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Japan in Australia - Culture, Context and Connections (Paperback)
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Japan in Australia - Culture, Context and Connections (Paperback)
Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA East Asian Series
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Japan in Australia is a work of cultural history that focuses on
context and connection between two nations. It examines how Japan
has been imagined, represented and experienced in the Australian
context through a variety of settings, historical periods and
circumstances. Beginning with the first recorded contacts between
Australians and Japanese in the nineteenth century, the chapters
focus on 'people-to people' narratives and the myriad
multi-dimensional ways in which the two countries are
interconnected: from sporting diplomacy to woodblock printing, from
artistic metaphors to iconic pop imagery, from the tragedy of war
to engagement in peace movements, from technology transfer to
community arts. Tracing the trajectory of this 150-year
relationship provides an example of how history can turn from fear,
enmity and misunderstanding through war, foreign encroachment and
the legacy of conflict, to close and intimate connections that
result in cultural enrichment and diversification. This book
explores notions of Australia and 'Australianness' and Japan and
'Japaneseness', to better reflect on the cultural fusion that is
contemporary Australia and build the narrative of the
Japan-Australia relationship. It will be of interest to academics
in the field of Asian, Japanese and Japanese-Pacific studies.
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