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Recreating Japanese Men Recreating Japanese Men Edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press, one of the most distinguished univer- sity presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 2011 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Recreating Japanese men / Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall, editors. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-520-26737-4 (cloth, alk. paper) — 978-0-520-26738-1 (pbk., alk. paper) 1. Men—Japan. 2. Masculinity—Japan. 3. Men—Japan— Identity. 4. Sex role—Japan. I. Frühstück, Sabine. II. Walthall, Anne HQ1090.7.J3R43 2011 305.38'895600903—dc22 2010052332 Manufactured in the United States of America 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 In keeping with its commitment to support environmentally responsible and sustainable printing practices, UC Press has printed this book on Cascades Enviro 100, a 100% post consumer waste, recycled, de-inked fiber. FSC recycled certified and processed chlorine free. It is acid free, Ecologo certified, and manufactured by BioGas energy. Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Interrogating Men and Masculinities 1 Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall Part I. Legacies of the Samurai 1. Do Guns Have Gender? Technology and Status in Early Modern Japan 25 Anne Walthall 2. Name and Honor: A Merchant’s Seventeenth-Century Memoir 48 Luke Roberts 3. Empowering the Would-be Warrior: Bushidö and the Gendered Bodies of the Japanese Nation 68 Michele M. Mason 4. After Heroism: Must Real Soldiers Die? 91 Sabine Frühstück Part II. Marginal Men 5. Perpetual Dependency: The Life Course of Male Workers in a Merchant House 115 Sakurai Yuki 6. Losing the Union Man: Class and Gender in the Postwar Labor Movement 135 Christopher Gerteis 7. Where Have All the Salarymen Gone? Masculinity, Masochism, and Technomobility in Densha Otoko 154 Susan Napier 8. Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men 177 Tom Gill Part III. Bodies and Boundaries 9. Collective Maturation: The Construction of Masculinity in Early Modern Villages 203 Nagano Hiroko 10. Climbing Walls: Dismantling Hegemonic Masculinity in a Japanese Sport Subculture 220 Wolfram Manzenreiter 11. Not Suitable as a Man? Conscription, Masculinity, and Hermaphroditism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan 241 Teresa A. Algoso 12. Love Revolution: Anime, Masculinity, and the Future 262 Ian Condry 13. Gendering Robots: Posthuman Traditionalism in Japan 284 Jennifer Robertson Bibliography 311 Contributors 333 Index 337 Illustrations Figures 1.1. Young boatman 33 1.2. Man flinging himself to the ground while shooting 34 1.3. Man shooting at the ground 35 4.1. Self-Defense Forces recruitment poster from 2005 96 6.1. “Only father and the postman work on New Year’s” 144 6.2. “New Year’s Temple Visit” 145 8.1. The view from Yoshida-san’s shack on the Shönai River 187 13.1. Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy) 285 13.2. A diagram of Mori’s theory of the uncanny valley 292 13.3. Wakamaru 293 13.4. Honda’s Asimo (Advance Step in Innovative Mobility) with author 295 13.5. Actroid Repliee Q2, a composite of the “average” Japanese female 296 13.6. Ishiguro Hiroshi and his robot double, Geminoid HI-1 298 13.7. The FT (Female Type) 300 13.8 Flower Robotics’ Pino 301 13.9 Flower Robotics’ Posy 301 vii Tables 5.1. New employees and retirements 117 5.2. Change over time in points of origin for shop workers 119 5.3. Reasons for leaving employment 126 Acknowledgments This volume began as a panel organized by Roger H. Brown and pre- sented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in 2006. With the encouragement of Kären Wigen, coeditor of the University of California Press series “Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes,” an interna- tional workshop at the University of California, Santa Barbara, organized by Anne Walthall and Sabine Frühstück, followed in late January 2008. In addition to the contributors to this volume, the paper presenters included Roger Brown, Jason Karlin, and David Obermiller. We were also lucky to have Bishnupriya Ghosh, Dick Hebdige, David Howell, and Robert Nye participate as commentators and discussants. Funding for the conference came from a number of institutions, including the Center for Asian Studies, the History Department and the International Center for Writing and Translation, UC Irvine; and the Chancellor, the Executive Vice Chancellor, the College of Letters and Science, the Division of Fine Arts, the Division of Social Science, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the departments of History, Anthropology, Sociology, and East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara. In addition to the participants and audience at the workshop, we extend special thanks to Kirsten Ziomek, who ably assisted us in organizing the workshop, and to Matthew Mewhinney and Jeremy Pavy, who served as interpreters for Nagano Hiroko and Sakurai Yuki. Amy Stanley and another reviewer for UC Press provided insightful comments on the man- uscript. We are most obliged to Reed Malcolm, who ushered it through the publication process. ix
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