Journal article
Exhibiting a new Japan: the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 and Expo '70 in Osaka
Historical Research, Vol.85(227), pp.159-178
2012
Abstract
Using official materials and media commentary, this article examines two large-scale spectacles and their implications for post-war Japanese nationalism. Discursively, the Olympics and the World Exposition presented a clear vision of Japan: as a nation at the forefront of the international scene, fit to act as a champion of the non-Western world and firmly unified internally. In concrete ways, the two events strengthened the process of national integration that was gathering pace in the nineteen-sixties, especially through the provision of new networks of transport and communications. They also helped to rehabilitate the post-war Japanese state, so that it could more readily be seen as a benign entity devoted to the national interest and the people's welfare. The article illuminates a key moment in the emergence of new national self-images and in the construction of national life in post-war Japan.
Details
- Title
- Exhibiting a new Japan: the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 and Expo '70 in Osaka
- Authors/Creators
- S. Wilson (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Historical Research, Vol.85(227), pp.159-178
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell
- Identifiers
- 991005540267307891
- Copyright
- © 2011 Institute of Historical Research
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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