Nationalistic Apathy and Gender: Frames of Affect in Modern Japan

Naito, Chizuko

doi:10.18107/japs.2019.26.4.001

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Nationalistic Apathy and Gender: Frames of Affect in Modern Japan

Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
Abbr : JAPS
2019, 26(4), pp.5-20
DOI : 10.18107/japs.2019.26.4.001

Publisher : Institute of Global Affairs
Research Area : Social Science in general

Received : November 18, 2019
Accepted : December 13, 2019
Published : December 30, 2019

Naito, Chizuko ¹

¹오오즈마여자대학

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Nationalistic apathy refers to the form of Japanese nationalism in which modern imperialism exerts a spell-like power binding the unconscious of the people based on the circuits of apathy formed within the Japanese language. As an affect of disgust, nationalist apathy, together with peer pressure, exclusion, and forced assimilation, justifies indifference toward the other and includes indifference toward social, historical, and political structures. The prevalent attitude of being indifferent toward oneself and the other is to believe to know and thus not try to know even when one does not. The vacuum leading to this assumption of knowledge is related to the censorship system of the Japanese Empire, which is based on the authority of its modern imperial system. This is because the structure of sexual violence of the empire exists in a blind spot symbolized by those marks signaling its erasure. Invisible shame is always concealed behind the shame manifest on the surface. This blind spot, which renders absent what clearly exists, implicitly allows the concealing of unseeable shame, i.e., national shame, or the humiliation of men. Women have been forced to view the female body based on gender norms and examine their body and sex as a commodity. This can be applied to modern-day human capital-when a person is seen as human capital, all these bodies creep into where female bodies lie, as potential commodities.
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Nationalistic Apathy, Gender, Affect, Blind Spot, Transnatoinal

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