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@article{ART002908088},
author={Jiyoung Kim},
title={Cold War (Un)consciousness and the Imagination of Division as Manifested in the Japanese SF Genre: With a Focus on Sakyo Komatsu’s Nihon Apache-zoku},
journal={JAPAN SPACE},
issn={1976-1481},
year={2022},
number={32},
pages={129-163},
doi={10.35506/jspace.2022..32.003}

TY - JOUR
AU - Jiyoung Kim
TI - Cold War (Un)consciousness and the Imagination of Division as Manifested in the Japanese SF Genre: With a Focus on Sakyo Komatsu’s Nihon Apache-zoku
JO - JAPAN SPACE
PY - 2022
VL - null
IS - 32
PB - The Institute of Japanese Studies
SP - 129
EP - 163
SN - 1976-1481
AB - This paper examines the intersection of Science fiction(SF) imagination and Cold War (un)consciousness in the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on Sakyo Komatsu’s Nihon Apache-zoku(1964), which is said to be Japan’s first fullfledged SF novel. Komatsu Sakyo’s Nihon Apache-zoku depicts the civil war and division of Japan. It is a work inspired by the “Apache tribe(Apachezoku)” that appeared in Osaka in the late 1950s and built a SF imagination. The “Apache-zoku” were a group of Zainichi Koreans who made a living by infiltrating the abandoned Osaka Artillery Arsenal and selling buried scrap iron. In the late 1950s, Zainichi Koreans could make a living selling scrap iron because of the special demand from the Korean War. In this novel, Komatsu satirizes Japanese society by portraying another “postwar Japan” imagined as an alternative future for “the ruins,” and the description of Apache-zoku involves a number of Cold War rhetorics. However, unlike the paranoid anxiety that dominated the U.S. and South Korea during the Cold War, the work maintains a humorous tone throughout. This indicates that Japan was in a safe zone where a sense of distance from raw violence caused by the Cold War was secured.
KW - Sakyo Komatsu;Apache-zoku;SF;the Korean War;the Cold War
DO - 10.35506/jspace.2022..32.003
ER -

Jiyoung Kim. (2022). Cold War (Un)consciousness and the Imagination of Division as Manifested in the Japanese SF Genre: With a Focus on Sakyo Komatsu’s Nihon Apache-zoku. JAPAN SPACE, 32, 129-163.

Jiyoung Kim. 2022, "Cold War (Un)consciousness and the Imagination of Division as Manifested in the Japanese SF Genre: With a Focus on Sakyo Komatsu’s Nihon Apache-zoku", JAPAN SPACE, no.32, pp.129-163. Available from: doi:10.35506/jspace.2022..32.003

Jiyoung Kim "Cold War (Un)consciousness and the Imagination of Division as Manifested in the Japanese SF Genre: With a Focus on Sakyo Komatsu’s Nihon Apache-zoku" JAPAN SPACE 32 pp.129-163 (2022) : 129.

Jiyoung Kim. Cold War (Un)consciousness and the Imagination of Division as Manifested in the Japanese SF Genre: With a Focus on Sakyo Komatsu’s Nihon Apache-zoku. 2022; 32 : 129-163. Available from: doi:10.35506/jspace.2022..32.003

Jiyoung Kim. "Cold War (Un)consciousness and the Imagination of Division as Manifested in the Japanese SF Genre: With a Focus on Sakyo Komatsu’s Nihon Apache-zoku" JAPAN SPACE no.32(2022) : 129-163.doi: 10.35506/jspace.2022..32.003

Jiyoung Kim. Cold War (Un)consciousness and the Imagination of Division as Manifested in the Japanese SF Genre: With a Focus on Sakyo Komatsu’s Nihon Apache-zoku. JAPAN SPACE, 32, 129-163. doi: 10.35506/jspace.2022..32.003

Jiyoung Kim. Cold War (Un)consciousness and the Imagination of Division as Manifested in the Japanese SF Genre: With a Focus on Sakyo Komatsu’s Nihon Apache-zoku. JAPAN SPACE. 2022; 32 129-163. doi: 10.35506/jspace.2022..32.003

Jiyoung Kim. Cold War (Un)consciousness and the Imagination of Division as Manifested in the Japanese SF Genre: With a Focus on Sakyo Komatsu’s Nihon Apache-zoku. 2022; 32 : 129-163. Available from: doi:10.35506/jspace.2022..32.003

Jiyoung Kim. "Cold War (Un)consciousness and the Imagination of Division as Manifested in the Japanese SF Genre: With a Focus on Sakyo Komatsu’s Nihon Apache-zoku" JAPAN SPACE no.32(2022) : 129-163.doi: 10.35506/jspace.2022..32.003