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The 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration in Contemporary Japanese Politics

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K01422
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 06010:Politics-related
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

LEHENY DAVID  早稲田大学, 国際学術院(アジア太平洋研究科), 教授 (80817479)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
KeywordsPolitics / Commemoration / Identity / Popular Culture / Nation / Meiji / History / Status / Japan / Narrative / Culture / Memory / Nostalgia / International Relations / Affect / Local History / Tourism / Emotion / Political Science / Regionalism
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

New/forthcoming publications include "Meiji at 150:A Global Moment for Japanese Studies, an Ambivalent Moment in Japan" (co-authored with Robert Hellyer). Journal of Japanese Studies, 2023.
- "Precarity's Pirate: The Fictive Afterlives of Idemitsu Sazo," Journal of Asian Studies, 2022.
- "International Status and Japan," in Pekkanen & Pekkanen (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics (Oxford Univ. Press, 2022).
- "The Loss of Nostalgia, not The Nostalgia of Loss: Or, What Happens in Heisei Stays in Heisei," in Murai, Kingston and Burnett (eds.), Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2022).
- "Pop Go the Games: Japanese Popular Culture and Politics at the Olympics," in Freedman (ed.), Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, 2nd ed. (Routledge 2022).

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

4: Progress in research has been delayed.

Reason

The pandemic has, as I've noted in previous reports, forced a dramatic rethinking of a project that already required revision because of the limited nature of national commemorations of the 150th anniversary of the Restoration. I drew my research on this project into larger conversations on national narrative and spectacle, but have also sought opportunities to write specifically on the Meiji Restoration. With historian Robert Hellyer, I have an upcoming paper on the Restoration in the flagship English-language source, on Japan, the Journal of Japanese Studies. I also have a forthcoming paper in the Journal of Asian Studies (top English-language journal on Asia) that draws from the narrative research in this project, as well as several book chapters.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

I plan to take advantage of the reopening of travel within the country to travel again to sites of Meiji Commemoration in the west, focusing this time on Yamaguchi and Kochi, both to collect data/sources on their 2018 activities as well as to study how these prefectures weathered the tourist downturn during the COVID pandemic as well as how they tried to maintain momentum from the commemoration in attracting domestic visitors. If these trips are fruitful, I will have follow-up visits to Kagoshima and Saga, which I visited in 2018, to make similar inquiries about post-commemoration efforts as well as the consequences of the pandemic for expected tourist revenues. My hope is still to publish a book or at least several more articles from this project.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report

Research Products

(3 results)

All 2023 2022 2020

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Meiji at 150: A Global Moment for Japanese Studies, an Ambivalent Moment in Japan2023

    • Author(s)
      Leheny, David and Hellyer, Robert
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Japanese Studies

      Volume: forthcoming

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Precarity's Pirate: The Fictive Afterlives of Idemitsu Sazo2022

    • Author(s)
      Leheny, David
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Asian Studies

      Volume: forthcoming

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] International Status and Japan2020

    • Author(s)
      Leheny, David
    • Journal Title

      The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics

      Volume: 1 Pages: 00-00

    • DOI

      10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190050993.013.29

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2023-03-20  

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