Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s

Tipton, Elise K.; Clark, John A.; Torrance, Richard

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“…Commercial graphic design highlighted Japan's distinctive past as well as its adoption of modern institutions, suggesting that Japan had the strength of history but was industrializing. 86 In 1870 the first daily newspaper was printed in Japan and included advertisements. One year later, in 1871, the first stamp was issued in Japan.…”

Section: Combining Strategies Of Differentiation and Low Costmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trademarks as “Global Merchants of Skill”: The Dynamics of the Japanese Match Industry, 1860s–1930s

Lopes¹,

Tomita²

2022

Bus. Hist. Rev.

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The Japanese match industry is an early case of an industry that changed global market dynamics by building international competitiveness through combining low-cost and low-price strategies with product differentiation. This differentiation was achieved through the registration of trademarks for all matches exported, total quality control, and strong investments in graphic design to adapt brands and their imagery to different host markets and cultures. This study shows how trademark data provides alternative and complementary angles on particular economic phenomena—in this case, on how industries and countries build global competitiveness despite being technologically less developed.

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Section: Combining Strategies Of Differentiation and Low Costmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trademarks as “Global Merchants of Skill”: The Dynamics of the Japanese Match Industry, 1860s–1930s

Lopes¹,

Tomita²

2022

Bus. Hist. Rev.

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“…Because she hailed from a city in the Russian Far East, she might not have had immediate access to modernistic designs and styles . Therefore, the 'immediate response' might not have been based on her actual experience but on her perception of the ways in which Europeanness 2 is articulated 1 See: [Tipton, Clark 2000] for further discussion on Japan's department stores through the lens of modernity.…”

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Material Culture and Bricolage: Russian-Speaking Migrants in Japan Who Make and Procure Objects

Golovina¹

2018

FAC

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this paper draws on data obtained through fieldwork with first-generation russian female migrants and an online survey of male and female russian-speaking migrants who reside in Japan. the research focuses on the migrants' material culture, in particular the objects that result from their 'do-it-yourself' (dIy) practices. I expand the traditional definition of dIy: for example, I extend the definition to include items modified to meet their owners' needs, thereby retaining the features of co-making, as well as items obtained outside the conventional consumer experience. uprooted from their familiar socio-cultural environment characterised by specific forms of material expression, migrants use dIy as a tool to restore this materiality in their new location, while having to rely on limited materials and specific consumption channels. In the study, these practices are approached through the concept of bricolage, which originates from lévi-Strauss's anthropological writings, to reveal the meanings enacted through the objects that the migrants possess. K e y w o r d s: material culture, russian-speaking migrants, bricolage, 'do-it-yourself' (dIy). t o c i t e: golovina K., 'material culture and Bricolage: russian-Speaking migrants in Japan Who make and procure objects',

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“…Wakimura participated in Japan's newly developing social infrastructure from the beginning. Born as the century opened, he came of age at an important moment in Japanese cultural history, just when mass media and access to higher education were expanding enormously, creating a vibrant modern culture, particularly in Japan's cities (Harootunian 2000;Tipton and Clark 2000). Wakimura's postwar assumption that he could be a model for other Japanese who desired cultural capital was both presumptuous and snobbish, but it was not wrong.…”

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Modern Art Patronage and Democratic Citizenship in Japan

Hein¹

2010

J of Asian Stud

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Wakimura Yoshitarō, a prominent Japanese economics professor and art collector, helped establish or sustain at least eight art museums in postwar Japan. He did so to create important institutions of democratic empowerment rather than nationalist displays of power. The crucial context was defeat in World War II, which left many Japanese, including Wakimura, committed to taming capitalism. Wakimura was particularly interested in creating new practices of art appreciation that could mediate relations between potentially antagonistic groups of Japanese, and in building museums as fresh spaces to house these newly egalitarian relationships. He emphasized the value to society created when individuals developed their aesthetic and thus political judgment. His efforts help explain the proliferation of both public and private art museums in postwar Japan as well as the nature of postwar political culture.

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Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s

Cited by 5 publications

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Trademarks as “Global Merchants of Skill”: The Dynamics of the Japanese Match Industry, 1860s–1930s

Trademarks as “Global Merchants of Skill”: The Dynamics of the Japanese Match Industry, 1860s–1930s

Material Culture and Bricolage: Russian-Speaking Migrants in Japan Who Make and Procure Objects

Modern Art Patronage and Democratic Citizenship in Japan

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