginal village called Tōge in order to find ways to revitalize the village. The third ongoing artwork is concerned with promoting a brand of traditional Japanese paper (washi) by combining it with contemporary design and involves the cooperation between the vernacular washi production site and a Yokohama-based artist. Introducing a model to examine the development of kyō dō [literally: "working together"] by defining various stages of cooperation, the key issues I intend to explore are as follows: (1) What are the main factors that influence the implementation of the project, the intensity of cooperation, and its success? (2) What stages do we observe in the individual cases discussed here?

Refusing to grow up?:Self-reflexivity and changing self-views of mobile Japanese youth in Japan and Europe

“Entrepreneurial selves, governmentality and lifestyle migrants in rural Japan”

Asian Anthropology, 2019

Since the 2008 Lehman Shock, the number of individuals who have decided to move to rural areas in... more Since the 2008 Lehman Shock, the number of individuals who have decided to move to rural areas in order to pursue more individualized modes of working and living has increased in Japan. This ethnographic article explores how urbanite newcomers grapple between their ambitions of engaging in self-created work and the pressures of making their dreams come true. The study draws on participant observation and interviews conducted in Tokushima Prefecture and Hokkaido in 2016-7. Narratives and quotidian practices of lifestyle migrants across Japan indicate that the pursuit of entrepreneurial subjectivity often concurs with a high degree of self-government and senses of mental pressure. Drawing on theoretical frameworks of governmentality studies, the article examines how individuals with entrepreneurial aspirations negotiate their fragile subjectivities between self-management and coercion in neoliberal contexts.

Minikomi_Shintotsukawa Beitrag 201701.pdf

by Klien Susanne and Stephanie Assmann

Finnische Piroggen, vietnamesische Reisbaelle und finger food aus Singapur: Feldforschung und kul... more

Recovering from Disaster, Reinventing Japan

Ritual, Resistance, Rebellion? Disaster Volunteer Experiences in Northeastern Japan

Contemporary Japanese society is undergoing a gradual shift of values and modes of work and life.... more Contemporary Japanese society is undergoing a gradual shift of values and modes of work and life. Deriving small-scale temporary happiness from activities that make sense to individuals has replaced stability secured by lifetime employment. Disaster volunteer narratives and lifestyles illustrate this change. Drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in Miyagi and Iwate Prefecture, this study explores the broad range of meanings that doing

Reinventing Ishinomaki, Reinventing Japan? Creative Networks, Alternative Lifestyles and the Search for Quality of Life in Post-growth Japan

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10371397.2016.1148555#abstract 50 downloads for free ... more

Accommodation and resistance in Hokkaido hip hop practitioners: An ethnographic analysis of Generation Resignation in post-growth Japan

Ethnography, 2020

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between October 2013 and October 2017 in Hokkaido, no... more Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between October 2013 and October 2017 in Hokkaido, northern Japan, this paper explores the trajectories of individuals engaging in hip hop music. Participant observation and narratives indicate that the majority of individuals work as regular members of society (shakaijin) and only pursue hip hop in their free time. The paper highlights the intricate entanglement of individuals in subordination to mainstream values despite their references to elements of resistance. I contend that in contrast to previous generations of hip hoppers who chose to lead lives of open resistance to mainstream values, contemporary youth who largely belong to the “Generation Resignation” (satori sedai) prefer to engage in practices of resistance that may not be evident rather than overt contestation of societal conventions.

Accommodation and resistance in Hokkaido hip hop practitioners: An ethnographic analysis of Generation Resignation in post-growth Japan

by Klien Susanne and Susanne Klien

Ethnography, 2022

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between October 2013 and October 2017 in Hokkaido, no... more Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between October 2013 and October 2017 in Hokkaido, northern Japan, this paper explores the trajectories of individuals engaging in hip hop music. Participant observation and narratives indicate that the majority of individuals work as regular members of society (shakaijin) and only pursue hip hop in their free time. The paper highlights the intricate entanglement of individuals in subordination to mainstream values despite their references to elements of resistance. I contend that in contrast to previous generations of hip hoppers who chose to lead lives of open resistance to mainstream values, contemporary youth who largely belong to the "Generation Resignation" (satori sedai) prefer to engage in practices of resistance that may not be evident rather than overt contestation of societal conventions.

