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The perverse stereotype of the Japanese man in the British media
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Hinton, Perry R. (2015) The perverse stereotype of the Japanese man in the British media. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 15 (2). 9. ISSN 1476-9158 .
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Abstract
For well over a hundred years, a number of stereotypes of the Japanese have been employed in Britain and other Western countries. This paper argues, from an analysis of a number of recent British media reports, that a new stereotyped view of the Japanese man is present within them, couched in terms of inferred deviance from British normative expectations. Further, it argues that the use of this stereotype in the reports of Japan’s current social and economic situation inappropriately locates the ‘cause’ of Japan’s ‘problems’ in the Japanese man and his interests, an explanation contradicted by a more detailed consideration of the issues involved, and the socio-cultural context of modern Japan.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies | ||||
Publisher: | University of Sheffield ; School of East Asian Studies | ||||
ISSN: | 1476-9158 | ||||
Official Date: | 30 August 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 15 | ||||
Number: | 2 | ||||
Article Number: | 9 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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