Understanding Disaster, Part 4: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and the Harmonious Apocalypse

Originally published December 2016

Commentary

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Stray Notes

  • HUGE thanks to Mike from Anime Journeys for providing me with a 1080p photo of Washinomiya! Please check out his stuff here: http://mikehattsu.blogspot.ca/

  • Also huge thanks to Michael Vito for helping me find some material on pilgrimages to Seize! Please check him out here: http://likeafishinwater.com/

  • Yes, I know I mispronounced Seize.

  • This was by far the longest video I've ever had to edit and I hope I never have to do this again

  • I am incredibly, incredibly, INCREDIBLY nervous about this one, because it's probably not gonna turn out well for me

  • Hopefully I got most of Heidegger okay, I looked at how secondary sources treated Heidegger and it lined up with how I understood his stuff

  • I removed this giant chunk on Sabaibukei cause it just didn't really fit in well with the rest of what I was talking about

  • Takekuma seems to have deleted his tweet, I guess, but he does acknowledge it existed.

Texts

  • Azuma, Hiroki. "The Era of Disasters and the Words of Critical Thought." Trans. John Person. Genron: Portal on Critical Discourse in Japan.

  • Cooper, David E. "Heidegger on Nature." Environmental Values 14, 2005, 339-51.

  • Furukawa, Hiroko and Rayna Denison. "Disaster and relief: The 3.11 Tohoku and Fukushima disasters and Japan's media industries." International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2014, pp. 1-17.

  • Hairston, Marc. "A Healing, Gentle Apocalypse: Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko." Mechademia, vol. 3, 2008, pp. 256-258.

  • Hirata, Keiko and Mark Warschauer. "The Paradox of Harmony." Yale Press, London, 2014.

  • Kinnia, Yau Shuk-ting. "Therapy for Depression: Social Meaning of Japanese Melodrama in the Heisei Era." The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, 2012, pp. 1-11.

  • Mori, Yoshitaka. "New collectivism, participation and politics after the Earth Japan Great Earthquake." World Art, vol. 1, no. 5, 2015, pp. 167-186.

  • Napier, Susan J. "The Anime Director, the Fantasy Girl, and the Very Real Tsunami." The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, 2012, pp. 1-10.

  • O'Keeffe, Christopher. "Director Nobuhiko Obayashi on Film, Dreams, and Living for 400 Years." Tokyo Weekender, accessed December 13, 2016.

  • Roquet, Paul. "Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of Calm: Mood Regulation in Contemporary Japanese Fiction." The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, 2008, pp. 87-111.

  • Roquet, Paul. "Atmosphere as Culture: Ambient Media and Postindustrial Japan." Thesis, Berkeley, 2012.

  • Takekuma, Kentaro. "The Day The 'Endless Everyday' Ended." 2011, Genron: After the Disaster, http://web.archive.org/web/20130920180826/http:/global.genron.co.jp/2012/05/01/thedaytheendlesseverdayended/4/

  • Tanaka, Motoko. "Trends of Fiction in 2000s Japanese Pop Culture." ejcjs, vol. 14, no. 2, 2014, pp. 1-16.

  • Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction." Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2014.

  • Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Japan." Asia Pacific World, vol. 3, no. 2, 2012, pp. 67-82.

  • Thomas, Steve. "What will the Fukushima disaster change?" Energy Policy, no. 45, 2012, pp. 12-17.

  • Tsunehiro, Uno. "Imagination after the Earthquake: Japan's Otaku Culture in the 2010s." Translated by Jeffrey Guarneri.

Media

  • Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko

  • Sora no Woto

  • The Wind Rises

  • From Up on Poppy Hill

  • The Tale of Princess Kaguya

  • Lucky Star

  • K-On!

  • Azumanga Daioh

Audio

  • Furious Freak by Kevin MacLeod

  • Lost Frontier

  • Relique Abandonee

  • Une limere envotante

  • Yuunagi no Jidai

  • Cafe Alpha

  • Zydeco Piano Party

 
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