Early Chinese Poetry by Mori Ogai

アジア文化研究, 2006

Reconstructing Japan's International Contribution in the Post-September 11 World: Evaluating Implications for Japan's National Security Debate

国際基督教大学学報 3 a アジア文化研究 International Christian University Publications 3 a Asian Cultural Studies, Mar 30, 2007

Special issue: Exploring rural Japan as heterotopia

Asian anthropology, Jan 2, 2022

This set of papers, by authors from Japan, Europe, the US and Canada, originated from a panel ent... more This set of papers, by authors from Japan, Europe, the US and Canada, originated from a panel entitled “Heterotopia in Post-Growth Rural Japan: Negotiating Difference in Local Communities” at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose, California, 2018. All contributions draw on long-term ethnographic fieldwork. We believe that the grounded perspectives salient in all papers tie in well with the concept of heterotopia, as the research tool of ethnography highlights the multilayered nature of places and social relations across times and spaces. The original panel organizers were Stephanie Assmann and Susanne Klien. But as Stephanie shifted to a new university position, Paul Hansen, who was unable to join the original panel due to being on another, stepped in as co-editor and contributor. We remain indebted and thankful for Stephanie’s input and continued camaraderie. We would also like to express our thanks to Kato Fumitoshi (Keio University), who was an outstanding panel discussant at the AAA and helped shape the trajectory of this project. Before delving into the papers included in this special issue, some obvious questions emerge. What is heterotopia? For those readers who are familiar with this pervasive but elusive concept, why is it used as a provocation or conceptual scaffolding herein? And why focus specifically on rural Japan? These important questions we will address in this short introduction before offering an outline of the contributions.

Special issue: Exploring rural Japan as heterotopia

by Paul Hansen and Klien Susanne

Asian Anthroplogy, 2022

Ritual, Resistance, Rebellion? Disaster Volunteer Experiences in Northeastern Japan

Contemporary Japanese society is undergoing a gradual shift of values and modes of work and life.... more Contemporary Japanese society is undergoing a gradual shift of values and modes of work and life. Deriving smallscale temporary happiness from activities that make sense to individuals has replaced stability secured by lifetime employment. Disaster volunteer narratives and lifestyles illustrate this change. Drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in Miyagi and Iwate Prefecture, this study explores the broad range of meanings that doing pro-social work in the area devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 holds for those engaging in it. I contend that volunteers are caught between the rigid rules pervading daily volunteer routine and their aspiration to break out from mainstream society. Drawing on Bell's definition of ritual practice as self-interested appropriation which affords its participants some flexibility in negotiating the terms of their involvement (1992), this ethnography exposes the inherent difficulties volunteers face in making the tropes of "being good", "doing good" and "feeling good" compatible. Furthermore, the study documents the ambiguous position volunteers find themselves in by applying the theory of liminoid states, i.e. the concept developed by Turner to describe the playful experiences sought by members of postindustrial societies as an escape from the constraints of daily routine (1979).

Contemporary art and regional revitalisation: selected artworks in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000–6

Japan Forum, 2010

We investigate the critical exponents η3(α, M), η1(α, M) associated with the singularities in the... more We investigate the critical exponents η3(α, M), η1(α, M) associated with the singularities in the longitudinal and transverse structure factors of the one dimensional antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with nearest (J1) and next to nearest (J2) neighbour coupling of relative strength α = J 2 J 1 and an external field B with magnetization M (B).

Shinto Ritual Practice in Miyagi Prefecture after the Great East Japan Earthquake : The Case of the Ogatsu Hōin Kagura

This ethnographic study examines the impact of the Great East Japan earthquake on kagura practice... more This ethnographic study examines the impact of the Great East Japan earthquake on kagura practice, more specifically the Ogatsu Hōin Kagura in Miyagi Prefecture, and shifting notions of the functions and meaning of ritual performance. Referring to Satsuki Kawano’s notion of “emplacement,” I argue that the disaster has expanded the range of meanings in multiple ways. By demonstrating that practitioners play an essential role in redefining the nature of kagura performances in the wake of the earthquake and that the adaptation of the performance to changing circumstances helps to maintain its relevance, I argue that Hashimoto Hiroyuki’s concept of “the authenticity of practitioners,” which seeks to understand folk performing arts as evolving rather than “authentic” cultural phenomena, continues to be highly pertinent.

Recovering from Disaster, Reinventing Japan?

Current History

Civil society groups have helped meet social needs left unaddressed by the official response to t... more

Entrepreneurial selves, governmentality and lifestyle migrants in rural Japan

Asian Anthropology

Abstract Since the 2008 Lehman shock, the number of individuals who have decided to move to rural... more Abstract Since the 2008 Lehman shock, the number of individuals who have decided to move to rural areas in order to pursue more individualized modes of working and living has increased in Japan. This ethnographic article explores how urbanite newcomers grapple between their ambitions of engaging in self-created work and the pressures of making their dreams come true. The study draws on participant observation and interviews conducted in Tokushima Prefecture and Hokkaido in 2016–2017. Narratives and quotidian practices of lifestyle migrants across Japan indicate that the pursuit of entrepreneurial subjectivity often concurs with a high degree of self-government and senses of mental pressure. Drawing on theoretical frameworks of governmentality studies, the article examines how individuals with entrepreneurial aspirations negotiate their fragile subjectivities between self-management and coercion in neoliberal contexts.

