2016 · Volume 28 · Number 1 Contemporary Japan Journal of the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo
Editor Franz Waldenberger German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (DIJ) [email protected]
ISSUE EDITOR Iza Kavedžija University of Oxford [email protected]
Managing Editor Peter Backhaus Waseda University, Tokyo [email protected]
www.contemporary-japan.org Editorial Board John C. Campbell Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt University of Michigan, USA and Nagoya University, Japan University of Tokyo, Japan Axel Klein David Chiavacci University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany University of Zurich, Switzerland Rotem Kowner Florian Coulmas University of Haifa, Israel University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Sébastien Lechevalier Harald Conrad L’ecole des Hautes Etudes University of Sheffield, en Sciences Sociales, France United Kingdom Wolfram Manzenreiter Harald Fuess University of Vienna, Austria University of Heidelberg, Germany Yoshimichi Sato Hilaria Gössmann Tohoku University, Japan University of Trier, Germany Ulrike Schaede Nanette Gottlieb University of California, San Diego, University of Queensland, Australia USA
Patrick Heinrich Sawako Shirahase Dokkyo University, Japan University of Tokyo, Japan
Barbara G. Holthus Karen Shire University of Vienna, Austria University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Glenn Hook University of Sheffield, Patricia G. Steinhoff United Kingdom University of Hawai’i at Mˉanoa, USA
Jun Imai Hokkaido University, Japan DE GRUYTER Contemporary Japan 2016 | Volume 28 | Issue 1
Contents
Special Issue: Ethnographies of Hope in Contemporary Japan Issue Editor: Iza Kavedžija
Articles
Iza Kavedžija Introduction: reorienting hopes 1
Jason Danely Hope in an ageing Japan: transience and transcendence 13
Brett Hack Subculture as social knowledge: a hopeful reading of otaku culture 33
Scott North and Rika Morioka Hope found in lives lost: karoshi and the pursuit of worker rights in Japan 59
Ieva Puzo Hope amidst uncertainty: foreign scientists in contemporary Japan 81
Stephen Robertson Hope that sustains: revisiting New Year’s divination at Suwa Taisha 101