Rethinking Japan’s Identity and International Role

... Educational Reforms and Their Impact on China's Rural Development, 1966-1976 Dongping Ha... more

Reinventing Ishinomaki, Reinventing Japan? Creative Networks, Alternative Lifestyles and the Search for Quality of Life in Post-growth Japan

Japanese Studies, 2016

This article aims to give an outline of recent developments in Ishinomaki, one of the worst affec... more This article aims to give an outline of recent developments in Ishinomaki, one of the worst affected cities struck by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011. Before the disaster, the harbor town faced depopulation, aging residents, and a lack of prospects for the young, like many other stagnant regional cities. Since March 2011, Ishinomaki has seen an influx of short-, mid-, and long-term volunteers and young ambitious individuals who have moved from urban areas to initiate their own revitalization or social business projects. Drawing on and showing the limitations of Richard Florida's notion of the 'Creative Class', this paper approaches Ishinomaki's recent reinvention and transition from production to postindustrial multi-functionality as a phenomenon that can be seen as both a renaissance movement as well as the result of the structural instability of the labor market caused by Japan's transition into a mature postindustrial economy. 21 Stevens, On the margins, 14. 22 Stevens, On the margins, 14. 23 All pictures taken by the author. 24 Hendry, 'From Scrambled Messages to an Impromptu Dip', 55-70.

Collaboration or confrontation? Local and non-local actors in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial

Contemporary Japan, 2010

This article deals with selected contemporary art projects that have involved the collaboration o... more This article deals with selected contemporary art projects that have involved the collaboration of heterogeneous actors in the framework of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, which started in 2000 in southern Niigata Prefecture. Originally initiated as a revitalization plan to tackle depopulation and obsolescence in this vast rural area, the triennal has been envisaged and implemented by the Tokyo-based commercial gallery Art Front Gallery (AFG) in cooperation with municipal and prefectural agencies. I will examine how the collaboration between local residents, non-local artist(s), and volunteers has evolved in three projects that were all carried out in mountain villages. The first project entitled "Ubusuna no Ie" was initiated by a Tokyo-based editor and his staff for the 2006 festival, involving the restoration of an abandoned house, which now serves as a space to exhibit pottery. As a result of the project, the village women have started a restaurant in the house, which has been an enormous success, attracting hundreds of visitors per day in August 2009. The second project implemented in 2006 involved the cooperation of a British artist group called Grizedale Arts with the locals in a secluded marginal village called Tōge in order to find ways to revitalize the village. The third ongoing artwork is concerned with promoting a brand of traditional Japanese paper (washi) by combining it with contemporary design and involves the cooperation between the vernacular washi production site and a Yokohama-based artist. Introducing a model to examine the development of kyō dō [literally: "working together"] by defining various stages of cooperation, the key issues I intend to explore are as follows: (1) What are the main factors that influence the implementation of the project, the intensity of cooperation, and its success? (2) What stages do we observe in the individual cases discussed here?

Refusing to grow up?:Self-reflexivity and changing self-views of mobile Japanese youth in Japan and Europe

“Entrepreneurial selves, governmentality and lifestyle migrants in rural Japan”

Asian Anthropology, 2019

Since the 2008 Lehman Shock, the number of individuals who have decided to move to rural areas in... more Since the 2008 Lehman Shock, the number of individuals who have decided to move to rural areas in order to pursue more individualized modes of working and living has increased in Japan. This ethnographic article explores how urbanite newcomers grapple between their ambitions of engaging in self-created work and the pressures of making their dreams come true. The study draws on participant observation and interviews conducted in Tokushima Prefecture and Hokkaido in 2016-7. Narratives and quotidian practices of lifestyle migrants across Japan indicate that the pursuit of entrepreneurial subjectivity often concurs with a high degree of self-government and senses of mental pressure. Drawing on theoretical frameworks of governmentality studies, the article examines how individuals with entrepreneurial aspirations negotiate their fragile subjectivities between self-management and coercion in neoliberal contexts.

Minikomi_Shintotsukawa Beitrag 201701.pdf

by Klien Susanne and Stephanie Assmann

Finnische Piroggen, vietnamesische Reisbaelle und finger food aus Singapur: Feldforschung und kul... more

Recovering from Disaster, Reinventing Japan

Ritual, Resistance, Rebellion? Disaster Volunteer Experiences in Northeastern Japan

Contemporary Japanese society is undergoing a gradual shift of values and modes of work and life.... more Contemporary Japanese society is undergoing a gradual shift of values and modes of work and life. Deriving small-scale temporary happiness from activities that make sense to individuals has replaced stability secured by lifetime employment. Disaster volunteer narratives and lifestyles illustrate this change. Drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in Miyagi and Iwate Prefecture, this study explores the broad range of meanings that doing

Reinventing Ishinomaki, Reinventing Japan? Creative Networks, Alternative Lifestyles and the Search for Quality of Life in Post-growth Japan

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10371397.2016.1148555#abstract 50 downloads for free ... more

Rethinking Japan's Identity and International Role, Routledge 2002